We spent a few days of our "homeless" two weeks at Grandma and Grandpa's farm. We all love spending time there, especially the kiddos. The first evening there, we went to tell Great Grandpa happy birthday. He celebrated his 94th birthday with some of his family and beautiful bride, our Granny ( 89 years young herself), by his side. It was great to be there and the kids loved seeing them and trying to understand how old 94 really is. It was sweet to see him sitting side-by-side with Granny holding hands and giving support to one another.
The next day, we spent an entire day outside in the sun. It was a beautiful day and Grandma and Grandpa have a beautiful yard to enjoy it in. The kiddos had a great time looking at all the flowers, bugs, birds, clouds, etc. They each took a turn describing to me what the saw and heard. Dreamer asked if she could draw a picture of what she saw and that instantly got all the kids excited to do the same. It was a great afternoon.
They each spent time with some of the animals on the farm also. Bubba has quite a relationship with Lady, Grandpa's dog. He is always so excited to see her when we get there and they spend a lot of time together in the yard playing and exploring. Lady had been digging and got her paws all dirty. Bubba was quite concerned about this and after a very sincere, " Ah, Laney (this is how he says it, can't convince him otherwise) look what you did to yourself!" He went about cleaning her paws. It was a very sweet moment.
While saying hello to the cats at the farm yard, the kids helped Grandma with some doctoring of one of the horses. It had somehow got a cut around it's eye and needed some antibiotic and eye drops, so they thought it was great to watch Grandma be a "horse doctor".
We were able to help get their garden harvested and cleaned out. The kiddos liked digging the potatoes and finding the spuds in the dirt. They would get excited for each dig, not knowing just how many potatoes would be found and racing to collect them. It was a hard working, enjoyable time. Enjoy!
