pirate day

today ben was obsessed with "jake and the neverland pirates." he demanded we make a "team treasure chest" just like jakes. unfortunately my first two attempts at a pirate chest were unacceptable. the first one which was exactly like jakes via disney.com was vetoed because it was too small. the second one made from a shoebox, which i thought was awesome apparently wasn't his cup of tea either. also he needed a pirate hat. lucky me, my first attempt was acceptable. the day was almost ruined when we didn't have any gold doubloons on hand. so a trip to the dollar store was the next order of business. but sadly the dollar store let us down. no gold doubloons. only giant pennies. fortunately, there was another mom there also in search of pirate paraphenalia. she tipped us off that walmart had some in the party section. so off we went again in search of gold doubloons. i found some gold coins that weren't officially pirate currency, but luckily they passed with ben. so we came home and loaded up the treasure chest (also found in the party section. apparently better than what i could do) with our booty and set out on many a pirate hunt. the treasure somehow winds up in the same spot every time. hhmmmm . . . i smell funny business.