First Day at Davis' Farmland 2008!!

This is Snickers the llama :) I love llamas!

So I picked Honor up from school early and told her we were going on an adventure! She kept asking if we were going to the park and if we could go to Dean park which is the big playground around here. When we finally turned on to Redstone Hill Rd. where the farmland is she started to figure it out.



Honor actually stopped for a minute and let me take a picture before we went in. It was such a gorgeous day 0ut and I even got a bit of a sunburn on my arms!
Our first stop, after face painting, is usually the calf pen. The baby cows are so cute!!


The clowns petting them are pretty cute too. :)













I was great this year that Mikey is able to do more, he had so much fun feeding the sheep and goats!! But for some reason he's scared of the black sheep....every time one came near him he would run for me and bury his face in my leg!
Honor did a great job this time milking the milk goat named Milkshake (that was a lot of milks in a row.) She even got a high-five from the farmer.
We were (or I guess I was) pretty excited to know that Snickers the llama was now in the "advanced cuddle corner." The cuddle corners are pens that you can go into and feed, cuddle and pet the animals in there. We had a great time seeing Snickers up close and getting "llama kisses."
We also got to see every one's favorite cow Annie. She's a Dexter cow that LOVES to eat! She'll stick her tongue out for you to pour as much food in there as possible and then stick it out again for more. She did eat the rest of the food we had but it's was ok since we were off to the play area.
The first day each year I take a picture of the kids at the growth chart there...it'll be great to look back at each one years from now. I was lucky to get Mikey's though, he was more than ready to go play in all the play grounds.
Here they are in the "camp ground play area"







Mikey's vacuuming the wood chip in the little village area.





Honor's enjoying herself in the little pond they

just added this year. I'm not sure how I feel about that one yet but at least she had a ball!


We even got to see Moo Moo before we left.










And here's the aftermath of having some good clean fun!!

Updated pictures

These pics are from today when we went across the street to play at the playground. Honor was really excited about using chalk but Mikey decided it was more fun to throw them down the storm drain!

Hooray!....It's Spring!!

So let's see....there's lots to catch up on (yet again) :) The house that we put a bid on way back on the day after Christmas is about 99.9% ours. The banks have finally approved the offer and hopefully we'll be closing at the end of the month. Even though it took a long time I think it worked out for the best since it'll be less time that we have to pay on the apartment if we can't get anyone in before September. Also I think more people are looking for new places now that it's Spring.
Things are going well with the baby. The ultrasound showed that it's a perfect, healthy baby and even though we don't know what it is yet I'm still pretty sure it's a girl. I say girl and Darren says boy but seriously, I'm all hips and butt so it has to be a girl. Also I eat anything bad for me and I gain a pound.
It's so nice that it's finally getting warmer out...I think we've hit every playground in the area. It's great to see Honor and Mikey be able to tackle parts of the jungle gyms that they couldn't before (even though Mikey almost always gives me a heart attack!!). We're anxiously awaiting the opening of Davis Farmland, I think it's going to be so much more fun this year now that Mikey will be able to interact more and Honor understands more about the animals.

Honor's 3!

It's a little late but Happy #3 to Honor!! We went to Chuck E. Cheese's to celebrate and Honor's friends Kaitlyn and Alison joined us there. There were lots and lots of other kids there so it was good that we were a small group and everyone had a great time.
Honor's happy to finally be 3, now instead of saying she's almost 3 for the past 4 or 5 months she can say "I'm Feree" :) as she holds up her pinky, ring and middle finger (her thumb is holding down the index finger)
Also now that she's 3 it's time for preschool!! Honor is going to the Early Learning Center in Grafton and seems to enjoy it. She does have a hard time in the morning when I drop her off but the teachers are really great at getting her involved with something while I sneak out. She usually gets to feed the fish or paint which she loves!
I've been trying to get her a bit prepared for the new baby since she was too young to really remember anything about when Mikey was a newborn. I keep asking her if she wants to be a big sister again and she says "Sure" which usually her answer for everything. Then when anyone asks her if she wants a brother or a sister she always says a brother. Even though we don't officially know what this one is I'm sure it's a girl. Hopefully she won't keep calling the baby her brother if it's really her sister. :) I think she thinks of herself as the sister and she can only have brothers since that's what she's used to and always hears. The other day I told her to be careful around my stomach (like not elbowing me or trying to sit on my stomach) because there's a baby in there and she could squish it. She asked me if she could sit and watch the baby hatch! I told her she'd be there a while since the baby won't hatch until July so now she keeps telling me that she has babies in her tummy (a boy and a girl) and they're going to hatch really soon. Too cute sometimes! :)