Sucker!!

WAAAY back in March, Malerie had been playing at her friends house who had happened to have just gotten two baby ducklings. Of course these little girls were completely smitten with these cute little babies! After I picked Mal up it's all I heard about along with her begging and pleading for her own ducklings. I yold her absolutely NOT! They are not "pets" they are messy, and so on. She was relentless! Knowing that there was no way on earth Eric would ever say yes to such a ludicrous idea I deferred her to her dad to put an end to it! Later that night MAlerie said in her cutest most innocent voice ever I need to ask you something, she dragged him down to his office made him shut the door so her nosey older siblings couldn't hear and then she typed the question on his phone!! A few minutes later she comes blazing up the stairs, "dad said YES!!!!" He WHAT?? He said yes. Eric comes up the stairs next with a sheepish grin on his face, "why say no, when you can say yes"! Why on earth would you agree to ducks?

It being Spring Break and all the next day I packed 5 kids to the feed store (Kiley, Malerie, Keaton, Sophia and Cambell). It's always an adventure at Pratts. We checked out all the animals and the kids took their time watching all the ducks and picking out which 2 they wanted. Next to the pen of ducks and chicks was bunnies. "Why say no when you can say yes" so we picked us up one of those also!! The kids could not wait to get them home and play with them, and I have to admit they are pretty cute. The best was watching Malerie mother these baby ducks. They followed the kids every where they went as fast as their little webbed feet would take them!