Friday, June 11, 2010

Yunker Farm, 2010

I don't know if I've ever blogged about Yunker Farm before...it's an old farmstead in Fargo that was turned into an educational center for kids! As you can see...it's COLD out today! What better way to spend our Saturday than staying warm and exercising our brains!?
Savannah and Grace...such "besties"! Yes...they ARE wearing skirts, but they are GIRLS afterall and there isn't much time for them to be worn! At least we have our HOODS!!
Map of the world and a globe...you're supposed to find the racoon using clues and a picture on the globe!
Here Aiden is putting together a large, magnetic, MAP of the United States!! GO BUDDY!
Savannah milking a cow....what?! We DO LIVE in MN/ND, folks!!
A giant mouth you can brush the teeth, there are trivia questions, the teeth even come out and tell you when you can expect them to fall out of your mouth! See those dots on the tongue? Those are the different tastes your tongue senses...sweet, sour, etc! So fun!
Parker is SUCH a good sport! He is WAYYYY TO BIG for this place; however, he plays along and helps "educate" the littler ones! This is a HUGE listening dish...on the other side of the house is the other one...it's kinda like the concept of a phone that is made out of cans and a string. The cool part is that he could ACTUALLY HEAR ME when I whispered into the one across the house!
PRINCESS THRONE!! MAKE WAY FOR YOUR HIGHNESSES...her ladyship SAVANNAH, and her ladyship GRACE!
Yep, they have an ACTUAL LIVE, WORKING bee hive in this place!
It was just LUCKY that this educational beehive had enough spaces for our oldest little "worker bees"!! Aren't they CUTE!? And, I only had to ask ONCE and took this pic in ONE TAKE! Man, they are GOOD!!
Too stinkin' cute, right!? Yeah...you WISH you could hate them, but they are as beautiful and wholesome on the INSIDE as they appear on the OUTSIDE! We really have a special place in our hearts for the Perry family! (if you've been following my blog, this is the product of those maternity pix I have posted of my girlfriend Angie!)
Here we find our "BOYS" in the "Reading Nook"...it's a little library section of the house that has a couple of spots for reading with comfy pillows and an actual "nook" for those that really want to get away! Isaac carried this fruit from another section of the house and I found Parker in here reading to Aiden...that boy AMAZES me...it was a good day!

Tea Party

Here we are on a Saturday afternoon...mom is running around like a crazy person trying to get laundry done, chasing Aiden around trying to get him ready for gymnastics (Savannah has had her leotard on since waking up), making sure Parker has his bowling ball, shoes, socks, etc...and what is our little Miss Savannah Rayne doing?
Well, she is having herself a sweet, QUIET little tea party! She had filled up this set with water and was having tea with her princess friends...you know, Belle, Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty --- they were all in attendance!! Sometimes it's nice to enjoy the quiet imaginations of GIRLS!