The Circus!!!

Last Thursday Grammy, Brett's mom, came in town for Maddi's birthday which was October 30th. (Birthday pics to come later.) We didn't tell Grammy, Maddi and Cade that we were going to the circus and just said we were going to the Allstate Arena for a surprise. They were so excited to find out we were at the Ringling Brother's Circus. This is a picture of one of our favorite clowns at the pre-circus show. He was an old man clown and he was really funny and very believable as an old man.
Cade pretty much stared at everything in amazement and Maddi was talking a hundred miles an hour and asking a zillion questions. The horses were pretty neat, but the dogs were our favorite. None of the pictures of the dogs turned out that well because they were such small dogs and moved so quickly I couldn't get a good shot. We decided we need to teach Cocoa some tricks. The tigres were really fun to watch too. The tiger trainer is insane. Who in their right mind would get in a cage with those beasts!?!
Grammy and Maddi enjoying the intermission and talking about the events they had seen.
One of the acts was a dance contest with the clowns and Maddi was dancing along showing off some of her "hip hop" moves. Cade was staring in amazement as he did the whole show. The dance contest was a spoof of Dancing with the stars and it was hilarious.


The last picture is of Cade crashed out about halfway through the second act. This is Cade's 3rd circus and it's his 3rd time to fall asleep during it. Look at that sweet sleeping face!