Fabulous Fox Hollow

Here are a few pics from a recent visit to Fox Hollow Farm in Issaquah. The farm is open a couple of times each month and was a great experience for Max and Zoe. Many of the animals are roaming free and the kids loved holding and stroking them. The hot favorites were the rabbit and kitten and the golden puppy.

Fun in the sun with CassieLeah

Another stella day in Western Washington luckily for us as we had planned to meet friends at the park. We met up north at Rhododendron park which is a great park and is very pretty at the moment with the blooms. Max and Zoe got to hang out with "The CassieLeah" as they call Cassie and Leah, and I got to catch up with their mom, Jamie. Max did his best to spoil it for everyone as he was a big old grump. On the way home I asked him why he was in such a bad mood and he said "Too much sunshiny, mummy". How Seattle is that?!

Life's a beach

We deserved today, we really did. It has rained pretty much rained non stop since September last year and it has made life with the munchkins more of a challenge. However, today we had blue, blue skies, lots of sun and just the right amount of breeze. I had planned to meet Shannon, Gia and Miles over at Carkeek park and it could not have been a more perfect day for it.

Carkeek is the North-West corner of seattle and has a great view of the Olympics. The playground has a huge salmon shaped slide that the kids love and it also has a lot of logs and rocks to climb. There is a railway bridge that leads to the beach and Max and Zoe love to watch as the Amtrack rolls by.

Max has been 'needing' to swim in the ocean for a while now, so after fun at the playground we headed over to the beach for fun in the surf. All the kids had a brilliant time running in and out of the water, building sand castles and having a picnic.

Gotta love Seattle on a day like this.

Look mum no hands!

This afternoon was glorious. We had much needed blue skies and sunshine so we headed out to Discovery Park. We had wanted to park down at the beach and play "rocks", but all the parking passes were taken so we had to settle for playing up by the little church. Soon after we arrived at the top of the meadow Zoe and Max wanted to climb the stone wall. They have done this before but with my help but today the were up in a flash then started running along it. It is 3 feet high in places and I wasn't sure it was a good idea as it ran alongside a gravel path, but I decided to just let them do it. A few minutes later they were racing then jumping off. They started at the low end, but got ever braver and in the end were flinging themselves off all over. It was a bit heart stopping but they were having a great time.

After all those shenanigans we got to meet one of the resident park rabbits. There are many semi tame bunnies at Discovery, that were probably released. Max and Zoe loved watching them and gave chase when they decided to move on. It was a fun afternoon and hopefully the start of a few sunny ones to come.

Down on the farm

I woke up on Wednesday to the chants of "baby piggies, baby piggies." I made the mistake on Tuesday evening of telling M and Z that we were visiting Kelsey creek farm in the morning, and they were whipped into a frenzy. The wanted to piggies, moo cow and babbits.

The trip had kindly been arranged by one of the lovely twin moms I know from my PEPS group and we got lucky with the weather. It was super fun to see so many of the twinnies together again after so long and we had a fabulous morning. We got to see pigs, cows, goats, rabbits, baby chicks and horses. At the end of the tour each child got to plant a pumpkin seed for the pumpkin patch and they all loved doing that. I thought all the kids did very well and listened well for 2.5 year olds. Hopefully we can all go back together in the Fall and see if our seeds grew.