Babes in Bear Outfits

BEFORE the New Family Parents were married, Dad bought Mom a St. Valentine's Day gift certificate to Build-A-Bear.

Hey, you do those things when you dating. Hopefully, you still do similar things while married.

Here are the bears they bought. The male bear (dark brown) isn't naked from the waste up to be salacious. Rather, Dad was just to cheap to pay for an entire outfit. The gift certificate only covered Mom's bear.

Valentine's Day Bears

The bears have sat on a corner shelf all of these years. Mom hates dusting their outfits and so removed them. It is easier to vacuum them without their outfits on. Dad spied the bear's clothes on the dresser and had an idea.

These are just too adorable. Click the "Read more" embedded link to see the pictures.

Liesel relaxes in her Mom's bear's outfit. Dad just missed the fleeting smile.

EJ chills out. He, like his Dad, is too modest to go shirtless in public.

Dad has always been fond of bears. He still has one from his early childhood. Its tattered from the love of a toddler. It is pictured in the middle.

The windup music box (inside the bear), used to play This Old Man. It has long since seized. Dad left his favorite bear out in the rain one night as a child, so it might have rusted. While preparing for bed, he cried to Grandma that he needed his bear. She let him retrieve it from its place on top of the slide. Once comfortably snuggled in bed, Dad committed to bear that he would never lose him again. And this is one of only a few toys Dad still has from his early youth today.