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Apparently, a local bird couple decided that the wreath on our front door was an ideal spot to create a nest and start a family. The cats were the first to find out and were not amused. After a week or so, there was one egg, but a few days later there were four. The mother bird kept them warm through the freak snow storm we had a week ago and now they have hatched. One egg was lost (we assume stolen by a larger bird) but the three baby birds look fine albeit uglier than sin. I set up a camera (duh) so that we can watch them be fed from the comfort of our living room. Perhaps I can stream the video to the webcam page at some point. I guess there must be something about this house that just wants to nurture new life. Thank God our cats are all fixed.

Update: For a limited time, you can watch the birds grow up too! In other words…

Update 2: They’re growing up surrounded by poop. I guess that’s to make them want to leave the nest. Here’s a lovely picture.

Update 3: It can’t be long now. They barely fit inside the nest. See?

Update 4: The final bird flew off today. Our nest is now, sadly, empty. :[ But at least it is still covered in poop. A disgusting reminder of what transpired before us.

Yep. We just had our 20 week ultrasound with a real ultrasound technician at the OBGYN this week. See, we didn’t want to wait the two weeks until this appointment to find out the baby’s gender and so we paid $85 to get a 4D (whatever) ultrasound where the idiot told us it was definitely a girl. Well, needless to say, we’re a little disappointed as we were both hoping for a little girl, but we are thankful that the baby appears healthy and well. We already had a girl’s name picked out, but I guess we’ll be using the only boy’s name we could think of, which is, Jhonen. Jhonen is the name of the creator of one of our favorite cartoons, Invader Zim. Sorry for the mix-up, everyone. I don’t know what we’re going to do with all of this pink stuff!