I had been out checking on the goats twenty minutes earlier, and it looked like nothing had been happening. But apparently something had been happening, because we got the phone call.
“Um, Brett? I think Persephone’s kidding. There’s goo, but nothing else is really happening. Can you have Mom come check? She doesn’t have her phone again. I’d ask Dad, but he’s still asleep, right?”
Mom is infamous for leaving her phone on her desk. I get calls and texts all the time asking me to relay information to her, because she almost never has her phone with her.
“Yeah Em, Dad’s still asleep. He took a really long shift last night. I’ll try to find Mom and send her down there.”
I found Mom and held out her phone. “Emery wants you down in the barn. He thinks Persephone might be kidding.”
Mom took her phone and went down to the barn. A couple of minutes later she called me. “Go ahead and bring the camera down here. She’ll be going soon.”
Emery helping Persephone
An hour or so later, we had our first baby. It was a girl, and we decided to name her Pandora.
Mom handing Pandora to Fletcher
Less than a few minutes later, we had another baby on the ground. It was another girl!
“Penny?”
“Penelope?”
“Pela.”
Mom looked bothered. “I don’t like any of these. How about Pembrooke?”
Pembrooke? No, not Pembrooke. I started grinning as I looked at Mom and suggested “Pemberley.”
Mom laughed and said “That’s perfect!”
The boys were looking at us like we were crazy. “What is Pemberley, or who is it, and why is it perfect?”
Mom explained. “Pemberley is where Mr. Darcy lives in Pride and Prejudice. It’s the perfect name for her! Pemberley is special and so is this little one – she’s a sundgau doeling out of Persephone!”
Sundgau is one of our favorite colorings. It means that she’s black with certain white markings. And Persephone is one of our top does – she’s the dam of our herdsire Panini. So this was a great doeling, and we were planning on keeping her.
Persephone licking Pemberley
I brought them into the milk room and rubbed Pemberley down.
Me helping Pemberley stand
I helped her stand up and take a few steps, then laughed hysterically when her legs went out from under her.
Pemberley doing the splits
Pandora was already standing up, running around the milk room. She kept getting stuck under the milk stand. 😀
Pandora
The next day I took their pictures (at the same time I took Waverly’s).
Pandora
Pemberley
I just had to post this one. I was sitting down and a bunch of babies were crawling all over me. Except Pemberley. She was staring at me, and I couldn’t resist taking a picture. I love her floppy ear! It’s already straightening – they don’t last long. They’re so adorable though!
Pemberley
We had 27 baby goats – we were hoping for 35+. Were we going to make it?