Circus Week

This past week at daycare the theme was the circus. It has been an exciting week for all of us; brightly coloured crafts, face paintings, daily phone calls to Grandma enlisting her to find him a circus we can go to and endless conversastions about clowns, animals and circus acts filled our days. But this morning I realized he hadn't entirely gotten circus-speak down pat.

We were eating waffles with syrup and discussing how much fun it would be to go to a real circus. Toby was imaging what he would see- - clowns, elephants, tigers and dribblers.

DRIBBLERS?

What were dribblers? I asked.

Toby responded by putting his fork down and acting out a juggling act while explaining, “You know, mommy, DRIBBLERS, the guys who poke balls in the air like this!”

I corrected the name “dribblers” to be “jugglers” but left the act of “poking balls into the air” alone. In fact, I think it’s a rather clever way of explaining what juggling is.