These days I am living in Nevada with Daddy and Mommy, JJ, Dylan, and Missus Nan and Papa David, two dogs named Karmel and Honey, four cats, four ducks, seven hens, two roosters, and three horses. It is a busy place with lots of things to do, and I really enjoy it a lot!
If I were to pick my favorite bits, I think the huge garden to play in is just about the best. I have a swing that I love to swing on, and I really enjoy sliding down my slide. There is sand all around the plat area, and I can dig to my heart’s content out there! I also have my own bedroom again, which means I have lots of space for my own stuff! I have so many toys that I cannot even keep track of them all! They end up all over the floor in my room!
Every week morning Daddy and I go for a walk at some point to first check on the ducks to see that they have not run out of food and fresh water. One of them keeps sitting in the same spot, and daddy says that means she is waiting for babies! I cannot wait till they come! But I wonder why she has to sit in the same spot all the time rather than just getting on with her life? I would think the UPS driver can find our address!
The second thing we do of a morning is go to see the roosters, who are in a little cage that Daddy built and put in the shed. I can even open the shed door all by myself with a little help from my Dad! The roosters need to have fresh water, plenty of food, and their bed kept a bit warm.
After seeing to the roosters, we close up the shed and walk to the back of it to check on the chickens. By chickens, I mean the hens. We have seven of them in a big cage that daddy built onto the back of the shed, and we can even walk into it! The hens are big now, and they are also very hungry. Whenever we go in to see them, they usually try to eat me! Because of that, I try to keep a bit distant from them! I like to sit in the doorway next to Daddy while we talk to the chickens and ask them what they have been up to!
After visiting with the chickens, Daddy and I will go over to the horses and I like to climb on a bit It is a good time for me because when I am up that high, I feel like I am almost as big as Daddy is! I am not allowed on the fences that the horses stand on the other side of, just the ones that are away from them. The horses are huge! They are even bigger than my Daddy is! While I climb, Daddy goes in with the horses and tells them all “good morning!” He let’s Umber out of her pen, and in with the other two larger horses. Daddy says that Umber eats alone because if she doesn’t, then the other horses will bully her out of her food.
After visiting with the horses, we walk over to the vegetable patch in the very back of the garden. There we can see so many types of vegetables starting to sprout from the ground. Daddy says that when they get bigger we can eat them. But he says that about the chickens too. I wonder which will be easier to catch?
Living here is kind of like living on a farm. If Mommy and Daddy have their way, it will be a farm one day. Maybe not here and maybe not now, but some day they will have their own food growing, their own animals to keep, and a place that will be all our own. Right now, we live with Daddy’s Nana, who gave us three bedrooms in her house while we get on our feet in America. So we are all very thankful for that.
There is so much more to say, and so much more to tell about. But I want to leave it for now as I have potty training almost done, and I need to be on time to the toilette! Then I have blocks to play with, and toy furniture to decorate a flat with… Flat box bottoms, that is. I will write more soon!
Kirynie (with a little help from my Dad.)
(Kirynie, I love you! I hope so much that when you are older you will appreciate the voice we have tried to give you in your journal posts, and that they are meant to resemble what we think you might like to say, as well as record the events of your early life. It is only a guess as to how you might think, and what you might say. You will be you, and that may be totally different to how we have put it down. However you would have said it, we love you so much for being you, and for the real you that you really are! I love you so very dearly, and so very deeply.
“Daddy” Kelsey J Bacon)
For Daddy’s birthday, he and I went and spent some time at the McDonald’s in Overton before going to True Value to buy him some wood and a pair of roosters. We shared an orange juice, and he ate an Egg McMuffin, while I had hash browns. We had both already eaten breakfast, so a small shared meal was perfect for us both!
~Kiry~
