Sometimes Life is a Circus

Yesterday some of our kids and a friend were playing on our basketball court when something unusual happened. All of a sudden the friend yelled, "a bird!" and Natalie ducked as something flew at her and tried to land on her head! I was in the house and someone ran in and yelled, "Mom grab the camera there is a green bird on Natalie's head!" Well actually he was on the basketball court. He willingly went to Daniel's finger and we made him a makeshift cage in the garage. Since he doesn't exactly look like a wild bird we put some calls into the vet clinics in our area to see if anyone reports a missing bird. This afternoon we are supposed to be making signs for a "found" bird, but nobody is too eager since everyone has decided he should stay. Actually, I keep referring to him as a he, but they are calling this bird Lola - they even have Nathan saying it.



In the middle of finding a cage for him we found that the container we wanted to use for him had a ton of baby praying mantis' (about 1/4 inch long) in it, as one of the kids had put an egg sack in the container and they had all hatched. Than Molly stepped on a bee, that didn't sting her but it upset her. Than we looked and Nathan had walked where they had attempted to let the praying mantis loose and he had several crawling on his feet. It was crazy for about 20 minutes, that's what you get when you have "wild" animals - you get "wild" kids!


Oh, and I didn't mention that this all happened when we were trying to get dinner ready because we were surprising the kids with a night at the circus.

During the Pre-Show the kids could try on some costumes.

We all enjoyed the circus, after all it is "the greatest show on earth"! And then we came home to our zoo.