I’ve said it before…I gave birth to a pirate five and a half years ago. Or maybe he was a pirate in a past life. Who knows. But Henry is OBSESSED.

Captain Henry and First Mate Ervin

 Every single day, he wants to draw pirate ships or treasure maps or pirates or skulls and crossbones. Or, he wants to find pictures on the internet and print them out. Or cut out pictures that he’s found. He’s VERY particular about how he draws them (or has them drawn) too. He requests the ship but no pirate and no water. Or the pirate without a sword but with a hook.

He has started coming home from school with a stack of pirate pictures that he’s drawn. His teacher told us at his parent/teacher conference that he wanted to draw his family as a family of pirates.

His fourth birthday party was pirate-themed, because his love of pirates started probably two years ago. And I would be willing to bet the farm that his sixth birthday party will also be pirate-themed (last year he was obsessed with pirates, but got distracted by an additional obsession with Halloween, so he had a Halloween party).

In conclusion: if any of you scurvy pirates tries to come steal our treasure…watch out.