Children's Farm

The husband works from home every Tuesday which is so nice because we can stay up a little later on Monday nights and sleep in a little later Tuesday mornings however trying to keep two little people quiet all day so the husband can work is nearly impossible so we hit the road.

I had googled things to do and settled on a location about an hour away.  We drove through many cornfields and hay fields before we finally arrived.

We enjoyed a picnic lunch and tried to keep these guys from stealing our food.  I know when people feed them it is cute and all but man it sure can make them a little too aggressive.  

We walked around the children's farm and watched almost every single animal pee in front of us.  I believe we were their first visitor of the day and they wanted to make us feel welcome.

This park is also a boarding stable so we got to see lots and lots of horses which my daughter loved.  She couldn't get enough of them

We played at the playground.

And then finished up the day with this cow.  Yes, that would be my daughter trying to milk it.  

It was a fun day had by all.  

My Boy Time

While the daughter was at school my son and I got out all the necessary gear and had fun for over an hour blowing bubbles.  I was completely lightheaded by the end but he had a blast and that's all that counts.

And then I tried to be all artsy and take my own picture.  It's almost like I am reenacting that scene from The Wizard of Oz when the good witch appears.

Ok, so maybe not.

It's a Wednesday.

This morning was the first day of Pre-K for my daughter.  It was more of a meet the teacher day as we only stayed for about an hour and toured the room.  An hour that consisted of me trying to wrangle my two year old and stop him from drawing a single line on every single piece of paper in the room.  I was in good company though because there were a few other moms trying to do the same.
After school we came home, ate some lunch and then racked our brains trying to think of something to do.  We ended up driving to a park I had heard about in one of my mom circles.  Let me just say I love it when I see towns actually thinking of the kids.  This park was awesome.  The kids had a blast and burned off some energy.

We came home, the kids fell asleep and I made myself a homemade frappuccino.  Yum.

The end.

A Walk to Remember.

Yesterday I told the hubs we weren't leaving the house because I just didn't feel well.  However come 10:00 in the morning the kids were just bored and my plan to lay on the couch all day got thrown out the window.  I packed up a backpack with snacks, grabbed my good camera, loaded up the kids and headed out the door.
We drove a great distance and ended up at a state park.   At first I wasn't quite sure what we were going to do there but it ended up being a good time.  We found a paved trail to walk and wouldn't it figure the second we step off the trail so I could take a picture of this creek...

My daughter stepped on this little guy with her shoe.  Yes, we both freaked out especially since my footwear of choice was FLIP FLOPS!  I get the creepies just thinking about it now.

So after that small heart attack we proceeded to move on with our nature walk.  We weren't much further on our walk when this young gentlemen passed us and right when he was just in front of us my daughter shouts, WHERE ARE WE SOME KIND OF NAKED PERSON TRAIL? 

Nice kid.  I tried to explain that no, we weren't on some kind of naked adventure that he was just a man out running but she just didn't understand why he didn't put clothes on before he left the house.  

Moving on, we took pictures of bees. 

And more bees.

And then through the magic of a macro lens we saw exactly how a bee carries it's pollen.

I know, it's amazing.  It takes very little to impress us here in the midwest.

We continued to walk and then finally when I couldn't take the daughter's whining about her feet hurting anymore we turned around to go back and that's when we realized the majority of our trip had been downhill.  Now we had to climb back up.  We were never so happy to see the truck at the top of the last curve.

And with that, I now not only have a head cold but all that nature walking did wonders for my allergies.  I'm a real peach to be around right now.

The end.