2 Goats, A Baby & Heading Into The Weekend...

Goats are quick little beasts which make for blurry photos.  But I forgive them of that since they are GOATS!  I absolutely adore goats (although I heard an especially gruesome story about how they can sneakily defend themselves with those horns that made me see them in a bloodthirsty new light) and I almost never get a chance to see them live and in person.  When we visited friends who just had their baby (and other friends had their little one yesterday...it's raining babies 'round here) I was silly stoked to learn that their new home came complete with a ton of property being kept tidy by two goats.  I was also excited, of course, to meet the new addition of the tiny human...

Also, I can't blame the goats for my photography.  I've been Ms. Pointandshoot lately and itsfinejustrollwithit.  Meh.

Brady is kind of terrified of babies and small children (he's an only child with no younger family members to have interacted with) so this was a monumental moment!  In the beginning, about the time I snapped this picture when the thunderstorm was rolling in that caused the dog and baby to jump at every boom, he made that face a lot but by the end he'd relaxed and become a true pro in no time.  Luckily, he wasn't holding the baby when the pooping and crying began or else he would have reverted back in an instant.

So, goats and babies.  Cuteness abounds.  A great way to get an early start to the weekend, right?  We're planning on seeing Star Trek tomorrow as well as going to see some of Brady's new music students perform in a kids' recital (they're playing songs by Skynard and Leonard Cohen because that's what 10 year olds do now?) and I'm getting a massage for my aching shoulder.  I'm also going to make some amazing vegan ice cream for the bakery using local organic peaches that just came in this week.  Soooo good!  I'm also painting my bakery, Brady's got some lessons, we're cooking up a big dinner of something with tomatoes (they are everywhere here right now and delicious) and maybe going blackberry picking sometime on Sunday afternoon.  I'm also going to continue glutwatching Murder She Wrote because, duh, Jessica Fletcher...and because I've already glutwatched Stranger Things and I'm on a roll.  Have you seen it?  Stranger Things?  I really liked it because a) the music was great b) the Sheriff was such an interesting character c) the way it was filmed was perfection and d) I was almost the age of the youngest actors in 1983.  I kept saying things like 'oh my god, I had that necklace' or 'my house had that wallpaper' or 'my cousins played D&D all the time like that' or 'oh my god, those jeans are coming back again' or 'my bike had a banana seat!'  Brady loved that, 90's kid that he is.

So, we had goats and babies, and soon will have baking, glutwatching, massages, movies, berries, recitals. Yesssss.  Let the weekend adventures begin!