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How Chickens and Baptism Are Related

April 12th, 2012 by Busy Mommy

Man I love these chickens!Â Nolan has spent a good portion of the day today outside by himself among the chickens.Â While he was out there I could hear him humming and singing and talking to himself (and the chickens).Â I looked out through the office window and saw him standing in the chicken’s water bowl, literally just hanging out in a bowl that’s ten inches across. Â Later when he came running in Nolan told me, “I was getting baptized! I was getting baptized mommy!”Â Pretty soon, all his clothes were off and he was running around buck naked and “getting baptized” in a chicken water bowl.Where do I draw the line?Â Shoes in the chicken enclosure AT ALL TIMES.Â He’s actually really good about that, and he’s a total expert with his chicken (rain) boots now.Â Oh yeah, and we rinsed him off after he was done with his foray.

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Captured! A few video minutes of the “home life”

April 11th, 2012 by Busy Mommy

I have a lot of great “Nolan Video Footage” sitting right here in my computer- all nice and orderly, filed by his age in months.Â Why aren’t you seeing it you wonder?Â Because I’m so behind!Â And it’s only getting worse as each month passes by.Â One rainy day I will have to catch up.Â Or rather, one rainy day when Nolan is with Grammy or Grandma.Â Not much computer work happens these days with our two and half year old around, so it’s usually get-in, pay the PG&E bill, and get-out, before Nolan threatens to shred our patience to tiny pieces.

Just picture it: Attempting to do your taxes or writing a well thought out email letter to your dear relatives, all the while a robust and friendly monkey (weighing over 30 lbs) is jumping all over you- climbing across your lap, hanging off your neck from behind you while you struggle to swallow, then sitting on your lap so that you keep having to tilt your entire upper half to the right or left in order to even see the computer screen (because the monkey is tall for it’s age, and you are short for yours), which then makes typing with two hands inefficient and more than un-ergonomic.Â This leads to the inevitable avoidance of said computer in order to spare our backs, our patience, and a myriad of other things.

But here’s a little tidbit I did manage to throw up real quick, that’s actually from only 2 nights ago- wow- something actually on here about the same time it happened!Â A lot of things you’ll probably be seeing in the near future may be months old already.