Their Here!!!!!!!!!!

I walked into the bedroom this afternoon and looked over at the window. The infamous one that now during the day we have to leave the blind fully open so the girls can sit there and watch Mama Robin.

Well, Mama Robin wasn't sitting on her nest this afternoon so I went over there and sure enough, two little baby robins were laying in there. To me, they actually look like aliens with beaks. I called for the girls to come up and we sat there and watched the baby birds ooing and ahing over how little they were. L. even found out that if you tap on the window, the birdies pop up their heads and open up their beaks expecting Mama Robin to pop in a worm.

The Excitement Continues

All the talk this week has been about Mama Robin and her eggs. Two more in fact have been layed in the nest. It's actually exciting on my part as well. We've all learned a thing or two this week about Mother Nature and her works.

To continue our ongoing story of Mama Robin, she's been visiting the nest quite frequently and the girls just think it's so cute that she likes to keep her little eggies nice and warm.

It is actually really interesting to watch her sit there keeping the eggs warm, flying in to check on them, and more amazing that L. will sit there quitely indian style and watch her (the length of a 3 year old attention span is quite amazing sometimes). It's almost as if we have our own front row seats to nature.

On a side note, being that all the talk this week has been about birds, eggs, and Robins, I did a little search so that the girls and I can learn more about this whole experience and came across this link here. The first egg was layed on April 21st so that means that after all the eggs are layed, we should have some baby birds first or second week of May.

Busy Lil' Bees

That's been us lately. Seems like once this gorgeous Spring weather hit us, we've been outside all the time now. Only to go in to get dinner prepared. I love it though. It feels good being outside and watching my girls at play.


So I'll start with some big news that we've (around here) have been waiting for. A Mama Robin has been building her nest outside our bedroom window for weeks now and the girls have crept in so quitely to watch her (and they think it's hilarious they way she wiggles her bum to shape the nest).

Then finally the big day came. Mama Robin put a little eggie in her nest.

So that has been the big news this week around our house. They are so excited and keep checking on the egg a gazzillion times a day. When Mama Robin is there keeping her little soon to be hatched babe warm they think it's cute and precious. But when Mama Robin is off doing her bird duties, they sorda get upset. K. even asked if she could open the window and grab the egg to hold it and keep it warm.

Over the weekend, I did some gardening. Putting in only low maintenace plants and flowers such as Black-Eyed Susans, Hosta, Lamb's Ear (my fave), and Daffodils. I swear, I'm probably the only person that could kill a cactus. Yes, I do get my cooking and crafting ability from my Grandmother, but that is it. (And I'm jealous too because my Grandma can walk through any garden and name every flower, how to care for it, and what sunlight is best for it. I swear, she's an older version of Martha Stewart when it comes to gardening.) So on Earth Day, the girls and I gathered bricks and rocks from around our yard and made a little rock garden. In order for it to grow, you just add more rocks (the easiest garden I know how to care for).

Another thing that we did on Earth Day was that James and I finally got around to hanging up our clothesline. The girls loved it as well and were helping us hang up the clothes, then of course running under the clothes laughing each time.

I love having a clothesline. Now I'll just have to plan my laundry day on nice warm sunny days.