Angry Birds?

A word of advise to anyone planning a visit to Tractor Supply between now and Easter, if you bring kids with you, they will fall in love with the baby chicks. How do I know? Well two reasons: #1. It's human nature to fall in love with soft cute fuzzy things and #2. Experience. So Shelly and I agreed that no way would we get any baby chicks no matter how much the kids (Jadyn and Sojung) begged pleaded or cajoled. We were putting our foot down, no chicks, that's that ... period!

So, we're heading home with our baby chicks...we didn't get them from TSC but that is where the seed was planted. Actually, they are kind of cute now and we were promised they were "eggcelent" layers. The girls named them Korea (pronounced Kor - ee - ay) and China (pronounced Cheena) which I thought was quite imaginative using the same spelling as their native country but a different pronunciation entirely.

I figure they won't last a week but one never knows, Sojung has had chicks before and kind of knows the ropes. Shelly is not happy as we got them when she wasn't with us. (She could have provided the voice of reason) Anyway, the kids are having a surprisingly good time with them. Jadyn has been in a good mood since we got them and that's a pretty long streak for her. LOL.

We got them from a farm in Lebanon where they had an impressive array of birds including some huge turkeys (award winning they claimed) and some beautiful Peacocks. The highlight was when one of their roosters went after Jadyn sending her screaming and running for the car as fast as her little legs would take her. It was funny to watch but I'm sure she was terrified.  Kids her age recover quickly and in a few minutes all was forgotten.

So, the farm era begins. I'm quite certain this will be a short experience but I hope we all learn something and have a little fun in the process.