Happy Birthday Daddy

 

 

I tried posting last night, yet again my picture uploading was giving me fits, but magically it works this morning...anyway, Scott is not wanting anymore birthdays. Yesterday was his birthday and we went ahead and celebrated it anyway. Laney and Tana made him homemade birthday cards. They used lots of scotch tape, and crayons. Laney's had 4 pages, lots of E's all over it and a few R's, L's and circles too. Then she wrote "To Dad...Laney" on the front. It was pretty adorable. We have been calving quite steadily. So far so good, most the heifers are having them on their own with no trouble, small calves, and good moms overall. We did have one very very very small calf. In fact it was too short to reach the udder on his mom...he maybe weighs 30 pounds. So we decided to bottle feed him and give that heifer a twin to take care of. We wrapped him in a rope bag so he'd stay warm and was easy portable...like a calf purse. Fred told me "don't put this on the internet"...my blog isn't really "on the internet" right?? It totally cracked me up, I love the calf purse. Tana is singing all sorts of songs...ABC's, Bah Bah Black Sheep, Itsy Bitsy Spider, How much is that doggy in the window...are her favorites. She doesn't annunciate perfectly, but she allows for all the beats where the words would be in the song...it's pretty adorable as well. One day this week, I was helping out at the ranch and had the girls in the car with me. It was really cold, so I'd drive them around helping where I could. I had a bag of nuts and dried cherries in the car that the girls were snacking on, Laney says "oh Mom I love these, they are so delicious...but, Mom, why are they called cat shoes?"