Hurry has begun to love pretend play. For a while he was doing the usual temporary identity-switching. Buzz Lightyear while playing with friends, Batman for an afternoon. But then he became Indiana Jones...and it stuck. He liked being "IndianJones" so much that he decided to stay that way.

He hasn't seen the movies. But he's played the short demo version of the Lego video game and--thanks to his Aunt Christie--he has an Indiana Jones costume. Naturally, he wanted all of us to be characters, too. Dad became Sallah. Baby was Short Round. I thought I'd be Marion or Willie Scott (whom Hurry, I mean Indie, called "the screaming girl," thanks to the video game.) Instead, Hurry told me I could be Indie's sidekick in the game. "He's cool. He has a shovel." I decided not to tell him that this guy betrays Indie and dies a grisly death-on-a-skewer. "Okay, that guy is named Satipo," I said. But since he could never remember that name, Hurry just called me "Guy with the shovel." Example: "Hey, Guy-with-the-shubbel, could I have some yogurt?"

He got really into his new persona, even pretending not to know where things were in the house: "Can you tell me where the sink is? I don't know because I'm a new guy here." It got to the point where if we accidentally called him by his real name, it'd hurt his feelings. Then, finally he woke up one morning and said, "I'm not IndianJones manymore." (Thank goodness!!) "Now I'm Obi-Wan."