Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Sugar Baby and the Frogs

Whenever we visited Chicago as kids,
we loved to see Uncle Scott's
"Animal Show."
My kids love to go see Uncle Jeff's Animal Show!
Here's Mike showing us Jeff's new baby,
"Herman".
Saxon called it the squirrel,
but Mike said it's actually
a Sugar Glider...
I'm not an animal lover, but Herman was pretty cute!
Saxon loved it! He cried the whole way home for Mike and Herman.
I guess we'll have to go back later and see the "Animal Show" again :)
We did go back later so Saxon could feed Herman
peanut butter and mealworms.
Jeff handed Saxon a mealworm
and after looking at it,
he dropped it and said,
"Ew...a snake!"

Jeff handed him a dragon/lizard instead and asked,
"Saxon, what is it?"
"Ribbit, Ribbit, IT'S A FROG!"
We could not convince him that it wasn't a frog!
After spending the evening with Uncle Jeff,
Saxon learned about the important things in life...
-how to say "marsupial"
-how to feed Herman
-that you have to dust crickets in calcium to feed the "frogs"
-that you have to sit when you hold the animals
-that mealworms have protein (he tried to feed one to Saxon, who would have eaten it if I hadn't screamed)

4 comments:

Brittany and Johnse said...

I have to agree that "herman" is pretty cute....Saxon LOVES animals! remember when we had Whisky the dwarf hamster...ha ha!

Jamie said...

Your little guys are so cute! And I can't believe you have TWO! We need to do dinner and catch-up. Kristi's blog is private. How did you get in touch with her?

lori and clark remington said...

Herman is so adorable..every kid would want one! But, the rest of the little creatures so disgusting! Looks like it was a fun day!@

janalee said...

Ewww, protein. I would have screamed too LOL.