Hummingbird

We were surprised last night to find a hummingbird in our kitchen.  I was in the living room reading when I heard a strange sound coming from the kitchen.  I went to investigate and found a hummingbird trying to get out through the kitchen bay window. The bird kept running right into the glass. I called Tristan for assistance and also grabbed the camera (it is not often that we get a bird in the house).  We worked together to pull up the shades, remove the screens and open the two side windows.  We could tell the hummingbird was getting tired and frustrated when it started landing on the window seal momentarily and then would start to fly into the window again.  Tristan used the screen to carefully guide the bird out the open window were it flew away very quickly.

 That was an adventure.

8 Months & Super Active

Mason has become a little escape artist.  He does this great army crawl...pulling with this arms and pushing with his toes. He is amazingly fast when after something he wants (basically anything that belongs to the dogs or one of the dogs). He also loves to be outside and will crawl out the back door (which we leave open most of the day for the dogs) onto the ramp.

The other day he crawled outside and I watched him take the dogs stuffed turtle out of their toys (as if he did not have enough toys).  He played with it for a minute and then rolled over an dropped it off the edge of the ramp. He then looked at me, looked at the turtle and the next thing I knew he was going over the edge (1 foot drop). He cried for a few seconds and then realized all was well. The dogs also made sure he was okay.

We also took the opportunity to take 8 month photos. He is such a little ham!