So I realized just now that I never mentioned something fairly significant... A few weeks ago, Cookie the rooster started crowing! He crows randomly off and on every morning. He's done it as early as 7:30 and as late as noon. And really, he isn't very loud. I took a video of him doing it a few days ago. Keep in mind that this was taken about a foot away from him, two feet at most! Inside the house, we can barely hear him. I'm sure it will be different in the summer months, when the sun rises earlier and we have our windows open. Not gonna lie... I don't look forward to being woken up by Cookie! Let's hope he behaves himself!
What this also means, though, is that we are approaching the time when we will have fertilized eggs. And Gus' parents sent him an incubator for Christmas, so guess what we will be doing this spring? That's right. We will meet the next generation of our chickens. Our friend (and the kids' former preschool teacher) also has chickens and a rooster, so we will likely hatch some of her eggs as well. It is going to be a lot of fun!
But, speaking of eggs... This is just weird. Our African Grey parrot, Corky, turned 12 years old on Sunday. Niko and Maya went to go sing "Happy Hatch Day" to her, and Niko yelled, "MOM! CORKY LAID AN EGG!" Well, she had never done that before, and I honestly figured they were seeing things. So I walked over to take a look. And, what do you know??? She had laid an egg!
And the next day, she laid another!
They are obviously unfertilized, since there is no male parrot. And birds do lay unfertilized eggs (as evidenced by the chickens, who do this every day!). It's just that parrots lay them far less frequently than chickens. Obviously, it's been twelve years already! But she is very nurturing of her little eggs, and it's just amazing. We will leave them in there for a month or so, until she realizes that they aren't viable and abandons them. Then we will take them out and throw them away. But seriously... Our parrot laid eggs! Bird hormones in this house are out of control!
In completely different news... The first graders at Niko's school put on a spring performance today. The focus was on both Spring and Women's History Month. They did a great job! I recorded the entire thing, but Niko's speaking role is at just after the 4:10 mark.
And a few more pics, just because... our St. Patrick's Day outfits yesterday:
And Niko looking handsome this morning. I mean... horribly un-handsome. He doesn't want to be handsome because he says all the girls in his class LOVE him and he doesn't want to encourage it. haha!!!!!
And our back yard... goodbye, sled trails! See you next winter...
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