Tana 22 months

 

 

So weird to think about Laney being this age when I had Tana...way too much chaos to do that again! Both girls are changing so much. Laney is now spelling her name, recognizing her name written, and starting to write her name...her N ends up upside down, so cute. She has already been put in a group by herself at school to count with the teacher. She is already understanding the concept of multiplying. She was counting how many eggs I was cooking the other day, gets to 8, then says, "there are four people in our family, Mommy, Daddy, Laney, Tana...you cooked eight eggs, does that give each one of us two eggs?" NO kidding...I just stood there...she's definitely Scott's brain in a little me package. Tana continues to talk more and more. Lots of words are just the first syllable, but many words she says so clearly. She is also counting. She verbally counts to 10 very well, and is starting to physically count to 3 and 4 pretty consistently. Both like to count cattle with us...it's funny, Laney counts pretty good, Tana says "one, two, three, four, five...one, two, three". They are just so darn cute. Laney was wearing the snow hat and mittens the other day, thought she looked so cute, it was 65 degrees...no such luck that we'd actually get any moisture. Feedlot is getting fuller and fuller, but things are going good. Ultra sounded 1800 heifers and cows the last 2 weeks and have a very small pen of opens...breed back was pretty good even with the drought. Sold some open heifers for more than we thought we'd sell our breds for...good stuff. The random pic of my leg is the aftermath of last week. The bruise started as the shape of a horse shoe, then with the brace I'm wearing it all swished into a straight line, so weird.

 

Bucked Off...

 

 

This week has gone quickly. We began ultra sounding all our cows to sort them into timed calving groups. We filled up the rest of the feedlot with calves and customer calves that are getting weaned, so it's loud and full around there. Lots of bawling calves. I got bucked off Friday morning, not fun, cold fresh morning, got bucked off in the gravel driveway and then got stepped on a few times. I tore my right MCL on the inside of my knee, and got a lot of bruises elsewhere. I'm sore, but I got a brace on my knee and I think I can still ride, going to try it here in a few minutes this morning. When it twists at all I want to fall to the ground it hurts so bad, but walking on it and bearing weight, and bending it straight doesn't bother it. It's stiff and sore, but I can't be laid up because of Scott. Scott is getting around awesome, no pain at all, just can't ride a horse yet until the doc clears him the middle of November...so hopefully I can ride, otherwise we are going to be in trouble with all of these calves. The girls are getting funnier by the minute. Tana is really talking and pretending a lot. The other night she answers her pretend phone "Hi low Gamma, Daddy, Mommy, Lay-ee, Ta." Then when I was icing my knee after I got bucked off, her little face got very worried and she started saying "buck off, oh no, oh Mommy" as she was acting out getting bucked off. Laney is really starting to like school. She paints us a picture everyday...the fridge is getting full. I can't take any of them down because she counts them every time we put another one up, and she remembers the order in which she painted them...crazy memory on that one.