The Circus on Friday was very fun. Ricky loved the animals and Billy slept through it like a champ! Ricky had been hoping to see a seal with a ball on its nose, but seeing the elephants made him forget that he wasn’t seeing any seals. Before the show, we were able to walk around the animal pens and see the tigers and zebras and horses and elephants. At first Ricky was busy trying to find a way through the fence to get into the elephants’ pen, but then he enjoyed watching the elephants get cleaned up with a leaf blower for the show. Kevin and I enjoyed the great big kitties (tigers) especially when they chewed on cardboard pieces and a big ball just like my mom’s cat, Spot.
It was a really windy day on Friday and you can tell by Ricky’s hair.
This is Ricky trying to find a way through the fence to get to those elephants.
After wandering through the pens, we went in for the pre-show. We got to be on the floor and see some small acts. Ricky got to pet a circus dog, see a clown, watch an elephant paint a picture, and a few other things.
Ricky seemed to really enjoy the show, although he was getting tired during a few of the less exciting acts. He thought using binoculars was very cool (we were on the third row of the upper bowl seats). Here are a few of my favorites:
These acrobats were amazing. They could bend their bodies backwards so far that their rear ends were sitting on their heads! Craziness!
The circus dogs were really fun! These fluffy white dogs could jump rope while standing on their back legs! This picture is a dog going down a slide backwards.
The elephants were huge! Watching them was like seeing Dumbo in real life!
The tigers were my favorite though. The trainer had one really riled up and it would roar and swat at him. The trainer would say things to it like “No kisses for you” in a thick Eastern European accent (think Soup Nazi). It made me laugh.
We will definitely take the boys back to the circus, but probably not for a few years.
Saturday was Kevin’s birthday and my mom and sister watched the boys while we went out to eat. My mom shared that at one point she was using the bathroom and forgot to lock the door (she obviously doesn’t live with the threat of Ricky walking in on you). Anyway, he opened the door and came in and she told him to go out and close the door, which he obediently did. Well, moments later, she saw the door open a crack and this little hand slowly slide up the wall and click . . . flip her light switch off, then close the door again. Ricky just loves light switches and has since even before he could reach them. We visited Uncle Tim at his new house after the circus and it has switches every where (so many Tim isn’t even sure what they all do yet). For the hour or so we were there, Ricky went around flipping them all on and off, over and over again.
Here is Ricky enjoying a birthday cupcake:
For those of you in warmer climates, it snowed on Kevin’s birthday! It didn’t stick at our house, but we took a picture anyway. Those white spots are the snow.
