Blossoms and Blessings

Friday, May 17, 2013

Happy Birthday, Dan!

Today is Dan's birthday. He doesn't like big fusses about birthdays, but the kids LOVE giving gifts, so we had a surprise birthday party at my parents' house. Since it was a day off from school for the kids, they were already at Grandpa and Grandma's while we took Will to his therapy appointment.

Warming his hands over the fire

From William

William enjoying Daddy opening a gift from him

From Emily

From Andy

From Sarah

From me

Thursday, May 16, 2013

We Have Robins

Pretty much every Spring, a robin wants to build a nest on the window ledge outside of our bathroom window. They usually give up after a few days of bringing twigs and grass over. This year, I walked into the bathroom and found that there was a complete finished nest just outside the window!

Even decorated with a blue ribbon!

But it seemed that they were not using it for a week before I found a robin was sitting/nesting in it.

I decided to put up a piece of cardboard so the poor bird wouldn't fly away every time I went into the bathroom!

It is easy enough to see around/peek at the birds, but gives them more of a feeling of safety.

On April 24th, I noticed there were 2 eggs in the nest, on April 25th, 3 eggs, and on the 26th, there were 4 eggs ☺

Here is the nest as seen from outside:

This is the nest on May 2nd:

I was able to sneak this picture of mommy robin sitting on the nest from the corner of the house:

On May 7th, 2 babies have hatched:

May 8th, baby 3 hatches:

May 9th, the last baby hatches:

The ugly little things (May 11)☺

May 13th:

May 14th:

I was trying to get another picture of the babies when Mommy came back with food!

She flew off again and I got the picture I was trying for:

May 15th:

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Spring Music Program

This is the first year that we've gone to the Spring Music Program. The kindergarten through 2nd graders have their music program at Christmas time. The 3rd through 5th graders have theirs in the Spring.