We’ve had a whole bunch of little birdhouses hanging around the barn for several years. Jim decided to let the children each have one. They got to decide where to hang it, and the boys put them up.

This one is Hewitt‘s:

Don’t you just love Hewitt’s smile? He seems to have forgotten how, and just makes this grimace lately.

This birdhouse belongs to Jade and Indigo:

Brett was the one taking these birdhouse photos. Apparently they hung the birdhouses after dinner and were too excited to wash off their faces. Hmmm… wonder what we had for dinner? Spaghetti perhaps?

I also wonder at what age Brett will start to notice that their faces are covered in food and wipe them off before she snaps the photo?

Anyway…

The birdhouses are actually working. There are birds living in each of them. I know this because one nearly attacked me as I was mowing the lawn in front of it. It scared the daylights out of me and I believe I let out a little shriek yelp. The children thought that was just the funniest thing ever – not the shriek yelp, but the out of control lawnmower when I ducked and covered my head.