The Salmon Family: Green Meadows

Green Meadows is a small petting farm about 45 minutes from our house. We went for the first time last year, and fell in love! It's full of hands-on activities, lots of animals to pet, and (my favorite part) it's clean! We headed back again this year (funny coincidence- as I uploaded this year's pictures, I noticed we went exactly one year earlier- 9/2!) and had even more fun now that Hattie is old enough to join in!

Patty... the VERY big pig!

This was Maggie's favorite part of the day... you could "race" rubber ducks by pumping the water into the tubes.

While Hattie wasn't quite big enough to pump the water, she was pretty impressed watching those duckies float by!

Driving the tractor!

Merry go round!

Maggie says, "Whoa, horsey!"

"Giddyup!"

Hattie was just fascinated by his ears...

Not quite sure what Hattie was thinking here...

Maggie was a little apprehensive about petting some of the animals

Hattie was OK- as long as mom or dad was close by!

Coloring? Yes, please!

Artists, hard at work!

This is when Dan took over with the camera. He was fascinated by these 2 dumb animals that 1) could not figure out that the water was too low to get their horns down in the bucket low enough to drink it and 2) there was no way they were both going to get a drink at the same time

This was a *brand* new calf. Having birthed 3 babies myself, it was pretty obvious when looking at the mom (thanks, Dan for NOT taking any pictures of that!). Selfishly, I didn't want to answer too many questions, so I hurried the girls along...She was also QUITE protective of the new baby, and kept charging at the fence when the kids got too close.