The Lizard King

This weekend we attended Ben's 8th birthday. (I can't believe he's already 8! Seems just like yesterday he was a toddler breaking it down on the dance floor at our wedding.) Anyway, Ben is really into Man vs. Wild, Survivor Man and all of those cool Discovery Channel nature shows. So he decided to have an exotic animal show at his party. The kids got to pet a plethora of weirds creatures, like tarantulas, scorpions, Burmese pythons and monitor lizards. I was worried Ridge would freak out, since he's currently going through a "bug fear" stage, but in the end he really warmed up to touching the animals. Maybe it was the older kid peer pressure, but he did it and hopefully has gotten over his fear of animals.