Wow, this blog is smokin'

It's been about 7 months since my first and only blog post. I think I was pregnant but didn't know it yet. That explains the lost 7 months - the haze or is it daze I have been in. Where does one start? Do I take you back a few months to all the fun cute stuff we've done? Or just start from today? How about Easter. That sounds like a good starting point.


So we decided the kids needed chickens. So Luke built a small chicken coop in the backyard, as the kids watched. We let them takes guesses as to what he was building. Anything from space shuttle, to boat, to swimming pool was guessed.


Then on Easter morning we brought out the baby chicks we had been hiding in our garage. What a surprise! To Dane at least. Genevieve found them a few days before Easter, so I made up some elaborate story about them being a surprise birthday present for their great grandpa and how NOBODY could know. She did a fine job of keeping the secret.
G ended up being a little scared of the chicks, whereas we nick-named Dane the "Chick Whisperer".

We tried teaching him the "proper" way to handle the chicks (you know, since Luke and I are seasoned chick holders), and Dane just picked 'em up and started carrying them around, like he had always done it. He seems to have the right touch with them as they are really comfortable in his hands. He even has one that follows him around the house. Or should I say "followed", they are banished from the house as of the last few days. They are getting big enough where their poops are getting too big and gross to be in the house anymore.