Phoenix Update

It's been awhile since you have heard about Phoenix, out little flattened cousin. We will be returning him within a few days. Unfortunately my enthusiasm for finding cool things to do here, died shortly after it's little first breath. Actually I found a number of things to do, so I guess it was the doing them that died. I did get one outing in, a few days after Phoenix's arrival (you know while the enthusiasm was still raging) to the Bird's Of Prey with another mother I met out here and her son. We had a good time, and got to see a Californian Condor up close, WOW are they ugly, and if you have never seen one personally, I need to take you to if you come out here to visit. So back to Phoenix, though I had all these activities planned we are now closing in on when I need to send him back, with only a handful of pictures...thankfully my brother Aaron and sister-in-law Kelsey came to the rescue - when we were over Wednesday evening admiring their new baby chicks, they suggested I bring Phoenix to their house. They almost have a little farm with cows, the chicks, and ducks, so the next day (yesterday) I took Phoenix to visit his other cousins and meet some animals.

While we were there we found the first duck egg! The two girls ate it, Providence was very worried that it might be full of a baby duck, but much to her relief it just a yolk and white.