Another day, another farm

The other day, after our fire station adventure, Kate, Isaac and I headed down the road a bit to one of our all time favorite local farms. The Farm Institute is a teaching farm, they have summer camps for kids, tons of volunteer opportunites for everyone in the family, along with a multitute of extremely helpful people who work there, of all ages who can answer any questions you may have about anything farm related.

I love getting their almost daily updates about what's happening over there, it makes me feel very connected to something very special to us. Isaac and I have been going there since he was very tiny, so together we have seen so many of the animals grow and change just like him.

In an update that I got over the weekend, I learned that there were two mama pigs bringing a ton of piglets into the world. I of course wanted to jump up right then and head down, but I forced myself to hold off for a few days.

When we got there, a whopping 23 piglets had been born over the weekend! And even more had been born that day! Two of the mamas were close to the edge of the barn stall door, so we were able to get a really great view of her gorgeous babies! One of them was so brave, it came right over to Isaac! He could have reached out and touched it, but instead he screeched loudly, and the poor thing bolted.

We were able to enjoy the rest of the farm, (eventually) when I had had my fill of teeny, tiny, precious, blue eyed baby piglets. There were some older, toddler aged piglets, very cute, tons of chickens of all ages, even fluffy baby chicks, goofy looking turkeys, cows, goats, and some sheep.

I was really glad that Kate came along with us, it was her very first time on that farm, and I have this funny feeling that she'll be going back again real soon.

Isaac the Fireman!

We have been reading allot of books about trucks lately, and one of Isaac's absolute favorite trucks in his books are fire trucks. Isaac, my friend Kate and I were very lucky to get a special tour of our town's fire station the other day. Kate has a sister who works there, and she was a fantastic tour guide! She even helped Isaac into the fire trucks, and gave him his very own fireman's hat!

Luckily, Kate is such a good sport, she hopped right into the truck with him, and thank goodness she did, because she provided the sirens! (with her voice, not the real sirens!)

I had been telling Isaac all about when my dad, his Bampie, was a fireman. I hadn't even been into that fire station since then! We even got to see an old photo of him on the wall, I liked that, Isaac didn't seem to be all that impressed though, ha.

After we toured and tested each fire truck, we ventured into the Ambulance room. I had only even been in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, and that is never too fun. They were so much bigger than I thought!

I have this strange feeling that we will be visiting Hadley at the fire station quite a bit!

We had our family portraits taken, for the first time the other night. I wanted to test the light in our backyard, not bad I say, not bad.

Beach days with Baba

We were so lucky to have Baba (Michael's mother) stay with us for a few weeks. It was so nice having her with us, the extra set of hands was a wonderful gift. And the extra set of eyes on Isaac is always welcome, especially lately!

Living on an island, we have many gorgeous beaches to chose from. I can't recall exactly why we weren't at one of them every single day while she was here!! We did manage to squeeze in a few terrific days, poor Baba didn't get to relax very much. Isaac was much happier leading her all over, collecting stones and shells, splashing, digging, building sandcastles.

He loved every single moment of her visit. We all did!

"Race to the Gold!"

Last week, we were lucky to be invited to a puppet show put on by Ian's 4th grade class. It was such a cute production put on, produced, written, created and developed entirely by the kids, music and all!

It was really fun to watch, even though I wasn't able to watch the whole thing, (it was held in his school's library, so Isaac was very easily distracted with all those books around)

Ian wasn't in the actual puppet part of the show, but he was involved with a few of the dance numbers, which were fantastic!

Intro to the crazy daisy

I felt horrible, it not only took out Ian, but it then turned and took out Isaac too! Poor guys. They soon got brave again, faced their fears and jumped back into the spray!

Isaac and Ian vs The Crazy Daisy

Earlier in the week my brother came over to clean out some things from the garage. It was fun to see all the stuff I still have stuffed down there, and haven't thought about in ages. I came across one of those Crazy Daisy sprinklers, does anyone remember those? I bought it for my nephew when he was a toddler, and it was still in perfect shape!

We had a string of super hot days, up into the 90s! We needed a fun way to cool off, so I gave it a shot. A little bit of a rough introduction, but they ended up having a ton of fun with it!