Gragger. Mordecai. Megillah. Hamantashen. Yom Tov! Happy Purim!
Max needed to help me out, a lot, when reading our bedtime stories about Purim the other night. And I could tell he loved that he knew how to pronounce all the Hebrew words. He's proud of what he's been learning at school and was happy to help me along.
I'll let you all Wiki Purim for the backstory on the Jewish celebration, and just tell you that it is clearly a much celebrated holiday. The boy's school was so VIBRANT on Thursday. Everyone was in costumes, shaking their noisemakers, eating treats, making things for charity and just generally rowdy and fun. Max was super excited to get to school that morning!
Max decided he wanted to wear his Halloween costume from a couple years ago for his school's Purim celebration and costume parade. Although he got lots of comments about how cute it was, he said he got a little upset that everyone started to use his pumpkin tummy as a punching bag...
Given his school doesn't celebrate Halloween, it was actually quite fun to pull out the costumes in March and see all the kids dressed up. Almost like we got Halloween two times this past year (I mean no disrespect to the Jewish celebration by making that comparison...merely exciting in the fact that all the kids were so pumped for the special occasion and dressing up).
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