She is nesting in our window boxes/over the rail herb garden. She's been there a long time and finally gotten used to us. We can now walk past the box (with kids shouting and all) and she stays put.She is sitting on 2 eggs...and then just one, as the other hatched (you can just barely see a little bit of the baby in the next picture).
Unrelated...when we are both home, Den probably does bedtime 95% of the time, as he claims to love that calm time with the kids. When you account for travel, it works out to be me 30% (or am I tilting the scales in the wrong direction?).
It's been a while since I've been through a full on bedtime routine, even though I sporadically help out until Den gets to the books/song part of the night. Both kids lay on his chest and they sing songs, each kid taking a turn picking (the parent in my case gets a turn too, can't speak for Den).
Tonight we sang variations of Twinkle Little Star. We sang Twinkle Little Airplane, like a Bird in the Sky. We sang twinkle little albuterol (Ed's asthma meds) to great laughter. We then did Twinkle Little Pulmicort (another asthma med). Can I say how hard I have to concentrate to type Twinkle Little Star correctly. Yikes!
Before Eddie could really talk much, he would hum songs. We started to play close attention. It turns out he was humming Twinkle Little Star. Sometime around then I learned the ABC song and Twinkle Little Star are the same melody. I have a hard enough time coming up with good stories to tell, let alone on the fly lyrics to TLS.
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Uncle D says it appears to be a dove (his undergradute degree was science education). I like all the creativity in the twinkle, twinkle song.
Mourning dove, to be specific! They are pretty comfortable with people, compared to most other wild birds.
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