The Staus Curse

Remember that curse I was telling you about in the last posting? Well, the saga continues...

Dot just had an adorable little boy this morning! (yes... Dot's a donkey).Take notice in the next pic how little he is! I took some oats out to give Dot after Mike left and measured the little guy... he's about 20&1/2 to 21 inches tall at the shoulder!You can almost compare him to Call-a-doll's little boy. This pic was taken when he was a day old, but he measured 22 inches at the shoulder the day he was born.
So, here are pictures of all the little boys that have been born on our farm this year:

Taxi's baby boy. He's around 2-3 wks old in this pic. His name is Bluebug Louie (His momma is Bluebug Taxi, his daddy is Louie). I call him Bluebug.

Blossum's baby boy. He's almost a month old in this picture. His name is Beau of Blossum. I call him Beau (pronounced Bo). Unfortuantely, we lost his momma. But due to being bottle fed, he's much friendlier than Bluebug!

Call-a-doll's baby boy... he's 2 days old here. We still need a name, if you have any suggestions. His Daddy is Star (who is about 30 inches tall full-grown!).

And last, but not least is Dot's little guy. We need a name for him, too, if anyone has suggestions! His daddy's name is Blackjack.

Two more babies yet to be born... Can we get a girl? Stay tuned to find out!

It's a boy!! Again...

I think the Staus curse has carried through to our little farm. On a farm, it's good to get the females, cuz you can have lots of female animals to only one male most of the time. And the females can have more babies which can then be sold etc., etc. Well, since we moved here and got animals, the Staus curse has been passed to the farm animals... no girls! (For those of you unfamiliar with the family, of my siblings, I had 5 brothers and 1 sister. I myself gave birth to 4 boys and only 1 girl... My mother has 12 grandchildren -- only 1 granddaughter... My Granny has 16 great-grandchildren and one on the way -- only one is a girl... you get the picture.

Anyway, last year we had one baby born... a little male donkey jack. So far this year, the three babies that have been born are all boys... 2 little bull calves (miniature jerseys) and just yesterday a little paint colt was born. They're cute little buggers, but we sure would like to get a heifer! Dot is due to have her baby donkey any day, SweetPea should have her baby horse in a month or less, and Peggy Sue should drop a cute little calf any minute! It sure would be nice if at least one of those (if not all) is a girl!

At any rate, here are some pics of the babies...

Our most newest addition... Call-a-doll's little paint colt...

Austin and the animals

Austin has been bugging me forever to get pictures of the animals for him for school. I took them awhile ago, but can't print them out because our printer is malfunctioning, so I told him I'd try to post them on the blog and then he could have people see them that way... I'm just a little slow getting it all done! So, here's our animals! (At least, some of them...)

Austin with Cassia.

Austin giving Ginger some love.Austin keeping Sage under control for a few seconds.
Sage trying to keep Austin under control.
S'more tasting Austin's hair.

Oreo trying to kiss Austin.

The miniature cows, donkeys, and horses...

Hubby's new toy

Ever since we got our little farm, my hubby has been eyeing the tractors, insisting he needed one in order to properly "work" the place. Well, beginning of April, I quit telling him we couldn't afford one (it didn't really matter what I said anyway... he was still gonna want one until I caved... I didn't cave, I just quit saying no!), so he got his new toy.

Carolynn's sayings

I just thought I'd write down Carolynn's newest phrase before it got forgotten. She's such a cute little bug, and some days, she talks incessantly! Her newest phrase "I did that yesterday!"

"Carolynn, it's time to go to Aunt Sue's." "No, I did that yesterday!"

"Carolynn, time for bed..." "No. I went bed yesterday!"

"Carolynn, let's eat a sandwich." "No, I eat sandwich yesterday!"

"Carolynn, time for your nap." "No, I took nap yesterday!"

"Carolynn, let's go outside." "K, mommy. I get my boots!" She will never turn down an offer to go outside! And she does that everyday the sun's out. In fact, if anyone talks of going outside when she is around, she is ready to go! Here's my little farm girl with her mudboots... ready to go out in the 50 degree weather a couple of weeks ago.