For the Birds

And here's another DS story. We went to a local farmstand/Christmas tree store this weekend, and DS fell in love with this huge decorated wreath. Not the wreath so much as the decorations on it, which included a faux red bird, a cardinal with feathers and all. He wanted to buy the wreath, just to get the bird. Well, no. So, we agreed to maybe look for a red bird at a craft store sometime. So, today we head over to JoAnns, where everything Christmas is 50-60% off. Did everyone start celebrating Christmas so early that it's already over?!?! But anyway. We find many red birds to choose from. Eventually he settles on a small pair of cardinals, and he names themm... CandyCane (the boy) and Sweet (the girl). All DD wants from JoAnns is Cinderalla stickers (also 40% off, so why not?) - she's got simple, consistent desires.

We come home and DS wants to show off his new "pets" to Dad. Dad has a simple enough question: They're identical, so how do you tell them apart? Aha! Off DS rushes to get a marker. A few artfully placed marks later, and suddenly CandyCane has a few black "scars" on his back, and the identity crisis is solved. The birds played with each other all afternoon, and CandyCane even ate dinner with us (he prefers the carrot sticks over the celery sticks).

Someday we'll have to buy him a real pet. But for now, fake red birds seem to do the trick.