The Greatest Show on Earth

Thanks to our great friends, Jenny and Gracie, Addy and I got to join them and go to the circus!  Addy and Gracie were just so excited.  Here's Addy pre-show trying on the wardrobe.

 And Addy with her tatoo "The Greatest Show on Earth."

Friends with snow cones :)

Before going to the circus, Addy and I were talking about cotton candy so it was inevitable that she was going to get some.  Hey, it's the circus, why not?  But little did I know, it would come with some crazy hat or pink hair wig???  So Addy chose the pink hair, but only if you know how much Addy loves The Doodlebops can you truly understand just how exciting this was.  The Doodlebops are this obscure Canadian trio of singers dressed up like crazy clown aliens or something, that I think have the singular mission of driving me crazy.  She saw them as a preview on a Thomas the Train DVD or such and then was delighted to find the DVD at our library.  Delighted indeed - thanks Shaker Heights public library!    Anyway, Addy now sports her pink hair and walks around the house saying, "Look, I'm Dee Dee Doodle!"

The parade of elephants.  And hopefully this pictures conveys a small taste of the lights,energy and noise coming from this show - the theme, for goodness sake, was "Fully Charged."  Crazy, right?  Not so much that Addy was able to fall asleep during the second to last act of the show!  Preschool Addy just has a hard time staying up past 9:30 at night and when she's out, she's out.  People at the circus were marveling at how she was asleep despite the fanfare.  And then I carried her out of the Q, across the street in the rain, to the car, into her carseat and home into her bed - all without even an eye opening.  And she slept until 8am the next day.  And for that, I say, thank you circus.

 

One more fun circus story...Before falling asleep :), during the high wire act, Addy turns to me and says, "Mom, are you sure this is a good idea?"  Which is funny in large part because Addy is always doing crazy acrobatic moves around the house, and anyone around, is reminding her to be careful or questioning whether that particular jump from the armchair to the couch head first was a good idea.  Back to the story, so I respond, "Well, I wouldn't do it, but these performers practice this a lot so they know how to do it and how to do it safely."  A few seconds later, "Mom, I don't think it's a good idea for the clowns to get up there."