We have a bird’s nest right outside of our front door. It seems like it has been there forever. Anytime you walk over to the door or if someone comes over the Mother bird normally comes flying out of the nest like a bat out of hell and there have been a few times we have been beak to nose! It can be scary… So anyway I wasn’t sure if there were any baby birds up there or not, but the other day we noticed them. It was so hot and their little heads were sticking up and they were panting from the heat. I felt so bad for them, but what could we do… ya know, the mother would have had a fit if we tried to get close. I told Jeff to give them some water! But of course he said no… I doubt they would have drunk it anyway. Obviously I know nothing about birds! Ella thought it was really neat to see them. We counted 4 of them. 
They don’t have their eyes open yet… it looks gross from all the twigs and dirt. They look so weird to me and cute at the same time. It looks like that have quite a bit of fuzz on their face. 
June 12, 2008
Baby birds
Cookies and Tea please!
Ella and I decided to make cookies the other night. Nothing too fancy, just a good old Betty Crocker mix. At the last minute I remembered that we had some red food coloring…we had just enough to make some of the cookies pink and swirly looking 
. Note to self – buy more food coloring. I think it makes it fun for kids to eat food that they made into another color. Next up – green pancakes! 
So after we made the cookies, I was cleaning up and I noticed that Ella started bringing all kinds of toys and chairs downstairs. She even had Jeff carrying chairs for her, so then after she was all settled, she starting setting up her tea party… this was one of the cutest things ever. I always hear/heard about little girls doing this, but this is the first time that I know of that Ella has done this. 
It was soooo cute, she was serving them (the stuffed animals/dolls) tea and cookies. Ah, why didn’t I get the video camera out… I just now thought of that. I am terrible at that kind of thing…. 
look at the little horse on the left!
