Parkinson Family: Baby Animal Days

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Baby Animal Days

We had spring break the weekend of April 3-5th when Aaron and the kids were off school. Three days off school isn't much compared to some spring breaks, but we'll take what we can get. Because of Aaron's recent back surgery, instead of going camping or traveling somewhere, we opted to stay at home and just do some things close by.

On Wednesday evening, we went out to dinner at Pizza Hut in Brigham City and then swimming at Crystal Hot Springs. It had just been snowing a few hours earlier so we were reluctant to swim, but the hot springs turned out being perfect. The kids love swimming in the warm water. It's like a big bathtub!

The next day, Thursday, we went to Baby Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville, across the mountain. They only do it once a year and it is a lot of fun! They have a big farm with a lot of animals for the kids to pet. They also have wagon rides, pony rides, horse rides, goat milking, and this year they even added a train ride. This year they also had some baby bears brought down from the Yellowstone Bear world. The kids also had fun holding some baby turtles and seeing some birds from the Willow Park zoo in Logan.

Of course, all the kids wanted to cram into the jail car/caboose of the train

I actually think it's kind-of comical that the kids can ride for hours on Opa and Oma's horses, having them all to themselves, and even get to lead them around wherever they want, and yet they will wait in line to ride around in circles for 3 minutes on a pony going nowhere. I guess they just can't get enough horse rides!

The kids with their helmets on, getting ready to ride.

While the other kids were riding ponies, I got to sit with Jordan and get my
laughs at his funny little faces. He had a few too many oreos, I guess :)

Jared loved the little baby chicks and ducklings

While we were waiting in line, Jordan found this path between the ropes and I guess he thought it was a race. He kept going back to the entrance and saying, "Ready, Go!" and then running as fast as he could. It was so fun to watch him! He's training for his first marathon...

Heidi loved the little baby turtles.

Of course, the baby bunnies were a big favorite and most everyone wanted to buy one, including mommy. For some reason, those soft cuddly things are too much for any child to resist.

1 comment:

The Dennis'June 5, 2014 at 9:05 AM
Glad you were able to have fun while Aaron is recovering! Love the pics :) thanks!
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Parkinson funnies

Nov 2012- Aaron was watching football on TV and Jared came out saying, "I want to go watch grass!"

Dec 2011- Heidi said one morning, "Mom, there's frosting on the house!" (on a cold day when frost was on the house).

June 2, 2011- Driving in the car Kyle said to his sister, "If you don't learn to talk, Jesus will make you talk Spanish." (He explained later that he actually meant sign language. That's how he thought it worked.)

Feb 28, 2011- Kyle said, "I don't like to have babysitters because they are only supposed to take care of babies!" Then we explained that they can take care of bigger kids too.

Dec 15, 2010- Kyle said, "I know how they make egg nog. First they dump in the eggs and mix them around. Then they put in the nog..."

Oct 20, 2010- Kyle said, "Mom, is some cheese blue?" I said it is called blue cheese but isn't really that blue. He said, "Well, then does it taste like blueberries?" I love all the questions he asks about how the world works- He's really trying to figure things out.

Oct 7, 2010- We were driving by Arctic Circle and Kyle said, "Is that the hamburger hut? I like that hut." I am wondering if he was remembering a time when we went to "Pizza Hut".

Aug 12, 2010- We were driving by a farm where there was a big fire burning up the field and Kyle said, "Dad, is that where the indians live?"

Aug 8, 2010- We were driving in the car and Kyle said, "Dad, I think I 'm truck-sick." "You mean car sick?" "No, truck sick- when you're sick in the truck."

Aug 2, 2010- We were headed off to a doctor's appointment for the baby and he was crying. Kyle said, "Mom, I think he's crying because you said he is going to get a shot."

June 28, 2010- The other day at dinner it was Heidi's turn to pray and daddy was helping her. She was just repeating everything word for word when he got to "Please bless it.." and said it 3 times. Finally I had to open my eyes to see what the hold up was. Well, little Heidi was just stuffing spaghetti in her mouth as fast as she could and it was hanging out all over. We all just bust up laughing. I guess she just couldn't wait any longer!

May 19, 2010- On the way home from the hospital after seeing their new baby brother, Erika said, "When I was born mom and dad said that I looked blue." Kyle said, "And when I was born I was pink and red. "

Dec 9,2009- The other day we were eating dinner and Kyle didn't want to eat. He said, "I don't like to eat aliens!" We told him there were no aliens in his dinner. Then, realizing what he was talking about, I said, "You mean onions?" He kept calling onions "aliens" and we got a kick out of it.

Nov 20, 2009- Erika lost another tooth at school today. Kyle said to her, "Erika, when my tooth gets loose and comes out, I'll give mine to you."

Oct 10, 2009- Today Erika said, "Mom, someday when I'm older, I want to get that recipe from you!"

Sept 9, 2009- We couldn't find our puppy anywhere and had driven all over the neighborhood to find him. Finally about 2 hours later Kyle showed up holding him and I said, "Where did you find him?" He said, "In the killer-box". "The what?" "The cooler-box". He had stuck him in a cooler in our backyard and forgotten about it. We were glad he was okay!! I felt terrible and gave him some extra TLC for a little while.

Sept 4, 2009- Erika said tonight, "You know what my favorite thing is about school? It's lunch... and learning... and break!" We said, "Isn't that the whole thing?"

Aug 17,2009- We were camping and had brought all our bikes. As we were leaving camp for a little while, Aaron commented that it might have been wise to bring a chain to lock up our bikes so they wouldn't get stolen. Erika said, "Or, we could have just brought a sign that said, 'DON'T STEAL!'".

July 12, 2009- Today at church Kyle looked at my Young Women's Medallion and said, "Mom, is that you on the necklace?"

July 3, 2009- Kyle had been sleeping down in Erika's room with some friends and came upstairs before we went to bed. He said, "Mom, there was some noise down there. I think it was the tooth fairy, coming to get the loose tooth."