Horses and dinosaurs

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This is Hailey. I don’t know what kind of horse she is but I know that she ate an apple out of my hand and that was one of the coolest things I’ve done in a long time! I may live in cowboy country but I’m still a city girl. Being a city girl I haven’t spent a ton of time around large animals but I think I may just want to adopt a horse. Can’t you pick one up at the human society or something?

Friends of ours thought we should bring the kids to see the new pony that was born. That pony was born months ago so I thought I better drop in before the pony is too big to pass as a pony to my astute kids. I’m sure they would call me on it if I tried to pass a horse off as a pony. They’re pretty literal that way. We spent some time feeding Hailey and her baby Oreo. Laurelyn was fascinated, from afar. David wanted to jump in and wrestle with the pony. I think David would wrestle with anything. The kid has no fear!

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Once the novelty of the horses waned my kids traipsed around the barn/storage shed like it was a treasure trove. They climbed the mountain of hay bales, swung on the wooden swing, played on the four wheelers and chased the barn cat. At one point Jason smiled up at me and asked, ‘Can we stay here ALL DAY?”

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What better way to end a field trip to see a horse then with a field trip to see dinosaurs?

The Calgary Zoo revamped (and I’m not referring to actual vampires because there’s no such thing in case you were wondering) their dinosaur park by building motion sensitive, roaring, moving dinosaurs. I think that the dinosaurs could have been a teensy bit more realistic in their robotic movements but the kids were thrilled. Really, that’s all that counts! (Although I was slightly disappointed.)

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One of the things I laughed about with my friend was that David has only one speed. Saunter. When we’re outside David doesn’t run around. He saunters over to look at things. He uses a leisurely pace that will get him to his destination eventually but will infuriate me in the process because I walk fast and I hate to wait for anything. This creates a problem or as the saying goes, we are at an impasse. I usually get annoyed and make him sit in the stroller so I can speed along blissfully unaware of all the beautiful things David would have stopped to look at.

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Since we’re on the subject of David’s observation this is a picture he took of me reading my book and snacking on carrot sticks while the kids set off a roaring T-Rex a couple thousand times. Making a dinosaur roar never gets old and my book was really good so it made for a great day all around!

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Don’t your arms want to wrap around him? My little man.

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I can’t believe how quickly Jocelyn is growing up. Slow down girlfriend! It’s not a race. Stay a little girl forever if you can!!!

I love field trip days and I love the spring time weather making it more possible. The snow is almost entirely melted in my front yard and that is a huge undertaking, you should have seen my front lawn!

I wonder where we’ll go on our next field trip!