Meet Our Pets!

We have accumulated several pets on this farm lately:


Meet our bunny babies:

 Chocolate is E bunny's rabbit.  She had 2 babies (actually 3, but she lost one) on March 25.  These pictures were when they were 12 days old.  Their eyes weren't open yet.  They were born without hair and about 1/2 the size of my hand.

We've been trying our hand at hatching our own chicks since early March.  We didn't have a lot of luck at first, but we are getting better at it!

We've had a batch of eggs in the incubator about every 1-2 weeks to hatch and will be hatching the last batch for awhile next week.

Here is IC's 4-H steer, Joe.

Here are our medium sized chickens, that we got in early February.  We made a pen for them in the old hog barn (it doesn't have pigs in it right now).  They are very happy with lots of room and protection from the cold.

Here's the baby bunnies at 20 days old-they are growing and jumped out of the nest box today!

This is Rex, Miss A's full grown rooster, ready for 4-H showing this summer.

Alex, shown in a previous post, wouldn't let me take a very good picture of her today, but she too, is growing!

These are our full grown chickens.  IC's rooster is with 3 hens and they are the ones who are giving us the eggs.

These are our first chicks we hatched, except the dark chick-it was an embryo lesson from a nearby school and it was the only one out of 16 that hatched.  So the extension office offered it to us.

Here's our newest batch of chicks-hatched on Sunday.

Miss A's bunny, Thumper, was scheduled to have bunnies this week, but it's not looking promising, so we may have to try with her again.

The final thing that we are expecting is DUCKS.  They are supposed to be here in 2 weeks.  I kid you not-we've got ourselves a bona fide zoo around here!  As I always say-never a dull moment on the farm!

Palm Sunday

The 13th was Palm Sunday.  All three kids walked through the sanctuary to wave palms-it will be IC's last year to do it.  Both of the girls sang for church and our choir also had a song.

We spent the rest of the day RELAXING since the weather was awful-rain turning to snow and a ridiculous wind on top of it!  It was good to be home.

Spring Red and White Game

Saturday, the 12th, I got to go to art club for awhile in the morning and try my hand at a watercolor painting that one of the ladies put on as a topic of interest.

After that, I came home and we soon headed out to Lincoln.  This time, the whole family got to go, as everyone was back to being healthy again.  We made a stop at York to get IC's glasses before heading to Lincoln to eat at the Dairy Queen.

Then, we headed to the Husker Spring Red and White game.  IC was thrilled-the girls were bored after awhile, but it worked out.  We got home in time to do chores, JJ to throw the baseball to IC a little and me to throw supper together late, but it was worth it.

Field Trip to Lincoln

Thursday, the 10th, we piled in the school bus for a trip to Lincoln for the 4th graders to see the Capitol and the Governor's Mansion.

First stop, the Capitol.  That was neat.  We got to go in during the legislature for a short while and watch them vote.  They also recognized our group and applauded us-that was cool.  Then, we met our senator, Russ Karpisek and talked to him a little.

                                      
 Laying down on the rotunda to look at the artwork on the ceiling.

In the legislature.

 our senator

After we were done at the capitol, we walked across the street to the Governor's Mansion.

We had dinner in the basement before starting our tour.

 My tablemates-what a bunch of hams!

The basement meeting room where we ate.

In the foyer.

Formal livingroom.

Just IC's class and teacher.  The kids had fun and we were back to school by 2:30.

What a Week!

IC had more fun over that weekend, when he went with some friends for a birthday party to play laser tag on Saturday.  He can't wait to go again!

Monday was work for me and IC had his first baseball practice after school.

Tuesday, I drove to Lincoln to take clothes to the cosignment sale and then after school, we headed to York for IC's eye appointment.  Over a week ago, he broke his glasses AGAIN-the 2nd time in a year, and since it was time for a recheck, I scheduled an appointment.  This was good, as his eyes changed again.  Poor kid has my bad eyesight!

Wednesday, the 9th, was the Fun Run.  All 3 kids were in that and did pretty well, for the first time running in quite awhile.

Thursday was IC's class field trip to Lincoln.

Friday, we got to stay home after piano lessons-Whoot!!!  Of course, will all of our animals, we still had work to do, but at least, we were home on a nice day!

Saturday, was another family fun day.

Details to follow!!