Baby Birds on our Driveway

As Alice was getting ready to take the kids to school this morning, she found a newborn baby bird on our driveway. We aren’t sure how it got there. There’s a nest in a tree about 30 feet away, but that baby bird would have had to climb a long way to get that far up the driveway.  THEN, we found a second baby bird, about 10 feet away from the first.  They were both alive, although clearly helpless… their eyes closed and featherless.  In the end, Alice took the birds to the vet to try and rescue them.  I would not have been so kind.

Here you can see all the pics.

And a video here:

Palm EOS, Mini-Pre,…??

Oh yea… if this puppy comes with a keyboard and is on AT&T… I’ll be on the early adopters list!

Listing.

W00T!

I’d love to get my hands on one of these… maybe when I retire…

Roland ASD MDX 540

Hanna Barberra makes a comeback in our house

You may or may not know who Hanna Barberra is or was… but maybe you’ll remember names like:  Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Captain Caveman, Wacky Race, etc…

These are cartoons of my generation.

My kids have discovered them on Boomerang (retro cartoons channel) and that’s now all they like to watch on TV.  Too funny!

I was telling Alice that our kids are going to be able to relate to all their friends’ parents… and not their friends at school.

Kid’s Favorite Songs

What are your kids’ favorite songs? Here’s the list of songs that I find my kids singing all the time… with or without the music.

• Lauren :  Mi Ya Hi Song – Lucas Prada
• Thomas :  Candyman – Christina Aguilera
• Nicholas :  (two) Mi Ya Hi Song – Lucas Prada  &  Once Upon a Dream – Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty

Soccer Day 1

Today was the first day of organized soccer for Lauren and Thomas.  I think they had a blast… although they were admittedly tired.   I need to get them some athletic shorts and soccer cleats!

Lauren and Nicholas playing Jenga

Lauren getting married?

I thought this was pretty funny… The other night, we were at Ruby Tuesday’s with the family and my sister was there. She’s planning on having Lauren be a flower-girl at her wedding later this year and was trying to tell Lauren all about that role. The conversation turned into one of marriage and weddings, and Lauren said, “I don’t want to get married…”

We told her it’ll be her decision to get married or not, but I asked her why she did not want to get married.

She said, “Because she doesn’t like kissing.”

I thought it was pretty funny…

Worms, worms, worms…

Slowly but surely, I’ve been clearing the weeds away from the vegetable garden.  It’s not that big and it shouldn’t take that long, but it has.  Anyways, got home before Alice, who promised to make dinner, so off to the garden.  Pulling weeds and tilling soil with the kids.  Soil is everywhere.

Then they discovered the worms…

Lots of earthworms in the dirt, and they decided they’d start collecting them in a cup.  They probably collected 50 or so when all was said and done.

What I found most interesting was that all the kids were more than happy to pick up the worms with their bare hands.  All three of them — no big deal.  I used to do that as a kid all the time too… I guess there’s simply nothing scary about an earthworm.

When dinner was finally ready, the kids brought the cup full of worms to show mommy – who was promptly grossed out – and then Nicholas dumped the worms out on to the deck.  Daddy scooped up the ones which hadn’t fallen through the gaps in the decking boards and tossed ‘em all back into the garden to be collected another day.

Goldfish – CAN over eat…

Apparently goldfish CAN eat until they’re dead! Nicholas dumped half a new bottle of fish food into the fish tank, and in running around the house last night we never got a chance to fully clean out the tank. That Las Vegas buffet of fish flakes was apparently too much for our fish, and they’re both KIA.

To make the morning even more fun, Nicholas found a plastic stick and thought it’d be fun to tap/bang on the kitchen chandelier… I spent some time this morning picking up a few glass shards and fragments.