adventure

The boys are 4 months old today! We have been having so much fun, every day is a new gift.

Last Friday we had a little adventure. The phone rang and my parent's neighbor's name showed up on the caller id - I knew there was only one reason she would be calling me... The cattle were out. My parents were gone visiting my sister and Mike takes care of the farm when they're gone, so we get the call when something like this happens. The cattle had apparently managed to lift a gate off the pins and a whole bunch got out (maybe 20 - 30?). So anyways, I called Mike at work (thankfully he was almost done with what he was doing and could leave almost right away), loaded the boys up in the car, and headed over to the farm. Mike and I, along with another neighbor, managed to get almost all the cattle back in the barn and locked up. There was one that didn't survive the ordeal - I won't go into details as I'm not sure of my audience. :) It couldn't be avoided and was no one's fault, but it's a shame as it was almost fully grown, so it's a pretty big loss.

We're looking forward to some great weather this week! It seems SO much easier to get out with the boys when the weather's decent. I've gone out with them on my own a fair bit now - as long as I'm going somewhere that I can use the stroller or a shopping cart it's totally doable. Of course, I can't put anything else in the shopping cart, and I'm not a fan of walking around with two carts by myself, but it's nice to be able to get out. :)

The boys just keep getting more active - it's fun to watch. They 'talk', smile, kick their legs, grab their feet, eat their hands, roll over, hold onto toys... Kids go through such major development in just the first year, and we're already 1/3 of the way through it!

P.S. I seem to be having some picture issues. There were pics of both boys, but the one of Caleb won't come up now, and it doesn't show when I try to upload it again. Hmmm...maybe it will magically reappear the way it magically disappeared...