Lesson on Layering & Chicks

Here's WyWy...John Deere Shirt, shorts and flip flops. Looks innocent enough right? I am no longer shocked at his oddities. YES PEOPLE...He's still wearing his plastic John Deere yellow bandaid.I mean layering has been in for a while right?

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LAYER 3My JOHN DEERE OBSESSED boy also had a "run in" with his bedroom door today-see his one sweet tear under his right eye? I was actually shocked that green blood didn't squirt out & green tears didn't fall.

I ask you one thing..
SHOULD WE SEEK COUNSELING?These are the chicks at 1 week old-they have gotten so big huh?!

The Captain is out on the tractor-all kids are clean & asleep.

The smell of clean children makes me smile!

Autopsy, Guests & Easter!

Friday night was such a blessing-my cousin Mark from North Carolina came to THE RANCH for a visit. It was his first time to meet the 6 littles! They really "roughed him up." He has no kids YET so he was VERY LAID BACK with them!Here we are Me, THE CAPTAIN and MARK :) On our way out to an "ADULT" dinner!Oh, what to say about Jamie! She is an angel! She goes on vacation with us-she's THE BOMB! She lives in Iowa now but when she was in college-the summer I had 4 babies (i was KOO KOO FOR COCOA PUFFS then)-she helped me out on her summer break. She still comes home to visit her family and we were BLESSED THAT SHE OFFERED to watch the kiddos & color eggs with them while we were at dinner!

This is Steve-we'd adopt him if we could-just a great guy ALL AROUND!

He came to assist Jamie with THE TRIBE-they love him!Here are our RESURRECTION COOKIES being removed from the tomb! HE'S ALIVE!Some liked them-some didn't! It was an AWESOME way to celebrate the meaning of Easter!We went to our church egg hunt Saturday-it was a beautiful day!When all eggs were hatched-we had 5 that didn't. The 2 big kids donned their gloves & did autopsies on the eggs and this is what we found inside. The chicks were alive and fully developed but just didn't have the strength to peck out. There are many reasons this could have happened which we studied. It was sad but a good life lesson. I will admit-we all teared up at the sight of this but knew it was God's plan.At just 3 days old-our 12 SURVIVOR PEEPS are already losing their fluff and getting real feathers! God is just so amazing-his creations astound me!Easter morning was fun. We missed The Captain and The Oldest. We didn't however, miss Wy Wy's KOOKY Shananigans. He had slight difficulty opening his basket with his winter gloves on. He did wear them, his bandaid, John Deere Green shorts & John Deere shirt ALL DAY.We had a YUMMY breakfast of home made cinnamon rolls (brought by Mark-made by his mom Mary) and hard boiled eggs. We celebrated THE RISEN SAVIOR at home & then we watched the animated EASTER STORY pretty much all day! We missed The Captain a lot-we are very thankful we got to visit with him on the web cam. I cooked a traditional ham dinner which we all enjoyed! It was a great weekend!

WILD Hair.....

Isn't T Gorgeous? This is how we fix her hair most of the time. You'd never know that behind that hair style....When she takes her hair down....We have THIS to deal with. She has given me written permission to blog about this subject-we are hoping ya'all can help us out with this HAIRY situation!
We've tried, thinning, layering, shortening and this all MADE HER CRY! She never wants her hair cut again. WHY? because it POOFS straight OUT the shorter you layer, thin or cut it. Straightening looks GREAT but dries it out even more. Plus-it takes about 30 min to an hour to to this and I just don't have time with the other 5 littles!

It truly is so dry and feels like straw and I NEED SOME HELP so... we decided to ask you all BLOGGY EXPERTS for some ideas!I tried one of these tonight and that worked on about 1/4 of her thick hair SO, I used two-she thinks it helped a bit but I don't see any difference. If I used half of one of these I'd be GREASY FOR DAYS! I wish I had a smidge of her God given wave.This is her RIGHT out of the shower. SEE HOW ITS ALREADY CURLY AND DRY in some places and straight in others? I also tried a leave in conditioner tonight-directions said "a quarter size portion" I used a half-dollar and still dry as heck.Wy Wy & T have the same birth mom and he has "similar" hair. The Captain refuses to cut his-hair envy I think :) Sorry honey.
NOTICE-WyWy's right arm-14th day with his plastic Dr. kit bandaid on-thank God it's water proof!

We ended up being blessed wth 12 chicks in all-they are all healthy & VERY PEEPY! OH, and POOPY! They stopped hatching on Saturday afternoon and were moved to their brooder on Easter.

What a miracle and blessing to be able to see how intricate God created life...inside a doggone egg-amazing! More amazing was being able to share it with my children. Especially on Easter-when the LIFE OF CHRIST RISING was celebrated.After the first "holding of the chicks" today and one got dropped due to POOPATION ON THE HAND-I have deemed Bean the ONLY SAFE chick holder at this time. The 5 others just get to stroke the heads of the peeps as I hold them and they poop on me :)