Is this the world's cutest Persian king or what? Today marked the Jewish holiday of Purim, which celebrates one of the few times in our history we escaped genocide.
Basically, a beautiful queen uses her feminine wiles to persuade her hubby, the king (pictured here) to spare her people (that's us) from an evil advisor who sought our demise. The king relents, the baddy is hanged and everybody gets drunk.
Not that the widdle wuv muffin in this photo could ever hurt a fly. The cat, maybe, but not a fly.
The story's apocryphal, according to a handout from Minitaur's pre-school. The costumed revelry dates from the same pagan rituals that gave rise to Mardi Gras and Carnivale.
Even so, they held a parade and party today. The kids dressed as characters from the story, or Spiderman or a fireman or a bumblebee or whatever inspired them. There were quite a few superheroes in the mix -- at least in keeping with the theme, if not the exact story.
Okay, maybe Spiderman would've dashed to our rescue if he'd been around back then. I'd like to think so. He's a nerd, just like much of the tribe, right?
But His Majesty had a big advantage over Marvel's mightiest: The Queen Mum made his costume. Yes, I did it just to make all the other Mommies feel inferior. It's amazing what a glue gun can do to boost my self esteem, even if I singed the tips off my fingers.
King Cuteness used Elmer's on the sequins and the necklace is alphabet beads that spell his name (yeah, I had to help a little with that too).
I'm feeling especially competent today, thank you, even if I failed to put him down for a nap and ended up losing my temper at him and yelling. Okay, so I still suck at parenting, but I get brownie points for Best Use of Leftover Fabric.
The only problem with the King is that he knows it.
Posted by: plosh | March 25, 2005 at 03:19 PM
Hebrew school is a few years gone by for me, but Purim is the one about Haman, right? If so, I got to play him in our 3rd grade Hebrew School production of the Purim story. Oscar-worthy, I promise.
Posted by: Gooch | March 27, 2005 at 07:54 AM
I think the real miracle of Purim is not that the Jews were saved from Haman's plot by Queen Esther. It's that the King chose a Jewish girl over all those hot Persian chicks.
(prepares to be pelted)
Posted by: psychotoddler | March 28, 2005 at 06:38 PM
Oh man, I can't wait till my wife reads that comment. Hoo wee.
Posted by: plosh | March 28, 2005 at 10:22 PM
Gooch no doubt made an adorable and totally un-hateable Haman. I'm ignoring the rest of you.
Posted by: Anne | March 30, 2005 at 05:21 PM
We should probably watch out. Didn't Esther have her enemies killed?
Posted by: Ontario Emperor | March 31, 2005 at 07:12 AM
Very spiffy outfit, yay you and the glue gun.
But really. 'Widdle wuv muffin'?!?!? How's he going to feel in 10 years when you tell him that you blogged about him and called him that :)
Posted by: Kitty | April 02, 2005 at 05:26 PM
We plan to erase all evidence.
Posted by: plosh | April 02, 2005 at 09:05 PM