psst, elephants

Where oh where has the time gone? Way back in Aug. we went to the cirucs with Teresa. Lea LOVED the elephants! We saw jugglers and elephants and motorcycles and elephants and clowns and elephants. The circus was very good about putting elephants in every couple acts. They only made a real appearance 3 times, but about 3 other times they talked to the audience through a big television screen. Lea approved very much.
Smile! You're at the circus! It was so hot and we milled about outside before hand looking at elephants in the parking garage. We saw one poop and don't think that doesn't come up in conversation often! "elephant poop!" "Yes, sweetie, we did see an elephant poop!" "and, and, you touched elephant FOOT" - we did touch the elephant foot. There was a plastic cast of an elephant foot so we could see how big it was and we touched it. That is a favortie conversation starter as well.


There was a dragon that blew up like a Thanksgiving float out of a little circus train car. Lea will say "the dragon was a little scary" and her words get shakey and she shakes as though terrified. She's very dramatic. That's what we get for naming her (middle name) after her acress Aunt Kaitlin!

Daddy with our "free" clown nose


Mommy & Lea with our $12 snow cone


Everyone wrapped in the magic that is the circus. It was really a great expereince.


And on the ride home, engrossed in the circus program


We then took everyone to dinner at Fridays and In this video you hear Teresa and Dan tell the secrets, but all by herself Lea leaned over to me, put her hand to her mouth like she had the greatest secret in the world and whispered "psst, elephants" and it was adorable. We laughed and tried to get her to do it again, but as always the moment is hard to catch on camera. But you get the jist. It was so unexpected and cute.


And now, even though the circus was over a month ago, we still talk about the things we saw. We got a circus book, that has many things that we did not see, like lions and skating bears, but we can relate well to the circus book. More of our little Lea's melodrama occurs near the end of the book where something is missing in Mr. Roly Poly's circus, turns out to be music, but when they are trying to figure it out there is a page of sad animals and a sad clown. In the smallest saddest voice Lea says "pig sad" and then "clown sad too". But "pig sad" will break your heart. I was very happy to find a picture on the fly leaf in the front of a happy pig, so pig is not always sad. At the very end of the book they find music to make the circus the best in the world. In marches the band — the cymbols clang, the drums bang and the HORNS TOOTED! Oh gosh Lea heard that and laughed and laughed. "Horns tooted" and would point to her bottom. I beleive that is her first joke: Horns tooted. She still giggles when we read it and we've read it at least 100 times in the past 30 days!