Visiting the Farm...

On a recent visit to our friend's farm here in Smalliver, Jackson had his first face to face encounter with real farm animals in their natural setting. Our friends' the Marshalls have chickens and cats and dogs and lots and lots of acreage on which to run and play. Rose is a co-worker with three amazing tween-teenage girls. Jackson loves visiting 'the girls' and since there are three of them and one of him, he always has someone who will play with him and he is almost always pooped out and has a fantastic sleep after a day of playing. So momma has no problem with letting him loose on the farm. Joy & her Scott were out visiting when we had our first visit. She took some amazing shots of our little farmer. I need to figure out how to make my camera take pictures as good as she can...of course taking extensive courses on specifics about her very expensive, beautiful camera would help.



Jackson's first meeting with all these new feathered creatures was very comical. He did not know what they really were and why there were so many of them. I was trying to tell him that this is where our eggs come from but of course he can barely understand me when I tell him why it is not good to eat the soap so why would he have a clue of what I was saying now. But he was sure fascinated by them as they were of him.



I think his most favourite thing that day was the large orange water buoy that was hanging from their tree that was meant to be used for a swing. To Jackson it was a huge orange ball waiting to be pushed and played with even if it was about the same size as him. Especially funny when he pushed that 'ball' and it knocked him right over. But up he got to get it again and again. It could have gone on for hours. Luckily there is an indoor pool and trampoline that distracted him for the rest of the afternoon and used up even more of that never ending toddler energy.



We are very thankful for such wonderful friends for sharing their home and yard with our little munchkin. He loves time with them all as you can tell from the pictures and they love having him. He has since visited a few more times and can't wait to go again, but maybe not with all those chickens!