Names

If you had daughters named Annabel, Alberta, and Margaret, what would you name a fourth daughter?  We already have a boy name picked.  What sort of name goes well with them?   obviously, something new and trendy would stick out like a sore thumb but I'm kinda stumped.  I wouldn't be surprised if this baby didn't have a name when she(?) is born.  Anyway, I definately can't ask the girls for advice as the last suggestion Alberta gave was Gayorg.  What, you don't let your very young children watch the sound of music?  Oops.  And the let's just say that Anna Kate is not to be trusted with name choices as the last batch of kittens we had she named Puffy, kinda'Puff, smooth, blackie, blackish and blacker. :)  She's probably name the baby "vernix-y" or "baldish" or something like that.  

Should be sleeping

A few more from March and April

Mish mash

-It's day 21 on our next round of chicks in our incubator.  Six have hatched so far and several more have pipped.  we're glued to the plastic window like it's a television.  

-I had an OB appointment today.  yes, I actually go to them occasionally.  drove fifteen minutes to get there, unloaded three kids, took all of them pee twice and then had a four minute appointment with the doctor and then loaded them all up again and drove home.  Definately a giant waste of time but sometimes you have to play the game.  Only measuring six weeks ahead and I'm 32 weeks pregnant now.  

- Mark's in Alberta with his family for the week so I'm single parenting.  Yikes.  I'm cranky by the end of the day.  

- We have three piglets coming in June.  We've put up a bit of a chicken fence to keep the layers out of our front yard and front entry and it's working so far.  

-I can barely keep my eyes open and it's 10:00 pm.  Here's a few film pictures from a couple of March beach trips with friends.

a sunday conversation

Anna Kate:  Mom, I was wondering if we could let our pet ticks out for a while to play?

Me: NO!

shearing skye

Phew.  One down.  We meant to put a tarp down so we wouldn't be picking hay out of her fleece for three years but she was a pain to catch so we just did it as quickly as we could.  It wasn't as dirty as I expected.