The Extraordinary eggs that Robert and Miranda Colored! No tablets this year. We mixed our own colors using food coloring, vinegar, and boiling water. Lots a fun!
Easter has brought us lots of new surprises and faces to the farm.
Firstly, starting Thursday we have had six eggs hatch from our own chickens in our electric hen. Three Turken x Barred Rocks that I am eager to see what happens with their feathering. They have all hatched as Turkens, but we will have to wait to see if they end up with barred feathering. One Black Austrolop x and one Buff Orpington x and Starlight (Kentucky Speck) & Baldie (Nankin) had an egg that hatched as well - that chick is almost all black which is not what we had expected at all as the Kentucky Speck is white with splashes of black and the Nankin is brown.
Stretch!
The last egg to hatch was an unexpected surprise. Usually we hear peeping the night before, but this little one didn't let us know a thing and was in the incubator all fluffed up on Easter morning.
Following the arrival of the new little Turken Easter Morning the children hunted eggs and baskets and Robert and I let out, fed, and watered the critters.
We went to church and came back for breakfast. Miranda rolled up the crescent rolls and we had eggs, sausage and cinnamon rolls ~ Yum!
There was one more egg to find so the search was on. Miranda spotted it first. Boy that bunny is tricky! He hopped up and put it in the wreath!
Off we went to Grandpa Terry's where we all had a wonderful day. The weather was just beautiful and we visited and let the children play. They are at a great age... but then isn't every age wonderful!
When we left my dad's we came home with a new special friend. A Shih-Tzu! She looks a lot like Shi-Anne, but with less of the brindle makings on her. Where Shi had a little brindle saddle she is white. She is just precious. Little Jamie took quite a liking to her too.
When we left my dad's we came home with a new special friend. A Shih-Tzu! She looks a lot like Shi-Anne, but with less of the brindle makings on her. Where Shi had a little brindle saddle she is white. She is just precious. Little Jamie took quite a liking to her too.
Little Jamie took quite a liking to her too!
We also came home with a little piano for James. He loves to bang on it.
Our little man is growing just so fast! He 'crawls' backwards not knowing how to go forward yet. Fits snugly in 12 mo and comfortably in 18 mo cloths and he is 8 (eight) months old today! What a butterball! As a matter of fact I made up a song for him that is sung to I'm a Little Tea Pot. He is going to Love me for it later, I know... It goes like this:
I'm a little butterball, short and stoutHere are my drumsticks, here are my wings (I move his legs and arms to the song here)
When I get all steamed up then I pout
Pick me up or I will SHOUT!
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