The rodeo started a little early this year, so we hit up the first "value Wednesday" with playgroup on Feb. 27. It was about 10:30 by the time we headed in with our friends and it was BUSY!
We checked out a few of the inside displays and then hit up my personal favorite--the pig races at 11:30.
Here are my kids pining after a pony ride. But at $7 a pop it didn't make the cut for this cheapo mama. I told them I didn't bring any money for that--did they? Nope--too bad then. And really, they earn between 5 and 10 cents when they do extra chores and they have somewhere around 30 cents each saved up--maybe next year :)
We then ate our lunches and headed to "the farm" area just as the school trips thinned out some. (lunch time below)
Honing their tractor driving skills--this farming business is hard work...
Here they are with their baskets full of produce--Brooke, Kenzie, Candy, Maddie, and Nathan--our buddies for the day.
Loving the corn box...
The girls and I are making our way through the "Little House" series and Megan and Brooke were pretty psyched to get to practice milking cows just like Almanzo has to in Farmer Boy.
Brooke and Candy
Megan
We caught up with some pigs on our way back in and took some photos. *please note the fabulous blue teeth, courtesy of the fruit roll-ups
When we got back inside, it was EMPTY! We wandered around the very un-crowded exhibits and saw more in our last 20 minutes inside than we did in our first hour. Along with a few bunnies, we also got to pet a 2 day old lamb. Ah-dorable. I kind of want a small flock of sheep for the backyard. What's not to love? They are so soft, and lambs are so cute, and we'd never have to mow the lawn.
Candy was pretty excited to watch the guinea pigs run around--cutie.
After a long day of farming, these girls got some quality time with their Daddy and some BOB books. He's such a good daddy. Megan was trying to finish book 7 so she could earn some time on the kindle and he sat there with her for almost 30 minutes--so patient as she fought her way through each..little...word. He's a saint. I made it for about 7 minutes (and perhaps ONE word) that afternoon before my patience was gone. Megan is interested in reading and we are working on it. But she wants to know how to read without having to practice. So it's been a bit of a struggle. I'm trying not to push it too hard but also making more of an effort to spend time trying every day. I can't wait for when she gets it and the whole world of reading is opened up to her--I try to keep that in mind when we're driving each other crazy along the way :).
