Cox's Farm

Yesterday, Jeanne and I took the kiddos to Cox's Farm.

 

 

Kateri had a blast. She was especially thrilled that Aunt Jeanne could come!

 

 

The two main high lights of the day in Kateri's eyes were: the calves and the purple bridge.

 

Highlight numero uno:

 

 

She LOVED this little bridge that went over nothing and went from beat-down grass to another bit of beat down grass. She could see the beauty and challenge and wanted to experience it over and over again.

 

It really reminded me of G.K. Chesterton quote from Orthodoxy:

 

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

 

This quote has been on my mind so much lately.  I think I have grown very very old lately haha. Eventually, after many times, Jeanne and I did tear Kateri away in search of other things!

 

Highlight numero dos:

 

Olaf and Sven, the two little calves! They topped the Kateri's excitement chart for sure!

 

 

 

Kateri is very lucky to have such an awesome aunt, who goes to great lengths to give Kateri a chance to really experience farm animals as close as possible . . .

 

 

 

We had to make multiple trips to see little Olaf, who was very friendly.

 

 

Unfortunately, we did not get a picture of Olaf's enormous tongue looping around Jeanne's and then Kateri's hair, trying desperately to eat a morsel.

 

You can't go to Cox's Farm and not go on a hay ride. So we went!

 

 

However, Kateri's general opinion of hayrides is this:

 

 

Yeah. Not so much.

 

However, we all survived!

 

Other highlights:

 

Playing on the train . . .

 

 

And the other animals:

 

future bacon:

 

 

 

The alpacas who weren't all too interested in us.

 

 

However, the alpacas did thoughtfully give us a show . . . of the excrement variety. Which Kateri found quite engrossing.

 

And whatever this bird is . . . a turkey?

 

 

Kateri kept fake-tossing food to try to convince it to come hither . . .

 

 

The bird was not impressed.

 

More pigs:

 

 

K-bear and Jeanne contemplating them and their overpowering stench:

 

 

Bash behaved great the entire time!

 

And he was positively angelic in the long line for the hay-rides:

I still am in awe of the giant watermelon (198 lbs!!!) and all the pumpkins. Clearly, Pat and I need to step up our games . . .

 

 

And that was the FIFTH biggest. Holy Moly.

 

All in all, we had a lovely time! Thank you so much for coming, Aunt Jeanne!!