Forever indebted to George Lucas

It's all Star Wars, all the time at our house these days.

I thought the Toy Story obsession was adorable... Then came Cars. I thought I'd never see anything so adorable as my two boys playing "Cars with eyes" for hours on end. But I've been proven wrong (again...). The Star Wars obsession is the best yet! I will forever be indebted to George Lucas for the memories!

Star Wars Galactic Battle, By Beck Sosa, Age 5

C3P0 and R2D2 under the Purple Death Star, By Beck Sosa, Age 5

Darth Vader of The Dark Side, The Artist

Light Saber fights are a pretty regular occurrence at our house these days. It's tricky business, this light saber fighting and war stuff. Explaining why it's O.K. to fight with light sabers (compare it to Olympic sword fighting?) and why it's O.K. to shoot each other with laser guns ('cause they're fake and Star Wars is just for pretend) even though that stuff is never O.K. in real life...

Star Wars is turning out to be a great lesson in understanding what it really means to be a good guy or a bad guy and what it means to be good or evil. It's WAY easier to drive these concepts home when there's a light saber involved! And, believe it or not, they actually find it much less frightening than reading stories of the same concepts from the children's Bible. It's hard to re-enact Cain and Abel without throwing rocks at your brothers head (and mommy won't let you do that for real or pretend!)

Check out this video clip:

Luke Skywalker and "Dark" Vader battle to the end.

Author's Note: Even Star Wars guys die with their tongues hanging out!

Luuuuuuuuke... I'm your Father!

See for yourself. Click PLAY.

The first official "friend" sleepover

Cousin Olivia had a sleepover with Beck and Caden last night at our house. The mommy's and daddy's went to the Loffler Companies Holiday Party at the Metropolitan while Aunti Sheri and Cousin Viki presided over the ruckus.

It was great to FINALLY have a volunteer to help me out in the kitchen! Livi helped make pancakes, eggs and bacon for breakfast.

Then everyone played hard to work it all off.

Cousin Livi (a.k.a. Buzz Lightyear-Fireman-Pirate-on-Lightening-McQueen) and the boys played Ninjas and Star Wars. Despite the costume to the contrary, Liv insisted she was Yoda.

And then Livi honored us with a little ditty she calls "The Train" on the harmonica. She must get it from her daddy!

Oh No! The Gazelles!

Beck's Space Ship

A Dozen Gazelles Jump into Hot Lava!
By Beck Sosa (Age 5)

I asked Beck the other day what he thought he was REALLY good at. He said: "Drawing". I'd agree.

Then I asked him what he thought he wasn't very good at. He had a hard time thinking of anything for a while. Then he said: "Taking my medicine." I'd agree with that one too!

There's been a LOT of the pink stuff in our house lately... which leads to lots of time at home drawing and playing trains and cars and playdough...

Did you know that Gazelles like to jump into water but then they find out it's hot lava instead! And they all die?! Not very smart those Gazelles!

From the mouth of my babe... Beck.

"Do you have to get your brains sucked out if you go to outer space?"

I don't know... do you?

Picture of Beck at 3 years old - two years before he posed this question to us...
he's been pondering it for awhile I guess.