Baby goat is here, still waiting for our baby girl

On Wednesday afternoon I went out to feed the goat before Jill & I left for the hospital for delivery of baby Lucy. To my suprise our mama goat had one baby sometime that morning. The baby is super cute with its brown ears (not sure if its a boy or girl). I lam a little bummed out that there were not twins or triplets which is common for this type of dairy goat. Sometime this summer the baby will go back to the previous owner of the mama goat. Until then we will enjoy watching it grow and play and do all the funny things that baby goats like to do.

We asked Micah what the baby should be named.... "BoBo" was his response. The mama goat is very protective right now so we just stood back and watched for a little bit.

Stay tuned for more baby updates. We are currently at the hospital and hopefully will have the baby by the end of Thursday!

Our Little Scottish Boy

Micah is yet again in another cultural outfit. We, meaning Adam, loves to dress him in clothes from around the world. This time Micah really does have some Scottish heritage from Adam's side of the family. My sister picked this up for him on her recent trip to Scotland. A few months ago Adam put the kilt on him to go to church and Micah refused to wear it. Even at 2 1/2 he knew that boys were not suppose to wear "skirts." Adam has been showing Micah pictures of men wearing kilts on the internet to see if he could convince him to wear it. So this Sunday again we tried it and Micah put it right on. He loved it and got lots of compliments at church. Mostly about his white, white legs.

She's finally arrived!

That's right, we now have "Momma goat" at our house. She has settled in easily and suprisingly doesn't really make any noise. Feel free to suggest any new names for her. Jill is not that into just leaving her name as "Momma goat."

Momma goat has a pretty sweet pen set up. As you can she is looking around from on top of her electrical spool that we got for free from the neighbor just for this purpose. Should be fun later on this spring and early summer to see the baby goats play on this too. Yes, Momma goat should be having her kids about mid-March to April. Hopefully this turns out to be a pretty smooth and easy process as we will already have our newborn baby at home too.

Micah has asked several times to go back to the snow again. He had lots of fun with Uncle Jay and cousin Tanner at Christmas time. We also took him to the infamous Chucky Cheeses a few weeks ago and now he has repeatedly asked to go so more. Wasn't Jill's favorite thing to do, so maybe we will make is a daddy activity. He already has several mommy activities that include getting to go to Pump-it-Up for the indoor bounce-houses. I thought I was already doing good, Micah likes the "daddy store" in Madera (Lowes) where they have shopping carts that are shaped like Nascar cars with double seats and steering wheels for kids.

Micah also had a wonderful time with his other cousins at Christmas time. Here is my favorite picture of some of them "not crowding" and "giving each other space" to open presents. It was funny to watch them creep closer and closer to each other over several presents and then be told to back up and then they would do it all over again. Hopefully we can take his bike with us for our next visit, I think he would have a blast riding around with everyone. As long as cousin Evan waits another year or so before trying to teach him to ride over jumps we should be okay.

Christmas Videos

Our Christmas was filled with many great times. Micah was excited about everything. Here are a few videos that highlight our holiday.

This is Micah riding his bike for the first time. Adam really wanted to get Micah a bike. I wasn't convinced that a 2 1/2 year was ready because Micah really hadn't mastered the peddling on a tricycle yet. Surprisingly, Micah figured it out and could make the bike go on his own.

We went up to Hume for Christmas this year. Along with the normal Christmas activities we spent some time sledding and ice skating. Micah loved ice skating and refused to get off the ice. We didn't have the best lighting for the video but you can get an idea of how Micah got around. He draped his body over this little stand and shuffled his feet along.

Micah has been singing a lot lately. This Christmas his favorite song was Frosty the Snowman, aka Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. He starts off the first line of Frosty and then switches right to Rudolph.

Christmas Program

At our church they have a children's program every year. Each sunday school class sings or does some sort of presentation. Micah is in the 2-5 class so here he is in his first performance. We really had high, high hopes for him at 2 years old. Micah does love to sing so we thought maybe he would do a little singing. But, no. Here is what he did do during the performance. One song had jingle bells so he enjoyed ringing his bell. At one point it flew from his hand and he had to go find it.
Micah clapped his hands a couple times. Also at some point the little boy behind him decided to pull on Micah's collar over and over. This I'm sure was a huge distraction for him.

Towards the end of the 5 minute program he saw some other kids crawling around on the stairs and thought he needed to join them. He did this for a bit. Finally sitting up and sitting nice till the end of the program.

We are so proud of our little performer. He was a star!!!

Pilgrim and Indian

If you have been following our blog you know that my mom has dressed Tanner and Micah up for Christmas for the last two years. The first year they were Mary and Joseph. Then last year they were angels, which was not a hit with Micah. This year my sister, who is home from Romania, will not be home for Christmas. So my mom decided that we should have the tradition at Thanksgiving time. So I give you this years dressed up Micah and Tanner, a Pilgrim and an Indian. They both thought it was very fun. Tanner has been doing lots of dressing up being a girl and all. Micah loved dressing up for Halloween. They were both very prepared for the day.
Tanner played the pilgrim perfectly being very solumn through the scripture reading. After we finished reading the scripture Micah gave us a wonderful Indain rain dance.

We conitnue to be so blessed in our family. Adam and I are thankful for an amazing son and the coming baby girl. We hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

Chicken Coop Part II

Here is the coop before the painting. Micah has his steps for feeding out "treats" during the summertime. Chickens got grapes everyday and sometime tomato's from the cherry tomato plants that magically sprouted up next to one of the new trees we planted last spring.

And here is the almost completed after picture. Trim around the top still needs the free dark brown paint for constrast and the backside of the coop gets the free pinkish-tan paint!
Up to about 8-10 eggs a day now from twelve full-size hens and now just waiting for the bantam to start laying her tiny eggs. Looks like winter treats will be some of the leafy weeds that are sprouting up.