Down at the Farm..

Our friends Jai and Mahrya have a party every summer. You can tell that times are changing and more and more of their friends now have kids. Jai's dad hired a petting farm to come out to the party this year. The girls had fun looking at all the animals. Allison wasn't quite too sure what to make of it all. I think you probably could have put Amelia directly in the pens and she would have been fine with it, especially with the little bunnies.

All the animals were in their pens except a large tortoise. For the longest time, it stayed in one place. I tried showing it to Allison but I don't think she ever caught on that it was an animal. We left the party just as the petting farm was leaving, so we hung out by the car a few minutes to watch them pack up the animals. At this point in time the tortoise had moved half-way across the yard, but Allison didn't notice until it started to move again. Even though the tortoise was a good 10-15 feet away from her she jumped back. Every time it moved Allison took about 5 steps back. She probably thought a "rock" was walking towards her.

Allison's baby that she stole from Jai and Mahrya's daughter. She carried that thing around the whole party.

Checking out the animals with dad.

Allison actually agreed to go on a pony ride, although we couldn't figure out if she liked it or not. The entire ride she was stone-faced. I figured if she didn't like it, then she would probably have been screaming her head off.

Allison had enough of the animals and was outta there.

 Amelia checking out the bunnies, wishing she could pet one.