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Today was Talk Like a Pirate Day, and Uncle Denny and Dennis celebrated together with pirate cake and pirate jokes and LOTS of pirate talk. He went straight from pirate talk to ninja talk (Taekwondo class was tonight). Tonight he asked us to come and see something important he'd set up in his room, and he was so earnest in his insistence that we went. He'd set up his nativity set, and this prompted him to ask the question "Does Jesus shrink every Christmas?". I explained that He wasn't born every Christmas but that we celebrate His birthday every Christmas and we talk alot about when He was a baby just born.

Dennis came into our room shaking some maracas and dancing to his own beat. I was lying on the bed reading and he climbed up and held the maracas like a set of tweezers. He said "hey, let's play Operation--I'm going to operation you!". He told me "when I hit the metal on your insides your nose will light up and you'll make a buzzing sound." Eager to comply, I grabbed my keychain light (small and red) and put it in my nose and lit up my nose and buzzed repeatedly. Naturally we giggled a good bit. He left the room and came back in with his school folder, saying "I need to do a piece of homework." He was very disappointed not to have homework, but he quickly found a workbook that I'd bought for him and went off to fetch his favorite Spiderman pencil. He's working on it now, addition, and he's doing a good job!

Dennis' favorite joke of the day: "Where can you find a pirate that lost his wooden legs? Right where you left him!".