Today be the 19th o’ September, and lest ye be not aware, International Talk Like a Pirate Day.¹ Arrrrr.
¹ I hae been a celebrant o’ the holiday since 2007 when I first learned of it. That year I enthusiastically put together a series of posts, including a throw-away pirate name post followed by a rather dorky post on how to talk like a pirate, complete with spectrograms of “arrrrrrr.” I feel I did redeem myself, however, with my pirate resume and subsequent rejection letter. In 2008, I put up a pirate ThThTh list. In 2009, I apparently completely forgot about this important holiday. (My excuse was that I was in Spain. This is one of my all time favorite excuses, and I hope to have more opportunities to use it in the future.)
collecting tokens 
Arrr… this be explainin’ me brother’s T-shirt today:
http://www.bigstonehead.net/collections/frontpage/products/pirate-shirt
(on an unrelated note, his wife was wearing one stripey sock and one jigsawpuzzly ankle sock, which reminded me of Phoebe’s tights!)
Theo’s pirate-speak is insanely cute!
That damsel is in distress!
They are the cutest pirates! Theo is really into the pirate speak. So cute! (And I love his shirt!)
Wow. I had known it was Speak-like-a-pirate day, we could have made the whole carousel-up-in-flame thing a bit more interesting??
We celebrated more subtly. We had spaghetti for dinner.
Wait, when did Theo start talking? I’ve missed a stage!
Arrr, those mateys be adorable!
ARRRRGH!
Great video!