farm

cashel loves farms. well, he loves animals. especially horses, oh, and alpacas, and donkeys, and llamas, and oxen....the list goes on and on. he is too much fun. all i have to do to entertain the boy is go to the library and get books with pictures of animals. he doesn't get much screen time but there are times when i've googled "horses" and entertained him with pictures of horses then we get to slide shows of farm animals. he often wakes up in the morning and says "animal" or "horse." not too long ago we went to a farm about 45 minutes away from us called underwood family farms. it's a divine place for kids and adults alike. they have it set up with a petting farm, an animal show, and animals (cows, alpacas, donkeys, sheep,etc.) behind fences with pvc pipes stationed so you can feed the animals carrots. cashel loves it...although once the animals move he doesn't love it so much. it's one thing to look at them in books an another to see one actually move 10 feet from you! he's getting better though. for the adults, besides all this $5.00 entertainment for your kids there is a farmers market in the front or you can grab a little wagon and pick your own from their farm! we were there when strawberries were in season and, as you can see below, cashel loved fresh strawberries! we loved the farm so much we went two saturdays in a row and i'm sure we'll be back soon!


oh...almost forgot. after cashel's visit to the farm, asking him "cashel, where are we going?" turned into him automatically responding "farm" to wherever we were going. "cashel, where are we going?" "farm" (we were going to daycare). "cashel, where are we going?" "farm" (we were going to target). "cashel, where are we going?" "farm" (we were going to nana's), etc. it took a week to get him to say "beach" (we were headed to kiawah, sc, that next weekend) only after saying farm....he would say "farm...beach." even here at the beach we walk down the beach and he says "horse, cow, etc" and he's totally into old mcdonald or, as he calls it, "eieio"