Pirates and Brothers

Penny loves to pretend to be a pirate. She'll hold up a napkin or something to her face and say that it is her "eyepatch." Or she'll take a piece of newspaper and put it on her head and say it is her "pirate hat." We have a large-ish empty box in our kitchen from unpacking that she loves to climb in and out of and from what I can pick out of her talking to herself, she mostly pretends it is a pirate ship. Today though she said something while sitting in the box that seemed to me to be completely out of the blue. She said, "Where's my brother go?" I tested her to see if I heard what I thought I heard. I had. I said, "you don't have a brother, Penny." She said, "well, we'll just have to get one." She may have to wait awhile. :)