Identity Issues

Sometimes little boys want to be like their Dads. They imitate their father's mannerisms, will profess to like the same sports or tv shows as their dad, and engage in all sorts of other super hero worship. Devlin is like all the others. He loves Spiderman because it's his Daddy's favorite superhero. He loves to wear his Montreal Canadiens t-shirt because it's his Dad's favorite hockey team (even though they haven't won a Stanley Cup in recent memory).
Lately, he's been taking his idolization of his dad to extremes. No, he's not trying to pretend to shave, or anything like that. Rather, he's forging a new identity for himself.
On the weekend, Devlin asked my sister, who's about to give birth to her first baby, what the baby would look like. More specifically, "What colour skin will the baby have?"
My sister was surprised, but answered, "Well, the same colour skin as you and Ceilidh and Aisling."
Devlin persisted. "Will the baby have my skin colour or like Ceilidh?"
Auntie Shunaha answered again, "The same as all of you."
Devlin, as if stating the obvious, retorted, "Well, I'm white. Just like Daddy. And those two are yellow," pointing to his sisters.
Maybe he's really trying to model after his dad, or maybe he believes because he's a boy, he's a by-product of his dad, and while his sisters, being girls, are modelled after their mother. I don't know.
A few weeks ago, he proudly proclaimed himself to be half-Korean and half-mungee cake. That was after he was corrected that he was NOT Chinese, although he thought he was because he believed he had "Chinese-looking eyes".