Hayloft Candles

On Monday, June 18, I called Daddy to see if he'd like to join us doing something fun in the nice weather. He agreed to go to Hayloft Candles Petting Zoo to feed the animals. I fed our three little animals before leaving. :) :) :)

Even stroller-bound, Ryan is so sweet and easygoing! We love him! :) :) :)

Our first stop was to feed the ducks. This is Joshua's absolute favorite! When we give a pile of pet food (that you purchase there for .25 each handful) to Caleb, he throws it all in at once. But, Joshua keeps his pile nice and neat and tidy and throws one in at a time to watch which duck will get it. He tries to aim for specific ducks and sometimes gets annoyed when a bigger bird will swoop in and grab it before the duck he wanted to gets it.

Eventually we saw this precious sight - tiny, baby ducks swimming with their parents. They didn't come out at first because the swans were there. And I was impressed that if a swan got too close to the babies, the mama duck (being smaller than these large birds) would start to flap her wings and splash at the bigger duck and make quite a ruckus until the bigger bird would fall back. You never mess with a mama's babies! ;-)

Here's one of my precious babies, enjoying himself immensely on his 69-month birthday. :) :) :)

After feeding the ducks for a little while, we continued on to see the other few animals that are there.

 This was a new pig from the last time we were there. Wonder if the other one became bacon?

Below is a bintrung, which must be mean in that it is in a cage within a cage. No getting anywhere close to that thing!

 I didn't get a picture of the yak because there were people in front of it, but I did get one of this llama.

 The sign in front of the donkey notes that he bites. No feeding him!

 The boys enjoyed the birds that would squak at them. They were noisy that day!

But their favorites were things that they could feed. Here they are feeding "dinky deer."

Caleb said "Take a picture of me and my silly face!" I love his silly face!

I would guess that his favorite things to feed were the goats. They always eat right from the kids hands (which we sanitize and then wash once we leave!).

Shawn helped give the kids the food we bought. I took along plenty of quarters. :) :) :)

I'm glad Shawn works so close to this place that he could come over his lunch break and join us. We love spending time with Daddy!

Joshua asked to go feed the ducks one last time before we left. We agreed to let him. After the gorgeous day that it started out to be, it sprinkled just a few spritzes of rain as we were leaving. That was pretty much it for the day, though.

I snapped a quick picture of Daddy and his boys as we headed back to the minivan. Before returning to work, we stopped at the stand across the street to grab a cucumber and some tomatoes. Then we dropped Daddy back off at work and headed home. We enjoy Hayloft Candles! :) :) :)