Reid and Stefani Adopt

 Isaac was accepted for the school of Science, which I believe I have already posted about.  If not, he now goes to the West Melbourne School for Science, where sciencey things are known to happen.  This year, Isaac is required to participate in the science fair, and he came up with one of the most difficult projects to tackle.  He wanted to see how different colored lights affect the hatching of chicken eggs. So, we first hatched chicks normally to set a control.  We had 9 eggs hatch, with one that started to hatch and then gave up the ghost before it got out of the eggs.  Two of our hatchlings died within the first week of life.  These were in a group that hatched a day or two later than the first brood.  One of them had a gimp legs and the other got trampled trying to feed.  So now we have 7 chicks that I am passing off to a friend today.  But no worries, we have 48 more eggs from Amazon of all places incubating in our experimental incubators.  We are excited to see what happens.  

Happy 6th Birthday Jaydon!  Now that he's been with us just over 2 years and is officially an Archibald, I have no shame posting these pictures.  Jaydon loves cars, so he had a Lightning McQueen birthday, complete with all kinds of car themed presents.  He went from owning 1 Lightning McQueen car to owning 5.  Even after that, he begged his Grammy to give him another one, because it was yellow.  Who knew there was a yellow Lightning McQueen?  For Jaydon's party, we took his brother and sister and 3 friends of his choosing to Defy, a trampoline park. I chose not to post pictures of his friends, but I got one of him and his siblings.  When we got done jumping, we came home to presents, ice cream, and cake.  It was fun, and still about wore me out.  who knew four 6 year old boys could wear you out so fast?  Jaydon's cake, now totally eaten.  I may or may not have let them have the last of it for breakfast this morning. It took this kid probably 8 tries to blow out all his cand