Many of you know that I live on a dairy farm. We have a registered herd, which means our cows are show-breed quality with bloodlines and pedigrees. We have a lot of calves born to bovine mommies, and when these babies are born, we name them according to a pedigree process...

It's pretty simple, really. The name of the farm goes first, then the father's (bull's) name, then the calf's name. The calf's name has to start with the same letter as her mom's. This mom's name was Princess, so naming this little heifer calf was a no-brainer for the Padawans and I...

Meet Padmé,born Sunday, June 15 at approximately 3:00 p.m. in my back pasture!
(My Hubakin asked me not to share any other farm info for privacy reasons...y'all understand... )

Kolby-Wan (my youngest son) immediately became very protective of her as soon as Padmé was separated from her mommy to go to the main dairy facility. In the above pictures, she was just about an hour old.

Yesterday, Kolby-Wan insisted on wanting to feed Padmé her bottle of yummy milk. The two boys regularly feed the baby claves their bottles, but newborns are especially difficult to feed because they aren't as adept at it just yet. But Kolby-Wan didn't give up! Padmé is a good little eater, too.

The cool thing is that if you look on her side, she looks like she has the Tatooine twin suns as her markings on her upper rib area! Coincidence? Think not, I do...this little heifer was destined to be a Star Wars bovine!! All she has to do now is give blue milk when she gets older...!

I'm sure she is just the first in a long line of Star Wars-named animals at our farm.

By the way, the boys and I have started to "unofficially" call her "Padmé Amooooodala"!!!

May The Milk Moustache Be With You,

MO2YP