This morning Sydney and I met up with her preschool classmate Addison and her mom Amanda and sister Sienna at Maplewood Farms in North Vancouver. This awesome kids farm has been around for as long as I've been alive and is such a great place to take kids to see all the farm favourite animals!
Sydney loves feeding birds so much. There are no shortage of birds at this farm, from the exotic peacocks, budgies and parrots to ducks, geese and chickens. She had used her entire bag of bird seed by the time we were twenty five feet into the farm!
The highlight of the visit to the farm is always the giant white bunnies which the kids can pet and feed. They always remind me of a beloved stuffed rabbit that my sister had when she was a little girl named Rosabelle. I forgot to bring some special treats for the rabbits today, but luckily there was some leftover lettuce there for the kids to feed to them.
The goat petting area is always a fun spot. The goats are a bit jumpy, so if the kids startle them or they get a bit skiddish they start jumping about and it totally freaks the kids out. While we were on our way out today, we accidentally let one of the goats out of the pen...whoops!
Syd seemed to enjoy spending some time with Addison and especially loved the hand washing station and hand sanitizer all around the facility! She must have washed her hands a thousand times. Amanda and I were joking that we could have entertained the kids for the entire morning with just a sink and some hand sanitizer, never mind the animals!
It was fun to spend some time with Addison outside of school. We are so excited that she is going to be in Sydney's class this fall, I'm sure they will come to be very good friends in the years ahead.
Today also happens to be my Mom's birthday. Happy, happy birthday Grandma! We love you! Thank you for all of your love and for being such an incredible Mom and Grandma to us all! Love this shot of she and Syd when she was just a babe on the ferry on our way to our holiday at Point no Point resort on Vancouver Island!
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