March 22nd, 2008 by Natalia
WARNING: This will be a long post. I’ve been gone all week and I have a lot of catching up to do! It’s worth the grueling time it takes you to read it though. Yup..
Last Sunday the kids and I ventured out and took a 6 hour road trip to visit the family in W. Texas. We left the house before the sun came up, hoping that Jackson would sleep most of the way. He slept for a little while, but not as long as I had hoped. So Ashton had to find random things to entertain him in-between shoveling cheerios into his mouth. She tried baby dolls. But he wasn’t thrilled.
Trying to keep Jax happy is a hard job. It made Ashton a little crazy!
Being the only adult in the car made me a little crazy so I started taking random pictures of things on the way. Like these lovely windmills.
We did make it to our destination in time to rest… for a few minutes. We had quite a busy week.
Monday we went to a kids science museum. They had a really neat dinosaur exhibit showcasing the “new” dinosaur that they found in S. America, the Gigantosaurus. It’s supposedly bigger than the T-Rex. It was huge. I’m not sure what Jax thought of all the giant moving monsters, but his expression never changed from his normal very serious look. I’d love to know what goes on in his little mind sometimes.
Here is my “Ashyosaurus”.
Ashton and Nana had a great time doing all of the little experiments while Jax and I headed to tot land. There, Jax had a heck of a time playing in the water.
There were SO many things for him to get into, that he had a blast. He LOVES those kind of places. He was in heaven!
On Tuesday, it was COLD and WINDY. I HATE the wind in W. Texas. I’m quite sure that’s the reason that I never moved back there. There is just something irritating about constantly having sand in your teeth. Not sexy… Anyways… remember those goats? Well, Ashton wanted to go check on them. So we braved the cold wind and went to visit those stinky things. There is really no way that one could confuse these animals with one spec of cuteness. Their eyes are strange. They make the ugliest, tongue thrusting , BLAAAAAAAAAA, noise. AND… they don’t really care about hygiene. I suppose some people eat them and call it cabrito, but I can’t imagine that they taste good at all… They are nasty… They eat food covered in their own waste… (Ashton pointed this out)
That being said… We got a goat! KINDA… Well Ashton was given a goat. It WILL stay there on the farm, but she was able to name it. It’s her goat. It was 4 days old. Here it is. Introducing “Taylor”.
Jax wasn’t quite sure what to think about the goats. He seemed to want to squeeze their noses for some reason. He did perfect his “BLAAAAAAAAAA” and has now begun speaking the language of the goat.
Ashton was beaming from ear to ear.
Ashton was fascinated by the goats jumping on their mother’s backs.
While Ashton was playing with the goats and I was taking pictures… (I’m not going in their pin) Jackson took his great Nana on a hike.
On Wednesday the weather was MUCH nicer and we were able to take the kids to play with Unca Bubba at an awesome playground. I wish they had something like this in our neighborhood.
At first, Jackson was asleep, but I woke him up. This playground was too much fun to miss.
After a couple of hours at the playground we were enticed by the nice weather to go see the goats again, since our previous visit was cut short by the freezing wind. This time, Jax got a kick out of throwing baby pumpkins to the goats. He was so fascinated by the pumpkins that we somehow ended up bringing two of them home with us.
Jackson got really brave and was feeding the goats some bread. He almost got a kiss from one of the goats. Nana saved his life!
While Jax was fascinated with the pumpkins… Ash was worried about the “lop-sided” pregnant goat.
Thursday we came home. The kids watched movies all the way home.
We had a great trip, but are glad to be home.
