It has been a month since my last blog and so much has happened. Well not too much. The girls and I went to CT to see my parents. They had a great time at Grandma Taylors. Then they took the ferry to LI and spent the night at Grandpaps place. They had a blast there too. In CT we went to the Peabody Museum and saw the dinosaurs. We went to the beach and collected shells. They really liked it. And I got to go to one of my Favorite Pizza places.

We counted the days down until Addisson's birthday. She was beside herself all week. She was turning 5. Yippee. At age 5 she said she would wipe her own butt. We were all excited about that one. Friday I baked 3 cakes to make her birthday cake with. She wanted a Castle Cake. It turned out pretty well. It took most of Saturday to put it together. Asa made the frosting and the design and I put it together.

Sunday was the big day. It was her party. I had made paper chains and hung them in the door ways around the house. She really liked waking up to those. Her party was at the local bowling alley. Theresa Bowl. It had snowed most of Saturday so when we got there it was difficult to get into the parking lot because it hadnt been plowed yet. Several of the people invited to the party were unable to get out of their drive ways to make it to the party. We would have been one of them if it werent for our neighbor who has blessed us with snow removal. Thank you, John. It means more than you know. The party was a hit. Once back at home Addisson opened her presents from the family and was just going a mile a minute. Just like the whole week. We had food left over from the party our neighbors the Smiths came over for dinner. It was a very nice birthday.

Addisson on Monday was a bit cranky. She was having the Birthday Blues. So much to look forward to and now it was over.

A funny thing happened about a week or so ago. Grandma went to lay in her bed to rest and adjusted her pillow to find there was a slice of cooked bacon under it. She was stunned, as was I. The girls were outside so we couldnt ask who had done it. We were both laughing for a while. It gave new meaning to Breakfast in bed. It turned out to be Addisson. She wanted to save it for later and didnt know where to put is so she just stuck it there. I asked her why she didnt ask for a baggie and she said "Oh I didnt think of that, That would have been a good idea".

We had 3 more goat kids last week. They are doing well. Two girls and one boy. Addisson wants to name the twins Eric and Ariel. The other she named Bell.

Last week Asa was watching the girls and he was trying to get the girls to clean up the toys. Addisson asked him " Is anyone coming over today or tomorrow?" He said " No". She said "Well whats the point then!". He was in disbelief.

On saturday we went up to Massena to pick up our 6 goats we had processed. We drove back through Canada. In a small town on the River they were having a Winter Festival. It looked like lots of fun. They were playing horse shoes, golf, snow mobile races. It was very quaint.

So our current kid tally is 6. The girls and I got to see the last set of twins be born. It was very good timing on our part. After much deliberation the names are in for all of the goats.

Mother named Seven (just happens to be her ear tag number) had twins and their names are Spot (boy) and the girl is Mango.

Happy Birthday's baby girl is named To You.

Buttons baby girls is named Bow.

and the newest Mom her babies are called Eggnog(boy) and the girl is named Happy Easter.

We are having another wind storm today. We lost power for several hours and the roof of the barn is blowing off again.

Sunday



Grandpap and Grandma were here this weekend. Asa was off from work and we all worked in the barn. Well, Grandma watched the kids when they didnt want to be in the barn. Addisson helped worm the goats. She loves catching them and marking them. We mucked the barn today too. It took 3 truck loads. It was quite full. We hadnt done it for three weeks. That is much too long. But we had another baby girl this weekend. Buttons or massive head wound harriet. Addisson wants to name the baby, bow. So we have buttons and bowes. Both girls were very helpful in the barn and love to play with the babies.

OOOPS, Its not happy birthday to me silly, its happy birthday to you.

The Guinea Hens come out most days and eat at the bird feeder.

Yesterday, January 16, 2008, Happy Birthday had a baby girl. She is very cute. Happy Birthday is doing well and nursing her baby nicely. She is turning out to be a good mom. The girls loved having another baby goat. They had a ball playing with this baby. It was a few hours old when we spotted it. Now we arent sure what we are going to name it. Asa like "To me", Addisson likes" Happy Easter", Quinlyn hasnt said but will most likely vote what ever Addisson likes. I like "to me and Happy New Year" since they were born in Jan. So we arent sure if we are going to go with the Happy theme or the Birthday theme.