Awhile back Mariella and I were looking for something fun to do, just to get out of the house. It was early spring but the weather was great and we wanted to play. So, we went to Fulton Farms in Troy. I thought they might have some small farm animals we could feed or pet. When we got there, they were still setting up the store for the season. They weren't officially open yet but the girl there said there were animals out back that we could visit. They had a very large, very disinterested pig, a pen full of goats that clamored at us like hungry zombies, and some pretty cool chickens and ducks.
Now at the time, Mariella was still struggling with some sounds and she pronounced her "ch" sound like a "d" sound. But she was pretty excited to see the birds and went about talking to them like they were her friends. We approached the fence and she knelt down and said, "Hey dickens, how ya doin?" I tried hard not to laugh out loud but she just kept saying it over and over. "Hey, dickens, how ya doin? How you doin', dickens? Look mommy, dickens!"
There were a lot of dickens. They were very perky, strutting dickens. Some were bald dickens, some not so bald. But when the dickens started to peck at Mariella, I decided it was time to go. We have a lot of time to deal with exposure to dickens.
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