Meet Kennedy and Carburetor...

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I thought I was doing Jay a favor by taking the kids to the Renaissance festival all day on Saturday... until I came home to find TWO NEW BABY TURKEY'S! For some reason Jay found his way to the local feed store and thought it would be fun to let the kids have some pets... Turkeys??? Jacy and Jake LOVE them! Jacy quickly came up with names for both of them. Kennedy is the yellow one (hers) and Carburetor is the brown one (Jake's) . The kids want to hold them all the time. We had to limit it to once a day because we figured it isn't good for them to be handled so much, being so young. They are only about 2 weeks old. We really have to watch Jake around them. He is a bit rough and likes to pinch their heads. The first night we had them Jacy woke up around 2:30am crying that she wanted to hold Kennedy and didn't think that Kennedy would still be there later in the morning. I think she is starting to catch on that the Kennedy and Carburetor "live" with us now and won't be going anywhere... anytime soon that is... we will see what happens come November! (shhh!)

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  1. Kelly3:42 PM

    You guys are awesome! I keep wanting to get chickens, but I think the poop would make me crazy.

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