On the farm

We went for a visit to my Dad's last weekend and this is the first time that we've been there since the weather has turned warmer and things are in bloom. It's also the first visit we've had there since the baby cows and baby kittens were born. All these things make the visit to the farm very exciting for the kids. Leah generally spends more time in the house than outside, but not this weekend. She spent a lot of her time in the barn. At first we couldn't find the kitten so she decided to visit the cows. She spent some time in the barnyard, but she like the cows in the barn best. She decided to name them all after the princesses and then she feed them hay. No one had the heart to tell her that those were the ones that were next in line to be taken off to the butcher shop, but Rod did tell her that she might want to pick different cows to make her pets. She didn't understand any of it though.

For Caleb, he’ll look at the cows for a few minutes, but he spends the whole weekend trying to get someone to take him to the tractors. This weekend, my dad took the tractor in the field to fix the fence and Caleb got to drive us back there. Leah, Rod and I rode the wagon (Alissa slept through the whole event and even missed the earlier event of moving the cows down the road to pasture). Caleb also got to drive the loader which he does by himself and makes him think he is big stuff. The kids spent most of the time we were there outside into everything and eventually even Alissa joined in the fun, riding bikes and visiting the cows.

Finally a few hours before it was time to go, I found the mother cat and decided to watch her because knew that I could find the kitten that way. Jean had told Leah about the kitten when they came down for her birthday party and Leah remembered and it was the first thing she wanted to do when we got there. I knew that she would be disappointed if we didn’t find it, plus I am a sucker for baby kittens too; daughter like mother. I did find the kitten. There was only one and it was tiny and white. Very cute. Leah was so excited to hold it and was ready to take it home. Jean told her that it was too little to leave it’s mother. Leah had a solution. She decided that her cat from home (which came from dad’s last year) would become the kitten’s mother. She didn’t get what she wanted, but she really enjoyed holding it and loving it while we were there.