A bunch of pictures from our trip to the farm

Not too far from our house, in one of the city's beautiful metroparks, there is an actual working farm run by volunteers that anyone can visit.  The great thing about this farm is that it is set in the 1880's.  How cool is that?   There is a house, a barn, several gardens, some pastures, and all sorts of farm animals.  The very best part of the farm, at least for Tiger, were the chickens.  The boy just loves to watch chickens.

He could have stayed here watching these chickens for hours.

A bit further down the path there is this quaint little gazebo that had old toys for the children.  Sparky immediately wanted to try out the stilts and KK headed for the hoop.  Doug and I were just happy to enjoy a quiet moment in the shade.

Outside of the farm house there was a hammock and a tree swing.  Here the kids decided to take a little "nap".

Tiger stuck in his "spider web".

After swinging we headed off to find some more animals and sure enough we found some sheep.  For the past couple of years Tiger has been scared to death of all animals.  I believe he is finally coming out of this fear because he actually touched the sheep and he thought is was hilarious.  He would stick out his little pointer finger, touch the sheep, and then he would just giggle.

Tiger also loves cows, which he calls bulldozers.  I don't know why he calls them bulldozers, but he does.  Lucky for us this little baby was born just a few weeks ago.

After touching animals, it's a good idea to wash your hands so we headed back to the house and cranked the water pump.

Grinding corn for the animals.

My sweet little Woo loves horses, but I think she was a bit surprised at how big they are up close.  She was a bit shy at first, but in the end I was able to get her to pet the horse.  She was one happy girl.

Here is the "farmer" walking two of the horses back to the barn after an afternoon of working the threshing machine in one of the pastures.

Baby chicks = giggles galore

Again, the love of the chickens

My Woo really fell in love with life in the 1880's.  She was ready to strap on a petticoat and a dress and head into the kitchen of the house.  She just thought that everything was so cool, especially when the kitchen ladies had the kids come and dig up some potatoes for a dish they were making.  This farm really was so cool.  Perhaps in the fall we'll head back again.  Maybe we'll get lucky and it will be slaughter day.