oh the sadness

Today has been horrible!  My baby Sky went to stay a week with his grandparents!  They left at 9 am...I was up at 3 am and started crying around 8 am, finally stopped around 3:30 pm.  My eyes are so puffy and sore!  I made him call once an hour today.  I told him around 5:30 that I am doing ok now and he can just call when he wants to now...I make no promises that I won't call and check in from time to time and Sky said he will try to call 3 times a day all week.  I did tell him if he wants to come home early to just call and I will be there as fast as I can!!!!  I thought when he started kindergarten was going to be the worse day but this was WAY worse!

minivan joys

I finally got rid of the Camry!  I now have a wonderful minivan again!  I told Shane I just couldn't stand not having a minivan any longer and so we went down and got a Toyota Sienna...I will miss the navigation but I will survive that one negative when the possitives are too many to list!

Bird Free!

Shane got the turkey coop done and the turkeys are out of my house!  Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years are enjoying their new home and are trying to make friends with the chickens who are just on the other side of the fence.  The plan is to open it up so they can all mingle once the turkeys are as big as the chickens and can defend themselves against them.  Gogo (who I think may be a rooster) keeps pecking at the turkeys when they get too close to the fence.  Especially Christmas who is so lovey and friendly she wants to make friends with all the new strange looking birds. 

I hate to admit it but I do miss Christmas chirping to us and we answer and we would go back and forth for a while.  The feed store thinks our turkeys are quite unique because usually by a couple weeks old turkeys are mean and peck at who ever puts their hands near the cage.  Not our girls though!  Only Christmas likes to be held but the others let us pet them from time to time.  Christmas gets most of the attention and she likes it that way!

Parent Teacher Organization

Well, I was elected President of the PTO for both Lincoln and Central Elementary tonight.  I have to learn to say no...At least this gives me an out from popping corn every Friday next year.  I thought Shane would be really mad but, actually he took it ok.  I have to get more organized!  Luckily the last President is moving to the School Board so she is available to help me...

house before

I have been bugged to get photos of the house posted.  We are still working on the house but this is what the house looked like when we bought it.

We are repainting it a beige with brown trim and starting to replace the windows too.  When things are looking better I will post those photos.

RIP Roger

So Roger took a turn for the worst and past away the other day.  I have been too upset to write about it and even now I am getting so sad.  I would like to think I did the best I could but, I always wonder if I could have done something more.  I must have jinxed it by posting how well he was doing.  Every resource said that successful hand raising rabbits is very rare.  I guess I just hoped Roger would be one of the few.  I am going to work on a maternity cage for when our mommies are due in hopes of giving them all the support they need to be able to raise their babies.  Going to put it on the back deck so we can keep a closer eye on them and be sure they are protected and warm.  They have to start surviving...

Baby is starting day 6!

I can't believe I have managed to keep the baby alive this long.  I sure hope I can keep it up.  Shane started handling the feedings around midnight so I get to sleep tell 3.  Every night I have been waking up right at 3 to handle that feeding.  This morning I started to feed and baby stopped, was very still for a split second and peed all over me.  Well, at least the bladder is working!  So here are some photos of my baby.  yes, yes the boys call 'him' Roger but I still have hopes that it might be a girl.

 Tried to give some size comparisons for you to see how little she is.  She is quite funny.  When she is sleeping, if she is woke up she cries and cries and when feeding her the other day I stopped to wipe some milk off her nose and her foot was by her mouth and she started to suck on her toes, it was so cute!  When she is feeding if she gets milk up her nose she gets quite upset and will shake her little head so hard and huff air out her little nose.  I don't know what I will do if she doesn't make it now.  Eyes open around day 10.  I am hoping once her eyes open I will feel more confident that she is going to be ok.  She still doesn't eat much at one time.  I am mixing the formula a bit heavy so she gets more nutrients since the volume isn't taken.  These photos are a couple days old.  I was hesitant to post them to just have to post that she didn't make. 

I need to find some small syringes to keep on hand.  This one with the curved end it the smallest end I had and it is the only one like it I have.  The others are too big and I worry about getting milk in the lungs with them, not to mention up their little noses.  My hopes are to never have to do this again though.  We really need to have good mommies to make this work.  There is no way I could have kept this up with a whole litter of kits!