abelet.

We have a new little someone living at our house... (outside of our house, actually.)

He gets his own milk mixed up in a bucket in the mudroom... 

{Do you see Gretchen holding her nose?} 

And feeding him requires a little walk out to the barn...

Where he comes running to meet you when you call his name... 

That's a pretty sweet little face, right? 

Abelet. (We usually just call him Abe.) His momma was one of my dad's cows, but she didn't make it and Lawson thought he was ready to try his first bucket calf. 

These two are buds. Lawson loves to get in the pen and run around with Abe chasing him.

These two aren't really buds, yet. (Even though they are almost exactly the same size.) Marley gets pretty jealous of all the attention that Abe gets.  =)

Gretchen loves going to visit him and talks about him all the time. But she's still trying to work up the nerve to actually touch him. =)

We're all pretty smitten by this cute furry face... 

But I am clearly still needing some new boots if I'm going to be hiking out to the barn at 6:45 am to help feed this little guy.

That walking to the barn at 6:45 am to help feed him... that's a whole post in itself...