Funny thing is that Jon and I have been calling Brayden "Sweet Pea" for weeks and sometimes we call him Popeye when he squints his eye. We kept asking ourselves if Sweet Pea was a boy or girl and I finally googled it and confirmed the cartoon character was indeed a boy. I found this cool trivia info. online. What a coincidence that I took this photo of Jon and Brayden yesterday on the sailboat (Pearl of Great Price), that Jon sails on.
FROM WHAT POD SPRANG SWEET'PEA?
Lil Swee'Pea, as Popeye likes to say, is an "adoptid infink." Historians of newspaper comics say he first appeared in his long nightshirt on July 28, 1933. The expressive babe appeared in his first cartoon short film in Max Fleischer's 1936 "Little Swee'Pea," in which Popeye blusters:
There's no ifs or maybes
I'll never has babies!
I'm Popeye The Sailor Man!
In the film version, Swee'pea's mother left him on the doorstep of the Oyl home, where Popeye lives as a boarder, knowing the trustworthy sailor would protect him. In other accounts Swee'pea is depicted as royalty. After Swee'pea's birth father is killed, Swee'pea was made the Crown Prince of Demonia. As he was of royal birth, he needed protection from an evil uncle who wanted to eliminate him and take control of the country.
Hmm, me thinks it fittin' to make me infamous spinach, tomato frittata for breakfast in the morn' for me strong sailor-man ;}
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