Lil' Munchkin in the Kitchen: Mom, Where Does All This Food Come From?

Today Alex was able to see where much of this food we make comes from when we visited friends of ours at their parents farm. Not to mention she also got to see her friend Ava who, since moving to Iowa recently, we don't get to see much.

You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl (or her daughter).

First, I should explain a little about the imwalle's farm. They have a beautiful farm house in St. Mary's, OH with just about any farm animal you would like to see (although I did not see any chickens out there this time). You're first greeted by two dogs (one being a puppy who Alex did not care for once he jumped on top of her and tried to nibble on her little pudgy cheeks). I'm pretty sure those dogs run the place as we were shown how the puppy herds the goats, and the older dog was walking around in the horse barn like he was one of them.

Aside from the dogs, there were also several cats (duh it's a farm), two goats, two horses, some ducks back by the pond, many cows, pigs of various sizes (huge mamas, itsy piglets, regular piglets, and "teenagers"), and I believe there were even some bunnies. This always makes the Imwalle farm one of my favorites.

For months now Munchkins has been obsessed with books containing farm animals; however, today she learned that real horses are much larger than the ones in her books. She wasn't really sure what to think, and I noticed her eyes kept drifting to the next random cat she had noticed.

One of Alex's first words was "moo" although we couldn't get her to say much of anything today (she was in awe). I think Ava and uncle Ross were more into the cows than she was.