Thursday, March 20, 2008

baby chicks for Easter

Happy Easter!

Well, Ally has been asking and asking for baby chicks this year for Easter. (Can you tell that she is an animal lover?..that is all she talks about. Oh, and boys. And Hannah Montana. And her friends, and sometimes school,but the rest of the time, animals.) I told her no.
...but thanks to Grandma and Pa-pa Wester, who live in a chicken-friendly community (we do not) and decided that fresh eggs might be tasty and fun, they decided to get some chicks. Which meant that Ally, Luke and Ava got to go to the feed store and each pick one out.



I don't know if Gran and pa-pa will ever actually get to see, hold, or keep at their house-these chicks- now that the kids have picked them out and named and loved and loved and loved them. They have spent most the night just sitting and watching and patting them. They are planning on sneaking downstairs while they are sleeping to play with them in the night. Ally has been asking me all day if this is just a dream, and that she loves the chicks more than her guinea pig, hermit crabs, and fish. And they have been so loyal.

So let me introduce you to Batman, Peepster, and Chicken (from left to right) the most loved chicks in Eagle city limits. Lets hope they survive that love, and that they are girl chickens. It is really hard to tell, Gail and I had a hard time, but the guy at the feed store had a "trick", girl chickens have weaker leg muscles and can't reach up and peck you when you hold them upside down by the legs. So we either have girls or weak-legged boys. Only time will tell. but at least we have some happy kids this Easter.

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