mystery dinner...

Sometimes while I'm making dinner, Jenna likes to get into the pantry and peel the labels off all our canned foods:

I can usually tell what everything is by the size and shape, but every once in a while we get a surprise vegetable or soup for dinner... It's kind of fun!

Jenna also recently discovered safety scissors! She goes crazy for cutting everything into tiny little pieces:

A couple of weeks ago Jenna was invited to a birthday party for a couple of boys in her nursery class. We jumped at the chance to encourage giving! She helped us pick out presents, and then we let her decorate the gift bags:

It was a wonderfully adorable idea, if you ask me!

That same morning we had gone to the Home Depot Kids workshop. In Utah, they had an entire isle and probably 20 tables dedicated to the event. Here in D.C. there was a single table, and Jenna was the second attendee. What a difference!
Check out those hammering skills:

Petting Farm

Jenna and I went with some friends to a petting farm. It was a really cute little place, and the kids loved it! They had hay rides, pony rides, nursery-rhyme-themed playhouses, emus, sheep, bunnies, goats, toys, and slides.

We could walk around with and pet the baby goats and chickens, but the adult goats were kept behind a fence that you could feed them through; It's a good thing, becuase they were mean! I tried to feed the little ones, but the big ones kept ramming them out of the way!

Jenna wouldn't actually feed them from her own hand, so she put food in mine and held it out for them:

Then she found out they would eat leaves and straw that she found on the ground. After that she tried to force the sheep, bunnies, emu, and horse to eat the straw:

She said "Here sheep, eat it!"

It was so funny!

Jenna loved being able to pet the baby goats. This guy was sleeping, and Jenna shook him until he woke up! Poor little goat:



Then she made piles of "food" for the goats and chickens to eat:

We walked around the pony several times and I asked Jenna several times if she wanted to ride him, and she said that she wanted to. But, when we got right up next to him, she wouldn't get on... So we did the hay ride instead. It was fun and she pointed out all the pumpkins and animals we passed:

I'm sad that we didn't find out about this place until the week it closed. Jenna didn't want to ever leave!