A visit to the farm

I can't believe that we totally forget to post about Emily's first visit to an open farm! We took her to a local open farm called 'The Ark' about two weeks ago. She is always interested in animals on the tv, or in books and is quite adapt at doing all the different animal noises (except for pig she just squeezes her nose, which is very cute).

But we were so wrong to think she would run around, point at the animals, moo and baa and stroke the baby lambs. It was like we had taken her somewhere to be tortured. She REALLY hated it and didn't know what to make of the animals at all. She stood in the middle of the yard as far away from them as she could. If we tried to take her closer to see the cute little babies she cried and shouted 'noooooo'. The only times she got close to maybe thinking it was ok was when we picked up the little chicks for her to stroke (which she still wasn't completely happy about but she didn't cry), and when I caught her squeezing her nose when she was looking at the pigs.

So all in all her first visit didn't go down too well. We even thought we had traumatised her because when we asked her to do the animal noises later on, she said 'noooo'. Well maybe next time she will be happier.