Monday, August 17, 2009

Sulphur Creek - Siblings

Today, we attended "Toddler Time" at Sulphur Creek again. Today we learned about siblings and got to interact with doves, tadpoles, an opossum, a hen and a rooster. All the animals were siblings, with the exception of the oppossum, who showed us her cool pouch where she could house like 10-12 baby oppossums (siblings), kinda like a kangaroo!

Here are some pictures of Baby C's Sulphur Creek experience:

Baby C petting a dove.

Female opossum, if you look closely, you can see the little pouch on her tummy, it stretches to keep many babies cozy!

Two wild tadpoles caught this AM from their pond. After class, we released them back in the pond, where they will be froggies very soon! (they already sprouted legs)

Here's a friendly rooster that was ok to be petted.

There was also a hen (the rooster's sister), but not so friendly, so the kids just got to see it in the cage and fed both some (live) worms (gross!).

I THOUGHT it would be a good/cute idea to sit Baby B down this time next to her sister so she could be part of the experience...here's how it played out:

"Ooohh! Long hair!"

"Lemme pull it and see what happens!" Big sister was not too happy...

"Ooohh...what's over there?!"

"Lemme climb over my sister's lap to see!"

As you can see, that idea did not work very well, so I had to sit Baby B back on my lap. I have a feeling she will be on my lap for a while...=P

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