Gabe, Noah and I went to visit the Billings Farm in Woodstock, VT recently with Noah's friend and her family.  It is not often that the 6 of us get to spend time together b/c the guys are so busy with school, but we were lucky enough to take this fun trip with the dads too.  Everyone loved the sheep.  Noah was surprisingly bold, as he had no reservations about petting them.  He actually found it funny, as he would stop petting them, stand up and just start laughing.  We did get him to say "ba ba" like the sheep at the end of the trip, but we think the only reason he did this was b/c this is the same sound he makes when he says "ball"... he is still strongly preferring to sign instead of actually speaking words at this point, but he can communicate none the less as he seems to have mastered about 30 different signs... oh well:)  These cows were a bigger than the calf he was playing with in a previous post, so he was a bit more timid/scared to death, especially when we went into the nursery (where they keep the baby calves) and one calf "moo-ed" very loudly, which caused Noah to cling to Gabe refusing to let go until we had left. He did like seeing the chickens, probably largely b/c they were not loud and safely tucked behind the wire fencing:)