The weather has gotten warm. The van has gotten dirty. What a perfect excuse for a car wash!

After the washing, Dad got out the baby pool and Tanner and Elena got in.









While Dad was gone, they added some rocks, and some dirt, and some mud.

When they were done their faces looked like this:

This year is the year of the kid exchange. Alia has gone to the farm and Da & Schau (goat kids) have come to our field. Grandma & Grandpa also brought us five chickens and a bunch of reusable field fence.









Here are Da & Schau in their paddock with the chicken tractor. After I found Schau inside the coop/tractor this morning, it got moved to the outside of the goat paddock!










Prized possessions: the hens laid eggs within 24 hours of being in their new home! The eggs are light brown and lighter brown.

We're seeing signs of hens pecking the eggs and have added some straw bedding to their coop.

Things to fix:

1) We need to rig a better bathroom at the field. We spent an hour and a half or more at the field today and Elena had an accident. After I got her cleaned up and washed her boots (on the inside) I hung them up to dry. They looked pretty fun hanging upsidedown on our tomato supports in the front yard!

2) A riding mower. It's been sitting idle for a year, but the price (free) and location (our field neighbor's) were perfect! We'll look into fixing it and see if it can help us mow more efficiently.

Check this out! Martin got out his trumpet for Alia to explore today! It was neat to hear him play, and fun to see how excited Alia was about using it for 5th grade band.

Now you see her.



















Now you don't!

Alia and Elena were having some fun with a pile of blankets.

:)