the lion king obsession continues.....

hmmmm...my blogging must be pretty bad when even Charlie is nagging me for not updating it! He keeps asking my why I haven't posted the Lion King pictures we took when we were in Vegas. He has seen them a million times (and they really aren't much anyway), but he still wants to be able to see them on the blog whenever he wants, since he does have this site saved to his favorites. I guess I should be flattered he is a regular reader, huh?

These were taken at the gift shop outside of the theater where Lion King is playing at Mandalay Bay. Uncle Jon bought a t-shirt and the music CD for us to bring home to Charlie. Charlie had died and gone to heaven when he got his gifts. He wore the shirt for several days straight. The CD is also in heavy rotation. It has all the songs from the show. He already knew most of them from watching clips on YouTube.

Here he is dressed as Rafiki, his favorite character from the show. (along with a picture of the real rafiki for comparison)
He usually wears his Lion King shirt and some necklaces, not sure why he wasn't this time. He came up with this costume all by himself. He had the black mask on his face and was telling me that he needed a crown. He thought for a minute and then tore off to his room and came back with his alphabet crown on (the one he earned last fall for knowing all his letters and sounds). Next he added the necklaces and t-shirt and was then quite happy with his look. All he talks about is how he is going to be Rafiki for Halloween and that this costume will not work. He would like one that looks much more like the original! (and I thought the KISS costume was difficult!) He is also going to have a Lion King birthday with a Lion King Cake and balloons and decorations. The funny thing about this is that he is not very interested in the original Lion King cartoon. We have gotten him the movie, and while he will watch it occasionally, he does not love it like his beloved Broadway version. Of course, it is fairly easy to find items from the cartoon version, but the Broadway version? Not so much! If he is still interested when Halloween and his birthday roll around, I think we are going to have to get pretty creative to pull it off!

While I admit that it can be tiring hearing about the Lion King all of the time, I love that he is so passionate about it. When he finds something that he loves, he loves it with all of his little heart. And for those of you that remember his KISS obsession last year, well it has pretty much run its course - but he was pretty impressed when they were on the American Idol finale and sang with Adam. He was singing along at the top of his lungs. Since then he hasn't talked about it too much, but I have seen him in the back yard pretending to smash his guitar on the ground like they did at the end of their performance.

We have another little Lion King related project in the works that I hope to have finished up tonight. Check back to see it, it is pretty cute :)