New Chicks and Spring

I have so much to show you all about our life, but this is an easy post I can post tonight, so this is what you get for now.  It's spring time and to celebrate we bought more chicks this week.  What can I say?  I guess 7 birds isn't enough for us!  They are so adorable.  The kids really like having babies again.  One of the birds we brought home did not handle the move well and died the morning after we brought her home.  The store was nice and replaced her.  We brought home: 2 Rhode Island Red chicks (we already have 2 grown hens of this variety), 2 Buff Orphington chicks, a Silver-laced Wyandotte, and an Americauna (we also have 2 of these already).  Next week we get 2 Barred Rocks (My favorite!)  They are fun.  Here are pictures of the wee ones and our wee ones with them:

Here they are when we first brought them home.

Kate loves them!!  She even tries to say, "chick".  Not surprising since she already tried to say "chicken" already.

We love chicks!

Just not when they poop!  Grant named this one Polka Dots.

Emma snuggling several babies

Arianna snuggling Buffy

So soft and sweet.

Look at that little face!

So much fun!  Doesn't it make you want chicks, too?!

On Wednesday the weather was nice and I told the kids we were going on a hunt to find evidences of Spring.  It was so much fun!  They really got into it and had so much fun uncovering the new green shoots that wanted to be coming alive, but were buried beneath last years dead blooms and stalks and the piles of fall leaves that had collected. 


Welcome Spring!

We found green!

Kate liked to watch the ladybugs

Cleaning out the dead debris!  Grant loves to use the dump truck to haul stuff back to the compost pile.