Grandpa Walker is starting them young

We went to Green River and Mountain View for a little break last week. It was pretty nice to get out of Laramie and enjoy some decent weather. Payton had a blast playing with his cousins. He did a sleep over and then had Paxton and Wes come over to Grandpa and Grandma Walker's for a TRANSFORMER party. It wasn't much, they watched the cartoons and played with transformer toys, but they sure did have a blast. I was able to get a picture of Payton with his cousin Paxton relaxing in grandma's chair. They had just started the cartoons and were waiting for Wes to come over.

Payton got to go on the tractor with grandpa to feed the cows. Dad said he went to get out of the tractor to cut the strings off the bales and Payton said to him "Grandpa can I come out, I'm a good helper." Honestly, how can you resist such a cute statement. The funny part is that his way of helping is by grabing a handful of hay and trying to feed the cows instead of pulling strings. Oh well, at least he had fun.

Another time we went to feed with a different tractor and Payton was so excited to go with grandpa again, he kept talking about it the whole way there (about a 10 min. drive). When we got there he got out of the burb (suburban) and started to go with grandpa, then he turned around and came running back to me. I asked him why he wasn't going with grandpa and he said "that tractor doesn't have a chair." Apparently he can only go with dad in the new tractor because it has a buddy seat for him and the old one doesn't. I tried to explain to him that I went with grandpa all the time in the old tractor when I was little and I never had a seat, all I got was a pile of strings. He looked at me like I was crazy and still refused to go. So instead I got Cameron out of the burb and we chased each other around the stackyard while dad fed the cows.

Payton loves to get up and run on top of the stack just like I used to. Here he is doing a little pose for me.

My dad was watching a cattle auction on afternoon while we were there and both boys thought it was so cool to see the cows walk across the screen. They would watch a group and then run around in a circle until the next group came on. I was laughing and told dad he sure was starting them young. So here are a couple of pictures of them watching with Grandpa.