With lots of advice from Aunt Annie and her family, we have been having chick mania! Clara incubated 39 eggs. So far 12 have hatched. More are due to hatch Saturday. They are soooo cute! We have been having so much fun watching them be born! Jeremy even had to do an assist. (The kids are calling it a c-section birth.) Here’s the pictures in progression but I did it backwards but you get the idea. We already have sold 7 chicks.
Today was a fantastic day. I drove out to a small town nearby to pick up some chicken hatching eggs for us to incubate. Clara is also using this as her science fair project. With Aunt Annie’s expert advice, we should have some baby chicks for Clara to sell in about 21 days. Clara is marking the progress on a chart and in a journal for her project. She is VERY excited!
As for trains, while I was driving to pick up the eggs, we passed a place that often has a train engine parked nearby. Today the engine was running, but not moving. Zack and I stopped to watch it and the conductor came over and asked us if we wanted to ride in the engine! We were sooooo excited. They let Zack sit on the engineer’s lap and drive the train forward about 100ft. Then they switched tracks and we backed up and hooked on a car. It was AWESOME! Here is the train. I will try to post the video of Zack driving the train and honking the horn. It was a great day!
We sure celebrated Valentines this year. The kids had Friday off of school for a teacher inservice day, so their parties were Thurs. The kids enjoyed getting cards in the mail and making sugar cookies. The girls and I have gotten into cake decorating. We are learning but having lots of fun!
We went to Seattle to pick up the trailer. We enjoyed the science center there. They had a butterfly house and lots of exhibits including one about music. (Hence the giant guitar) We love Seattle!
Well we broke down and bought a trailer. It’s kind of an extravagance, but we’re looking forward to making memories with the kids. We already have 3 camping dates reserved for this summer.
Is her two front teeth! The little cutie pulled out her other front tooth on Sunday night. We were worried that she wouldn’t be able to play her clarinet (since you use your 2 front teeth against the reed) but it hasn’t made a difference. Go figure!
