Josephine the Pirate Queen

 

There was no school on Tuesday and I stayed with Grandma and Apa. On Wednesday I stayed with Meema and Grumpy. First I had pancakes and then I had some cocoa because it was a Very Cold Day. 

Meema and I took turns reading Pirate Stew which is a funny book with lots of good pictures. Then I decided to be a Pirate Queen and I made a song about Josephine the Pirate Queen, who sails the seven seas. 

Dino and I got in a boat. My aunt Fay gave me Dino for Christmas. Dino is a triceratops and she is very pretty.

I had cannon balls to shoot at sea monsters. (The dogs were the sea monsters, and the cannon balls were soft and didn't hurt them so don't worry.)

Me and Grumpy played catch with the cannon balls while Jenny watched.

I sang my pirate queen song for Grumpy.

I pretended my lunch was pirate stew.

I built a fort with a secret place for my treasure. The treasure is a locket that Sandy gave me a long time ago. It opens and I have a piece of sea glass in it.

Then we had a pirate dance party!

I took a break from playing pirate because the babies wanted a puppet show in The Room.

The princess and the unicorn did some singing and then the babies sang with them. The unicorn sounds like a donkey, hee haw, hee haw. The babies thought that was funny.

The princess does opera singing. She is very loud.

Later on, Grumpy and I talked about pirates and he told me about Blackbeard who lived in North Carolina a long time ago. Grumpy showed me a picture of him and his big black beard that he put burning stuff in. And Grumpy even has a flag like Blackbeard's. AND, Grumpy told me that Meema had written a book with Blackbeard in it. (Editor's note: Never published, but it got me an agent.)

So I drew a picture of Blackbeard on a post-it note for Grumpy. He has a pirate hat with a skull and crossbones on it and a big black beard with fire burning in it.

                                                        

PS: Meema was a little cranky when it was time to take me home and I was drawing on my tablet. Close that NOW she said. Your mama is expecting us!

Just one second I said. 

It's been one second she said. Close it NOW.

Just be patient I said.

PATIENT? she said Close it!

Do you know what a virtue is I said and she said yes she knew that patience is a virtue. (She was really getting cranky now.)

Well, you don't have that virtue I told her. And she said something about my daddy getting the child he deserved because when he was little, he always argued too. 

And then she took me home. She said I had done an extra good job with reading (I read most of four books) and with clean up.)

We could see snow on the far mountains when we went out to the car. It was a good day to be a pirate queen.