Today, according to Yahoo, the authority on all national holidays, is National Star Wars day. Why, you might ask (and I don't mean why a national Star Wars day because of course there should be a day devoted to Star Wars), but instead because it is May the 4th. As in "May the 4th be with you"- and yes I will wait as you utter this phrase out loud so that you can hear the corny movie tie-in.
So we celebrated in true Ackerman style by watching the very first movie in the 6 part series, the original "Star Wars", and no I will not add it's tag line, I dislike that #1 has become #4 and that it has a new name. Won't say it. You can't make me. True fans know which movie I am referring too. And while Ben has watched bits and pieces of the movies over the years he has been a bit hesitant to watch them all the way through. But last night he wanted to watch it, so watch it we did.
And while I do not have a photo of all of us scrunched together in the "big bed" (boy am I out of photo practice ever since the whole week in the life project came to an end...) , popcorn bowls in hand, eyes wide with excitement, Dave's a little teary every time he glanced my way with the pure joy of sharing this movie with Ben for the first time, I will instead share a photo of one of Ben's newest Lego Star Wars creations:
May the 4th be with you! LOL! Sorry I missed that yesterday. Perhaps that will become more important to us as my son gets older. LOL. That is so funny!
Posted by: Asinger | May 05, 2010 at 12:44 PM
D'oh I missed the big day -- maybe next year -- LOVE it!
Posted by: Liz Ness | May 05, 2010 at 02:43 PM