Robot Hand

Have any of you ever seen a Robot Hand on a real boy?  Well, I definitely have.  My son Noah,  oh, sorry again but his name is Anakin.  He is always correcting me.  He lost his hand in a battle with Count Dooku.  And now it is  mechanical and he wears this glove 24/7 days a week.  He says his hand is gold and black.  In the old Clone Wars movies there is a scene when they lift up the golden hand and say "Hocasset" which means Ghost Hand in that alien language.  He asks me to be the old shaman and lift his hand and say this over and over again.  We laugh and think it great fun.

He started wearing both his Darth Vader gloves to school everyday in April, about the time we learned we had to move.  He then started wearing just one.  I thought it cool kind of a Michael Jackson thing.   He has a fit when we have to wash it.  It gets really stinky as you can imagine. His hand now that it is warm outside is always really sweaty. He wears it sleeping, running, fighting, playing at all times.  He is very good about taking it off to go potty and wash his hands.  What a good boy.  He knows where his glove is at all times.  He loves it.  
I figure it is one of those things that is not worth the fight.  So he even wears the glove to church.  The other day on our way to primary, he got really emotional and started acting really upset.  He told me he did not want anyone to see his robot hand.  I told him not to worry for he could just keep his glove on the whole time.  He is a bit stressed about his new class .  It turned out perfectly for they were talking about the Holy Ghost in class.  

And they used his glove as an object lesson.  He loves participating so it worked out well.  And now his teacher understands to be sensitive about his robot hand.  It worked out well.
He was really thrilled and corporative when I asked him to take pictures of his hand.  I have had lots of people comment and ask about his gloved hand.  I figure you only get to be 5 once in your life.  In his mind he is really good guy Anakin before he starts making bad choices and becomes Darth Vader.  So of course he has to have a robot hand.  And he found the glove to protect it.  I have asked if he wants authentic gloves just like Anakins, he says yes but only as a backup glove when this one has to be washed.  What a silly creative little man