Merry Christmas

Wallace with my Dad Jim on 12-24-12. The boy is laughing and in the other photo stroking my Dad's beard. Wallace loves to brush his own "beard".

 Wallace with Alexis, Dylan's Mama on 12-25-12

Wallace with My Mama Linda on 12-24-12. He is enjoying his dinner!

Wallace with Dylan and Craig, Dylan's Dad on 12-25-12

We have some happy news about our livestock! This sounds sad at first: our buck ran away. He climbed out of his cage and vanished. We were set to move in a few days and resolved to buy a new buck once we were settled on the new property. When we went to move the two remaining rabbits Dylan put them into the same transport cage and put them on the trailer. They immediately started mating!!!!!  I was overjoyed. Dylan had already got the rabbits a large warren for the new property instead of the smaller cages we had them in. The rabbits are now in love and they live together in a great big pen with lots of space to hop and play. They cuddle and kiss and groom each other. We are hoping the female Bonnie is pregnant. I made her a nest box and I plan on giving it to her at the end of the month. The gestation of a rabbit is 29-31 days. Most rabbits will give birth on the 30th day. Our buck is named Snowball and he is the sweetest.

We got a wood stove for our house. Even with two heaters we were having a hard time keeping the house above 45 degrees. Wallace had a fever and we were all ready for a solution. With our stove the house easily stays in the 70's. The other night it was even been up to 94 degrees accidentally. With 100 acres of deadfall there is no shortage of wood to be gathered! I like to watch my handsome husband chop wood from the bedroom window ;)

 Wallace is talking a lot more; he also has more signs he uses. As of today he has 12 teeth, is 33 inches tall and weighs 24 pounds. He is learning to use the potty. He sits on the potty with all his clothes on and makes farting sounds with his mouth and then we change his poopy pants. He makes animal sounds. He moos and barks and he makes a ribbit sound. He spends most of his inside time eating, playing with puppets, dancing, looking out the window mooing and barking or reading books.

 Our new property is wonderful. Our main road is a dear highway of sorts. Every single time we are leaving the property we see dear. We have even interrupted two four point bucks battling. They just stopped and moseyed off to finish their fight.

Every day we see at least 5 deer most days it's more like 15. We see cows every day and Wallace loves to MOOOOOOOOO at

 Just this past week I went out side to talk to Dylan for just a minuet and when I came back onto the house I found Wallace sitting in the bowl of our toilet pooping. I was horrified! Dylan was very proud.

This is Willow keeping an eye on her chickens at my in-laws house this morning. We have many streams and small rivers on the property. Some if them even have drainage tunnels laid across them and road built on top. Here is a picture of one when the weather is fine. When it's storming it flows over the road and is easily 30 feet wide. This particular river has a lot of debris to clean out of it like old tires, appliances and even parts of car bodies.

 

This picture is of an old cellar from one of the demolished homesteads. There is an uncountable amount of old appliances inside of this pit.

 On Friday 12-21 we drove up the mountain about 20 minuets to the town of Paradise and it was snowing. We decided to drive up the Skyway a few more miles through the town of Magalia up to Sterling City. They were snowed in up there with no power. I keep giggling at the idea of the Mayan 2012 end of the world prophecy being for that day and these people waking up snowed in with no power. I wonder if any of them thought the world really had ended? All that snow was only a half hour away from our farm. I wonder if we will see snow in Oregon City this year?

Wallace went to see Santa at the Home Depot. He wasn’t scared but he was not his usual smiley self. He sat very still with his hands together and just stared at Santa.

This is my belly today 12-25-12

 We have chosen the name Helena for our baby girl. Helena pronounced like Helena of Troy. I can tell she is going to be a small baby. I feel her moving all the time now. Wallace either kisses and hugs my belly or hits and kicks at it. He understands that there is a change coming and that my belly is the source of it. When I'm not feeling well he knows it's my belly’s fault and he is mad at it. I have been showing him photos of myself when I was heavily pregnant with him and pictures of him as a new born. I explain that I have a new baby in my belly and he hugs sister and gives her kisses. I think he understands what is going on.  My main complaint is headaches. I am tired and I have heart burn like every other pregnant lady but these daily headaches are the worst!!

Wallace eating Ketchup for the first time