Big Top Fun

At Easter last year, Blair’s circus Kidsongs movie she got began the circus obsession. And now, a year later, we have come full circle with the year of the circus. We have circus birthday’d and trick or treated as a happy face lion tamer. Today we saw the circus!

We made the drive to Atlanta for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s Dragons. It was really good! (And we had amazing seats thanks to a friend of my mom’s!) Blair was the only kid there running laps around her seat in the auditorium (bless her heart, she cannot be still), but she liked it and wants to go back.

Dragons included her favorite acts: happy faces, the lion tamer, and the trapeze. It would have been perfect if RBB&B had sung Put on a Happy Face, He’s the Lion Tamer, and The Flying Trapeze to go with the acts just like Kidsongs! And Polly Wolly Doodle!

We got there just in time to catch the end of the preshow. Blair said her favorite part was “jumping” – dancing in the preshow with the clowns. I wish we had been there for all of it, but we’ll know next time. We tried, but it was a stretch to leave any earlier.

They started out with horses, which was really amazing, and then lions and tigers – so neat! The clowns were pretty funny, but some of the humor was above Blair’s head.

At intermission, Blair talked her daddy into a cotton candy hat. It fit Leighton just right! Ha! He did love the circus though. He watched until he got sleepy, and he too 2 naps in all of that noise!

Glued to the trapeze act.

I loved the trapeze and wished it had been a longer act.

I also wanted more of the three ring part: domestic cats, dogs, and horses. There was so much going on at one time that I couldn’t watch it all!

Kitty on the parallel bars!

A Siamese umping through a hoop.

The elephants were so pretty!

Blair clapped and clapped for the motorcycles in the big ball – 8 of them!!

Of course there was a dragon too!

It was a great day!