Not this weekend, but still a good story! (I’ve saved up some stories from my month of not writing on here.)
Becky and Dad thought it was okay to watch Jaws with Lucas.
(WWHHAATT??!!) Exactly. Thank you.
This screams through every mom’s head when you have a boy who likes to repeat everything and has been slashing duplo and cardboard light sabers at everything and everybody for years – add on his uncles, big sisters, and “the meats” from Lord of the Rings and yes, Mom is sure someone lost their senses.
What does Lucas do after watching Jaws?
Jump in the ocean at 6pm the next night with no reservations. He actually teases Jillian, “there might be a giant shark in here! Cool!”
Nope, not scared of sharks.
He makes a lego model of the fisherman’s boat and says to Dad, “I think we need a bigger boat.”
Mom facepalmed…
But here is his boat plus Becky’s updates (he went to Becky and asked for her help to make it look “really real”) I added a cute picture of Lucas with Legos ages ago because he wouldn’t sit still for a picture!
So he played with Becky’s updated shark hunter boat for quite some time, and yes, he knows lines from this iconic movie now – this child can replay an entire movie in his head.
Normally, it’s a battle from Star Wars or a scene from one of Jaquline’s favorite swashbucklers (yes, her “movie crush” is Errol Flynn and my family laughs at that because he was mine too) or from the latest John Wayne war movie, but for said entire weekend it was from Jaws. The funny part? The Lego shark was nowhere near the right proportions of the shark from the movie so Lucas kept claiming his hand was the shark and the little lego shark was “his tiny friend laughing.”
…and this is where most of my inspiration for children’s books comes from!
Type at you later,
~Nancy Tart