Darth Vader IS Cute!

As I’ve mentioned before, Benjamin is on a serious Star Wars kick. (More on our attempt to go see Clone Wars in another post.) He’s got toys, he’s watched selected parts of most of the movies (fairly benign stuff like Luke and R2 meeting Yoda in Empire Strikes Back or the speeder bikes and Ewoks in Return of the Jedi) and overall loves most everything about it.

He’s not big, however, on Darth Vader. Vader’s a little scary for him, though he does have a toy one that he likes. It’s the mask that does it. I have one of the voice-changing Vader masks and helmet and he never likes to see that on. The helmet, though, is another story. One day I let him put that on and I’ve not gotten it back yet.

He was wearing that helmet and sitting on the couch one day when Meron told him that he was very cute. He looked at her very seriously and said,

“Darth Vader is not cute.”

Well, you be the judge of that one………