Ela went to her first Purim carnival last weekend. It was amazing! Ela was going to be Queen Esther, but Mom didn't have time to make her costume, so she just went as a baby. It was a pretty convincing costume. Nana and Grandpa came with us; that was great! We hadn't seen them in awhile. First we said hi to Rabbi Nussbaum, who was sitting outside with Yona and baby Mia. Then we stopped at the hamentaschen table and Nana got us all several different flavors, and Mom said hi to a friend from temple. Her son, Asher, 4, told us about how long he was going to have to be in school to become a doctor (his Purim costume), but assured us that he wasn't a doctor yet because he's only had one year of school. (For the record, he'll have to be in school 20 years, which he counted all by himself, except for numbers 15 and 19, which, honestly, aren't really very important numbers anyway.)
After bagging our hamentaschen, we went into the ball room for a few minutes — a racquetball court filled with kids and rubber balls of different sizes — but it was deafening, and some of the bigger kids were kicking the balls pretty hard, so we left. We took a spin around the main carnival area and watched all the kids bouncing around (thanks to lots of hamentaschen and cotton candy), leading weary parents from booth to booth. It was a little overwhelming, actually. After checking everything out, we decided to set out for home. Ela won't be big enough to do the carnival stuff for a couple of years, but she sure enjoyed looking around, and we sure enjoyed the hamentaschen.
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