Farm Animal Days!

When I found out when the NC State Farm Animal Days were scheduled for this year, I planned for that to be our field trip for our learning unit on farm animals. All the materials for this week were based on the book "Ask Mr. Bear," which I had never heard of before, but Joshua loved it! We did reading, handwriting, math, rhyming words, sorting, matching, and other activities, all using different farm animals...so by Friday, Joshua was really excited to go see all the animals in person. David took a half-day so he could come with us, so it was a whole family field trip and we had such a good time! And honestly, without David there, I would probably have not gotten a single picture taken, so big thanks to him for toting the camera around!

The kids loved the big cows...and Joshua

enjoyed climbing up high to see!

I'm sure I was saying something extremely

fascinating (please insert sarcasm here!)

LOVE this picture of Leah!

Watching the kids see new things

and seeing their faces light up makes

everything so fun :)

I think we were looking at the dairy calves here

Joshua was counting the sheep...the little lambs

were SO adorable!

See! Adorable :)

Leah liked petting the baby goat.

I love how David gets a great shot

of my gray hair in this picture...

but I will say, I saw a lady about 20 years

older than me at the library recently

and she had long curly hair like mine but

it was all gray and she looked GORGEOUS!

So, if that is what my future holds, so be it :)

Those big, beautiful brown eyes melt my heart.

Now this shot needs some explaining,

since you can clearly see that Joshua is

wearing an NC State shirt. It was a hand-me-down

from one of David's coworkers Ashley (who is

AWESOME and has given us so many

great clothes for Joshua as her son has

outgrown them!) and Joshua chose to wear

it today since we were going to an NC State

event...but please notice the hat he chose

to wear with it. The boy has his allegiances

in the right places, so don't you worry about that!

He LOVED the chocolate ice cream...so much so

that he ate his cup AND his daddy's cup, so David

just shared with Leah :)

She didn't want to sit in her stroller, but we

couldn't just have her running around while we

ate our ice cream, so David figured out a

compromise :) And as you can tell, she seemed

perfectly content...silly girl!

My little pigtailed finger-sucking sassy girl

(who, by the way, tried to pick up multiple

baby chicks by their heads...she's a bit

rough and tumble, so Mommy had to come

to the chicks' rescue and save them from

this heavy-handed yet adorable toddler)