The Good:
One thing that I really enjoyed about this farm was that it is is far less commercialized than other places. While some of the animals (chickens) made me a little nervous, I was so glad that Nate got a chance to feed them and that he was not afraid at all!
Nate was also ecstatic that the farm had goats and insisted on trying to feed them rocks, until Chris showed him that they would actually come over and pay attention to him if Nate had leaves.
And while we did have to pay an additional four dollars, Nate rode his first pony today. I think he had an equal mixture of excitement and fear as the lady walked him around on his two little laps, but tonight he has told me (many times) that he is a cowboy now...and that the pony didn't kick him. Safety first, right?
One of the rides that they had was a tractor that pulled little individual cars around that look like cows. The cows also go up and down. Nathan desperately wanted to ride this and so did all of the other adults in our group - so I took the photos.
Nate rode on trusty little Petunia and Chris rode on 'Lil Bits. I know this wasn't good for Chris's back, but they had a really great time!
The Very Ugly:
One of the things that I thought that Nathan would absolutely love was the 'giant pillow' on the farm, that is like a moonbounce, but shaped like a pillow that is easily about the size of our house. At first Nate did really well (especially while one of my friends was up there with him). Then came some of the bigger kids whose jumps were a little too much for Nate. This little venture ended with Nate sobbing and screaming "No, no, no, no, NOOO! Everybody stop jumping RIGHT NOW!" I took one picture before the meltdown and tried to take one during, but between me laughing (because it was just so dramatic) and him being tossed around like a jumping bean, none of the crying photos turned out.
But hey, you have to help your kids learn to laugh at things when they don't go their way - especially if it's a pillow mounbounce gone wrong! :)
The Typical:
My husband is infamous for trying to nap in strange places and today was no different. Can you believe that he expected to nap here?!
Nate put a kibosh to that this nap time, though. If Daddy is in a tree, Nate wants to be too. Monkey see, monkey do?
Quick backstory: over the summer, we re-arranged out garage and moved a bunch of things into storage. Chris made the 'daddy decision' (as he calls it) to put all of Nathan's strollers into storage. Well, issue is that Nate still would love some stroller action sometimes. Silver linking - lugging a 38 lb. toddler is amazing exercise.
The Pretty:
I'm always excited when I get really crisp pictures with good facial expressions. On this trip to Ticonderoga Farms, we took 488 photos. After reviewing with much scrutiny, I now have 56 photos left from that original batch. Of those, 21 were 'Facebook worthy'. The pictures here are better and to me 'desktop worthy'. Granted, the one of Nathan is now my desktop. It would be a little narcissistic to put myself on my computer desktop, but I'm glad to have a decent photo turn out of myself.
Family Photos:
I've been on a kick to get more family photos taken this year and I'm very happy to report that I got two today! Granted, they are not 'Christmas card worthy' (that's the tier above 'desktop worthy'), but I think they are fun and captured some of the neat little things that this farm has to offer.
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