May. 10, 2006 - The Bird

The sparrow that Jaedin rescued from the cats' mouth yesterday wasn't very injured as it turns out.  He wasn't able to fly well last night, but he could a bit.  He was sitting on the kids' fingers ~ boy, were they thrilled beyond belief!  Until it flew and jumped on me!  ACK!  I screamed and jumped... and ended up knocking it off ~ BAD homeschool mommy!!!

Anyway, today the bird was much better.  It has a small spot at the base of one wing that is feather-less, but other than that it seems to be fairing well.  Jaedin has it living upstairs in a cage we got at a garage sale.  I told him that he could keep it one more day (as long as he makes sure to feed it, etc) so it can have time for its wing to heal and hten tomorrow it can be set free.  He was in tears earlier because he didn't want to let it go ~ but he felt bad keeping it inside as well.  Poor boy.  I don't know how to help him, other than to keep pointing out that at least he saved the bird in the first place!

It is a very cute little bird.  It perched on his head today while he was reading:)  He sat in his room today for his reading subjects... so he could hold his bird.  With cats in the house, (and a non-animal friendly mom) it isn't good to just let it fly.  With the big paper mache tree in the boys room, the bird probaby feels at home!

Anyway ~ we started reading The Reb and the Redcoats today.  Its set during the Revolutionary war as well... but is set in Britain with four children whose father is fighting on the British side of the war.  They end up living in the same house with a "rebel" prisoner in England.  It gives a different perspective.

After that we're looking into reading some books on the French Revolution ~ to see what was going on elsewhere int he world!

I thinks that's the gist of any changes for the moment.

I have an audition tonight for a local play... fingers crossed;)