For the birds

I've been sick in bed for the last 24 hours and am just now starting to come out of it(Love you 24 hour flu! Thanks A LOT). My mom took the kids all day so that I could sleep and dang, did I need some of that! I'm feeling much better now. I just picked up the kids about an hour ago and as I was loading them into the car, Madeline saw a pine cone on the ground and insisted on bringing it home. When I asked her what she was going to do with it she said, "First we will put peanut butter all over it, and then roll it in seeds, and then tie a string and put it in our tree for the birds!" Oh, okay then. But where did she learn that from? Not me. She said "Special Agent Oso taught me because he's really really smart." I feel so proud that she's actually gotten something from her daily cartoon watching! What a good mom I am for letting her watch so many. Ha!

Anyway, before I could even put the car into park when we got home she had opened the car door, run inside and pulled the peanut butter out to get started. We don't just have bird seed laying around so I improvised a little and used oats(hopefully they can eat it and I don't turn into a bird killer, kind of like the people who throw rice at weddings all in good fun and then have animal rights all over them for being so careless and thoughtless toward the dang pigeons whom we all love and adore SO much.)

They took two seconds to make and the girls were so excited to hang them in our tree. It's cold and stormy looking so I think maybe it'll be a while before we see a bird but still. They don't care. And maybe I'll sneak out and chip some of it off so that they think the birds came. Probably not, but I'd like to think I'm the kind of mom that would do that for her kids:) Honestly though, I just love that Madeline thinks of things like this. If she hadn't they would have joined me for a movie marathon in bed because I don't feel like doing anything and this was way more exciting for them. She's at such a fun age...so smart and questioning and I think it's great. And she's so good to her younger siblings, whether it be by helping Hadley spread her peanut butter or picking Bridge up to look at the pinecone in the tree. I'm so thankful for them all and for little moments that bring us together as a family.