An Egg Story

[PrttyBrd]

After 7months of hatching and growing and feeding these hungry things, yesterday we had an EGG! Woo Hoo! So excited, I'm doin' a jig!!! Upon hearing that we're going to eat said egg, my 4yr old clutched it lovingly & cried, "No! No! we can't eat the baby chicken!" while sobbing. It was so sweet and touching and cute and really quite funny. It took all I had not to giggle at his sweetness while holding him and trying to explain that not all eggs grow into chickens. Unfortunately, he already knows what roosters are for :o)Though this is a kid who can eat scrambled eggs for days, the processes of seeing his chickens become parents has nothing to do with food, even though he knew we got them to eventually get eggs. I dread the day we dress one (eat one). After he was done talking to the egg it was his brothers turn. Once it got back to me, I promptly put it in the fridge.He got over it, for now. But I feel so bad, and I'm still so excited to finally have that first egg that truly I can't wait to eat it.