New happenings

So, lots happening over in our neck of the woods. Well, lots of little things anyway.

Baby E is now very good at recognizing the words "eat",and "go", and cries when we use the word "No" sternly. It gets quite a reaction. He is crawling everywhere and loves to put his hands on slidey stuff like DVD covers and packages of diapers and then slides them all over the house. Its pretty cute.

He bear crawls when the floor is to hard or cold for his knees. He hates hats. He loves food. But I guess that is apparent when one of his favorite words is eat. He is also starting to recognize "peaches". He has the whole ward wrapped around his finger. He is the smiliest little boy around. And very mellow. If he is cranky, you can almost bet that he is hungry. Feed him, and life is ok again.

A is doing well in school. She loves to read and check out books at the library like her older sister. She wants to ride a 2 wheeler, but for now has settled for training wheels until a parent has more time to work with her and encourage her. She loves to help me with the greenhouse and the baby chicks. Yes, we have baby chicks right now. She is becoming more responsible and is doing great with her piano lessons. she is excelling at them and one of the things she loves to hear is that she is playing a piece just like her older sister. Can you sense a trend?

C is also doing well. she recently learned how to ride a 2 wheeler without training wheels after lots of practice and determination. She is more timid than her sister when it comes to the animals, and the greenhouse doesn't interest her as much as her sister. But she loves to read. She is a great soccer player as well. At her game this past Saturday, she scored 5 goals. All of last season she only scored 2 goals, so this is a great improvement. A also had a red letter day at Soccer. she scored 2 goals as well. We were so impressed by their mad soccer skills we took them out to Red Robin to celebrate.

I'm doing great, Hubby is doing great. Nothing big to report at this time. the plants in the greenhouse are going nuts (except for tomatoes. Why are tomatoes always the issue?) the chickens are grown and giving us about a dozen eggs a day.

Oh, we do have 2 new steer in the pasture. An Angus and a Hereford. Both are beef cows and not milk cows. so we should get a decent amount of beef from them...Fall of 2013!! Yesssirree Bob, they take a good bit of time to grow. We considered not buying cows again due to the rising cost of cows, but the thought of trying to keep the pastures mowed and we realized it would just be easier to do cows. Besides I do enjoy getting outside during the winter to feed them. Except for that really really cold winter a few years ago...cross your fingers for me 'kay? that one was also a pain for the chickens. That year we got heated waterers due to them freezing all of the time. Really worth it!

I've been cleaning out the garden some. If you want any garlic starts come on over. Now. Before I tear them all out. I've got garlic growing in 3 different beds.

I'm moving some strawberries around and also putting in 2 new blueberry bushes in my neverending quest to grow them. yes, we plant them and kill them. we did have one take off really well last year, but it didn't ever have any berries. I'm hoping that was just because it was new. If it doesn't have any berries this year, it may get the cut. Of course, I may not get around to it for a few years :) .

anyway, I've got to go and check on the chicks. I put them in a new coop today and in the past I've had problems with them trying to sleep outside in the cold. Chickens are stupid. What can I say? Except that Turkeys are positively DUMB.