Dewberry Farms

On April 6th Carter's class had a field trip to Dewberry Farms.  It was a gorgeous day.  Thanks to my mom for watching Cole all day so I could go.  I'm not sure I'd really call it a farm though, we only saw a few animals but had a ton of fun on all the activity centers.

Carter and a few of his classmates ...

Carter and his best bud in class, Shiv, on the hay ride. 

They had a dairy exhibit there and this old couple was such a hoot.  They were speaking to four year olds, but using big words like oxytocin hitting the bloodstream and helping convert food and water to milk.  It was hilarious.  Of course, there were several moms there that were either pregnant, nursing a newborn, or recently stopped nursing and we all could totally relate to how this poor cow felt being hooked up to a milk machine.  What was actually pretty cool was the amount of milk they could extract in seconds.  If you look at the big glass milk container to the upper left of the lady's head, you'll see some milk in there. It took 5 seconds for that much milk to come out.  Totally impressive and as I'm sure any mother of young kids would say, "Dang, wish I could feed my baby that fast!"

This kid goat was born just hours earlier that day.  So cute!

Duck races with the water pump.  And no, Carter is not standing on a stool - he is actually much taller than most of his classmates.  Particularly the cute little boy next to him.  To be fair, David won't turn four until August.  But still - Carter is pretty darn tall.

Barrell train was lots of fun.  I rode it as well, though Carter wanted to sit at the front with his friend Madison.  I think he later wished he would have let her sit right up front.  The tractor (and high wind) kept throwing dirt and sand in his eyes.  Hey, that's what you get for not being a gentleman in the first place :)

I also rode the pedal cars, though fortunately a photo was not taken.  I even took Carter with me on one of the larger ones.  Needless to say I was sore from the workout the next day.

The hit of the day was the rope swings from the hay stacks.  It took him a few tries to figure it out, but once he did it was hard to get him to stop and go play with something else.

A video of him swinging on the ropes.


We had a blast together.  They also had some bouncy ball swings that I did with Carter, a jumping pillow, a zip line - which I would later come to regret that I did.  And a few other things we enjoyed together.  I look forward to going with Cole when he's three.