Summer Time. Sounds like a relaxing season, but it is really prime time for siblings to drive one another crazy. Yesterday Sophie was outside on the patio putting together a giant K-nex set. She was enjoying her solo time. Grace, on the other hand hates solo time. She wants to be with her sisters, or friends, or me and Brian all the time. And when everyone is occupied she (like thousands of youngest children before her) resorts to pestering. Sophie was a prime target for her attention yesterday and before I knew it, I had a full sibling battle on my hands! This was one way for Grace to get Sophie's attention.
Not five minutes after the girls got themselves sorted out, I was at the kitchen sink looking out the window and saw the goats in an eerily similar situation! Silver was lounging in the sunshine on top of the rabbit hutch (a coveted spot in the goat yard). His sister Lily was also on top of the rabbit hutch but she wasn't snoozing, she was totally pestering her brother! She was using her hoof to paw at him, completely begging for him to play with her and he was having none of it. She tried all sorts of methods--even standing over him and nudging him with her nose. Finally he got up, and in standing Lily got all tangled up and had to leap off the hutch or she would have fallen. Silver looked at her with an irritated glare and then settled himself back down into his sun-snooze position. Lily looked around the yard for someone else to pester.
So really, are goats and kids any different? Apparently at our house, they are all just kids.
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