Teeny tiny calves

We had our first twin calves born on the farm this season this week. They are so tiny compared to the other calves and it's sad that they are two boys so they won't be kept. Even if they were one girl and one boy the girl couldn't be kept because it will be born without any reproductive organs which is rather strange. Only twin girls would be kept. One wasn't doing well at all so in the end it had to be shot which was pretty sad but he would have been killed at 5 days old anyway so it didn't really make a difference. It definitely is a cruel industry if you're a boy. Unfortunately that is what has to happen if you want to eat dairy products, there's just no need for all the bulls. We truly are experiencing some amazing sunrises and sunsets and I realise it's one of the main things I've missed about being here and having to go to work so early. You realise how much of the sunrise and sunsets we miss back home just by having such an obscured view from being in the city. The only things blocking the view here are the odd tree and mountain. It's incredible to see daily and most of the gallery on my phone is filled with pictures of dramatic colours in the sky. We've had a bit of a colder week with some frost on the ground for most of the days and rain in the air. I've been able to dress Eliza in the adorable rain coat I got her last year so that's one bonus to the weather. It's definitely not as cold a winter as they thought it would be. It's awesome getting to spend so much one on one time with Eliza when Cassidy is at preschool and seeing her personality shine through more and more each day. She is definitely all about making you laugh and is just a joy to be around. This is the best age I've decided where everything is exciting, everything is new and everything has the same level of amazement as the next thing. She gets so much pleasure out of the things you overlook as an adult from a shadow, to the wind blowing the trees, to her reaction every morning as she sits at the table eating breakfast and I open the curtains to reveal the sunrise and get the same "wow" said every morning because it really is wow to her. It's so awesome to see and so easy to overlook when the two of them are together so I'm so grateful we have some one on one. Cassidy had sole attention at her age so it only seems fair that Eliza gets to experience some too. I'm pretty excited that I managed to get her hair into pig tails for the first time as well this week. Candy's reaction when she came home for lunch was amazing. A year on and we're still battling with toilet training Cassidy and have had a bad week of "accidents" this week. She's fully aware when she needs to go so we think it is a behavioural thing for attention. Preschool seem to think it's to do with me being here but we just don't buy that when Candy has had the same issues most term times before we came back. We do feel it's something to do with preschool where it seems to happen most so hopefully we can all work together to help her get to grips with this fully. We're not even going to try with Eliza yet as it's just too much to deal with and Candy does think she started Cass too early. I am getting such a good glimpse into being a parent and it's like having a practice run at it. There's definitely some techniques I will try on my own children that we use but then there's others I know I won't be using so it's all a great learning experience for me.Leer más