"I WANNA BE IRON MAN!" my 5 year-old daughter shrieked through the hospital hallway, her brown hair whipping around her face.

Nurses turned their heads to gawk as I shifted her on my hip, my face beet-red with embarrassment.

"Iron Man's a boy! You're not a boy! You can't be Iron Man!" my 7 year-old son taunted her as he walked along beside me, his blue eyes glinting in the fluorescent lights.

"I can too! I'm Iron Man!" she shouted back to him.

"No you're not!" he stuck his tongue out at her.

"Am too!"

"Are not!"

"Am too!"

"Are not-"

"Timothy! Grace! Behave!" I said, exasperatedly as I led them into the storage room.

As soon as I placed Grace on the floor, she ran over to Jake. He got up from where he was sitting as he watched her. Her little feet padded over to him as fast as she could go and he caught her in his arms. She snuggled into his chest, my heart melting at the sight.

"Daddy, Timmy said I couldn't be Iron Man cause he's a boy and I'm not a boy. Tell him I'm Iron Man, daddy! Tell him!" Grace pouted as Jake smiled.

He glanced down at Timothy who looked up at him defiantly, his arms crossed.

"Now, Timothy, that wasn't a very nice thing to say. Superheroes aren't just boys. Girls can be superheroes too." he said and then leaned down to Timothy's height, a conspiratorial look plastered on his handsome features, "Besides, if Grace gets to be Iron Man...then you can be Captain America."

Timothy shook his head, still not satisfied. Jake sighed then and was silent for a moment. Suddenly, he grinned and there was a mischievous twinkle in his blue eyes.

"Well...I guess you could always be...The Winter Soldier." he smirked.

Timothy's blue eyes that were so much like his father's, lit up and he jumped up and down.

"YES! I'm a villain!" he yelled out, racing around the room in excitement.

I laughed out loud and shook my head at his behavior.

"YAY! I'm Iron Man now! Thanks, daddy!" Grace cheered, placing a kiss on Jake's cheek.

"Would Iron Man like to take a trip around the room now?" Jake grinned, lifting her up into the air.

Grace nodded excitedly and spread her arms out wide.

"Take me away, Jarvis!" Grace cried out happily.

Another laugh escaped my lips as Jake AKA Jarvis "flew" Grace AKA Iron Man across the room.