RockinRRanch

Jacob with long, curley hair:)

Kenzie making breakfast.

Blowing out the lights.

I didn’t get to bed until 2:30 last night. After Jared left for work I stayed up and finished the dishcloth I’d been working on. . I heard the rooster crowing for the first time this morning. Jacob woke up shortly before 8am. I heard him trying to wake up Kenzie. She stayed sleeping. Adam woke up around 9am. We all went in to wake Kenzie up at 9:30. She made us pancakes for breakfast. The boys loved them. At 10:30 we went outside. I picked beans from the garden. Adam played on his truck for a little while but then came and joined me in the garden. He loved running through the corn. It was like a maze to him. Each row has spots where the corn didn’t come up. He smiled at me and laughed as he ran up and down and through the rows. Kenzie and Jacob caught chickens. Then they played in the fort for a little while. Adam asked to swing so I put him in his swing. Jacob and Kenzie went into the barn to play in the hay area. Kenzie was raking the hay and making rooms for their “house”. I brought the beans in there and sat on the steps to look over and cut up. Adam loved climbing around on the wagon and holding a bean. Jacob gave some hay and a bean to the hen setting on eggs under the hay area. She puffed her feathers and squawked as he got close but she didn’t peck him. We went back inside for lunch. After lunch Kenzie and Jacob sat in the chair watching the grasshopper they had caught and put in the butterfly cage. Adam pushed around the container to the blocks. Then Kenzie and Jacob played hide and seek from Truman. They have him stay, hide, and then call him to come find them. Adam likes to go in a room and shut the door behind him. He’ll run to our bedroom, shut the door, and run to the dog bed just waiting excitedly for me to come get him. He giggles and wiggles because he knows he’s going to get tickled. I lay him down for a nap at 2pm. Kenzie and Jacob lay on our bed to rest while reading books. Then we put in the Charlottes Web dvd to watch. I knitted while we watched the movie. When Adam woke up he was ready for a snack and drink. He opened the cupboard and brought me a bowl. He drank his water quickly and then ran to the sink, holding his cup up and begging for me to refill it. He begs by saying “Mommy” over and over until he gets what he wants. After dinner Kenzie and Jared went outside while I washed the dishes. Then the boys and I went out to join them. Kenzie told us that the goats were loose and they couldn’t find them. Jared drove down the road but didn’t see them anywhere. Then he drove up our neighbor’s driveway that goes along the fence at the back of our property. They were out there. Jared brought them back and got them into their paddock. This evening we worked on the fence. Jared had to nail up some fence that was down. Then we walked the fence and made sure there wasn’t anything touching the electric fence. We took care of all that. Adam had fun picking grass. Kenzie and Jacob played in the hay area. We really needed to get the fence working before our trip. This may sound mean, but we tried to coax the goats to touch the fence using corn. They have killed so many nice trees that we plant each year, so we really wanted them to “respect” the fence and we needed to know if it was working. Even after all our work the goats pushed on that fence without any shocks. Jared worked on the electric fence and got it working again. Now it works great and they all felt some shocks. It was 8:30 by them time we went inside. Got the boys ready and in bed. Kenzie typed her blog. Jared and I went outside to pack a few things in the van. A door must have been left open because the van battery was dead.