It was almost nine at night, but I asked Mom if I could watch a movie anyway. I knew that Zuzu was going to have her kids soon, and I’d rather be awake and dressed when that happens. We were still at the soaproom (it was the fourth night we had spent there).
She gave me permission, so I sat down with a laptop and Grandma’s netflix account to watch Mirror Mirror. I had just reached the credits when my phone rang.
“Hey Dad, what’s up?”
“Zuzu will be kidding soon. C’mon down here.”
“Ok. I’ll be there in a bit.”
I hung up and headed for the break room. I grabbed a handful of cashews and took a drink, preparing to be down in the barn for an hour or two. My phone vibrated and I checked it – I had a text from Colter.
“Zuzu is going soon. Got a nose.”
I ran as fast as I could to get my sweatshirts and ran down to the barn. She was kidding, and I wanted to be there! I arrived in the barn and found Zuzu, who was standing up in the stall moaning. She was not lying on the ground pushing, and there wasn’t a baby there.
I groaned and leaned against the wall, catching my breath.
My running wasn’t in vain though. A few minutes later she started pushing, and then we had a baby! There’s some pictures of that birth here.
We checked and it was a boy. We had to come up with a “Za” boy name. After about two minutes, we came up with Zamboni.
A couple of minutes later, there was another baby, this time a girl. After much discussion, we decided on the name Zeyda.
Zuzu licking Zeyda off
Cleaning Zeyda off
Greyden took Zeyda into the milk room, while the rest of us waited. Dad had felt another kid, so we knew there was another one coming. Dad told Mom “If the kid isn’t out in ten minutes, I’m going in.”
Thankfully, it didn’t come to that. About five minutes later, we had a third baby, another girl, lying on the ground getting dried off. When we finally agreed on a name, it was Zinnia.
When we brought her into the milk room, the other two were standing up and yelling at us. They were all hungry! Colter got his pail and went out to milk Zuzu.
It was midnight, and we still had to feed babies. I was so tired – I wanted to go to bed! But the babies were more important. So we fed them. And at 12:30 I finally went to bed. But I wouldn’t get to sleep long – there were more babies the next morning!
The triplets
Zamboni
Zeyda
Zinnia
We weren’t even half way yet, and we were all getting really exhausted. The goats had to get a move on, if they expected any of us to be able to do anything at the end of Kidding Season!
