☼We Celebrate the Earth☼

This year’s Earth Day we met up with Jon after work at a local plant nursery to choose which tree we wanted for our backyard. It was unanimous, a Purple Plum. Quickly we came home and dug just the perfect hole for our new, beautiful tree.

Afterwards we headed to the mall to take the Disney Store up on an offer. For every 3 empty plastic water bottles turned in, each child received a, Earth Day 2009 Mickey Mouse reusable water bottle. The kids love them.



Then…it was off to the movies. We watched Earth by Disney. All five of us thought it was remarkable! It followed three animal families in all seasons; Polar Bears, African Elephants, and Humpback Whales.

A Day on the Farm

Today's field trip with Nathan's Kid's Discovery Club Preschool to the Superstition Dairy Farm , a family run dairy farm, was so much fun. In the barn, they spent the first portion teaching the kids about the dairy, showing all of us the 50 pounds of feed given out to each cow daily, the shots, ear tag application, magnets for each belly, and much more. Then, we headed onto the tractor pull hayride to see the dairy cows up close and personal. Next, we were able to pet and feed some of the other livestock and even were able to hold a very tame rooster for those that wanted to. Owen could have stayed at that station all day, he loved being Nathan's guest on this trip. Owen loved all the animals, but especially the goats!






The preschool kids enjoyed choosing from the 12 flavors of milk to drink (raspberry, lime, cherry-vanilla, chocolate, orange cream, etc.) that went along with their graham cracker snack. Go figure...Nathan wasn't in the adventurous mood and only chose "plain milk".
Our time was finished at the haymaze, something Nathan could have run around with Gavin for hours. Nathan was sad that his friend's Jack, Harrison, and Benji couldn't make it though but very grateful that Gavin did! We really enjoyed finishing up the month-long theme of "the Farm" at a real one just a few miles from our home.

For those who are looking for an Earth Day Celebration, on April 26th the farm is having a day packed with activities for only $10 for the whole family! They'll be using solar cooking, showing seed planting/organic growing, "Pollution Solutions" with reusable bags, having garden tours, hayrides, crafts, as well as seeing performances from Charlotte's Web and Worm Drive the Musical. It sounds like a great all-day event (10-5).