Out and About to the Farm!

The playgroup we attend on Friday mornings also run an Out and About session on Wednesday afternoons. This week, after hearing they were off to a hobby farm, we decided to go along (on the bus) to have a look! Usually 1pm on a Wednesday is not a good time to take 3 kids out, Eleanor and Sebastian are always in bed, and Q still naps every other day!

I think the farm visit has been the highlight of their week! The kids are picking up that I'm a little stressed at the moment, and at times they can be a little ratty! Going out did leave me with 3 very tired kidlets who all wound up in bed by 7.30pm (not that they went straight to sleep)!

So, at the farm they got to see lots of animals! Ponies and horses, goats and kids, dogs, chickens and little chicks, sheep and lambs, a blue tongue lizard and her baby (who was already 12 months old), not-so-miniature pigs, and a rabbit or 2. At the end, all the children were given the opportunity to have a pony ride (Q wasn't too sure about it at first, but after watching other kids he wanted to have a go on the smaller of the 2 ponies). It was a good way to spend a glorious spring afternoon!

So without further adieu, some photo's of our afternoon!

On the bus, ready to go (they don't look very excited!)

Feeding some of their many (19) ponies/horses!

Patting the (cashemere) rabbit 

(the lady in the pink is Veronica, she owns the farm)

Feeding the goats!

There were 3 in this pen, all due to have babies in the next few weeks! 

Feeding the lambs (there are not my children!)

Patting Nerissa the lamb

(this little ones a breed that doesn't need shearing) 

One of the baby goat twins! Oh so soft and cute!!

Mum and her babies! So glad our babies don't feed like these two! Ouch!!!!

(Sorry for having to look at the goats rear end!) 

Miniature?!?!?!

Was pick on little pink pig day! They are mean when they are eating!!

Sebastian's first pony ride (he loved it)!!

Quinlan on enjoyed his ride too!!

We stopped at the park on the way home (we walked to the school that runs the playgroup and Out and About session - all part of a government program called Launch into Learning or LiL)!

 The only way Sebastian will go down the big swirly slide is in Q's lap!

But.....they have fun playing together this way!

Little miss as good as gold in the pram! She spent the time at the farm in the Ergo and never complained when she got passed off to the leader/teacher so I could walk with the boys while they had their pony rides!

So ends another blog update!!

Til next time.........