Mommy, there's a bird in the kitchen...

I was reading stories with Chloe getting her ready for a nap when Connor came in and said, "Mommy, there's a bird in the kitchen."
 "A bird in the kitchen?"

"Yeah there's a bird in the kitchen."

"A real live bird?"

"Yeah, it's in the kitchen."

"A flying bird?"

"I think so, it's in the kitchen."

"Okay, let's go see it."

We walk downstairs, look in the kitchen...

"Wow, there's a bird in the kitchen!"

"I know, I told you that."

The poor thing wasn't the smartest bird in the place.  It flew in the sliding glass door and then flew into every window.  In the end I had knocked the screens out of all the kitchen windows and it finally left through the sink window.  I took a little video at the end.  It's funny hearing how Chloe was just shrieking with delight.  The bird flew right over her head at some point and she was just beside herself laughing(not in the video).  I was glad she was still up.

Yard construction

Well we're at it again.  We can't just sit still with our house.  The backyard has been an eye sore for, well the whole time we've had this house.  A few months ago we hired a company to come and dig out a bunch of our concrete and another company came and redid our fences.  Both look way better!  Now it's time to do something with the backyard so the kids can actually play in the backyard and be safe.  Saturday Peter and my dad worked on building planter boxes for our backyard.  Tomorrow the work will continue and hopefully all boxes will be built (or at least all for now). 
Here's the patio.  This odd shaped box will go off to the left in the corner.

 In this area we plan on a fruit tree or two...we're thinking pomegranate along the fence and then a box near the house.

 Here's one box already done...the one in the middle.  This wall will house our raspberry, blackberry and boysenberry plants.

 This is the corner that will house the odd shaped box

 Here's the side of the house that we're still A-trying to get rid of cinder blocks, and B-we're not sure of what we're going to do here.  Perhaps a shade garden, perhaps a kids area with a sand box...????  Along the fence we're thinking of herbs, but we really have no idea.

 This area we also don't know about.  The cement removers were not able to remove this cement since it is connected to the wall, so we're not sure what we're going to do here.  The neighbor's tree drops a ton of little seeds and leaves, so whatever goes there is going to be covered in seeds constantly.

The work continues tomorrow...