I was in the office, working on putting Payton’s kids on the website. I had music playing, but I had headphones on because Dad was taking a nap. In the pause between songs, I could hear the goats and dogs.

Dad had set up a webcam in the stall, and he had the program open on his computer. Occasionally I’d go watch the girls for a minute, but none of them seemed to be doing anything. There were a couple that we thought might go, so we had brought them all into the stall with the webcam.

I was in the middle of uploading pictures when my playlist ended. I was getting ready to turn another one on when I heard a new sound coming from the webcam.

There was a goat screaming, the kind of noise they make when they’re in labor. I ran over to Dad’s computer, looking at the goats in the stall, but it wasn’t any of them.

I grabbed my goat sweatshirt and ran to the barn as fast as I could. As I entered the barn I heard the yelling one more time, and then it stopped. I looked at the goats in the pen, but I didn’t see anything. I groaned – it must have been Zipporah, our drama queen.

While I was out there I decided to check the ones that we thought were kidding soon. There wasn’t anything happening, so I turned around and started to go back  to the soaproom.

As I was walking past the other stalls, I happened to peek in and see Zaphire. But I didn’t just see Zaphire – I saw the legs that were sticking two inches out of her butt!

I called Mom, grabbing towels as I went into the stall. “Zaphire’s got hooves!” I hung up when Mom said “On my way!” and went into the stall.

Colter came into the barn and I yelled “Zaphire’s kidding!” as he walked towards the stall. He helped me get all of the goats out, pushing the last one out just as Mom got there.

Everything that happened next happened so fast, I barely remember what happened. I remember that there was a baby, who turned out to be a boy.

Zaphire’s letter was Q – she was Queen Zaphire. So we needed a “Qa” name… or “Qua”. We came up with Quadrant.

I ran back to the soaproom to grab the camera. When I got back to the barn, I took a couple of pictures of Quadrant and fed him. The whole thing didn’t even take an hour! When I was done I headed back to the soaproom, with another baby to add to the website. 🙂