New Year's Eve Bird

The morning of New Year's Eve, I was feeding Elizabeth, and I heard a scratching noise coming from inside the wall. At first, I thought it was from the air vent or maybe our neighbors being weird, but then I realized it was coming from the wall next to the dryer. Later that day, Michael heard the same noise. He decided that it was coming from inside the dryer vent. He pulled out the dryer and unhooked the dryer vent from the dryer.

Inside the dryer vent was a little bird! Michael was able to coax it into a bowl, and I put an aluminum cover with fork holes over it. Lizzy was very fascinated by the bird. Whenever it would move in the bowl, she would stare very intently at it.

After the bird was safe in the bowl, I called the non-emergency police number, and told them about the bird. They said it was a matter for the wildlife people, and that they probably wouldn't answer their phone until Monday. We were advised to take the bird outside and see if it would fly away.

So, we put the little fluffy bird out on our porch, and watched it scramble around for a while. Then it flapped it wings in a frenzy and gave up. The poor thing froze to death. Michael and I think that it found our vent while I was drying some clothes and loved the heat. It probably camped there for a bit, and then fell down the hole and into our dryer vent.

The strangest things happen when you have your own place. It was very cute watching Lizzy discover the bird.

Christmas with our Little Elizabeth

Christmas was very different this year. First, it didn’t quite feel like the Christmases I’m used to having. Second, we had Little Lizzy for the first time. She just got her six month vaccinations a week ago, so she was a little grumpier than usual. It wasn’t too bad, though. She definitely pulled off a bunch of cute reactions.

On Christmas Eve, we went over to the Stufflebeam grandparents. She got a huge diaper bag full of presents. The diaper bag was obviously more for my sake, but she got to pull all of the presents out of it. The wrapping paper and the ribbon were extremely entertaining. One of Elizabeth’s presents was a baby doll. She tried to feed the baby doll the ribbon she was chewing on, and then she started poking its eyes.

On Christmas Day, Michael and I gave her a ring stacker, a piano with four keys, and some new clothes. Santa gave her a pink rubber ducky. She had a bath with the ducky later that day, and didn’t really know what to make of it.

Then we went to visit the Shelton grandparents. Her grandma gave her a laptop, and even though she has her own now, a laptop is no fun unless Mommy is playing with it, so here is her message to everyone: Cfcvcccccccffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffxc cfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxv zbdgvb nnnnnbvnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhcvvbhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhvbnnnnnnnnnnnnvbbb
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Good luck with the New Year!