Baby birds, dough, and rope swinging

A robin has built a nest and hatched 4 babies on top of the exterior light on our front porch!  Every time we pass now, we hear cheeping and see their open beaks craning up over the edge of the nest.  They grow *incredibly* fast.  They were pretty creepy looking the first couple days after hatching.

On Saturday the chillins were getting stir-crazy, so I got out a couple of bowls, some yeast, salt, flour, oil and water, and they made us enough pizza dough for a few meals.  Might have to think of more child-labor recipes...Asher made just a wee mess...

Over the weekend, Reuel constructed a rope swing and Owen is absolutely in love with it.  I am amazed at how fearless he is; the higher the better (and it goes HIGH!).  At his age, I would have been terrified of that feeling.  In fact, some of the neighborhood kids who came by last night to try it out when they saw Owen swinging weren't even loving it!

And finally, we had erected the tent outside, but haven't found the right night yet for camping out.  The boys and I are leaving for NC for 10 days on Wednesday.  Soooo....moved the tent out of the rain and into the basement today and Owen was very stoked about spending the night there.  After hanging out for an hour on the air mattress with his books, bedtime music, nightlight and clock, I just escorted him back to his bed :}  Same story as last year!  I wonder how old kids need to be before they actually stay in the tent all night?