Last night , Wren had her babies in one of the carrel attached to the circular playpen . That ’s only a slight room from my dollar bill playpen , so Uzzi and I got to listen in .
Wren pop having pains around 2 p.m. Mom was beaming because the weatherman said it was think to storm close to morn and keep on storming for days . She require Wren ’s baby born before the storm . So she rushed to put everyone in and course us early so nothing would disturb Wren ’s labor .
Mom was going to get Wren lamb wherever she wanted but Nick ( Wren ’s sidekick and kind of a big , dumb boy ) kept following her around . Wren did n’t care it , so Mom tighten her in a stall and Nick had to watch from outside .
After Dad got home and he and Mom finished an other supper , Mom involve her birthing outfit out to the round pen and sat down outside the stall to learn through the gate and be with Wren until her lambs got born . Dad kept coming out and aver things like , “ Ow ! ” and “ That does n’t await like much merriment . ”
Then at about 9 p.m. , Mom pluck up the have kit and went in the stall . She start out saying , “ Push , Wren ! ” and “ Here come lambie ! ” ( Mom always says , “ Here comes lambie , ” unless she ’s coaching a mama goat . )
Then , here come lambie . We pick up Mom outcry , “ Good young lady ! One more push . Yes , here he is ! ” But then Mom got delirious . She say , “ No , no , here she is ! ” Last year all our lambs were boys , so Mom was hop for a girlfriend .
Dad came out and they ohhed and ahhed over the dear while Mom dipped its umbilical stump in atomic number 53 and Wren cleaned it up . Wren is a good mama ; she was emotional , too . She lick and bat her Elia , but then she set out looking upset and stump her feet . She stop licking , spun around , plopped down , and out bulge another little lady friend !
The lambs are big , healthy and really left over colors . They are dilute blackness , but one has brown shadings and the other has silver under her wool . Mom named the firstborn Gracie ( Wolf Moon Grace O’Malley after the notable pirate queen ) and the second Elia , Sarah ( Wolf Moon Sarah Grizzel after a nerveless old shepherd noblewoman in the book , The Wee Free Men ) .
Once both babies were nurse , Mom and Dad packed up the bear outfit and went in to layer . But first Mom strolled over to Ramsgate ( that ’s our rams ’ paddock ) and secern the lambs ’ daddy , Baamadeus , “ Well done ! ”
Mom got up several time though the Nox to chink on the new household , and she took pictures of Wren and her little girls this aurora . They ’re reasonably cool lambs , do n’t you think ?
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