Charmingfare Farm

Julie and I took the kids (Jamie, Nicole, Aubrey, Reagan and Edie) to a petting farm/zoo today. It was a blast, I felt bad for the poor little & big (non-farm) animals that were there. We didn't spend much time with those because the girls could not get enough of the farm animals. The volume of the cow in the dairy barn was a little startling but they warmed right up to it. Of course we paid the ridiculous $3.00 fee for a paper bag of pellet food. Every animal that we came across they would say I want to feed him, no, Mommy YOU feed them. By the second time we visited the goats everyone was comfortable.

They/I enjoyed feeding the goats, sheep and lamas. There were allot of babies on the farm so the girls enjoyed watching them play. The piglets were wired and everyone enjoyed them jumping and wrestling with their piglet siblings. The kids (baby goats) wanted to jump and play with my kids. They were not so sure at first, and there was a teeny tiny moment of panic when the goats closed in on them looking for food.

Reagan had her eye on one chocolate colored little goat, she really took a liking to him and kept calling him baby. She would walk the length of the fence to try and get him alone and in her tiny little voice she would say 'come here baby, here baby, come get your dinner.' Once we got INSIDE the gate she wasn't so sure about him. Aubrey was the food holder. She would pass out a little handful to everyone and walk down the path holding the bag. She would say, 'I'll give you some when we get there'. Edie kept pointing and and saying ooh wow. She liked watching the goats too.