Davis' Farmland

We took our annual trip to Davis' Farmland yesterday with the town-wide playgroup folks. I was nervous about how an outing would go with the baby but it went really smoothly. Kate was calm and quiet and happily spent most of the day in the stroller and nursing in the shade. Molly didn't run away from us or anything, and seemed to have a good time.

The funny thing is she had no interest in the animals. I think she had so much fun at the real farmland last weekend that she wasn't too impressed with the kiddy entertainment version. Or, more likely, she's still freaked out from the last two years when those aggressive baby goats came after her cup of food pellets.

Anyway, she was clear even before we got there that all she wanted to do was go in the splash park and maybe play on the playgrounds. Sure enough, as most of the group went over to the hay ride Molly headed straight for the Little Tykes plastic toy area. Yawn.

The next thing she wanted to do was this ... face paints!

Then we headed over to the splash park. Molly jumped right in, even though the water was icy. It cooled me off just having her come back to me for a bite of sandwich and to sit in my chair with me in her wet bathing suit.

We saw a lot of sibling pairs playing together there and I couldn't help but think how much fun this will be when Kate's old enough to go running through the water, too.

Next up, playgrounds. They have so many. At the back of one playground area is a "go-cart" track. This is the first time Molly was big enough to try it.

After that she was finally ready for a hay ride. We saw a few animals on the walk over. She decided to hang with a few Jacob sheep on a shady bench while we waited for the tractor.

At this point I realized I hadn't taken any photos with Kate in them. So here she is, on her first hay ride. Don't they both look excited?

Both girls fell asleep in the car on the ride home so I just kept driving, which was a nice quiet time for me at the end of a busy day.

As a side note, Kate was very fussy last night and it got me wondering if the fussiness she had in Rochester was related to spending so much time in her car seat on the trip. Her doctor said she probably has mild reflux (nasal congestion and fussiness are both signs) and he recommended we prop her mattress up a few inches at the head to help her symptoms. I've read that the car seat is bad for reflux because it causes babies to slouch and compresses their tummies. It certainly seems that on days when she spends a lot of time in her car seat -- either traveling or being pushed around in the car seat locked into the stroller -- that she has much worse symptoms. Something to think about, anyway.