Many years from now when I look back at all the phases the boys went through--balls, trains, cars, dinosaurs, soccer, video games, skate boards, guitars, girls--I think the weirdest one will be pirates. Currently Leo is all pirates all the time. And coincidentally enough, the McDonald's by our house is pirate-themed. In the picture above Leo is posing with pirate Ronald; he played there today while wearing his new pirate sweater. He'd be wearing his pirate hat as well but I left it in the car.
It started with Jake and the Neverland Pirates, an innocent Disney show. So at first he was just into Jake and Jake happened to be a pirate. He didn't even say all the phrases right: "Ahoy, Maybe!" But somewhere along the way it morphed into an obsession with all things pirate-related. He watched a pirate movie, went to a pirate museum, has a toy pirate ship, constantly does a pirate puzzle, plays with all his toy pirates (including the cast of Jake and Pirates of the Caribbean), puts pirate stickers on everything, wears his pirate hat and uses pirate lingo in regular conversation. (Betcha didn't know that "Frosty" is an insult as in "You Frosty Mommy!")
Today he held "Pirate School" in which we had to listen to a lecture on different kinds of skulls and crossbones. Apparently some are scary and some are not. At the end Leo said, "Any questions?" And Frank asked, "How do I know the difference between crossbones and an X?" They then had a spirited debate about this.
Three more funny pirate notes:
- He likes to go to Petsmart to look at the fish because some of them have pirate-themed tanks.
- When we do the pirate puzzle, we have to talk like pirates: "Arggh, that piece goes over there" and "Shiver me timbers, if I put that piece under that one I'm gonna have to walk the plank!"
- He calls his Jack Sparrow pirate Johnny Depp. (No idea who taught him that!)
While I think this is an odd phase, I hope it sticks at least until he turns five. Target has super cute pirate-themed birthday stuff and that McDonald's has a very affordable party package. Ahoy, Maybe!
2 comments:
I think I need to write down a list of Leo's obsessions and chart Charlie along with him. He's been through the ball phase and the car phase and now he's solidly in a train phase. It's insane. He's currently sitting with Daniel naming every train in a Thomas & Friends sticker book... even not in color and that haven't even been on the TV show. It's amazing to me. HE'S A GENIUS.
Also, every time he gets to a page he says "who IS all deez guys?" I love it.
That is so cute! He is def a genius and not a Russell. I hope he doesn't go through the phase that Leo went through when he was 2.5 where he made us call him different names like Goalie and Basketball Player and Conductor. It got really intense.
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