We had our second annual celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day this month. It was an exciting day for all. Pirate singing, pirate painting, pirate stories, pirate plays, and hotdogs & beans!
On the eve of our celebration we had a torrential downpour and our gutters (which were way overdue for a cleaning) overflowed into our room…right onto Josh’s sleeping face (our mattress got soaked). We spent 2 hours moving things, cleaning up, and setting up a bed on the floor in our main room to sleep on. We said it was like we had to abandon ship during a storm. The kids slept through it all (even those we were also moving things out of their room too). They woke up to find our “pirate ship” set up on the main room. Exciting start of the day!
In the evening, we had hotdogs and beans – per Ezra’s request. Dessert was lime bars made by Becca. After dinner each of the kids did a show about pirates. Each child used different things for his/her show. Clara used magnatiles and wooden people that Becca painted, Anna used playdough, Isaiah used his family, and Becca used stick people which she painted to look like family members.
We ended the evening watching two episodes from a 1950’s Robin Hood series. Arrrrrr!
