If any of our visitors are shutterbugs I’d love to hear your thoughts on a new digital camera I’m considering.

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Last week, I loaded the kids into the van and headed the 15 minutes down the road to the petting farm. We love this place, and I was happy to find that the car that pulled in behind me belonged to my friend Kim and her daughters, Megan and Kate. Here’s Megan… well, her fingers anyway… in the sheep head .

As always, we had a great time petting bunnies, chasing chickens, milking a cow, and feeding goats. Adam especially LOVES animals right now. One of his favorite things to do is climb up on a little stool in his room to look out his window and see if he sees any birds or squirrels in the yard. When he does find one, he points and oohs until someone comes over and shares his excitement. Half the time he sees tiny little critters off in the distance that I barely see, but he is so cute with his enthusiasm. Anyway, he really liked seeing and petting all the animals. There was one incident where he damn near squeezed the head off of a baby turkey, but disaster was somehow averted. It led to a really classic picture, though, thanks to Kim! For the record, I don’t recommend holding a 13 month old in one arm and a 2 day old turkey in the other.

Alex, however, knew the right way to pet a little turkey.

We walked over to feed the goats and spent lots of time there. I wondered if Adam would be scared but he caught on right away. Alex and Avery are old pros by now and dive right into the feed and hold it out for the goats to munch on.

The boys lost interest at some point (or maybe got too interested?) Either way, I looked over and found them halfway up the fence ready to climb in with their new friends. Who knew the baby could climb a fence?

We ended the visit with a really bumpy hayride through the woods. The wondertwins were caught being especially cute on the ride.

And just as the rain started, we made friends with a few horses. They were huge, but again my kids were fearless. Alex gets the photo credits for the next one – he does really well with aiming and capturing what he’s aimed at. Better than I do at times, actually!

Adam has grass in his hand in that picture. I’m not trying to feed him to the horse or anything. It’s kinda hard to see. All in all, it was a really fun day and I’m sure we’ll go back in June when Green Meadows is open again. I get asked all the time about taking all three out for things like this, but the truth is they are really good kids and good listeners mostly, so it sounds much harder than it ever is. And even if it’s hard at times, it’s worth it to see the happy looks on their little faces.