The Bird's Nest

A few weeks ago when I was watering my flower baskets, I came across this bird's nest. Since it had no eggs in it, we went ahead and took it out thinking the bird would build somewhere else.

Marie liked seeing what a bird's house looked like.

Well, the next week when I went to water the basket, the bird had returned. She hastily tried to build a nest but must not have had enough time before she had to lay her eggs. So now there are 5 little eggs in a sparce nest in the flower basket. I definitely didn't want to remove the eggs. So I went to the place I bought the basket and asked them what I should do. They said to water around the eggs and they should be fine. It's been almost 2 weeks and I think they should be hatching soon. I've tried not to bother the basket too much. It's only needed watering once, but is due for another watering soon. Hopefully a couple of weeks after they hatch, they will be ready to fly away and I can resume my normal watering and dead-heading. The basket has done fine, but I worry about the eggs since they don't really have much of a nest.

Here is the best picture I could get of the mama bird. She is on the branch near the middle of the picture. Okay bird lovers - tell me what kind of bird it is. A finch maybe?

Campout

The teens had a campout at the beginning of this month and we decided to go too. Bill and Marie spent the night, while I enjoyed a more comfortable bed at home. Marie absolutely loved going camping. Especially after she got a little toy campout set for her birthday.

She is such a big girl - and she knows it!

A campout isn't a campout without a campfire and stories.

Camp buddies!

Spring Piano Recital

I really like teaching piano lessons. With being pregnant, I didn't advertise as much this year as I have in the past. But the little group I had did really well. Nearly everyone played 2 songs - a solo and a duet. Some students prepared 2 solos. There was even one student who had only been taking lessons for 2 months that prepared a song for the recital. And there was one student who had snowbirded until the beginning of April, and still managed to prepare a solo and a duet. I'm very excited for the potential this group has in the future!

Marie's 3rd Birthday Party

Marie's favorite show for the past year or so has been the Little Einstein's. So we used that theme for her birthday party. Liz and I constructed this cake. Actually, this was the second one. It looks like the rocket ship from the show. Marie loved it!!!

We had the kids decorate red poster board into their own 'rocket ship'. Bill decorated blue poster board and was the mean big blue jet. Big jet is a bully on the show. Afterwards, we went into the front yard and Big Jet chased all the little Rockets. The kids had so much fun!

Marie blowing out her Birthday candle.

Present time!

Group photo.