Dr. Suess week

A little later than the rest of the world, the boys celebrated Dr. Suess week before we left for Germany.  And for once I remembered to take pictures!  Well, at least I remembered for most of the week.  Sunday was red shirt/Thing 1 and Thing 2 day and I forgot to get a shot of them in their red shirts, but that wasn't all that exciting anyway, right?  Behold, the rest of the week!

Monday was silly sock day.  We purged all their "silly" socks before we left in favor of matching pairs in sensible brown, navy, grey, and white, so these I picked up from my new favorite department store, Ansar Gallery, a bizarre place sourced from Asia that happens to be on the way to school, where they stock a totally random assortment of clothes, accessories, and appliances, most of which is actually pretty cheap considering prices here.  I got a five pack of socks for 11 riyals, which is a little over $3.  Score!

Tuesday was backwards, forwards, mismatched, inside out day.  J's clothes are inside out and backwards, and the socks are doing double duty here.  E was clearly loving having his picture taken, as usual!  One of these tie dye shirts is courtesy of Aunt Melissa, sent to us a million years ago when she and her kids made some, and the other is courtesy of Auntie Lane, who dyed shirts with the boys while we were visiting Qatar last summer.

Wednesday was wear a wacky hat day.  E chose not to participate, but J is happily modeling one of my striped beach hats.

Thursday was the grand finale, come as your favorite book character, Dr. Suess or otherwise.  J wanted to be the Lorax (after choosing from a carefully curated set of Pinterest images of characters I thought I could swing given our limited resources here) and E wanted to be Superman, of course, even though I think we have exactly one Superman book.  Fortunately, E had Superman pajamas complete with a cape velcroed on back, but J's costume was more of a challenge.  I ended up painting a white cap orange using my trusty stash of poster paint brought from the States and then I found yellow feathers at the office supply store.  Because of course that's where they are sold.  Lucky thing I noted that they sold feathers there a month ago when I popped in to check the place out, huh?  E isn't smiling in any of these pictures, either, but that's because he was too busy humming the Superman theme just as loudly as he could!

I actually think these dress as your favorite character days are some sort of insidious plot to drive parents crazy.  Look, you have to come up with yet another costume and it's not even Halloween!  Bwahahahaha!  But the fact that it's vaguely (oh soo vaguely) related to reading means the guilt factor is high if you don't participate.  What, don't you support literature, reading in the schools, the ARTS??  Why yes, yes I do, I just don't support continuing art projects for me.  I graduated from elementary school, thank you, and I don't want to do another diorama, either!  My only consolation is knowing my own mother had to do this many more times than I ever will (her efforts turning my little brother into a sunflower for my sister's oral report on Kansas are legendary in my family lore, for instance), and this, too, shall pass!