Pirates Of Wavertree

The city of Liverpool is celebrating its 800th birthday this year! All the schools in the city have had parties to celebrate. The boys's school had their street party this afternoon with a maritime/Liverpool theme. Initially Timmy wanted to go as Nemo the clown fish, Luke as a dolphin & Jordan as a shark but given the short notice we were given for making costumes my imagination failed me! Lee thought it was funny how the boys just assume that I can make any costume & turn them into anything! as it was I managed to pursuade them that sailors or pirates (nice ones that give treasure away & don't steal it!) might be a good idea. So, with the help of my mum, who sewed the waistcoats & found the material for the headscarves plus lots of treasure (thankyou so much!), we made 3 pirate costumes this weekend! The boys & I had such fun making the treasure chests out of washing tablet boxes, cereal packets, tissue paper & split pins. It was messy but worth it!

We thought of all kinds of famous people from Liverpool that the boys could have been if we'd had more time for costumes such as Ken Dodd, the Diddy Men, The Beatles, a Liverbird, the Mole of Edge Hill....

And here is what you get when you ask the boys to make a pirate face....

...this is Jordan's!...
..Luke's cute moustache pirate face....
and Timmy really getting into the swing of pirate-ness! (This was totally his idea, I didn't get him to pose like it!!!)

Timmy & Luke had so much fun posing for piccies in our garden. It's nice to see them enjoying each other's company. Luke had the whole of the nursery in fits of giggles when he arrived; he walked into the room, as bold as you like, & said in a loud voice 'Shiver me timbers!'

Edit: You know your kids are in for a wild party time when the teacher greets them brandishing a cutlass & talking in a pirate voice first thing in the morning! The boys had so much fun at the party eating jelly, cake, doughnuts, crisps & sweets & drinking juice. They played party games like pass the parcel, musical chairs & statues & had so much fun! the rain stayed away enough for them to have the party in the school yard which was something! Timmy & Luke were particularly delighted that there was a giant strawberry at the party! Jordan told me it was one of the teachers dressed up as Strawberry Fields!! Needless to say, all 3 boys were rather high on sugar when they came home last night but after a little restlessness at bed time pretty much went straight to sleep. They were certainly tired after all the excitement! :O)