Chicken Headache

For several weeks it seemed that our bad luck with chickens was finally over.  We began taking for granted getting up each morning to find that all our chickens were accounted for.  Last weekend, Nathan had put up a pool for the ducks and had brought down four of the remaining nine baby chickens from the garage.  All the animals seemed to be getting along and the dogs had finally seemed to get that they were unwanted on our property.  Nathan decided the chicks still in the garage were ready to join the others this weekend.  He gets down there to find that the first four chicks had managed to drown in the ducks "pond."  Nathan says it just goes to prove that all animals owned by us (dogs included) are idiots since these chickens were plenty big to stand up in the pool.  Maybe the bigger chickens held their heads under water?  Or the ducks were unwilling to share their pool?  Either way, our number in chickens keeps declining.  I'm not even sure where stand now.

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We haven't had the chance to plant a tree for a fifth wedding anniversary, but Nathan's sweet side did come out long enough to carve our names in a stump. 

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Addi now has two teeth and is crawling all over the place and has even started pulling up on things.  She loves following the boys around, especially to their room.  They quickly get annoyed with this as she's always trying to be right in the middle of things.  If they're playing trains, she wants to be right there playing with them.  The problem comes when she has to have the toy in their hands.  If they're playing with it, it clearly must be more fun than the one laying on the floor.

She also loves the bathroom, especially the bath.  She hears the water and she comes crawling.  Daniel was giving himself a bath the other night when he starts yelling that baby sissy was trying to see him naked, something he wasn't happy about.  She just has to be a part of everything that's going on in the house, preferably the center of what's going on.  She's becoming our little Diva!