Our first egg?

So some of you may know that this spring, we got some day old chicks to raise for eggs . . . this was back in March. We bought 12, assuming that some may die from shock, stress, etc. Well, two did. Oh well, I guess we figured that well seeing as we wanted 10 chickens! We bought straight run chicks, which for those of you who don't know, means that the chicks weren't sexed - we didn't know if they'd turn out as hens or roosters. Knowing that we didn't need or want roosters, this was a bit of a risk, but we lucked out in the end, and got all hens! We built a pretty (really) makeshift coop, and let the kids go to town painting it with leftover cans of paint from years of projects and various room paintings (it's quite the picture - speaking of, I should take a good picture of it and post that!)Then, after a couple weeks of living in the garage, set the chickens out in the pen and coop. We have been, for 5 months now, anxiously awaiting our "first" egg. The kids and/or us parents check every day (sometimes multiple times a day) for our "first" egg. We knew it was due anytime now, but it just didn't show up. I think the kids were growing tired of looking and not finding anything, and the chickens must have sensed this, because where this morning there were none, this afternoon, there were FOUR!!! Yup . . . We didn't get a "first" egg, we got a bunch! The kids were and are still so excited, that I don't think we'll have any problem getting them to check for eggs! (At least for a few days!) Oh and don't ask me why we decided on 10 chickens . . . we were thinking that we might get up to 7 eggs a day, but to get 4 on day one . . . we may just be up to our ears in eggs in the very near future! Now, it's time to hurry up and wait for our first "double-yoker"!!!