We went to Springdale Farm with some friends this week. I was trying to think of how to describe it, but their website does a pretty good job. Springdale Farm is operated by Heritage Christian Services and owned by Monroe County. Springdale is a premiere agricultural education facility open to the public, and serves as a day program site for adults with developmental disabilities, who care for the plants and animals, maintain the beautiful farm grounds and welcome over 40,000 visitors each year.
Ben loved the petting zoo.
The goats and sheep pooped everywhere, but they were cute.
The petting zoo portion was only $1/kid and the rest of the activities we did were free.
There was a really cool tractor kids could sit on too.
I think the boys liked it more than the animals (even though David looks slightly concerned here).
Yee Haw.
After the petting zoo and tractor, we walked around the farm for a bit.
We saw pigs and horses. You could also go in the milking parlor to see cows, but we didn’t do that this time.
Finally, we headed to the duck pond to feed the birds.
Ben asking for more bread to throw to them, he really got into it.
We also played on the playground a bit before heading home. It was a really fun morning spent with friends!
Let me preface this by saying we’re not really potty training. Ben is very into poop and farting (thank you daddy for that fascination…) but I don’t think he’s ready to actually potty train. And quite frankly, I’m not ready to go all gusto about it either.
So that said…
Ben has a little potty I got on sale a while back. Since he loves running into the bathroom with me, I thought he might like to sit on his own potty. He loves it. I mean LOVES sitting on it. Gets this big grin and plays with his cars for a minute or two. The one day he was sitting on it and I thought it’d be fun to sing a song. You know, isn’t that what you’re supposed to do when kids are on the potty…keep it fun and entertaining? Randomly, the song I started was “Jesus loves me this I know…” Well, Ben thought that was great and started “Jesusing” along.
Except now, every time he goes in the bathroom he asks for “Jesus.” It seems Jesus has become synonymous with potty time…
This weekend Ben and I went to a Duplo party at a friend’s house. It was a nice mom/kid hang out time with a few fun activities. Each family got a Duplo set to bring home which contained blocks and a book to go along with the set. Ours was a farm theme and Ben loves putting together the pig, cow, rooster and sheep (with a little help). He gets very concerned when the pig’s head or rooster’s tail falls off and starts a chorus of “Oh no.”
This is serious business, mom.
He also confuses the cow with the sheep because the sheep is black and white and he’s usually just seen cows portrayed as black and white (not brown, like with the blocks). So for right now, the sheep says “moo.”
This weekend we went to a beach on Honeoye Lake with some friends. Their little boy is Ben’s age, so it’s always nice to get together with them because the kiddos can do the same things. They don’t exactly play together yet, but there was some shovel and rock sharing going on. Not from Ben…but David was a pretty good sharer :)
Distraught that he had sand in his toes.
There was a playground and swings there too.
Out of focus, but I’m going to call it “artsy.”
