Luke "Skywalker" Stansell

Over the last few weeks Luke has asked us several times about watching the Star Wars movies with Luke Skywalker in them. Yesterday I found the box set of the Star Wars Trilogy and bought it for him. We watched most of the A New Hope IV last night.

Today after swimming lessons he asked me if when we got home he could run in and get his money and I would take him to Toys R Us to buy a light saber. I tried to explain to him that light sabers were expensive and that we did not have time to go all the way home and get his money and come back to town because I had to cook dinner and they had homework and baths. That answer did not satisfy him, of course. I decided to play this to my advantage. I told Luke and Rachel that if they would eat leftovers for dinner I would take them to the toy store and let them buy a toy with their money. We all agreed that sounded like a win win situation for everybody! So when we got home the kids ran in and changed into dry clothes, got their money, and we headed to the toy store.

On the way to the store Luke asked me if Toys R Us had light sabers. I told him that they probably did. He told me that his friend Trevor told him he could get one there. We found them very quickly. He immediately said he wanted the red one. I tried to find a green one, but he wanted the red. I told him red was for bad guys, and he shook his head yes. The girls both found hula hoops they wanted so we headed to the check out. He made his purchase by himself. You could tell he believed that was money well spent.

As soon as we got home he wanted to watch The Empire Strikes Back V. I turned it on for him while I warmed dinner up. I called him to eat. He ate everything on his plate and asked for more. It probably took him 5 minutes and it was back to the movie. He watched very intently. I walked thru the living room to help Kate in the bathroom when the movie was about over and he said frustrated that "Luke still has not gotten his hand cut off." I told him it may have happened in the last movie and kept going. A few minutes later I hear "Yes!!!" shouted from the living room (Napoleon Dynamite style). I started laughing and came in the room. He said, "Look he is only holding on with one hand because Darth Vader cut the other one off!" He had been waiting for that moment the whole movie.

I sent him to take a bath as soon as the movie was over. This is what met me in the hall after bath time. Luke's version of Darth Vader....so cute!!!
I thought it was Luke Skywalker he was interested in because they had the same name. It is quite a surprise it is another Skywalker he admires....the bad guy!!! It is so much fun to watch our little boy find new characters to admire. He has gone from Barney, Shaggy, Ferb (short lived), Mario, Luigi, and now Darth Vader.