Star Wars craze

Star wars is big around here.  Somehow Josh has convinced all of his brothers to be completely obsessed with this phenomenon, even Carter goes around saying he is Yoda.  We have been slowly watching the movies since just after Christmas and we have found several great books at the library... We even found an original late 70's/early 80's radio drama that is listened to at night.  The beginner readers that they make have encouraged Josh to read like nothing else :).  He gathers the facts and can tell you just about anything you want or need to know about it.  J & K have a couple of small Star Wars Lego sets that they have built upon to create larger ships.  Right now in their play pretend world, nothing compares to Star Wars!

I love the hold system at the library... Via computer we just run a search, put a request in and pick up the borrowed books waiting there for us.  A couple of weeks ago after a pick up, Josh told me that his favorite 'store' was the library :)... Wow, I didn't think anything beat Toys r' Us in his eyes!

Christmas Break play date... They all collaborated and put together a Star Wars show for us moms.  They did a great job :)!

We happened to notice that the library had a Star Wars day... We quickly signed up for several of the free events- The boys loved it!  Meeting a Clone Trooper (you will notice Josh's serious public face, not a reflection of how much fun he had!).  

Josh was old enough to be part of the 'make your own light saber' and 'light saber training'.  

More die-hard grown up star wars fans dressed up in character for the event!

 One of the highlights for my boys... A huge display of Star Wars Lego creations, they probably spent an hour looking at it all and even got the owner to show them how many of them worked. 

"Mom, take a picture of that one- it is one of my favorites!"  -Josh

Awesome program... Light Saber training with a 'real tae kwon do master'.

Let the battles begin!

It was fun!

Mike stopped by in the afternoon with the younger boys.

J & C made a Star Wars chess set... While K & J made a Star Wars snow globe.

Hummmm, is he safe to go meet?!

Yes!  And they got to see how a Clone Trooper's gun worked too!