We've been reading in our little "What to Expect the First Year" book about how she will start to express herself more. It was so fun to look back at these bath shots and see her little personality shining forward
We are affectionately guessing this is a smile of satisfaction. "Yeah I am clean!" Everyone likes baths right.
Man, have I been exhausted this week. In fact I told Doug that I hoped that it was Friday today because I've needed his help. On Wednesday, Samantha did not want to take any naps during the day. I would put her down to only get her back up after 20 minutes. I read some information online about starting good sleep habits but lucky by Friday she had it down. She stays up for about the same time she is sleeping during the day. She is a stellar night sleeper. She usually goes 4 hours at night, wakes for only about 30 minutes to feed, and then promptly goes back to sleep. I just wish that my day started closer to 6:30 not 5:30.
A few weeks ago I posted on facebook "the birds our back" which literally means we have our own birds, bird droppings, bird nests, bird everything. For some reason they like our front porch. It used to be that they tried to build a nest right above our front door, that's when Doug put up tin foil, so they moved to the window sill. Again Tin foil, and metalic windmills kept them away. (Sorry neighbors for the tackiness but it is the only thing that has worked) Well just before Samantha was born, we found a bird's nest in our hanging basket. There were no eggs in it and it was early in the season, so Doug moved it to our front tree.
The wind successful knocked it out of the tree and we thought that was the end of it.
Then yesterday, I mentioned to Doug, there seems to be birds in our hanging basket again. He got up early one morning and this is what he found through our side window. Yes a little birdie was perched inside our hanging basket.
She is not afraid of us, and will sit in the hanging basket even if we are standing on the porch. She is super quiet when she leaves as well. So after she left one day, Doug got the basket down and searched inside, this is what he found below. The most perfect little nest. So now what do we do? I don't know if I have the heart or lack of heart to get rid of this nest. Especially after such persistence by the bird to be fruitful.
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I love her smug little smile. I can't believe how she's filled out. What a doll!
The bird eggs are beautiful. I know the birds can be messy but I'd hate to move it too. Grandma Stafford had birds nest in her hanging baskets too.
Love ya,
Mom
Oh, what beautiful blue eggs! And I agree that your baby girl looks quite pleased with her bath in that second picture =)
we can't wait to see you all...sleepy heads and all!
She's so darling.
Last night I looked through my bird book and was going to tell you that you had a house sparrow and to do whatever you wanted with it because it's invasive.
But now that I've seen the eggs, I'm thinking it's a house finch (not that I know anything).
We had house finches when we lived at Moon. I loved watching for the red head and breast of the males. Hope they don't leave you too big of a mess.
Sarah - you are right on. House Finch. It's gotta be. We don't see the male much anymore, but we did when they built their first nest.
She is way cute with the smile and swaddled in a warm towel after a bath! Love it!
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