Power Boy and Chops: a quick trip on a pirate ship

Oscar is becoming an expert at whipping up an adventure. While I was cooking tea he threw together a 15 minute voyage across the seven seas, PIRATE STYLE!

He constructed a ship out of 7 cushions, 2 blankets and a bag of nappies in the middle of the living room. Barney's wooden activity centre was put in the middle (for navigation and things I expect).

Captain Oscar then began to consider his back story, and what TYPE of pirate he wanted to be. After double checking with me what a 'plank' was, and what it was used for in a pirate context, he decided he wasn't a bad pirate; he'd be a pirate who rescued animals. When I next glanced over from the kitchen the 'ship' had gained a very large dog, a small dog, a monkey, a blue teddy, shrek and a plastic pterodactyl.

Oscar started sailing, and Barney (excited by the pile of everything) crawled onto the back of the 'ship' and had a lie down. The rest of the time Barney mostly spent negotiating the pirate hat in various directions and brandishing the cutlass.

I carried on cooking with a smile on my face as I listened to the journey unfold. I caught snippets of Oscar talking to his crew. "Who's in charge here?!" and "You know what guys? I'm not a real pirate, I'm just a little boy doing pirate things."

After sailing all day Oscar tucked everyone up for bed, so Barney popped off to the kitchen to look at the washing machine.

Then we had tea time :) . The End.