katie

hi. i'm katie.

this is me and my mom.

she's eloise.

i used to be a little chick.
in a egg.
my mom made my egg and she used to have a egg and all chicks come from eggs.
and chickens too. and hens. and roosters.
we're all from eggs.

this is me and my dad.

he's casey.

he never lived in a egg.
he's not a chicken or a hen or a rooster.

but he's my dad because he saved me from a dog.

and my brothers and sisters too.
it was scary but it was ok.

             look it's me!

and well dad... casey, he put us in a box in the garage and it was warm and there was food.

and then my brother started trying to jump out and we were like, "stop morton!"

his name is morton. my brother.

so we got a little house outside.

see that's me!

i'm right there walking by our water bottle. i'm the light chick. i'm katie!

i used to be little.

and then i grew big!

look, it's me again! only bigger...

so when we started getting bigger we always wanted to be with casey cause he was our dad.
like when he was eating dinner we'd fly in his windows.

and watch TV with him.

and at bedtime i would always cheep for casey. i guess we kinda all did. and we were pretty loud. well, my brother morton, the black one, he was way loud. i was only kinda loud. and we never ever ever stopped until casey-dad came out to hold us.

and then we learned how to fly out of the coop. it was SO COOL! morton figured it out first. i always came back but sometimes my brothers would run off for all day long.

so dad said... casey said we were big and needed to have more space.

so we moved to laie! 
and there's a big field,
and pretty trees,
and lots of space to play and run.
and so many tons of gazillions of other chickenc who come from eggs!

i'm katie.

cheap cheap.

cluck cluck

meet eloise.

she lives in our garage, where she sits on her eggs day after day.

eggs like these that we found in our garden,

without an eloise of their own.

which came first, the eloise or the egg?