Eggs and Me

Early in the spring, I noticed that a robin had built a nest on the underside of our backyard deck. It was a messy little nest, but the cool thing was that when she laid eggs and the babies hatched, we could watch them through a crack in the deck. My kids had so much fun watching them change each day. When they finally grew up and flew away, we were kinda sad.

Until we noticed...

More eggs....

...appearing in the nest. The first two arrived on June 19. The third, a day later. I decided to snap a picture of the eggs and resultant babies every day so I could share them with you and watch them grow on my blog.

They pretty much looked the same every day. One day my daughter decided to "feed" the eggs some dry pasta, and dropped several noodles into the nest before I noticed and told her we can't go dropping stuff in the nests. Apparently the mother bird did not like the pasta, because it was gone the next morning. I don't think she ate it.

Days and days went by and I kept taking pictures. (Imagine nine more pictures of 3 eggs here).
Until finally today...
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babies!
Ew. Kinda ugly. Until they heard the click of my camera...


And then they got kinda cute :)
I'll add a picture of the robin babies each day, so we can watch them grow together.

Ya know, we are kind of like those eggs. They looked the same, day after day. Didn't seem like much was going on. And then BAM! Something totally new emerged.

I'm hatching, and growing feathers, and getting ready to fly! Watch me.