Nathan, for example, has been asking all kinds of questions about William Shakespeare. I’ve been answering in very general terms because 1) I don’t want him to get bored by iambic pentameter before he even has a chance to learn it in school, and, 2) because my own knowledge is sorely limited. I’ve read a few books/plays but not a ton. 

Whatever the case, I figured these few questions would be the end of it.

The other night, though, Nathan took my Plunderlings figure and staged him as such…

I asked him what was going on and he said, “It’s Shakespeare!”

And it dawned on me that he had re-created the “Alas, poor Yorick” speech from act 5, scene 1 of Hamlet.

(Hamlet, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch above and David Tennant below…)

He wasn’t able to explain how he knew it, just that he knew it. So cool. Kiddo blows my mind.