Our Newest Addition

Yes- This one will be a long post. I should have been dropping posts on this topic for a while now- but you'll just have to settle for the long version! A couple of weeks ago Pap and Parker(aka Bubba) have been deciding on a spring project. Parker is really into tools lately and building and working on things, so Pap decided that a building project would be fun. They also decided that based on the fact that Parker loves Paps unusual ducks, that maybe a chicken coup would be a fun and entertaining project! So thus started the- "Bubba takes tools, go down to Paps, build "icken" coup, Bubba want FIVE "ICKENS"(this part is screamed!)." He tells this phrase to everyone including but not limited to the walmart greeter lady, the sunday school teacher, his Mother's Day Out teacher, all of our friends, his friends, and anyone who calls to talk on the phone to Bubba- JenJen, Pap, Mum, Keith B, and MiMi!
Everyone looks at me like we must live in a double wide out in the middle of no where! And you must be on such a fixed income that you can not afford a pet for your child so you have reasoned with your child to get him FIVE chickens and I am sure you'll eat the eggs too! Not that I am embarressed by all this "Icken" talk, I say kudos to Pap for exposing Parker to the simple and fun things in life.
Needless to say today went like this- Parker went to Mothers Day Out and was at school from 9-1. I got a call from my dad about 10:30 asking me if I wanted to go to lunch. I agreed and he said he was going to get Bubba at 1pm with me. I told him that Bubba would love it if Pap came and got him and Pap said but I have a suprise for him too! He told me that he had been to the co-op in Columbiana and gotton Parker "FIVE ICKENS"! I thought for a minute and then looked up and there was Todd. Now he normally works dayshift today but due to a little mission they were doing he needed to come home and change clothes. I thought to myself what do I say. So I told Todd and we both agreed that it would be a great thing for Parker and that he would love the fact that Pap had made his dream come true! So, I hung up with my dad and Todd and I wondered what in the world we were going to do with these "Ickens"! I said well we need a cage and then we will feed them and let them out to run in the grass during the day- while we are outside of course. So I had Todd thinking that this would not be a hard "pet" and something that would be fun to watch grow up and then take down to the farm and be able to see the chickens down there when we visited. I had even convinced myself that it would be fun and that my neighboors wouldn't mind- Do you think???! Our biggest question was what we would put them in? So- I went to my favorite odd and end shop-The Thrift Store- and sure enough there were two "Icken Coups"! I thought well Jesus thank you for providing a home for these chickns and you must want us to have them. Feeling really great I purchased the largest Chicken Coup and had a man help me to my SUV and load it up. Off to meet Pap at school where I could be introduced to our newest family additions! He went in to get Parker and I just could not wait to see Bubba's face. Todd had wanted so badly to be able to see what Parker did when he saw them for the first time. Camera in hand and waiting. Parker and Pap came out and Pap opened up the back of his truck and he asked Parker a couple of questions- What color are "ickens"? What do they say? I just knew this was going to be the moment of his life. And then.... Pap pulls out a five package box of Peeps!!!!!! I just about died. This whole time I was convienced that we were going to be the proud owners of "FIVE ICKENS", and now I have a box of five Peeps. I am stuck with a big -beeping- chicken coup and you just gave me five sugar coated Peeps to live in there? And now I am going home with this big chicken coup and two kids who just devoured a blob of yellow fluffy sugar right before naptime- Hey thanks Pap!!!