Breanna Meets Dora.

Bree has fallen in love with Dora, all over again. She has been asking ever since to 'Cuddle Big soft Dora'.

I had to peel her off Dora to let the next child have a turn.

Baby Chicks

This picture was taken at our front door, when the chicks were 2-3 weeks old. I just found it while i was trying to load the pictures I took on Wednesday.

Chook Post

I have been meaning to add these pictures for AGES.

I'll do them from the start, of 'Lee Loo' sitting on the egss the day the first chickens hatched. I saw the first chicken at 11:30am on the 9-2-11. It was a little black chick, with a white dot on the right side of his beak. I called it Terrence. It took until the next morning to see the other chick's. 8am we see chick's 2 and 3. They were yellow babies, Alira named them 'Little one' and 'Cherry'. At 1pm that same day we saw chick 4&5 another black chick, and a very fair grey/yellow chick. Alira named the black chick 'Wired' and she named the grey chick 'pin-pin'

The chicks spent a lot of time in the yard with us, the dogs were so kind to them. Then at about 3 weeks old I moved them down to the pen. They were ALL getting very annoying and poo-ing on the decks etc.

Once the chicks were a bit bigger, it was hilarious to see the chicks all try to get under their mum, she had to spread herself fairly thinly. Now the two biggest chicks are roosting. But the smaller 3 chicks still lay with their mum.

My prediction is that at least 3 of them are Roosters, maybe even 4!

Alira's first day of Kinder.

Today was Alira's first day of Kinder! she went so well, I was late picking her up and felt like the worst mum EVER!

I said 'Alira we are going now' and she said, without even looking at me 'bye'. She did give Bree a cuddle and kiss. She told me she love's Kinder and she made a house out of blocks, did art and ready a story about 3 owls :)

I am starting to enjoy the LUXURY of walking without the pram!

The other exciting thing happening is that Lee-Loo chook has been on the nest for 20 days today, her chicks are due tomorrow evening or Thursday morning!!!!! I have my fingers crossed so tightly because this is our third try, I think we have ticked all the boxes this time!!

Being blackberry season, we are hoping to get up to the hills this week and get a good load of blackberries. We ALL eat them (including the dogs). There are some minor vines around our place, so i should be able to get enough for a pie, if the girls leave them long enough to be baked!