About a month ago I picked up the audio cd version of Treasure Island by Jim Weiss from the library, but I didn't realize it was going to turn our boys into pirates! We love Jim Weiss. He's a fantastic, award-winning story teller and it's definitely worth the money to invest in a few of his CD's. So the kids listened to the story several times and slowly I started seeing them draw pictures of sword fights and they would come out of their room in the morning with hats, eye patches and swords in hand. Well, last week Matt's truck wouldn't start and so it stayed at home and they saw it as the perfect opportunity to transform that old truck into a pirate ship. We taped 4 long sticks together, placed a sheet over the top and made a sail for the ship and it provided HOURS of endless fun for them. I was inside nursing Addy and I would hear really loud calls of "Land Ho" and "Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum". I also let them eat lunch on the ship and even heard Ezra (who is only 20 months old) say he wanted "pirate booty"! Very funny. Elijah has been doing all kinds of research about the real pirates and dreams about finding Blackbeard's treasure, which is thought to be buried somewhere on Ocracoke Island:) Who knew a broken down truck, some sticks and a sheet could be so much fun.
2 comments:
those boys are more like lost boys pretending to be pirates! you should watch Hook with them...they'd like it.
Such a happy truck!! It's been smiling for years now but I think it is smiling more than ever now that it's parked where there are pirates!!
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