Down on the farm

For some reason whenever the weather warms up I have the urge to take the kids to go see animals. Might have something to do with the fact that I feel a little bit guilty that we don't have any animals of our own. Which isn't going to change anytime soon. So today I decided to switch things up and not go to the farm at Thanksgiving Point (shocking), but another one called Wheeler Farm. It's a little more farm like and the scenery is beautiful. That is the kind of snow I like. Far far away on the mountaintops with weather in the valley in the high 50's.


I had every intention of leaving the stroller behind in the car and letting Reid walk freely around the farm. I even brought my backpack instead of my purse to make sure that my hands were free. But the moment Reid saw the horses (mind you across the street, behind a fence, minding their own business) he completely froze in his tracks. It's pretty hard trying to hold a kids hand to walk when he won't remove them from covering his eyes. Carrying him around the entire farm did not sound like my cup of tea, so off we went back to the car and Reid was happily placed into the stroller. Well, he was still nervous, but a little happier.


We walked around and saw all the normal peeps at the farm. Ava loved the horses, but was pretty disappointed that she couldn't ride any of them. But every few seconds she would ask when we would get to go feed the ducks. So here we are at one of our many side trips to feed the ducks. Both kids liked the ducks, but the geese, not so much.


Here she is watching the duck gobble up her bread that she threw in.


Here is Ava sharing a piece of her bread with Reid so he could feed the ducks. Reid had other intentions and feed himself.


After eating a slice or two of bread, Reid finally got into feeding the ducks too. Here he is watching the ducks gobble up his piece.


No matter how much Reid enjoyed the ducks, there was no way that anything could even come remotely close to this (see the picture below this one for more clarification).


Yep, it was a tractor. What, did you think it might of been an actual animal? Luckily for this vehicle loving kid, this farm was not short of farm vehicles. He could of stared at them all morning. Mud and tractors. Boy heaven.


With the weather being so nice I was hoping to get a chance to go pull more weeds this afternoon, but sadly a thunderstorm is rolling in as I type. Maybe tomorrow. But it was nice being able to go outside for a little outing, even if it was just for the morning.