Chickens

After seeing how much Otis loved the chickens that a friend of ours has, we thought we should get some to join our family. Meet Goldie and Kevin (now we have Kevin II) since the first Kevin was sick and is now in chicken heaven:(

admiring them on their first day with us

O loves to share his leftovers with them and tries to use it as an excuse to not finish his meals. "But Goldie wants this! I have to go check on Goldie", are common phrases at mealtime now.
Our first EGG!!! We got them when they were close to laying age, but not laying yet. I had checked the coop every morning with so much anticipation. The one morning that Ty goes out first, of course an egg is there. But Otis was with there and so that made it great. I was so excited about it all day and even shared it as my "good news minute" in Relief Society. The fresh daily eggs are so delicious!

I had big dreams that having these hens would teach Otie life lessons about food and where it really comes from, you know, the real "circle of life". But he doesn't care one bit. We made pancakes with the first egg and I kept telling him how exciting it was that we got the egg from Goldie and Kevin, but he just looked at the pancake and said, "where is the egg?" It has been such a fun thing for our family.