Gavin's been learning about animals for the past month at school. His class had a farm animal theme and jungle animals theme. Every Wednesday they have show and tell and he was able to bring in his favorite farm animal- a horse and his favorite jungle animal- a monkey. Last Wednesday was dress up like an animal day for Show and Tell. We did not have any kind of animal outfit and I didn't have time to order one and ship it to us in time. So, I decided I would dress him up in his only tshirt that had the picture of an animal on it and I fought terrible that he wasn't going to fully participate in dressing up like I would have wanted him to. His friend, Devin's mom didn't have an outfit for Devin either so we just accepted that it wasn't going to work out this go around for our boys.
As we were walking out the door to load up in the car, I remembered that we had some animal towels upstairs in the boys bathrooms. I ran upstairs and grabbed two- one lion and one monkey. I quickly gave them to the boys (Gavin and Devin) and told them this was their show and tell dress up. They loved it and Letty and I felt some kind of relief that our boys would be dressed up as something. The boys were ecstatic the entire ride to school and were so proud of their "outfits". They were pretty cute. Letty and I actually figured there would hardly be many kids dressed up due to the limited availability of dress up clothes around Saudi. Well... we were wrong on that one. Had I not found those animal towels, our boys would have been 2 of 6 kids out of 37 not dressed up. EVERYONE had a costume and a real costume.. not fake or made up.. we're talking two & three piece outfits. Some kids even had make up on their faces for whiskers and all. Oh well, thankfully Gavin was dressed up in something and loved it. 
As we were walking out the door to load up in the car, I remembered that we had some animal towels upstairs in the boys bathrooms. I ran upstairs and grabbed two- one lion and one monkey. I quickly gave them to the boys (Gavin and Devin) and told them this was their show and tell dress up. They loved it and Letty and I felt some kind of relief that our boys would be dressed up as something. The boys were ecstatic the entire ride to school and were so proud of their "outfits". They were pretty cute. Letty and I actually figured there would hardly be many kids dressed up due to the limited availability of dress up clothes around Saudi. Well... we were wrong on that one. Had I not found those animal towels, our boys would have been 2 of 6 kids out of 37 not dressed up. EVERYONE had a costume and a real costume.. not fake or made up.. we're talking two & three piece outfits. Some kids even had make up on their faces for whiskers and all. Oh well, thankfully Gavin was dressed up in something and loved it. 
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