New Arrival

The chickens arrived on May 18 by overnight delivery. I was glad Eric got the early morning call from the post office and he dealt with setting them up and got to see the kids reaction. We believe they were born on May 16 in Connecticut. A few days before the chicks arrival date Eric and the kids got their home ready. First they tried a cardboard box with wood shavings, but Eric soon realized that wouldn't work well. So he switched over to a metal washtub. Then Eric struggled getting the heating lamp secured in our little half bath. The bathroom was chosen because I mostly use it to soak laundry and don't go in a lot plus linoleum for easy cleanup and a easy access sink to wash hands after handling them.
The kids have been totally enthralled. Miriam loves to pick them up, but Aaron is content to just watch them. They were such cute fluff balls when they came. The first day as they were adjusting they would cycle through lots of peeps when walking around and then they would face plant for a short nap and go quiet. Overall they weren't too noisy, mostly when Miriam would bother them then they got loud.

Our 4 new pets- Brownie, Rockie, Lacie, and 'the white one' (still not named).

This is Eric's pet project and in his usual fashion researched quite thoroughly everything from which breeds would be best, to how to care for them, to best house. Here he explains which breeds he chose. If wondering about the red glow that is the brooder heat lamp to keep their temp up. At first we just gave them sugar water and then introduced them to baby chick feed and gravel. So far they are working out great for us, more updates to come.

Random September Happenings

This may be a little long of a post but nothing else tied together so here are a few pictures to document our cute kids. Aaron just looked adorable in his 'tractor' outfit and you can see his curly hair. This was on Sept 2, not looking much like a baby any more!

While I bathed with her from a very young age I sang several different songs. This video taken on Sep 12 shows how she can sing with me and do our hand motions. We also have "Twinkle Little Star" as a picture book that Miriam took to 'reading' to Aaron. Whenever she hears the song now she says "its like Aaron's book" and usually has to go find it. Now she is always singing along with her movies and we've been working on learning primary songs.Both of the kids love to be right there helping to cook. Here Miriam is helping put the cinnamon and nutmeg in the pancakes generously on Sept 14.Aaron still falling asleep when wait too long to eat. Sept 21 and it wasn't many months more that he refused to sit in the high chair and had to seat at the table. Poor guy having a big sister to have pink stuff.We love when Grandma Nicee comes to visit! Sept 26 after church. Miriam is wearing the dress Grandma bought her that summer (in purple of course!). Grandma is the only one who can regularly convince Miriam to fix her hair cute with curls.

September 27 shows Aaron not losing interest in tools. He got a hold of the hammer and was carrying it around. I was glad he could wear those overalls because Miriam wore them first and by the time it was Aaron's turn it was winter. Miriam is wearing her "dancing" skirt that Grandma Nicee got her and for awhile she always had to go get it to dance.Some of the many faces of Aaron. He is 13 months and getting into and out of everything from stairs to his high chair. He also is catching up to Miriam in liking to read books. There is no where he can't go.

September Adventures

Some of the fun things we did in September was go down to Delta for Labor Day weekend. While there we went to a fundraiser for the flying club Russ used to belong to with his powered parachute. They had a nice dinner out at the airport.

Then they had a flyover with a candy drop like the famed candy bomber of WWII. Here all the kids are scrambling for the candy. I think they enjoyed looking at the planes and such.

On Sept 19 we attended our second Harvest Moon Hurrah that Spanish Fork puts on every year. We didn't get any good photos and tried to capture Miriam dancing to the band which was really cute, but my timing was off and it was really dark. This year they also had a improve comedy group which was really fun to watch.

Then we were paid a visit from Aunt Heather and Uncle Brian on Sept 25. She always comes bearing gifts as she spoils my kids rotten. We mostly play a few games and just talk up a storm. I love having company. Come again soon Aunt Heather!

New Carseats

The big day arrived for Aaron to graduate to a forward facing car seat, Hooray! We were concerned on how big Miriam's car seat was and looking forward to the day of having 3 car seats we decided to buy Miriam a slimmer older kid model instead of buying Aaron a similar one to Miriam.Here is Miriam modeling her new car seat that has 3 transitions up to the plain booster. They were so excited to get it out of the box and as can see from the video they loved playing with the box. Even though now she is big enough to go to a backed booster without the harness I figure will keep up with it till the baby comes. Hopefully she will be able to put her own seat belt on as she will be in the middle unless we obtain a minivan before then and even then she will be in the back, not as accessible.

After we got it out on Sept 13 we decided to test drive the new car seats. I was worried Miriam wouldn't want Aaron to use her car seat (be really possessive) but luckily once we explained it was Aaron's she was pretty ok switching.