This weekend was the first true Spring weekend of 2011, so we thought we’d take advantage of that by driving an hour south to the Lexington area and visit the deCordova Sculpture Garden and Drumlin Farm.
We were very excited to go outside with Maddox. Winter was very, very long. It’s actually the first time Winter has ever felt long to me, and I think it’s because there was an 18 month old running around in circles. Also, last year Maddox was walking, but just barely. He didn’t understand the concept of, well, anything besides tumbling forward and hoping his feet held him up.
Once we got to the museum, we setup a picnic in front of a metal sculpture of a gigantic dog. Mads was pretty good staying close by, even though he was clearly thrilled to be outside. Leanne would ocassionaly tempt him with berries and hotdogs (his two favorite foods right now, by far) and he’d come running back to us.
I can’t say he was very interested in the art though. What he did find fascinating was the pinecones! He went on a search for them, and would come running back to us whenever he found one, very excited to share in his discovery. He ended up collecting them in a neat line, making a little sculpture of his own.
After spending some more time collecting branches, leaves, and pinecones, we drove over to the Drumlin animal farm. By far Mad’s favorite animal here was the chickens, who he found hilarious.
He wasn’t very into any of the other animals though, possibly because of a close encounter we had with a very loud sheep. Who knew a baaaaaaa could be so menacing? So we hightailed it out of there.
