Chickens

I swore I would never live on a farm again.  However, I am finding out that deep down it is hard to kill your roots.  I have been wanting chickens for some time now.  Where we live chickens are not permitted.  But when I was at the country store buying our rabbit food, my neighbor who is a cop, was buying chicken feed.  He has 8 chickens.  So I think that if Matt, the cop, can have chickens, then so can I.  So Blake and I took the kids back to the country store on May 21st and let each of the kids pick out a chicken.  There were many...maybe 20 or more chicks in the pen.  Gerrit reached right in and grabbed one and was so pleased with himself.  Baby chicks are so cute.  We put them in a box in our garage.  However, our next door neighbor's cat thinks our yard, especially my flower bed for it's potty, is it's home.  One day I had left the garage door open and the cat ate one of our chicks.  It happened to be Kaymin's.  She was so upset poor thing.  I let her pick out another chick, but this time she picked out a rooster.  All along we told our kids that if ended up with a rooster we were going to eat it. 

The grow quickly and were starting to get their feathers within a few days.  Everyday their down left and their feathers grew in.  After the cat incident I had to put them in our basement.  After a couple of weeks, they were trying to fly out and began stinking.  I borrowed a pet porter from my parents and put all four chicks in that outside.  That was heaven.  Blake was going to build us a coop and then our neighbor's rabbits died and they gave us their rabbit hutch.  So right now our chickens are in that.  We let them out about every day and let them roam the yard.  Our kids love them and they have been a lot of fun.  Researched said that roosters begin crowing around 4 months old so in about 2 more months we will be having rooster dinner.  I just can't wait to get those yummy fresh eggs.  Unfortunately I have to wait until November.

Kindergarten Opera

For the whole school year, Deilen and Kameni's kindergarten class with their teacher, Mrs. Argyle, worked on their opera.  They even painted the back drop.  It was darling.  They had to pick a jungle animal to be.  Deilen immediately wanted to be the lion to wear the costume.  The poor thing was so small on him.  He didn't care.  He even told me that it choked him and gave him wedgies.  Kameni wanted to be a zebra.  I know I could have made a costume and it would have been cute, but see that takes time, which I can't seem to find any of.  So I begged her to be the giraffe and she finally caved.  They both looked so cute. 

So on May 17th, they performed it for the school and that night for the parents. My mom came up and watched.  They did such a good job.  Kameni loved it on stage.  Deilen you could tell that operas are not up his alley.  But he was a good sport and did what he had to do to get it over with.  I was so proud of them.

Movie Night

I would love one of those projectors if they weren't so darn expensive.  So I opted to buy a 19 or possibly a 21 inch television from my neighbor's garage sale.  It even has a built in VCR player.  It has been the best investment.  Beginning in May, a couple of times a week my kids have movie night outside.  The neighbor kids are invited and my kids pick movies.  Sometimes they are on VHS (yes, we still have ours) and other times they are DVDs and it just so happened we had a DVD player that wasn't being used.  I pop a bunch of popcorn and put it in a plastic bucket and the kids sit outside a watch a movie once it starts getting dark.  Almost everyday the neighbor kids ask if we are having movie night tonight.  It has been a lot of fun.  As a parent I love having it outside because all of the kids are outside and my house is somewhat quiet.  The bad thing is setting it up and taking it down and having now the word get out and movie night keeps getting more and more kids coming.  I don't know what I have started.

Gerrit Turns 3

I can't believe my baby is 3.  I am amazed how fast time flies by.  On May 13th, my baby turned 3.  This year for his birthday I asked him what he wanted to do.  All he wanted was to go to the park.  I let my kids pick somewhere they want to go and I loved the fact that he chose the park.  It is close and free.  Kaymin was upset because she was in school while we went, but she enjoyed herself at Chick-Fil-A. 

Gerrit got this firetruck from us and he had to run to find his firetruck hat he got from the school's 5K. 

He got this Thomas trike from my parents and hoped on it and began to peddle.  I couldn't believe it.  We have a Dora trike and a bicycle his size, but he has never had any interest in riding them at all.  I guess because they weren't Thomas.  Once he began peddling Thomas around, he hoped on his bike and rides it EVERYWHERE.  He has no fear whatsoever and has so much fun.

Blake's parents gave him this bag full of goodies including his Batman car and figure.  He loves it to pieces.

He wanted a cookie instead of a cake.  So I made this giant cookie and he couldn't have been happier.  I think he LOVED his birthday and it was so simple and easy.  Now I just need to get his pictures taken.  (Nope I still haven't done that either).

Where Has the Time Gone

Holy Cow...I figured I had better hurry and post before 3 months have gone by with absolutely nothing posted.  I can't believe it has been that long.  I have so many things to get caught up on.  I am blaming my lack of posting to my computer crashing.  I was without a computer for a while until I could buy a new one.  I felt absolutely lost.  It is amazing how I felt I couldn't function without my computer.  Now I will be spending the rest of the year getting caught up on the last 3 months.  Oh, but what fun things happened that I can't wait to write about.  Oh heck, after I just imported over 300 pictures on my new camera (that story will be coming) I figured I might as well make my first post.  I should be in bed getting sleep, but instead I am up enjoying the silence in my own home which NEVER happens.