Peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, Jack and Jill, Merrick and the circus. Some thing just seem to be made for each other. :) We found out a few months ago that Barnum and Bailey was going to be in town, and decided Wild needed to take a trip back to his roots.
Lately he has been obsessed with elephants, particularly if they hail from "The Jungle Book". So these guys were definitely his favorite part of the circus...
He was very upset when they left for a bit, but was able to console himself with the 7 dirt bikes driving at high speeds around this giant golf ball looking thing pictured below. With the way he watched these stunt men, I think he was getting ideas for later. So I will be very reluctant to get him a tricycle. ;)
My mom swears I've been to the circus myself, but can't seem to remember it. I know Merrick may be a little young to remember the circus this time around, but hey...our house is like the circus every day, so I don't think he's missing out too much.
I hope we can do lots of family trips like this, since we plan on homeschooling. We always did interesting field trips with mom when I was growing up, and hope to do the same for my kiddos. *The llama farm we went to growing up always sticks out in my mind...I don't really like llamas and think they're kind of creepy so maybe we'll skip
that field trip. ;)*
We did have one minor incident, which is totally normal around here and I wouldn't feel like we had a family outing without one. We got up to the front doors and Billy turned ghostly white, dropped Merrick at my feet, and took off running back to where we'd come from. I was standing there trying to remember if there was a circus phobia that I had missed, when he quickly returned carrying our tickets. He had dropped them out of his pocket on the trip from the parking lot. Like I said...incident is our middle name. All is well.
We all had a great time, and Merrick only kicked the lady in front of us in the head several times. She was very gracious...I think it was mostly because her many kids were standing in their seats dancing and jumping. When we asked Merrick if he was ready to go he screamed, "no!". I considered letting him stay, but don't think he'd be able to survive without Cheez-its, and I don't think the circus serves those. And I'd kind of miss him. ;)
Lately he has been obsessed with elephants, particularly if they hail from "The Jungle Book". So these guys were definitely his favorite part of the circus...
He was very upset when they left for a bit, but was able to console himself with the 7 dirt bikes driving at high speeds around this giant golf ball looking thing pictured below. With the way he watched these stunt men, I think he was getting ideas for later. So I will be very reluctant to get him a tricycle. ;)
My mom swears I've been to the circus myself, but can't seem to remember it. I know Merrick may be a little young to remember the circus this time around, but hey...our house is like the circus every day, so I don't think he's missing out too much.
I hope we can do lots of family trips like this, since we plan on homeschooling. We always did interesting field trips with mom when I was growing up, and hope to do the same for my kiddos. *The llama farm we went to growing up always sticks out in my mind...I don't really like llamas and think they're kind of creepy so maybe we'll skip that field trip. ;)*
We did have one minor incident, which is totally normal around here and I wouldn't feel like we had a family outing without one. We got up to the front doors and Billy turned ghostly white, dropped Merrick at my feet, and took off running back to where we'd come from. I was standing there trying to remember if there was a circus phobia that I had missed, when he quickly returned carrying our tickets. He had dropped them out of his pocket on the trip from the parking lot. Like I said...incident is our middle name. All is well.
We all had a great time, and Merrick only kicked the lady in front of us in the head several times. She was very gracious...I think it was mostly because her many kids were standing in their seats dancing and jumping. When we asked Merrick if he was ready to go he screamed, "no!". I considered letting him stay, but don't think he'd be able to survive without Cheez-its, and I don't think the circus serves those. And I'd kind of miss him. ;)
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