Farm Park

We've been telling Evan we would be going to the Emma Prusch Farm Park the whole time my mom has been visiting, so this afternoon (after 3 weeks of buildup) we finally followed through.  Unfortunately both the small animal section and livestock barn were closed when we got there, the former because the rangers were feeding the animals and the latter because it was after 4 o'clock.  There were still a lot of roosters, hens, and peacocks walking around the grounds, though, and it seems Evan is a little afraid of roosters:

Whenever a rooster got within 20 or 30 feet of us Evan became very cautious and trying to look at them from between my legs.  I know the last time Steph took him there some roosters and geese were very assertive in requesting they be allowed to share Evan's lunch, so maybe that's the reason.

Here are Evan and my mom looking at the turkey pen, particularly the two big white turkeys on top of the pen:

Since we couldn't see a lot of the animals close up we spent most of our time in the playground.  Being there late in the afternoon on a Wednesday on a marginal weather day worked out great since there were other kids there but not so many that the play structure was inundated (which happens sometime on the weekend).  As it was Evan got plenty of time to swing on a big kid swing all by himself (he's just started doing this in the last few weeks):

He spent close to an hour running around on the cool play structure, working out a loop that sent him through the translucent tube:

across and up the entire structure to the 450° spiral slide:

followed by a not-exactly-direct run around the wood chips back to where he'd started to repeat the loop.  You may notice he's not exactly pointing straight down the slide in this picture.  He decided to try wedging his feet against the outside this time down, which had the effect of spinning him around half way down so he ended up at the bottom head first on his stomach.  He was never able to repeat that move again, so I guess I'm lucky I caught at least a bit of it on camera.

Also, since it wasn't very busy he could take his time working on the little climbing wall with Grandma's help, and he was quite pleased with himself when he made it to the top: