Cherries new calf

Charlie look at Cherries new calf. She was born early this morning around 1:00.  What are we going
to name this one?????????????

Milly's lineage expands...again

Well, Maren seems to be following in get mother's hoof-steps: she just had her 2nd heifer calf in as many lactations. I'd have to look back in the records to be sure, but I think Milly had something like 3 heifers in her first 4 lactations. As you know,  Maren is not pure Holstein, as Milly was. She is a Norwegian Red and Holstein cross. This new calf is even less Holstein, coming from a Red Dane sire. We'll have to come up with a Danish name that starts with 'M' for this newest addition to the Milly family tree.

The Final Baby

The final kid of the season has been born! Yesterday at chore time I was surprised by a new baby in the pen, already dried off with a belly full of milk. Petunia, the mother, has looked the same for nearly 2 months, so I truly had no idea when to expect her to kid. Since Petunia is Mom's goat, she got the honor of picking the baby's name off of Charlie's List: she chose Indus, the name of a constellation. Thank you to Charlie for coming up with such a great list of names. Now is time to  start thinking about next year's theme - Musicians?  Poets? Herbs? We'll see...

More names from The List!

Here's the newest additions to the crew. Pip had her set of triplets just 2 days ago. They are already playing King of the Mountain on the big square in their pen and are generally being cute. After looking at Charlie's Grand list of names I've decided to name the 2 boys Sirius and Polaris, the girl will be Vesta: 2 stars and a comet! Now we have only Petunia to wait for...when and what she has will just have to remain a mystery for now!

A little rain...

Needles to say, the goats and I got soaking wet on our emergency trip home from the school house pasture.

Cooper comes to visit.

We had a special guest visit us this morning: Cooper Sylling! He and his brother got to help milk goats, drink fresh goat milk, and eat a mound of hot french toast. It was a great morning with our most loyal blog-follower!

Back on the Blog :)

Soooo, it has been a while since any of us have blogged. I finally got around to getting my phone hooked up to this blog and I hope to share with you all the adventures of kidding this year, also know as: The Big Bang 2015! While we're all waiting for that to happen, here's a picture of my rocking chair that Bob just refinished.

Patching.

Pet Peeves

1. When you poke your finger with a pin.

2. When you accidentally sew part of the pants together. And then you have to seam rip. Which I hate to do while patching! It seems like such a contradiction.

3. Baggy jeans have a way of forming little folds when you sew a nice chunk of patch on there. I discovered if you zigzag over those bad boys, it suffices.

Becky

Farmer Charlie.

Charlie wanted everyone to see this picture of him chopping corn with Franklin.

Welcome to the world, Stella Wren!

Highlights from the week (that we got on film).

Clarence smiled for Santa for the first time ever!

 Charlie was too shy, so he sat on Mrs. Claus's lap. Next year he might be too big!

 Making doughnuts... they don't last very long.

 Getting into trouble per usual.

 Grandma got smart and bought two new snow shovels.

 She'll never have to shovel off the porch again.

 Good Night!

Two little girls that like to stick together.

 (watching Charlie take a bath)

 working together to unload the dishwasher

all dressed up for Saturday night supper 

bottles were the cool thing in the house this week 

This week was full of adorableness. The girls teamed up. Charlie was happy to have his own baby to take care of. They played so hard, they all slept well (thank goodness).

After Viv went home, Charlie had his own son named Charlie Juniper (via magic). So now I am busy being a grandmother, but we are missing our sweet little Vivi.

~Becky

Apple pie.

My mom makes the best pie crust in the whole world!

Baby food.

Having two babies around for a few days, it was definitely busy around here. But also a fun time to try some new baby food combinations. Here's a few of the things I made for the girls and Charlie...

 

1- sausage, broccoli, and cabbage pureed with apples pears and sprinkled with Parmesan
2- turkey sandwiches on whole grain bread with pureed cabbage and pear sauce

 

 3- peach, strawberry and banana keifer smoothies
4- blueberry, strawberry, peach (whole wheat) Charlie monster pancakes with scrambled eggs and broccoli hair

  

 5- the girls version of Charlie's monster breakfast
6- pureed spaghetti and sauce with pureed broccoli, green bean, kale and bananas and hearth bread
7- BBQ with beets and spinach balls

I actually have really started to like the divider plates for babies... they encourage variety. I hate leaving an empty spot! And usually it gets filled with a simple fruit or veggie.

~Becky

I almost forgot our most colorful meal!

We had brats, fresh sauerkraut and homemade catsup, carrots, and basil pesto potato salad...

 Before

After

Such a tough chic

Even though it was heavy, and she didn't have to move it... she couldn't refuse the challenge!

~Becky