September Update

While I'm at it, I may as well get all updated for September (and finish October next). Above are my two girls munching on carrots from our garden. I didn't even coordinate their outfits believe it or not. It was a matching carrot miracle.

What happens when a toddler decides to stand in a wagon and a preschooler pulls it? It all happened so fast. Poor Elise got some road burn. Ava didn't mean to do it. We were supposed to get our pictures taken the next day. That didn't happen.


Speaking of carrots. Since the carrots from our garden weren't that great and we have a couple of llamas that live nearby, we decided to go and feed them our homegrown carrots. They were quite pleased.

DEANNA ROSE FARMSTEAD

One day for playgroup in Sept, we went to the Deanna Rose Farmstead not too far away from here. We had never been. I can't believe this place is free. Of course it costs extra to feed the animals, do a wagon ride, or pony ride, etc...but they have to make their money somehow so we were fine donating to the cause.

The day was extra fun because we got to spend it with Ava's cousins - even Ryan and Ashley who don't live in our town. Grandma came too - even better.

We went on a horse-drawn hayride.

Ava & Elise especially enjoyed the petting zoo. Ava made friends with the only sheep in a petting zoo full of goats.

Elise was soooo sweet. She made a point to go up to each animal, bend down to look in their eyes and said, "HI!" to each one. We bought some feed to give them, right? Well, Elise, not knowing, ran out of feed then reached down to the ground picking up what she thought was more feed and tried to give it to them. Not feed my dear - but droppings! Yuck. Luckily they had hand washing stations nearby. She did catch on though - I found her reaching past the fence, stretching hard to get something just out of reach. She finally reached it and it was one stray piece of feed that she kindly gave to a nearby goat. ;) Resourceful, determined child.


Another cute thing the Farmstead had was a fake cow that the kids could try milking.

They had fun trying their hand at milking but it didn't take long for one of them to figure out they could squirt each other. All girls are pictured above but I'm pretty sure a boy started it.

Photo op on the tractor. Overall it was a fun day. The kids even got to run around in diapers and t-shirts for a few minutes in a little water area they had. If we had saved more time, they could've fed baby goats from milk bottles or gone fishing. Something for next time...

ROOM REDECORATING

Another thing that took place in September was mine and Chris' room redecorating. Since the girls were finally sharing a room and Chris and I got our room back, we, okay - I, decided it was time to paint and update. Why is Chris sitting on the armoire?? I tricked him into getting up there to try and hang my metal medallion. We decided I better do it to make sure it was straight. Instead of getting him the ladder like I had said I would, I got my camera.
Ava saw Daddy and gasped. We put Ava up too.
Then, Elise saw what was happening and we couldn't tell her no. I would've gotten up there too but then who would've taken the picture?? More room decorating photos to come.

The biggest thing we did in September was to travel to Omaha for a weekend. I put our pics in a slideshow below.