Wilson Family: Baby Animal Day

Jade got her wish for more Aunt Kae when we went to Baby Animal Days up in Logan. Kaeli had found out about this baby animal event up at the American West Heritage Center. It was quite the little day trip but we all had so much fun seeing the baby animals. Take a look at what we saw!

First we saw the baby ducks! There was this huge line just to hold one and I thought there is no way Jade will actually hold one so we just stood by the fence and peeked in at them. The next thing I know, this girl is handing us a baby duck through the fence and asking if we wanted to hold one. I kind of felt guilty for not waiting our turn but Jade and Kaeli loved holding it.

Kiera on the other hand about squeezed the life out of the poor duck. I think she thought it was a stuffed animal and just grabbed it super fast and squeezed. Luckily the duck survived and after that Kiera really wanted nothing to do with it. I think she was tired, it was naptime!

Fun video of Jade and Kiera with the baby duck

Jade and Mommy on the swings

Kiera riding the "horse." She was so unimpressed by all the animals!

Jade loved feeding all of the animals. They had these bales of straw (or hay, I am not sure because I did not grow up on a farm) all over and Jade kept taking handfuls to the calves, piglets and lambs.

My favorite memory from her chasing the little piglets was that she kept pulling their curly little tails. They would run away from her and she would do it again!

Just had to get a picture of these adorable kids! I really did not understand why they called baby goats, kids, but after this trip it was quite apparent. Whenever they would make their baaaaa noise, it sounded just like little kids crying. Having now had my own two kids who make that noise, it all made sense!

Jade even got to color some eggs, while we were in line waiting to see the baby bears. Look how proud!

Then, of course, promptly ate them! She had never peeled a hard boiled egg before and did really well.

Still in line....

Finally, the baby bears. I think they were my favorite (minus the overjoyed worker, who I am sure was tired of having her picture taken, but hey that is what you get when you are holding the bears)!!

Kiera's nickname ever since she was born has been Kiera Bear because from the day we brought her home she growls like one.

Jade was so excited to show us that she was as tall as a baby bear. You can't see the outline because she is standing right in front of it, but she was so happy!

Kiera--look at her grow! Just a few more inches (ha, ha) and you'll be as tall as that bear!

Jade absolutely loved this little jail filled with straw! We could not get her out of it and in fact when we finally did it was kicking and screaming all the way!

But she calmed down pretty quickly as we got to hold the baby turtles. They were so tiny!

As I said, totally unimpressed with the animals, but she had a blast in the straw table. She must have sat in there for 20 minutes while Jade did some coloring with Aunt Kae. I guess we will be investing in a straw table this summer! (he, he)