Big boy things!

The boys love doing handyman jobs, well they actually love just playing around with grandpa Jim's tools - more like spreading them everywhere, heh. So after much frustration on his part he finally found a way to keep them out of his tools!

As of two weeks ago, he begun doing a handyman project with them at least once a week. So far they've put up a little wooden fence around our new plants (which they also planted by the way) and their latest project; a bird feeder.

The boys are in high heaven during handyman project time, well Kenji is at least and for the most part Angel is too -that is when he's not in 'distraction land.' Ha! It was Kenji's first time painting and he loved it! When he returned to me he said, "Me get paint on hands, it's okay, grandpa put stinky stuff on me hands, now it's all gone." Awww, my little one is growing up too fast!

Oh, yes, in other news our family of birds has grown. We now have a grand total of 5 -- 2 grown up ones (parents) and 3 baby birds. I'd never really seen a baby birds' growing up process so it was quite cool to see it with our batch of baby birds. Oh, and guess what? Our baby birds are a month or so old and the mom has already begun laying more eggs - 6 eggs so far. Last time she laid 11 but only 3 hatched. Well, see how it goes with this new batch.

I took this opportunity to teach Kenji about birds, and from our baby birds we learned that in about 10 - 13 days from being born they; grow a lot, get their feathers/color, start looking more like birds, fly/flap their wings, and that once they come out of the nest it means they are then able to peck/eat food on their own and withing days they get down the whole flying thing.