Curious and Shy

My family has gone bird crazy. We started studying them in science and because we have such a wide variety of birds here in the valley, I decided to go all out and buy bird feeders and go looking for as many birds as we could find in the area. The kids are like little bird geniuses. I love to hear Hope hollar out, "Hey, Mama, come look at the titmouse in our backyard" and hear Camden yell, "I hear parrots!" and start searching the trees and sky for them in the middle of soccer practice. They sound like such little homeschool geeks and I LOVE it! Never thought I'd say that!! It has inspired me to make learning more hands-on in other subjects. I'm praying for God to help me find a way to inspire such excitement for spelling words!

We have two ducks that have started coming to our backyard to join the other birds at our bird feeder. They look so awkward out there among all the other birds a quarter of their size. They peck at what has fallen on the ground and when its gone they flap up to the bird feeder and cock it sideways until it tips some seeds out. It is a bit annoying because we have to go out there several times a day to fix it. They're so darn cute though that we really don't mind. This past Thursday the kids and I got home from running errands to find the bird feeder had been knocked off the tree and was laying on the ground and completely empty of birdseed. I asked the kids, "What do you think did that?" I went outside to fix it and hang it back up and then turned to go back inside and up on the roof of my house I saw this:



They were standing completely still like statues up there and we all laughed imagining them saying, "Maybe if we stand real still she won't catch us."

This afternoon we had a big storm. After it passed our little friends named Curious and Shy were using the water puddles as their own personal pond.







I wonder if we can talk these two into moving to Olmito with us?