Lucy's favorite book right now is a Great Illustrated Classics version of Peter Pan. We have read the entire book over and over, and despite some outdated gender overtones and the fact that Mr. Darling exhibits some very disconcerting behavior (Why is he pouring his medicine into the dog's bowl? Why is he sleeping in Nana's kennel when the children come home from Neverland?), it's definitely a fun read.
We should have known that the Welders would be able to deliver on all pirate-themed dreams. They were well stocked with hats, wigs, swords, axes, sticks, and buried treasure from many years of pirate love, and Lucy spent literal hours exploring in the giant back yard with Jordan, piling treasure, uncovering long buried potions in old Tabasco bottles (that even Jordan had forgotten about, and that required all of Aunt Wendell's powers of negotiation to convince Lucy not to open), and killing Aunt Wendell dead.
Lucy learned to draw pirate maps, and on a later visit to the river she stopped to study the map of the Island, then pointed at the X and told us "this means we are here".
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