With Todd heading back to work today, we wanted to take Lauren out for the day yesterday to enjoy the end of (our) summer. We all needed to get out of the house and into the fresh air, so we headed over to Tanglewood Farms with the Crunkletons to see the miniature farm animals. As a bonus, admission included a pony ride!
Beaming the entire ride, Lauren LOVED being on the pony! She even told Mommy not to hang on (fat chance, kiddo!).
Lauren's hair is finally long enough for braids. I can't believe she sat still long enough for me to french braid her unruly curls. Of course, by the time this picture was taken she looked like a total ragamuffin! :)
Lauren was VERY nervous in the variou animal pens, so she had to be held. I think it freaked her out to have the animals coming right up to us, and in the case of the goats, even jumping up on us, vying for the bread pieces. Here we are going to see the mini-jersey cows and the mini-llamas. I thought she'd really dig the llamas, especially since the LLAMA LLAMA RED PAJAMA book is her current fave. No such luck. Maybe it's because they were taller than many of the other animals we saw, with their long necks...?
Here she safely feeds the goats from behind the gate. We also saw mini-sheep (including black ones in honor of her oft-sung song "Baa Baa Black Sheep"), pigs, donkeys, shetland ponies, goats, bunnies, manx cats....all "mini" of course! She loved hearing the sheep bleat, the pigs oink, grunt and snort, and the donkeys bray. But...only from the safety of mom or dad's arms, naturally. Quite a load in 95 or so degrees to have to carry her around!
Riding on a rocking horse.
Mommy makes another rare appearance on the blog, as we two were total "rock stars" in our shades. Lauren's have little strawberries on them. How cool is that?!
A family portrait on the only non-mini thing at the whole farm-- a GIGANTIC chair.
3 comments:
Great family of 4 pic! How did you get Lauren to sit still for the braids?
Her braids are so cute! And what a great family pic!
One of these days aunt Kelly will have to take Lauren on a BIG pony ride when you come for a visit. Kate I love the braids they are so cute!!
Aunt Kelly
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