Lankford Love

Look who's sitting up all by herself! (Though usually a Boppy is there ...just in case.) This is a toy that I got Lil at a garage sale today. $5! Score! And look at her eating solids and (sorta) drinking from a sippy cup! She loves her sippy cup!

I love being a stay at home mom! I feel so blessed that I get to stay at home with sweet Lilleigh. I've been asked many times by friends what Lilleigh and I do all day. I think many people get the impression that being a stay at home moms means I am either sitting at home drinking mojitos each day or standing in my kitchen twiddling my thumbs. Let me assure you that neither are true. While I am incredibly thankful to be able to stay home, being a stay at home mom is neither a walk in the park or a bore. It's a busy job! We have fun things scheduled during the week, and during Lilleigh's naps, I try to keep up with cooking, laundry, and cleaning, which to be honest isn't always possible. But my husband doesn't complain! Oh and I blog too! :) When Lilleigh is awake, we play, sing songs, read books, change diapers, eat, go on walks (when it's not too hot), and just have fun! I love her active time! I think many of the people who picture a stay at home mom havi...

I have to brag on my husband here. Brendon is an AMAZING piano player. He can play pretty much anything you put in front of him. In the winter, he'll play Christmas music. Lately he's taken to playing hymns. But what I love the most is when he plays by ear and makes up tunes as he goes. And because he's also an awesome daddy, he often puts Lilleigh on his lap and plays the piano with her. Lilleigh loves it and even tries to play the piano herself. This one great quality that I hope she gets from her daddy!

I've held off on introductions long enough. Without further ado... This is "Tail Feathers" aka the still nameless hen. She needs a name desperately. I just haven't had a name that's popped out at me. Any ideas? A little about "Tail Feathers"... She's been termed this temporary (I hope) nickname because she was the only Rhode Island Red that we got who still had all of her tail feathers. This is probably because she can fend for herself. She isn't fiesty, like Queeny who we'll get to later, but there is no doubt that she's second in command (behind Queeny, of course). She's also pretty daring. This hen used to walk up to Sammy and peck her in the nose. Then Sammy showed her she isn't one to be messed with. This is Henrietta. She got this name because there's a children's book I love called Henry the Dog with No Tail . Well, this is Henrietta, the hen with no tail feathers. When we got her, her tail feathers had a...

Just another evening hanging out in the backyard with the chickens! The chickens were becoming interested in my dinner, so I gave them a few spaghetti noodles. And guess what. They like them. A lot. Sooo I gave them more. So it's spaghetti noodles that they are pecking off the ground. Queeny was getting kinda territorial over the noodles though. She nipped Henrietta, the hen without tails feathers, in the butt, as you'll see on this video.

And I just realized that I never posted a picture of the coop complete. Shame on me! Bad, blogger! Here it is... The finished coop. Brendon, his dad, and Lilleigh in front of their finished creation. The chicken coop! Isn't it gorgeous? When they said they were building a chicken coop, I wasn't expecting it to look like this! My hubby and father-in-law did an awesome job! They are fighting it now, but they will be building sweet Lil a play house in the future! Once she can look at them with those big blue eyes and ask herself, they won't be able to say no! ;) And some chicken photos... Queeny... This was before the other three - "the girls" - came along. And here are "the girls."

This past weekend Brendon's mom (Val) came into town. She was so excited to come up to see Lil and also to celebrate Brendon's birthday, which was last weekend. Val watched Lil for us while we saw Harry Potter! Uh-mazing. I'm sad that it's over. While Harry Potter is in no way a direct correlation to the Gospel, I do think J.K. Rowling was intentional about the ending. I've heard she's a Christian, and judging by the end of the series, I don't doubt it. (The books are even better though - read them! Or at least get the audio books to listen to!) It's going to be hard to top this series. When we got home from the movie, Lilleigh was actually sorta drinking from a bottle! She wasn't sucking on it, but she was kinda gnawing on it and drinking from it - more like you would with a sippy cup. Val was walking around with her, singing to her... distracting her, anything to make it seem less like a feeding and more like something fun. Ha. But Lil drank ...