Monday, December 5, 2011

hiking

We went hiking yesterday.



Seth was quite comfortable in this fantastic hiking backpack that Aunt Julie gave us.  In fact, he was humming, shouting and squealing in it as we walked around the forest at a preserve near our home.  He loves sticks, so I gave him a stick to hold as we marched on and he was busy trying to stick it in Jack's ear much of the time!  LOL.

This place was very cool (we've been there before), but there are so many different trails that you rarely ever have to take the same path twice.  This time a friend told us about a farm at the end of one of the paths.  So to the farm we went.  It was a sweet little farm where we took Seth out and he was able to walk around and go right up (and I mean literally directly up) to chickens, a cow, pigs (who were snoring), bunnies, a goat and sheep.  He was fascinated ... by the leaves on the ground.  Of course.  But it was a great experience nonetheless.  

Then we walked back a slightly different route and came across this gigantic tree stump:



It was a great day.