Farming with a Toddler

A while back, I wrote a blog about the challenges of trying to farm with an infant. Well silly me, those were the easy days, if I had only known! D is now a very busy toddler and is into everything. We try to include her as much as possible in the day to day farm chores and luckily, she loves to go outside. In fact, she frequently gets her farm shoes and her sun hat and brings them to us to put on her and drags us to the front door.  The down side is that she throws epic tantrums when it’s time to go inside and she is not ready to.
 
She got a little gardening set for Easter with gloves, trowel and a bucket. She like to bring her bucket along during feeding time and put in scratch or pig feed or rocks and then help feed the animals by dumping it through the fence or in the barn or where ever else she deems appropriate. A number of times, we have caught her sampling the animal feed with a guilty look on her face.
 
 She also enjoys riding in the feed cart, which is helpful when we are pressed for time to get chores done. I found a little stadium seat on clearance for her to sit on during her rides in the feed buggy. One of her other favorite things is to chase the guinea hens while they run around screaming like banshees. This just tickles her so much and its pretty funny to watch. I think we have a real farm girl in the making.