"A Captain Princess!"

In September Noah and Samuel where given a really cool pirate ship toy. It's the hull of a ship - they can fire cannons, drive the ship, and just be pirates. They love it.

It got packed away in late November and it just came back out yesterday. Today's the first time the boys have played pirates in months. They put on their pirate Halloween costumes and have fun.

Samuel also has an obsession with princesses. On the day we packed up our house in Virginia, all three boys spent about 8 hours with Noah and Samuel's best little girl friends, Lilly and Mya. Lilly and Mya are 4 and 3 and have loved our boys since before they came home from Haiti. They still ask about them. (This week their mommy is coming to Las Vegas and I know the boys are going to be so bummed when they see her and learn that her girls aren't here with her.) The day we packed up the house, Samuel was introduced to being a princess. He wore a tiara, had a wand and wore not one, but TWO skirts ALL DAY LONG. He cried his eyes out when I picked him up and he had to take the princess clothes off. Ever since that day he's been very into princesses.

While staying with our friends over the last few months, Samuel watched a few princess videos with Marissa. In particular, he loved the movie about the dancing princesses best.

So, today while playing pirates he was talking about princesses and I wanted to clarify - was he a princess or a captain (the boys talk about who is going to be the captain while playing). Samuel thought about it for a moment and exclaimed, "A captain princess!" Then he danced and twirled away.

Isn't four great - you can be anything you want to be, even a captain princess!