Dressing Up
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- March
- 16
So my wife and I were trying to figure out last week how to dress up our 15-month-old son for Purim, the festive holiday that commemorates how the Jews were saved in ancient Persia.
She spent quite a long time online and came up with some possible costumes: a bumble-bee, a cuddly lion, a UPS delivery man and a cute, fuzzy bear. The ears were off on some, the bumble-bee looked fat and the UPS outfit would have just been weird.
We settled on the cuddly lion and ordered it, and were told it would arrive in plenty of time for the holiday. The package arrived four days earlier but we were too busy to open it up until last Monday, the day before Purim.
When my wife finally did, inside the box was …. a duck costume.
It didn’t look anything like a lion, in fact, it didn’t look much like a duck. And it wasn’t even particularly cute. The body was made of tiny little yellow feathers that were shedding even inside the bag. And my son had worn a duck hat on the holiday last year.
We decided to return it and my wife went to a store Tuesday and found a replacement – a puppy costume with floppy ears and paws.
He was adorable. We took lots of pictures. His grandparents kvelled.
My wife, the Jewish mother, though, still thinks he would have made a great lion.
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on Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 1:52 pm by Jon Bandler.
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Any of those choices would be great blackmail pictures when he’s a teenager. Make sure you take lots of pictures, whatever costume you choose.
Every Parent should have a few pictures in teh arsenal.