On the farm

We made a visit to the Schnepf Farms Pumpkin and Chili Party for the second year in a row and had a great time! We enjoyed a warm day in the valley and were entertained by our darling daughter. We first took a train ride around the farm and got to wave at all the people enjoying the farm with us. We ate lunch (where Brenna fed herself using a fork for the first time), played in some hay with pumpkins on it - mostly for photo ops. We took Brenna through the pumpkin patch and let her roam around in the little and big pumpkins. But, the best part of the day by far had to be the visit to the petting zoo. As a side note, Brenna's favorite page of a book she "reads" regularly is the farm animal page, so she was seeing her farm animals in real life for the first time (well, at least since she'd remembered). She went in with the goats and first was a little taken aback by their size, but then found a small white one to which she said "fffff" which is Brenna for "Scruffy" - our dog. She was not afraid to pet it and then became more friendly with the other goats. She was talking and pointing at them the whole time. Then she went to the bigger pens (where she couldn't go in) and saw a big sheep, a giant cow and a donkey (not to mention the chickens that were roaming around everywhere which creeped mommy out). She stood at the edges of the pins, holding on to the bars and would talk and bounce around - she was so excited. She was not afraid to touch the sheep or the donkey and would walk back and forth between their pens pointing and gabbing the whole time. Since she seemed to like the animals so much, daddy thought she might also enjoy a pony ride. Boy were we wrong. The minute she was on the pony, she was reaching for daddy (who was walking right next to her). He tried to distract her with petting the pony, but it didn't work. Oh well - some other time! Overall, it was a very eventful day and a lot of fun for us all!