Picture update Part 2

What a big help Grace is! She loves to read to Matthew. (Have you noticed by the plethora of pictures I have of them reading together?)

More babysitting by Grace. I don't force this by the way, she always volunteers. And child services need not come knocking- Mommy is always in the same room!

And more bird adventures! We were lucky enough to have another bird nest in our yard, also at eye level. This time all four birds hatched. We never saw the babies leave the first nest, so it was a real treat to discover this little guy by our backdoor one morning. He couldn't fly yet (did he fall out of the nest?) so Dixie was kept indoors so she didn't have bird for breakfast. Later that day, Grace and I went to go check on the other baby birds in the nest only to find it empty as well. However, upon further inspection we found one baby in each of our basement window wells. With a little help from a shovel, we were able to gently save each of the birds, upon which one silly guy decided to go under the fence into the watchful gaze of the Great Hunter, Dixie. Luckily I was able to stop her, along with some help from Mommy and Daddy Bird (they were diving at Dixie!).
Exhausted from her days of babysitting Matthew and rescuing baby birds, Grace didn't even bother to put her head on her pillow when she fell asleep for her nap. She truly just fell over from a sitting position. She did, apparently, have plenty of time to pull her covers up from the bottom of her bed.