Family Night at the Farm

We went to Thanksgiving Points' family night at the farm on Monday. It was horse night so the kids got to make a horse craft and ride the horse or go on the carriage.

During the craft Cheyenne kept climbing on this saddle. She loves "neighs" but I wondered how she would do on a real one.

She was even more adorable on the real horse. She grinned the whole ride and said "neigh" at everyone.
This calf was so cute. You got close to it and it would lick you and try to eat your clothes. We realized about 15 minutes later that it was it's dinner time and the kids got to help the worker hold the big bottle of milk. If you go at 6pm you get to see the milking and feeding of the baby right after.(It's real mom could not nurse) They took turns feeding it corn from their hands.

AJ wasn't so sure about letting the cow take it from his hands so he set it down kernel at a time by the fence. Even little Cheyenne wanted to feed the cow and said "Tito" (Tito of course means any animal with fur) She did do a lot of "moo's" as well.

Then she got too close to the calf and it licked her head. It scared her and she freaked out. Her hair was plastered up with cow spit:)

Inside they had a plastic cow that had udders to milk. It was as hard as a real cow would be but they had water they squirted into the bucket. This was Maddie's favorite and her and her cousins pretended to be "farmer girls".

Afterwards we went over to the ice cream shop in the main building and bought cones for a quarter (technically Aj and Cheyenne are young enough for free cones, so even better)