A long time ago...

Lately, Jonah has been obsessed with Star Wars. I am not sure where this started. He had never seen movies or the cartoon or anything. It was as though it was built into his genetic code. We recently came back from Disneyland and the first ride that Jonah wanted to go on was "Star Tours." Again, I am not sure how he knew that this ride was there, or why he was so interested, but he was and he and Noel and I rushed over there right after we hit the Astro Orbiters (which is the traditional first ride - no lines, everyone can ride and it gets the kids pumped up.)

Here we are on the rockets...
And here he is in line for Star Tours. I have never seen him cuter.
He is a huge R2D2 fan. He insists on being him whenever he can when we play Lego Star Wars - leaving me to battle all the droids and storm troopers myself, which I get really annoyed about.

So today he decided he wanted to watch the movies - again, how does he know there are movies? Which we own...on VHS. What are we, the pioneers? So we dug out an old VCR and he sits happily watching. (Side note: how were not driven crazy by the crappy quality of VHS for all of those years?) When he grabbed the tape he grabbed Empire Strikes Back, because of the cool looking AT-ATs on the front. I insisted, that if he was going to watch the movies he watch them in order. (Also, the gutting of the tauntaun might be a little gross for him.) Amy said, "Is this one "The Return of the Jedi" the first one." Um, what. Then she said "Wait, this can't be the first one, it says Episode IV." Mi scusi? How is it that Jonah has tapped the universal unconscious and understands Star Wars and my wife, who grew up in the 80's has no idea. I asked her the plot and she said she doesn't know, but she "imagines there are some bad guys."
Sigh...fortunately she has plenty of other good things going for her.

And this is why we are having a baby girl...so they can gang up on me about Strawberry Shortcake, or 90210 or something.