Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Little Farm

We had another fun-filled weekend around the Hayes' household. Really, every weekend should be four days long! Alex and Noelle had a good time with PlayDoh (yes, I bought it instead of made it). They even made a PlayDoh greyhound!
PlayDoh fun!

On Sunday, we headed over to a wonderful attraction in Tilden Park, Little Farm. Little Farm is exactly what it sounds like, a little farm =) I believe it's largely volunteer run. It's free to walk through and feed the animals (bring your own celery).

Unfortunately, we didn't get many animal pictures because we were busy bolstering Noelle's confidence - she was scared of most of the animals. It makes sense, from her perspective. She's so tiny and had never seen anything close to the size of a cow! So, we played it low-key and did a lot of watching from a distance. There was one animal Noelle did love, a chicken that was just her size. Noelle even reached out to pet it several times.

The not-so-scary chicken

On the way home we stopped by Trader Joe's and, more importantly, See's Candy. Noelle received a piece of chocolate and this is what she looked like when we got home:

More chocolate, please!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy turkey day to everyone! We hope you had wonderful Thanksgiving celebrations. Or, wonderful Thursdays, if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving! =)

We had a wonderful, low-key family Thanksgiving. The day started a little rough. Noelle was up (with Alex, thanks hubby!) at 5:30 am with some teething pain. By 8am, she looked like this:

Who says you can't sleep sitting up?

It was a bit of a rainy morning. We made the best of it, though, with some quality time at the park:

Rocking the track suit.
Can't get too much swinging!


We've already had two big turkey dinners this month. First, when my parents visited and second, at a friends house last Sunday. So, ready for a change of pace, our Thanksgiving this year was lasagna.


It just wouldn't be a holiday, though, without homemade pumpkin pie (thanks, Trader Joe's, for the easy directions!). Noelle looooves pumpkin pie. I think it just may have been her favorite part of the day!

Homemade pie and a silver fork, it doesn't get better then this =)