Egg Update

Some egg facts:

We have all 8 hens laying eggs now!  

The most eggs we've ever gotten in one day is 8, but that doesn't happen often.

We had our first double yolk egg!

We have a hen (Whistle) that is very loud when she's ready to lay her egg!  She's actually woken me up in the morning squawking!

All of the hens lay their eggs in the nesting box, except one (Ginger) and she lays hers right inside the coop.

We just changed their feed over the weekend to help with egg quality, and I feel like I can already tell a difference! 

In other chicken news, we are planning to add to our flock this coming spring. We are thinking we will get 2-3 more of two different breeds.  Allie declares chickens are the greatest pets ever, so if you have ever considered getting any, you should do it!  And we are hoping to share eggs with friend and family this spring, but so far we've been using every egg we get!

Cute/Funny/Sweet Kid Sayings

10-11-15

Watching football and a player gets tackled...

Hayden:  "That would hurt... To get hit in the spot."

Me:  "Well the players wear cups in their pants so it doesn't hurt."

Hayden: "That's a relief!"

10-17-15

At dinner Hayden says, "Trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat, if you don't I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear." And Allie immediately says, "Hayden that's inpropriate (her way of saying inappropriate)"

10-18-15

Krissy was wanting me to hold her and rub her legs (and get her a sippy and a snack and on and on) and I was talking to Kevin and Krissy says, "Mommy, what are you waiting for?"

10-19-15

I gave all the kids "big kid" cups to drink out of for lunch and I asked Austin if he drank out of his ok. And all the kids chimed in he did and Krissy said to him, "Good job Austin! You're amazing!"

10-22-15

Allie wanted to go check for eggs and saw there were some wasps outside on the swing set.  She told the other kids, "Ok, I'm going out there! God's on my side!"

10-24-15

At dinner Krissy just looks at me and says, "I can't drive; I'm a goose!" (Quoting Cinderella.)

10-25-15

Krissy: "Moooom I want to watch fewtball!"

Me: "You're the cutest kid ever!"

Allie: "I want to watch football. Ok not really, I just wanted you to say I was the cutest kid ever"

Me: "You're the sweetest kid ever!"

10-26-15

Hayden to Allie, "Get your o-n-e; OWN!" And I quietly chime in, "Actually Hayden, you just spelled one, not own"

10-30-15

Me: I'm taking these apples out to my sweet little girls (the chickens)

Allie: They are perfect and they never do anything wrong except poop.

11-18-15

Krissy, "Bees lay honey, right mommy?"

Funny pronunciations:

Krissy saying fluffy = fluff-flee

Austin saying Hayden = Haynee

Austin saying Krissy = Reesee

Hayden's Thanksgiving Play {Video}

We attended Hayden's Thanksgiving play this morning.  It was one of the cutest programs I've ever seen!  He had several speaking roles that he memorized and spoke perfectly.  The other kids think it's the greatest thing to get to visit Hayden's school, and Hayden is always proud to have such a big cheering section :)  Here's a little flipagram I put together from pictures and vidoes on my phone!  Enjoy!

Halloween 2015

I  temporarily have a computer and took full advantage of my time with it and uploaded my two week old Halloween pictures :)  

Our kids were the Little Red Riding Hood characters.  We were given Krissy's costume, and I decided Austin would be the big bad wolf.  Allie chimed in that she wanted to be the grandma, and who was I to say no (especially because we already had that costume - well the wig!) and I was thinking, "If only there was a 4th character in the book!"  Obviously I didn't remember the story very well, because I forgot all about the logs man!  He was the hero of the story and I didn't even remember him.  We purchased a cheap plastic ax and our costumes were complete!

They all had such a fun time playing their character.  We ended up with way too much candy, but had a great time seeing neighbors/friends/family!  It was maybe the best Halloween yet!  Hope you all enjoyed yours too!