I had this grand plan today that involved me finding time to prepare something special for this evening to celebrate mummy and daddy's 10th wedding anniversary. I really must learn to either a) be more organised or b) not put so much pressure n myself. By the time time daddy announced that he was planning on arriving home an hour earlier than usual, I had to ask him to go and buy most of the goodies for the evening meal that I had planned! I had also taken the smalls out for the day and we had an excellent time but I had forgotten to calculate in the guaranteed sleep that Pumpkin would have as we drove home, in turn guaranteeing that our romantic meal for two would have at least a plus one. Fortunately his choice of activity for the evening was to watch some iplayer so he sat solo in the living room whilst mummy and daddy had a late candle lit dinner (with the occasional interruption)
Today's adventures had taken us to Gaston Farm. I think we went three times last year and pumpkin immediately remembered that he had 'fiddled with the car' and it had broken down! Pumpkin jumped straight in with the animal handling and had a cuddle with two chicks of different ages (and sizes) and an enormous duck! Bean slightly more hesitant but after pumpkin had held all three animals bean was ready to hold a small chick.
This was followed by our first tractor ride and another mother offered to take our photo for me. It's the first time anyone has done this, and I've not thought to ask, it was so nice to have a photo of the four of us and I might think of doing it more often. The boys played on the stationary tractor and we went to have a look at the expecting ewes (no action) and pumpkin went to hold a lamb. This triggered a whole number of questions about sheep's wool and the difference between wool and fleece and my favourite was Pumpkin announcing that lambs are made of wool. They are very soft to touch though.
We picnicked and then did the whole thing again. This included pumpkin handling the animals again and as it was quiet I got to have a go too. And then when we had finished Bean was ready for his turn.
When we went to visit the ewes the second time we saw twins being born and we truly covered the birthing section of any sex ed curriculum. The questions came thick and fast. Bean was particularly concerned about the amount of time it was taking (about 10minutes as the shepherdess was helping out because the first lamb was large and the ewes pelvis was small, so quicker than a completely natural birth) they can take up to one and half hours, so I told Bean that he took a whole day and a whole night. This impressed him. The questions from the boys included, what's that? (Numerous times, to different things) how do they get out? What's she doing? Why is the ewe eating it? Why are the lambs covered in stuff? Was I covered in stuff too? What's that sack? What's it for? And many more.
And after all this we went to play in the village play area. It's a beautiful village with lovely views. We waved to daddy at work only 8 miles away and grandma and pops on the other side of Portsmouth, well, okay, we couldn't see any further than Portsmouth and they are a fair bit further than that but it was fun and we could see the IOW. We also watched the rain fall from a rain cloud far away and spent time on and off all day finding shapes in the clouds.
It really was a great day out.
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