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)