Who wants to be a pirate?

Is he squinting because of the sun? Or because he's questioning whether he really wants to join a pirate crew, even as he's taking a supposed oath?


At Disney's Magic Kingdom, AJ jumped at the chance to go on stage with Captain Jackson Sparrow. (Yes, I know his first name is Jack, but that's what AJ's been saying. He has a friend name Jackson, and apparently can't get passed that.)

AJ excitedly accepted the certificate and proudly held it high along with the other kids, swearing allegiance to the pirate crew. What 5-year-old wouldn't? He was being offered something free... from a pirate he's seen on TV.

But clearly AJ had doubts. Later that night, back at the hotel, AJ worriedly confessed, "I don't want to be a pirate. I want to be in our family."

We assured him it was just a show, and that he was stuck with our family forever. (Whether he wants to be or not.) That calmed him down, and so once again he likes to sing what's actually a song from Peter Pan, not Pirates of the Carribean:

Yo ho, whaddaya know?
A pirate's life for me.

Hey, hey, whaddaya say?
A pirate's life for me.