We went out to an ice cream parlour this lunchtime. It is relatively near, just about fifteen minutes away, and it has a handful of animals and home made dairy ice cream, the dairy being supplied by the cows in the surrounding fields.
Well, little bear was quite impressed with the donkeys and thought them splendid. He wasn't too sure about the sheep or goats. He was fascinated by the pot bellied pigs who were peacefully snoozing, oblivious to little bear. He was indifferent to the ducks. However there were some chickens.
A little while ago we took little bear to a farm type place and a rooster crowed really loudly and very close. Little bear was not impressed. And he is still not impressed. He looked at these chickens and then he looked at us. The chickens looked like a rare breed type, and were not particularly big, but little bear was not sure he wanted to walk past them. He screwed his eyes shut and held his teddy in front of his face.
But bless him, he still walked past these dangerous, frightening creatures after watching his mum go all the way up to them. It didn't help that the chickens were roaming free and not behind any wire. But he still walked past them, holding onto dear heart's hand. At one point he was less than three feet from them and he wasn't crying or anything, even though he was uncertain about the whole thing. I was so proud of him.
Then he went and had a portion of banana flavoured ice cream. He approved of that a great deal.
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