Down on the Farm

Yesterday Curtis had a lovely day out with his Nanna, Auntie Sandra, Auntie Doris and his 2 cousins Dylan and Josh when they went to visit Streamvale Open Dairy farm in County Down. Curtis is a huge fan of farm animals with his favourite DVD being Baby Einsteins Old Macdonald, and he is slowly mastering some animals sounds too with moo moos here, a woof woof there and anytime he sees a fish it's a blob-a-lob-a-lob-a-lob here and there. So, he was very excited to be seeing lots of animals for real anad spending time with his family in Ireland.

Mummy stayed at home and got some work done during the day and got to see some video clips of the days events when everyone came home. Thanks so much to Sandra for taking those....if we can manage to download some we'll add some on here.

The open dairy farm sounded like it was very well set up, with lots of space to accommodate the Easter week crowds and lots of hands on activities for everyone. Curtis was a little scared of the bigger animals and stayed close to Nanna, but was brave enough to stroke one of the baby chicks and took a real shine to the bunnies, even showing off his signing by indictaing bunny ears with his fingers when he saw them. Curtis watched Dylan and Josh giving milk to the lambs and decided at this point he wanted a bottle of his own! His highlight of the day however was sitting on Nannas knee as they went for a ride on the farm train. Whilst most other kids rebelled at wearing safety goggles for the journey, he happily wore his and enjoyed the ride so much he boo-hooed when they had to get off. After seeing cows, sows, bunnies, lambs, chicks, puppies, hens, ducks and cockerels, goats, reindeer, ponies, deer, mice and fish it was time to head home.

Photos from the farms website:-http://www.streamvale.com/thingsToSee.html