September 29, 2012  |  8:16am
Darth Poppins
Me: "What are you humming?"
Luke: [age 7] "Umm... it's a combination of the Darth Vader song and Mary Poppins."
Me: "What?"
Luke: "Yeah: Dum, dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum dum, dum dum, a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. I call it the Darth Poppins Song."
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August 4, 2012  |  8:37am
"The Death Star is so big, I bet there’s a shopping center in it somewhere… and it’s called the Darth Mall."

— Luke, age 7

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July 23, 2012  |  9:08pm
The kids turned me into Darth Viking Clause.

The kids turned me into Darth Viking Clause.

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June 13, 2012  |  5:11pm

You’ve probably seen this Volkswagon advertisement.  Some news about the boy who played Vader…

Max Page, the 7-year-old who played Little Vader in Volkswagen’s hugely popular 2011 Super Bowl spot, will undergo open-heart surgery Wednesday for a congenital heart defect, according to a note from ad agency Deutsch.

But check out his attitude:

“Mom, I don’t have a choice. I have to go through it. I don’t like it and it’s still scary—but I have to. So I think I might as well go through it with a good attitude.”

…

“Kids, if you use your FORCE and dream big, you can achieve anything. We may be small—but we’re mighty!”

Read more.

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December 23, 2011  |  11:00am
Darth Snowman
[I found this among some old saved messages from last year, when Luke was 6]
Me: “You have homework, right?”
Luke: “Yeah, I have to decorate this snowman.” (holds up construction paper)
Me: “Okay. How should we do it?”
Luke: “I think he should be a ninja. Or Darth Snowman.”
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April 10, 2011  |  6:00pm
Darth Chipmunk
Luke: “If Darth Vader were a chipmunk, what would the Death Star be made out of?”
Me: “What?”
Luke: “You know, the big round space station?”
Me: “Hmm... tree bark? A giant acorn, maybe?”
Luke: “And his theme song would go like...” (makes chipmunk noises to the tune of the Imperial March)
Me: “How would you know he was a chipmunk if he was wearing a helmet and cape?”
Luke: “His tail would stick out. Duh!”
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