Chicks and Chickens

Last week, we had a quick snowstorm and our silly chickens got trapped by the bird feeder. The chickens don't like to walk on snow so they stayed under the feeder where they had a little bare spot of ground. Finally after some snow started accumulating on their backs, I sent Nathan out there to shoo them into their coop.

We have new chicks as well. This Dominic is a couple of days old.

We got a healthy batch this time - all strong and walking around almost immediately out of the box.

With our order, we elected to receive the free exotic chick. We're calling him (her) Pom since he looks like someone glued a pom-pom on his head. We're guessing he/she might be a Polish or a Silkie.

Happy Birthday to Deborah (and me)

Deborah turned nine! We have the traditional chocolate chip pancakes ...

... the nine year old girl cake with a motorcycle race...

... legos ...

... books ...

... and birthday money!

I got my wish and had a wonderful ice cream cake!

Birds and Butterflies

The Cardinals are back!

Aaron sat for a long time and tried to get a chickadee to eat out of his hands. There was one brave one that couldn't quite get up enough courage to go all the way to Aaron. He would fly down until he was about 2 feet away and then fly back to a branch.

My parents are visiting and we made our annual trip to the Butterfly House.

It was a sunny day and the butterflies were very active.

Dinosaurs!

We went with our local homeschool group to see an Argentinean dinosaur exhibit.

These are velociraptor bones. A lot smaller than Jurassic Park made them out to be!

This is the Gigantisaurus, possibly the biggest meat eater, bigger than a T. Rex.

They had a dinosaur digging site where the children can unearth bones. Deborah really enjoyed it and stayed in the box for a long time.