The Callahan Clan : The Miracle of Birth . . . at Spring Time?

*CAUTION* the next few pictures may be somewhat graphic

Meet Effy! Effy the cow. You may not notice right off the bat (because she is not lying in a hospital bed) but Effy is in active labor. She is going to have her first baby!

We were invited home to Cokeville to see the "baby cows" as my children have been going on and on about. Which means that lucky for us but, unfortunately for Effy she had quite the audience. I tried to document the birth with a series of photos:

Notice under the tail: those are two small hooves. (in case you need clarification those are not Effy's)

finally after a few hours, poor girl, she is able to "calve out" as they say.
(now aren't you glad your babies are not that size at birth?)

baby

and mom is exhausted! lucky for her she and her baby get to stay in the barn with fresh straw for the night. To her that is a 5 star offer!

The kids were too impatient to wait around for Effy to have her baby so they went back in the house. Which I think was probably best anyway.
But they were so excited to see the little calves running around.

Grandpa Blaine herded two of them into the barn stall so that the kids could get a closer look.

Embrie was enamored with this cat!

and the cousins were there!!! yay! Jaxon and Garrett spent one night sleeping in a tent together (inside of course) and watching a movie, staying up until 11:30pm!

And the next morning they made breakfast for all of us, smiley face pancakes with some of grandpa's bukaroo breakfast eggs as hair.

then all day Saturday playing outside, which was sooo good for them! It was a very nice day, but as you will notice spring is going to have to work a little harder up in Wyoming to melt the mountains of snow!