On the Farm

What better way to honor Labor Day than to visit a farm, the workplace of so many of our ancestors. We visited Muscoot Farm in Somers, NY, and you can take a virtual field trip at Muscootfarm.org, because you aren't going to get a lot of animal pictures here, just a lot of Beckett. Besides, we were only there for a couple of hours, not an entire weekend.

But before you join us on our 2009 Labor Day adventure, take a look back at my favorite posts on this blog, Dawnell's EPIC two part trip report of Labor Day 2007 when we took a 4 month old Beckett on a trip to Lancaster County to learn about the Amish:

Labor Day 2007 Part 1

Labor Day 2007 Part 2





Anyway though, back to Westchester County. We visited Muscoot Farm with Beckett's friend Hannah. Here Beckett appears to be tipping his hat to her in greeting. We'll pretend this is how we greeted them upon arrival...



Certainly the highlight of Beckett's day was feeding the donkey.



Probably because the rest of the animals were a bit wooden. Okay, not really, but without a lot of supervision they didn't let the kids touch the animals. Lots of other cool animals though, including cows, sheep, weird looking chickens, and pygmy goats. Here's Beckett getting his udder on.



Oh, Beckett is 8 hands high. Not every day you get to measure your son's height by "hand."



Beckett looking ridiculously adorable on a tractor





Dawnell likes this picture. She thinks Beckett is adorably leaning on me. My recollection is that he was pushing away from me, but the camera says "adorable lean," so adorable lean it is.



While at the farm Ciaran chilled in the bottom of the stroller, so we didn't get any pictures of him looking adorable at the farm. But he did wear a tie and suspenders outfit to church yesterday. Dawnell did a great applique on a onesie. I think it turned out great:



Pretty adorable face: