April 4, 2010

  • Chickens and Eggs

    The chickens look like chickens now, not molting messes. Which is nice, because the whole time they were in transition I worried I wasn't taking care of them properly. I suppose I'll have about 12 years of that while the kids suffer their own adolescence.

    Is there a coop for that?

    Seph has made it through her birthday, with a trip to the rodeo, sleepover, and then a cake playtime with friends. Her cake was less elaborate than some, but required quite a bit of planning anyway, since the skull and crossbones had to be JUST RIGHT. The cake was devil's food, in keeping with the theme.
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    We dyed our eggs last night, hunted them up this morning, and Rone was very excited about the entire process.He dictated a note to Seph for the Easter Bunny, and left cookies and a carrot out. Cotton was entirely mystified, but glad the day started, middled and ended with candy. We visited with friends for ham and an egg hunt this afternoon, and the kids ran around in a candy-seeking pack, which was more relaxing than it reads.

    Cotton is talking a lot. It's mystifying to me that I nearly brought her for an evaluation just over a year ago for not really having any words. Now, she'll walk up to anyone and start talking, "I AM A PRINCESS!" (pause for twirl) "I HAVE A DRESS" "IMA NEED CANDY" "RONE HIT ME BONK". And on and on like that. She still sometimes resorts to her tried and true method of communicating, "ahmanaahmana, umanaumana COOKIE!" (I want a cookie!), but mostly we're in a phase of short exclamatory sentences. All. Day. Long. If it's worth saying, say it loud!
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    Tonight when we got home, the kids let the chickens out and swang a while out back. It was nice, because I was up here working while Cotton got settled, and could hear them. I peeked out, and saw Rone swinging about as high as our swingset will let him. As he came forward he yelled, "THREE!" and jumped. He just flew, landed and rolled. Watching him was so fun--he's been trying to work out how to jump off for a bit now, and the grin when he got up was great to see. Seph got the hang of it shortly after, and it was a good way for them to work out some of the candy rush from the day's odd nutritional standards.

Comments (2)

  • been trying to remember for days what we used to call that (jumping off the swing at peak height)... memory first or second thing to go?

  • it's called something? you're ahead of me then, because if it's something other than 'jumping off a swing', I'm at a loss!

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