Emma had a little lamb

just for a day

my oldest sister lives out in the country and they keep a small variety of animals: they keep horses for fun, they keep cows for wholesome milk, they keep pigs for tasty ham, often they keep chickens for eggs (except this year - they had trouble with a weasel last year) and they keep sheep for lovely warm wool.

One of their ewes recently had twins. one of the lambs did not learn to suckle and momma ewe was having trouble producing. they had to bottle feed both lambs at first then the first one learned suck and momma started making enough for one. Yesterday Anna and her kids had to be somewhere for the whole day and they needed someone to bottle feed baby and give her her medicine (she had a sore tummy) and so they asked if we could lamb-sit. Emma had been over to their house recently and helped bottle feed Crybaby the lamb so she was my helper all day and the lamb was so in love with her. she would follow her around the yard. sometimes she would follow the boys or me, but if Emma was outside she wanted to be by her.

it was so precious