Showing posts with label kids; Spring; 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids; Spring; 2011. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Our New Neighbor

I have a lot of flowers on our deck in the backyard.
One of the baskets of flowers is on a hook hanging by the sliding glass door.
A few weeks ago, while I was watering this plant, I noticed this:

A little bird had decided to make this plant a home for her nest.
The kids were really excited to see it there.
I left the flowers alone for awhile to see if the bird would come back and lay eggs in it.
After a week, I saw this:


One cute little blue egg!

Then a few days ago, I checked on it again.

The kids were really excited to see 4 eggs now!



(I don't know why one of them is brown, maybe they turn brown the older they get??)

The other day I finally got to take a picture of the mam bird.


I had to do it from the inside, because whenever we open the door, this happens:


I had stopped watering this plant because I didn't want to disturb the nest too much and make the mama bird leave, but yesterday I noticed the flowers were so wilted, that they didn't provide much protection for the nest. So I watered it & the flowers popped back up within an hour. I also noticed that there were 5 eggs in the nest (two are brown now).

The kids are anxiously awaiting the eggs to hatch so they can see the baby birds!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Sprinkler Time!

While the kids were riding their bikes/scooters Friday evening, I turned the sprinkler on to water the lawn.
The boys took that as,
"Mom really wants us to take our shirts off and run through the sprinkler!"

Well, it was pretty toasty out there, can you blame them??


Lily's not too fond of the sprinkler.

She walked in the puddles in the street and occasionally got a few drops on her.


Zach thought it would be funny to get water from the sprinkler & then spit it out.....

The boys had a lot of fun!!


Lily, saw how much fun the boys were having & decided to try to be brave.


That didn't last too long.....


She thought it was fun though!


On Sunday, we decided to get out the fun sprinkler (and their swimsuits).


Riley got this for his Birthday, so he was excited to finally get to use it!


Lily decided to just go down the wet slide.


After awhile this started to happen:


Which led to this:


Which lasted awhile.

Crazy boys! :0)


I have a feeling they will be wanting to do this again soon!

Monday, March 21, 2011

First Day of Spring!

Today was a beautiful day.
Perfect for the first day of spring!
We played outside a lot today.
I have some tired kids right now,
but that's OK, it's a good kind of tired. =)
Here are some pictures from our day:










(This is Zach's "I Love You" written in the sand. :0)

We can't wait to enjoy the rest of our spring break!!