April thus far

We've had a bit of sickness lately but hoping we are over that. It's been really warm here and we've been spending a lot of time outside. It's been a treat for us, I definitely don't remember it being like this last April. We got the garden ready and planted. It's nice to have that mostly done. Baylee likes to help us dig and enjoyed dropping seeds for us.

The chickens are getting big and they have a new fence so they can roam outside and be in the coop still. Oh and clear of the big beast we call Odin. We definitely have a favorite chicken. Big Red is the friendliest and has the most personality. And Baylee grabs that one every time we go out there. She also insists upon holding the black and white ones like they are babies. Chickens don't really adore being on their backs, who would've guessed? At one point I looked down and see one of the chicken's wings not so politely folded up in her hand and the chicken hanging from it, I was told they were holding hands and going on a walk. And I had to follow it with a little talk of why we can't hold hands with chickens. It's been entertaining to say the least watching her with the chickens. I thought they would have gotten old to her by now, not even close!

Easter was pretty quiet. We did an Easter egg hunt with some friends on Thursday. Baylee had fun hiding eggs with me as well as finding them. Of course the best part was the candy, it didn't take her long to figure that one out! But it did take her a while to find her Easter basket Easter morning. She was excited when she did though.

February & March 2010

Our February and March pretty much all blurred together with the business of day to day, or was that the nausea that made it blur? Whatever the case, I'm just now getting caught up on things and getting back with the program.

Our big exciting addition to the family in October is almost as exciting to Baylee as our chickens, though I think the chickens still win as of right now. We actually hadn't told her but one day in the car she asked me "Mommy am I getting a little sister?" Of course I followed up with the whole explanation for her. She's a lot smarter than I give her credit for sometimes, shame on me!

Our big exciting addition to the farm were our 13 chickens. Random number yes but we took the big ones they had(less heat lamp time) and 10 little chicks. Baylee absolutely adores the chickens and goes out with one of us at least once a day to "check" on the chickens.

We had an adventure to the helicopters one day because Cody had lost his phone, we found it behind his seat, but it gave Baylee a chance to sit and play for a minute. She does get her love of flying things from her dad. She still talks about him leaving his phone in the helicopter. Now that we live outside of town they fly over the house quite a bit and she gets beside herself every time she gets to see the red helicopters. Thankfully I usually know who it is by the schedule sent the night before and which direction it came from. This proves to be helpful when she asks if it's daddy, with the follow up question of who is it (if it's not daddy).