Our Farm Continues to Grow

Well, on Saturday we added 4 more babies to our list of animals. A wild mama cat had kittens a while ago anlld they were in our window well for a bit. She moved them and we didn't see them for a few days-even with the kids searching. On Saturday we were working on the chicken coop, and Maddie said-"I hear seagulls!" I listened for a second and tried to find seagulls flying around. It was then that I realized the cries were not seagulls, but a baby kitten. We found them in an old tire in the field right behind our yard. One of them was meowing pretty good, but the other three were so weak they couldn't move or meow. We brought them in and gave them some kitten formula. They are doing great now. The kids love them so much. We have all had fun feeding them from a little bottle and playing with them. They have even given Lindsey some pretty good anxiety dreams. Last night she woke me up around 2:00 am. "Mom, come here a minute, I need your help." What's wrong, I say. "There was a kitty crying, so I put it in my blanket and it crawled into the hole and now it's inside my blanket. We are going to have to cut it out. It used to be meowing, but I can't hear it anymore." So I went and got my scissors and followed her down the stairs. She had 3 blankets from her bed, with one spread out on the floor. She was patting all over, looking for the kitten, all this time, she has been in tears. I asked her where it was-she told me, "it's right here, where this lump is- Well I saw the lump, and it didn't look too alive, I was worried. When I touched it-it didn't feel like a body, so I lifted the blanket. To our relief, it was a pair of Brendon's underwear. I started to wonder if Lindsey was even awake at this point. We looked for the kitten some more, but couldn't find it. I asked her-are you sure you weren't dreaming? Go look in the kennel and see if they are all there. She looked, but said she couldn't tell because they were all too cute piled together SOUND ASLEEP. I checked and they were all there. Safe and Sound. Lindsey was dreaming and sleepwalking. It was really funny. (To me) It is fun to have her experience a little bit of how stressful and tiring it is to be a parent and be responsible for something so helpless.