Birdie Friends

We have a deck outside of our apartment here in Twin and one day we noticed a swallow building a nest above our deck light. I was excited because I love baby animals and it was like having my own pet birds! Nathan wanted to tear it down before the bird laid any eggs because he was worried that that it would get protective and would attack us when we went outside, but don't worry I wouldn't let him do it! The eggs hatched at the end of June and here are the cute little birdies peeking out of the nest.

You can see their fuzzy little heads to which Conner bears a striking resemblance...

People are always commenting on his crazy hair. Quite a few random people have come up to us and said "I love his hair, it's just like a baby chick!" I was like "Hmmm a chick?" I never really saw the birdlike resemblance until now.

Anyways... I have been able to watch the birds out of my bedroom window and Nathan always makes fun of me and thinks I am a nerd but it has been so much fun!

We let our cat Patches go out on the deck (she doesn't ever even try to run away like she did back in Rexburg!) and she usually runs back inside after a few minutes because the birds scare her...it is pretty funny that she is such a scaredy cat!

Here are the birds all grown up right before they left the nest... it only took them a couple of weeks from the time they were hatched!

It was fun while it lasted but as you can see lots of birds equals lots of bird poopie....

Silliness

Nathan thought it would be funny to teach Conner a new trick...



Don't worry it was a clean toe! He sucked on it for a little bit but wasn't too sure what to think. I told Nathan to stop putting it in his mouth... but only after I laughed and took a couple of pictures... :)

Conner has been laughing ALOT lately and it is so much fun being able to get a reaction out of him. He especially gets a kick out of playing peek-a-boo because he thinks something about it is incredibly funny. Here is a video from today of Nathan making him laugh. It is nice to know that at least someone thinks that we are funny... even if he is just a baby...

4th of July!

We had a really fun fourth of July! Once again we made the journey to Idaho Falls to be with my family. On Saturday we woke up early and watched the parade. Here is Conner being patriotic and waving the flag.

Then we had a BBQ and went swimming at Green Canyon. I just found out that Green Canyon was built a hundred years ago- my Dad said that my Grandpa swam there when he was a kid! It is definitely getting run down (the ladder by the diving board only has one step so Nathan had to pull me out of the water!) but it was still really fun! Then we went to the river to watch the firework show. We were excited to see what Conner's reaction would be. At first he was pretty amazed and kept staring and giggling but it is a long show so he eventually lost interest...After the show we went and ate at Denny's. We all ate way too much and were not hungry again until Sunday afternoon. We had a blast and were sad to come home!