These boots....

First a little background on the boots. Justin's class...actually the entire 1st grade at HH...is doing a farming unit. The students are each given "start-up capital" for their farm. They must purchase land, various equipment, storage facilities, livestock, seed etc to get their farm ready to go. They are learning about how plants grow and are growing some green beans. They are learning about various types of livestock. His most interesting fact learned so far is that goats and cows chew their food more than once. He told us today...at our picnic lunch..."Mom, do you know that goats eat their food twice?" Followed by..."Do you know how is gets back in their mouth again?"

Anyway, I'm getting off track. To kick off this farm unit they were to dress like a farmer. I sent Ted and Justin to Wal-Mart to get something "farmer like". They came back with cowboy boots, a western style shirt with brands and bucking broncs on it, and a toy black cowboy hat. Seriously...we know A LOT of farmers and not one of them has worn anything like that to work a day in their lives. Nor would be caught dead in anything like that if they weren't at work. Of course when aren't farmers at work, right?!?!? So off to school he went. His teachers told him that he was the cutest cowboy ever. Which translates to him wanting to wear the outfit EVERY day.

I found this scene after he decided to join his dad out in the yard to work on the sprinklers this afternoon.

Um, shorts and boots...I'm pretty sure even cowboys don't do this...and FOR SURE farmers do not wear boots and shorts. I'll be interested to see what he wants to wear on Friday when we go to a local farm to see how things are really done!