We Visited The Earth Place!

Our library here has free tickets to places that you can check out, so we decided to go to the Earth Place in Westport. It's a fun little nature place. We went on the 19th of June.

They had a playroom area that had things for different ages. This is about the first time Eli has ever played with a shape sorter and he thought it was pretty fun. He kept handing it back to me to open it and get the pieces out again!

This was a cool toy! It's like those little things with the metal pins that you can make take the shape of your face and hands and things. This one has plastic pegs. Eli was playing with it, but as soon as I came to help him with it the independent little guy wouldn't have anything to do with it anymore. That's Josh's face, and the many hands on the right are my hands. I think the other fingers are Josh's.

Here we are walking on some of the nature "trails." Some of them were real trails while the other places we were just walking under the trees and guessing if we were on a trail or not. Every now and again there were marks or signs. It was pretty fun though. I liked that Elijah got to play under the trees kind of like when I was little and we used to play in the trees below our house.

I know that some of you may be offended by the backpack/leash, but Eli likes his Doggy backpack because now he has a backpack like Mommy's diaper bag and Daddy's school backpack, and he doesn't run off into poisin ivy by mistake.

After a while we put Eli in the stroller (which it turned out we didn't really need) so that we could get him back to play on the playground.

We don't have any pictures on the playground, because we didn't get to stay there long. Everywhere we went there were hornets and whasps following us around. It was a fun looking playground too. Elijah was particularly sad to leave a little basketball hoop, but we didn't have a ball with us anyway.

They have animals too, but I think I was too involved looking at them with Eli. They have a small indoor animal room with ghinea pigs and ferrets and little birds that they have rescued and are healing. They also had snakes and rabbits. The doves started calling while we were there. I love the dove call. Outside they had birds of prey that they had rescued. There were these two really big bald eagles that were particularly fun to see!