The Chicken Mask

Last Halloween Jon purchased a chicken mask; anyone that knows Jon well likely isn't surprised by this, and naturally Kira thought that it was a wonderful toy for her to play with. The mask is gigantic on her, so much so that she could wrap it around her head a few times. After catching her do this and noticing that the elastic was getting wrapped around her neck, I cut the elastic off.

Wrong move - she flipped out...I should have seen that coming.

This was around the time that she had started watching a lot of Dora, and whenever Dora needs to fix something she checks in her backpack. Kira said that we needed to fix her chicken mask and that we should check her backpack for some sticky tape. Eager to cut the tantrum short, I got her daycare backpack which is filled with clothing and maybe a snack or two, definitely no sticky tape in there.

After removing most of the items from her backpack, I was stunned to hear her shout out "sticky tape! Look Mama, sticky tape!" Confused, I went over to her and checked out this "sticky tape" she had found. It wasn't sticky tape at all but rather a pink fabric belt that had fallen off one her shirts and never made it out of her backpack. And wouldn't you know it, the damn thing fit on the mask and we had a solution. She was very, very excited and proud of herself for fixing the mask.

Here is a video of her just after we had fixed it, you can see the pink belt near the end of the video.