birds update

Here are our birds -1 week later. Every Thursday we take them out and change the bedding in the nesting box. You can see they are getting their feathers. We only have 6 now and we are not sure what happened to the 1 tiny bird because we did not find it. The egg was cracked and we did find one small bird in the bedding that had died. They are so loud that their peeps for food when the parents go in the box. Hey Ella- "Tinkerbell" do you see one that you want?

3 Little Princesses and one prince

I am sitting here watching 3 of my little girls... Anna, Lily and Mya twirling, and dancing to the Steven Curtis Chapman cd- Declaration. They are twirling their flowing skirts they wore from church... And from their comments and smiles you can just see they feel "pretty". They are too. Such radiance comes from a soul that is loved and has purpose.... It reminds me of my own faith and how I can reflect the love the Lord has given to me. I hope that I am "pretty" and that is my true reflection of my own soul.... Now my little prince, Luke has joined them :) Confidence and joy is being shared to each other as they encourage and twirl, and jump... Ohh my heart is singing...

We have lots of baby birds

New Life again in our home- this time feathers

The day after Levi died our female parakeet laid an egg in their cage... It was broken but we knew we had to buy a nesting box. We put it in the cage and she began laying more eggs... Tonight we cleaned the box and we have been hearing the babies sing... Some are 2 weeks old and others are just 2 days old and their is one egg left to hatch.... We have 8 baby birds and 1 egg and the parents....Our little ones got out of bed to see them and here is a pic of the baby birds inside the box.... We will keep you posted..... It is so good to have "babies" chirping and being born again in our home....The kids are so excited and don't want us to give any away.... We have always had birds but none have ever laid eggs for us... So this has been a new experience for us and we all are enjoying it. We talked with a "bird" specialist and she said they will continue to have babies.... Oh no what are we in for?

Ava is 1 and Paw Paw is....53

Ava is now one years old.... She is so much fun. Here are 3 pics of her..... first one is her on her b-day, second one is when the girls dressed her up as a princess and the last is when they put on Luke's superman costume... She loved that and cooperated with her silly face....

Since she and Paw Paw share their b-day... this yr. the cake was a carrot cake.

The first pic is Aunt Mya- that's right our little Mya is Ella'a aunt... even though they are about the same size. Mya is 6 and Ella is 2. This pic is Ezra getting ready to go out.