yo-ho-ho!

maddux has been a boy obsessed - with jake and the neverland pirates.  he has two shirts with 'jake' on them.  he prefers one.  and i think "prefers" is an understatement.  after he pulled it out of the hamper and wore it three days in a row because it is the only one with a "big jake" (his other one has jake and captain hook).  i haven't been able to wash it fast enough!  so i tried to see if i could find one on clearance on walmart.com (it is long sleeved and that is where grandma had picked it up several months ago).  no luck.

it isn't just enough that it has jake on a shirt - he has to be alone and he has to be big.

they did have a striped shirt and short set with jake on it available online and i showed it to maddux.  thankfully, he approved.  unfortunately, they didn't have it at the store when we went the next day (and, yes, i know i could have ordered it and picked it up but i needed something fast).  thankfully, they did have a shirt that he found acceptable.  he found it so acceptable that while i was looking for a larger size, he stripped off his shirt (the dirty, long-sleeved version that he was wearing for day number four) and tried to put it on in the store!

since i couldn't find the one we were looking for i called grandma to be on the look out (she goes to a lot of walmarts as part of her job).  of course she found the one we were looking for (on maddux) and an extra (on mason) by the end of the day!  they were both for maddux but he was very willing to share which was extra sweet when you consider his obsession.

this has been funny because neither of the other two have had this level of obsession with a clothing item.  they have preferred things but nothing like maddux.  but the funniest part is that he hasn't watched jake and the neverland pirates in months and months because we  don't have cable any more!  who knows what triggered it, but at least we have enough now that he won't be smelly.  love.