It all started out as a harmless schooling effort - rather selfishly for myself... I really enjoy watching the birds in our forest backyard and could sit there gazing at them for hours on end. I thought it would be fun to have all of us finally learn about our local bird species (since we have been here three years now), so that we could identify them all. Maybe even make a game of it to see if we can find all of the different birds that live in our area. What a great learning experience, right? Well, now it has become an obsession in our house and not just for me!
We have had a bird identification book
for some time but we found it to be a bit too broad and out of date (it's an older version that belonged to Kevin's Papa), so we picked up the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Washington/Oregon
to help us out more. I am quite content we did. It's such a user friendly resource, not to mention kid friendly, too! As a matter of fact, I often find all three of my little ones looking at it as they watch the birds. Baby L picked up yet another baby sign because of all of this - bird. He gives a huge toothy smile and speed crawls to look out the window if you even whisper the word or make the sign for bird.Last week the ultimate shirt for my bird crazy baby arrived at our door. How sweet is that?! It's from Dandelion Dream, in case you are wondering. I would dress him in Erin's beautiful shirts all the time if I could. He recognized the bird on it right away and the color, oh that apple green, inspired me to make something to go with it. I knew a knitting project was in store and I had just the yarn stashed for it. Now I am just debating if I want to knit longies or shorties with it. I am thinking longies as it's cold here more so than warm.
And in other news - I somehow managed to pull off this birthday gift for my friend's sweet baby girl. I made it a bit more girly looking with a picot trim (thanks to some rav help), and think it came out pretty cute. These pictures are prior to blocking so it looks a bit wonky. Rav notes can be found here.
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