Chicken Poo

Just go with me on this.....

CHICKEN 5 JUST POO'ED IN THE POTTY!!!!  ASKED HIMSELF AND WENT HIMSELF!!!

Sorry, just had to share.

Matching Chickens

Mikayle and Cole got matching jammies for Christmas.  (We had our celebration on Saturday)  Mikayle was elated to have "Fire truck" jammies and even more delighted that his "chicken boy" baby had matching ones!!

i might also add...Mikayle has a fascination with standing over Cole lately.

Well, they keep me laughing

Oh my little boys!!  They help me remember so many times in a day just why I wanted my kids close in age.  They adore each other.  One a little more than the other.  I think CN6 sometimes just tolerates his big brother, but most of the time there are giggles and smiles abounding.  AND the other night was no exception.

LOVE!!

Chicken Helper

Yesterday CN5 and I had a task to complete, Bake tiny loaves of bread for everyone in our church.  Sounds easy enough right?  Big.  Fat.  WRONG!!  Maybe if the chicken helper was a few years older.  Or maybe if the chicken helper had better "listening ears".  or maybe, just maybe if the chicken helper was not, well, Kayle.   But that is what I had, one little chicken helper by the name of Kayle.  So we set about our task and this is what followed....

Getting the milk out of the fridge....
"I HELP MOMMA"

Getting the eggs out of the fridge...
"I HELP MOMMA!!"
annnnnnnnnd SPLAT!!  An egg falls and breaks on my lovely kitchen carpet, we really do need to replace the flooring in there.

Putting the bread in the oven...
"I HELP MOMMA!!!  OHHHHHHH HOT!!!  NO HELP!!  IT BUUUUUUURRRRRRNS ME!!"
Well, at least he remembers one thing I taught him.

Turning my back to get something, I turn back around to see two tiny hands reaching up and playing in the flour we had just measured for the next batch.

And lastly, the first freshly baked loaves set on the counter to cool.  Little hands reaching to touch I say "No, they are hot and they are not for your fingers."  Then the phone rings.  Its my husband.  He REALLY has bad timing sometimes.  I go to answer it and return to the kitchen to see one little chicken leaning over the counter and take a bite out of the bread.  Welp, he didnt "touch" them...

While a little chicken helper was in time out I did take a picture of the loaves in question with TWO little bite marks out of them.  Yup, the middle loaf was "safe".

Little Dancing Chicken

CN5 LOVES to dance.  We joke that sometimes he even likes to dance to the music in his head.  It does not matter if there is music that we can hear, he hears it all day long.  Side note...Yes I clothe my chickens, some of them just prefer the "natural" look.  

Tubby Time

Just two boys in a tub.  Who would have thought it would be so hard?  "CN5, dont poor water on CN6"  "CN5 stop pushing CN6 into the water" "CN5 PLEASE dont give him the shampoo bottle" I finally gave up and put CN6 in his bumboo.  Here are the few pictures I could capture once CN6 was safe from the danger that is his big brother.

That's how WE roll...

In the midst of nursing sick chickens we did manage to get our Christmas tree up.  If you knew how much of a "BIG deal" this was you would be congratulating me RIGHT now.  It was quite the event.  Sad to say the "tree" was up last week, yup put it up last Saturday and we did not decorate it till yesterday.  That's how we roll.  Looking at an empty tree for seven days.  Listening to hacking, sneezing chickens ask "when do we get to decorate the tree?" for one. whole.  week.  yup.  THAT my friends is how we roll.  We had a brief moment on Saturday when it looked like everyone was feeling better so we jumped at the chance to throw some ordainment's on some fake branches and call it Christmas.  (By the way, white lights won out this year.)

Here is Kayle putting the Star ontop of the tree, his first year of this new job, Rebekah has been demoted. 

Cole enjoyed the event from his Bumboo.  YES there are gifts under the tree already.  YES they were there before the tree was decorated.  YES I have 6 chickens and the only way to keep their gifts a secret is to keep them RIGHT in front of them.  

We did manage to snap a few pictures of ALL the chickens in front of the tree.  That was quite an event to say the least.  Seriously, need congratulating RIGHT now.  

 The Great Joseph Napper Of 2010 struck again.  This time we caught him on camera, and it appears he has set his sights on Baby Jesus...

And THAT my friends is "The Great Christmas Tree Decorating Event" of 2011.  

Merry Christmas!!  

Now I have to go hand out some motrin...

Sick Chickens

Its never good when a chicken in our home gets sick.  Its like leaving a fire unattended in the forest, there's a chance nothing could happen, but more than likely within a few days it will spread like crazy.  Whelp, that's what happens when we have a sick chicken.  It happens the same way EVERY time.  I start out all optimistic, cleaning, washing, using hand sanitizer, administering extra vitamins, and getting LOADS of Oj down several little chickens throats.  (They do not like Oj.)  And just when things start to settle down for one little chicken, I slack off for a moment thinking that we have reached the end and then BAM!!  (yea just like that chef...BAM!)  It hits the other kids.

Well that has been what we have been dealing with these past few weeks, and yesterday the unthinkable happened, the princess got sick.  Yup, so I am home with the princess and the energizer bunny, who, one would think would slow down when sick but that is only slightly true.  He has only had one day with feavers of 104 that wiped him out.  yup, that's right, 104, that's what it take to slow this chicken down.  He has a temp of 102.8 today....you would NEVER guess it by his activity.  I left the room thinking he was all tucked in on the sofa only to return to find him climbing on the computer table.  Yup, energizer bunny, er, chicken.

So needless to say, this brings multitasking to a whole new level.  This is how I spent my evening last night as Coby was in meetings.

And people wonder why I dont like winter....

A Day With Cole

Cole has LOTS of exciting things happen to him in a single day and tonight I thought I would share some of the things that make up his little world...

Things We Have Found On Cole:
Cars
Books
"Bean" (aka snuggle blanket)
Tools
Snacks
Toys of all kinds

Things We Have Found IN Cole:
Goldfish Crackers
Gummy Snacks
Binkies
Sippy Cups

Things We Have Found Around Cole:
Phones
Forks
At least twenty diapers
Socks.  Oh the socks we find...

And all of this thanks to an incredible two year old big brother.  Life will never be dull for this tiny chicken.

Open Coop

We had our open house this last week.  It went great!!  We had around 30 people brave the snow filled roads to join us for the evening.  It was so nice to see people from our kids schools, our neighbors, friends, and church family all enjoying being in our home.  We had lovely desserts and hot coffee.  YUM!!  Here is the only picture I snapped of the evening, the lovely dessert spread.  mmmmmmmm

We were told over and over how nice it was and how nobody has done something like this before.  We very much enjoyed our time and are looking forward to many more times like this one.

Brothers

Oh the things I find Mikayle and Cole "doing", well, really the things I find Mikayle "doing" TO Cole.  Just this morning I walked into the living room to find not one, but TWO goldfish sticking out of Cole's mouth.  I think the whole "wait till Cole is 6 months adjusted before giving him solids" may not be working...Oh well, at least Kayle is sharing right?  Here are a few cute pictures of the boys in question...

As you can see, Cole DOES love his big brother, and I find myself horrified when I let my mind wonder to a couple years from now and the terror that will ensue with these two chickens... 

A day without chickens....

So yesterday a super sweet couple in our church took the little boys for five whole hours!!  FIVE!!  After they left I just sat down and enjoyed the silence for about 3 minutes and then if felt a little weird.  I did however find some fantastic things to fill my time, like...

an uninterrupted hour with my breakfast, coffee and God.  I cannot tell you when the last time that happened was.

and curtain making...these curtains are made out of two table runners I found YEARS ago on an amazing clearance at Target (LOVE) and had made into a shower curtain that is no longer needed so I re-purposed them as kitchen curtains.  

I even had time to clean that nasty spot under the sink that you don't ever want anyone to look at.  Yup, its clean now.  In fact I got SO much done and did not really feel tired I started to wonder why that was.  Then the boys came home, or rather CN5 came home, and it took 53 seconds for me to remember why.  You see, I had forgotten what it was like to be able to leave a room and not worry about what a certain chicken might be getting into, or to worry about what he might destroy, what it was like to be able to let my guard down,  like when I walked into the kitchen to see the little chicken in question looking over his shoulder, watching out for me all the while, drawing in red pen on my freshly painted wall.  yea, like that.  Days off are nice. 

The House

I have had people asking for house pictures.  Apparently they dont understand I have SIX chickens.  Well, today I thought I would oblige them.  But only because a super sweet couple came and got my little boys for a few hours so I am chicken-less.  Here they are.  Some before and some after, its been a LONG process...

The front of our house that has ZERO curb appeal, but we have BIG plans for it.  Sadly, the inside is more pressing and  this project will have to wait.

Our entry way with my little model.

Living room Before

Living Room After

Living Room After

Living Room After

Other side of the Dinning Room and Main Bathroom

Dinning Room Before

Dinning Room After

Dinning Room After

Kitchen Before and my lovely model

Kitchen Before (Can you spot my model?)

Kitchen After

Kitchen After.  All we are waiting on in here is hardware for the cupboards, curtains and new floor.  Carpet in  the kitchen with 6 chickens is NOT a good idea.

The Stairs and our Lovely blue carpet.  Oh, and Proof that I am slacking in the  "cleaning " department.

The boys room.  My next painting project, I need to get rid of the hearts...Justins request, "Mom, I don't care  what color you use, just please can we get rid of the hearts?" 

The Girls room, the painting project after the boys.

The Master bedroom, seriously TWICE the size of our old one!!  We need to have a "wall paper removal party" for this room.

Our walk-in closet, seriously as big as Brittany and Justin's room they shared in our first house!!  Oh, and blogger is being super silly and wont let me turn this one.  :-P

Cole's area in our bedroom.

Master Bathroom

The basement.  Hopefully, this coming summers project.  We will be putting two bedrooms in this area and turning the storage room into a play room and the small storage area into an ORGANIZED storage area.  :)

The back of the house.  Needs some TLC like the front, but it will have to wait.   (can you spot my little model?)

And so my lovely followers, that is our house.  We feel so incredibly blessed to have it and anytime you want a vacation to a cold windy place, stop in and stay with us.  The sun is ALWAYS shinning!!  :)