No guinea pigs allowed

Katie receives ABA therapy three days a week, and one of the components is an occasional community outing. Her therapist and I have been talking about doing them during hte summer, so I seized the opportunity to have her along to help with Katie and take the girls down to Zoomars on the train. Zoomars is a local petting zoo; Katie & Becky have been there before, but Cami had not - and so this seemed the perfect time! 

There is pen where you can feed the guinea pigs - $9 later we had three baskets of food - and the guinea pigs had a feast! I think the girls - especially cami and Becky - could have spent the entire day in with those little creatures...in spite of how smelly that pen was! Thus began the campaign of the day "I want a guinea pig at home" followed by "You know mom they have them at PetSmart to buy" and "I promise we will take care of them" with the closer "it would make me so happy momma" 

They did save some food for the llamas - this one, while appearing to be sweet & innocent...spat at the other one a few minutes later in protest to sharing the food we have. We all got sprayed with llama spit- lovely, simply lovely. Not getting one of those either - 

The highlight for me was watching Cami take her first horse ride. She was so brave about it - as she is a lot of things. She hopped right up and delighted in the new experience. I hope I never lose the delight I feel in watching her experience these new things. 

Katie has been asking to go ride the horses for several weeks now - 

Look ma - no hands! 

my cautious child - I didn't have the heart to tell her that this little pony is probably a lot nastier than the big horse! 

They also have goats - mean, nasty aggressive goats - who may have met their match in Katie!! 

 I did cave at the end of the day and buy more guinea pig food. I figured it was a cheap deal compared to having to have the actual creatures themselves! 

It was a long day - compounded by a return train home that was an hour late. Other than one incident with a foot making contact with a nose (and Katie was not involved in that!)  - the girls had a great day! 


And there will be NO guinea pigs allowed!