Ol' McDonald Had a Farm...

As a break from the normal, my wife suggested that we take Troy out to our friend's farm today.  The last couple of times we've taken him out there, he's thoroughly enjoyed seeing the ducks that hang out on their pond.  He'll point at them and go "ooh, ooh!" excitedly.  They humor him as long as he keeps his distance, but of course, he's too excited to do that and will awkwardly stomp his way over to them.  They waddle a few steps away, always keeping about ten feet away from him.  But Troy will continue to give chase until they flap onto the pond...which he happily tries to chase them into, until we grab him and hold him back.

We also took him up to the hen house to see the chickens.  They still wouldn't let him touch them, but they didn't require quite as much distance between them, so Troy got a more up-close view of them.  He happily chased them around the yard, saying "Hi" to every chicken.  They in turn clucked back at him.  If he found a chicken that had dared to stop moving and peck at the food on the ground, then Troy would attempt to sneak up on it and hug it.  But those chickens are wily, and he never really got close.  Besides, Troy's idea of "sneaking" isn't exactly ninja stealth yet.  He sounds like a herd of stampeding cows.

Speaking of cows, we also saw their one, solitary cow.  Who stood off in the field, completely disinterested in this awkward miniature human.  Troy also got to pet a baby chick, which he managed to snatch out of the bucket it was standing in with lightning speed.  Luckily, he didn't do it any harm.  And he got to feed their three donkeys animal crackers.  I did not know that donkeys enjoyed animal crackers so much.  SIDE NOTE:  Is is cannibalism if the donkey eats a cracker shaped like an animal, even if it's not technically made of an animal?  Probably not, but it still seemed wrong somehow.

All in all, Troy had a wonderful time on the farm.  So much so, that he didn't want to leave.  We had to practically force him back into the car.  The ordeal must have taken a lot out of him, though, because he only made it a mile down the road before he was sound asleep in his car seat.