The farm supply store called today to remind us to come and pick up our baby chicks on Monday – and be sure to bring a box. As if we could really forget that 10 baby chicks will soon be ours with a 7 year old girl in the house, this poster on her door, and a calendar hanging on her bulletin board marking of the days until May 12th! And every drawing created over the last four weeks has somehow included chickens.

This one, I think, may be an attempt at the life stages of the chicken. (Hopefully, there will be no rooster! It does happen 1% of the time. Verifying the gender of the chicken is a highly specialized field of a very few folks, I learned. Mistakes are still made though!)

And Kayla has also requested that these books be read during our afternoon read-aloud time – instead of our current reading of Beowulf. I did indulge her one day with a chapter on FAQ about chickens, where we learned that if you feed your chickens garlic or cabbage, you may not like the taste of your eggs!

Robert’s parents are here for the next week, so we have enlisted their help in designing and building our coop. Stay tuned for chick photos and hopefully coop photos as well (although the chicks will be in the basement for a month or so) – three days and counting!