The Greatest Show on Earth

Today we went to the MUCH anticipated circus.  I bought the tickets on January 18th, and told Hardin.  He had just seen the Bubble Guppies circus episode so he knew exactly what I was talking about.  I kid you not, he has asked if we are going to the circus at least 90% of the days since then.

And today was the day.  He was SOOOOOOO excited.  It's hard for me to put into words how excited he gets.  Think jumping up and down squealing excitement.  I wish I would have taken a video of him this morning when I said Yes baby, we are going to the circus TODAY!  Whoa the commotion that followed. 

We went an hour early for the pre-show and that was such a treat.  We were able to stand front row around the elephant ring while she dunked a basketball and painted a picture.  I think that stood out the most, because when I picked him up from his nap (at 5pm), he quickly asked Mommy, did you see that elephant shoot hoops?  Did you see her paint the picture?  She was SO BIG mommy, did you see her?

He also really liked the horses, lions, tigers, tiny puppy, and motorcycles.  He could not have cared less about the trapeze, strong man stuff, clowns or the crowd.  I loved the elephants. 

The show was about 30 minutes too long for a two year old but we all thoroughly enjoyed.  Well, except Lillian, who was terrified of the lions and tigers.  Sweet girl. 

I used the show to test the low light capabilities of my new camera.  I have an overwhelming amount to learn, but I'm loving it.  I've promised myself to shoot in manual as much as possible, try and post pictures straight out of the camera more, and to take pictures of things other than Hardin. 

Over the past two years I've been compiling a group of photographs taken at our favorite places to make a snapsfish book for H.  The game ranch, zoo, beaches, cows and horses in our old back yard, church festival petting zoos, etc.  I think with today and last weekend's dinosaur shots I have enough to make a really cool picture book for him.  He loves to re-live things.  That's a nice way of saying talk about things until they can't be talked about anymore, and then some, so I think he's going to love it!

Justin's crew came over afterwards to spend the night, and the boys made a quick stop by the kilt store on the way home.  Justin walked in modeling his costume for an upcoming golf outing. 

We cooked a yummy steak dinner, the kids ran 90 to nothing, and now we're all about to hit the sack.  Aside from finding every last one of Hardin's bath toys in the toilet, it was a great day!