an egg update . . .

okay, sooooo cool! ken, kam, and i were eating lunch and saw mck's chicken walking around the coop in the middle of the day! the chickens usually leave for the day and come back in the evening . . . the kids say they go on a "daily adventure"! kam's chicken ("cupcake sprinkle pants" . . . remember she's 3!) has been hanging out by the house everyday all day long since she started laying eggs . . . so we thought maybe mck's chicken ("fancy") was too! fancy was nesting when we checked on her . . . and when we came to check in the afternoon we had TWO adorable eggs! :) how fun! :) the kids expressions when they see the eggs are priceless! they think it is so cool! they take turns "gathering" them each day! :) now if i can only get them to eat them in things other than cupcakes and pancakes! :)

and we have . . . AN EGG!

omg! we were all soooooo excited this afternoon to find . . . our very first egg! :) it is so darn cute! little and brown and speckled! :) maybe those crazy chickens are finally paying off! we think it's kam's chicken that laid the egg, since she is hanging around the house and acting different! :) hopefully we'll have more eggs to come! :) although, it's kind of funny now that the girls don't like eggs, i don't eat eggs, and bailey can't eat too many eggs . . . we may have lots of eggs to give away! :)

painting the coop

with a little help from the girls bailey officially finished the chicken coop today! the girls had lots of fun painting . . . well, it was fun for about five minutes and then mck got a little bit of white paint on her hand and had a huge meltdown because she wanted to come in a take a bath to get it off "right now!" . . . after we got over the meltdown they continued painting for quite awhile! the coop looks great . . . the chickens are happy! in fact, tonight we found them all nestled together in one nest in the coop . . . so glad they have all that room! :)

chicks raising chicks!

we took the "plunge" after months of talking about it and got some chicks! the girls had fun picking out their own chick . . . okay, so did i! ken and kam got black and white chicks . . . they will look cool when they are big! mck and i got the ugliest chicks you have ever seen, but they are so cool . . . naked-necks! they are chicks only a mother could love . . . awesome! we've set up their temporary home (they'll move to a coop in 2 months) and the girls have named them . . . "pants" (kam . . . too funny not to just go with that name!)" fancy" (mck) and "nancy" (ken)! and mine is "scrambled"! (i tried to get everyone to go with the "ways to eat an egg theme", but no one was with me! the girls have been sitting outside talking to their chicks for 30 minutes laughing at the funny things they are doing . . . too fun.

can i just say that 8 years ago if you'd told me i'd have 4 kids, a dog, 2 goats, 4 chicks, 2 acres, and be a stay-at-home mom i would have told you you're crazy! now, i can't imagine anything else.