Lily Makes a New Friend and The Bluebirds Fly Away!

Well, Today has certainly been a very special day!! So much is happening, I don't know what to tell you about first! 

So we will start with the story of "The Little Engine That Could".  If you read Mommie's blog post yesterday "The Best", you know that we read this special little book to my little friends.  

And so today, Mommie and Daddy had a surprise for me.  We went to the park in our little town where there is a very special little train, just for little children like me! It's called the "Interlachen Express". I was so excited to get to go and play on the little blue engine and pretend I was on the "Little Engine That Could"...."I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."

I was having so much fun playing on this little engine, that I never saw or heard a little girl come around to say hello.

But all of a sudden there was this sweet little girl and she had a special friend with her:

She was very friendly and wanted to know my name and if I could play with her and her friend, "Frozen".

She said her name was "Isabella', and she was very proud of her little friend "Frozen", but she said we couldn't touch Frozen because she had special powers and if we touched her it would take her powers away.  But she was so nice, and she actually did let me touch her dolly.

We had such a nice time, and Isabella wanted to know if I could come back and play with her again sometime. She said she is out of school now and likes to come to the playground.

Mommie took our picture on the little train engine.  When Mommie said, "smile", we all smiled as big as we could!  I was so happy to meet Isabella and her friend Frozen. I do hope we can meet again someday and play.

Before we left the playground I wanted to get on the big sliding board, so here I am.  I wonder if Isabella ever gets on the big sliding board? Maybe not yet, because she is a little girl, but maybe someday she and I could slide down together. That would be so much fun!

So that was my very special adventure this morning...but wait, there's still more!

Oh, before I forget, Mommie wanted me to show you what came in the mail for her as a surprise the other day:

Our friend Auntie Pamela has gone back up north for the summer, but she said she saw on one of my posts that Mommie's "One Word" for this year is "Believe".

And so she found this pretty lapel pin online and wanted to send it to Mommie.  Isn't it beautiful?

Mommie said that even though it says it is a "Christmas" pin, Mommie thinks it is something to wear anytime.  It is very very special, and we thank Auntie Pamela for being so thoughtful. 

I believe God wanted her to send it to us, don't you?

And now for the rest of our morning's surprises and adventures:

On our way to the park we stopped by my big brother Benton's house to say hi to him and to Sugar and Spice.  They were so happy to see me:

And I wanted to see something extra special they have at their house right now. They had put a see through bird feeder on their front window where they could watch the birdies come and eat. But instead, a Wren decided to build her nest in there, and now there are baby birds in the nest!! How cool is that? They can actually watch them from inside the house!

If you look very closely, you can see a little head popping up in the nest. There are four tiny baby birds in there!  That is so exciting!

But there's more exciting news than that! Mommie says to hang on to your hat, because there are a lot of pictures and action in these next photos:

Today is the day our baby Bluebirds have decided to leave the nest and fly away!!

We noticed this fella sticking his head out further and further...

Then Mama Bluebird came and gave him something to eat and tried to encourage him to come on out...

Then Daddy came with a juicy grasshopper...look at that big mouth open wide!

Maybe he just teased him with it to get him to come outside, because he looks kind of grumpy below, like, "Hey! Where'd you go with that grasshopper? I'm hungry!!"

"Hmmmph! That's a fine how do you do! I'm getting my feathers all in a ruffle over this treatment!"

"Well, Maybe I just need to stick my head out a little more and see what it's like out here in the big world!"

"Hey! It's pretty neat out here!  And look at those big trees up there! Wow! Maybe I should take a leap of faith and try to fly!" "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."

"Look out world, here I come!!"

And with that he gave himself a push and he flew up on our porch roof, and then Mama and Daddy Bluebird coaxed him over to the tree...not sure where he is, but they were making lots of noises cheering him on...

("I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could...")

Not sure who this is, if it is the baby or mama...

"Hey! Wait a minute!! What about ME????"  "Don't Forget about ME!!!!"

And soon we saw #2 bird fly away too to join the rest of them.  We know there were at least 3 birds in the nest, but we didn't get to see all of them leave.  I think they are all out now, because Mama and Daddy aren't bringing anymore food for them.

This picture above show Mama with a mouth full of grasshopper, and a Tufted Titmouse sitting there on the gutter too, (Not sure where he came from)  but one of the baby bluebirds is up on the roof looking around at his new world.

And thus begins the new journey for our Baby Bluebirds....flying bravely into their new world of adventure!  I hope they stay around a while so we can see them , but Mommie says they may soon fly off to other places to join the rest of the flock.  We will wait and see what happens next.

It sure was fun watching them. I am SO happy we got to see at least two of them fly out of the birdhouse. 

Wasn't this a great day for adventure?  

I BELIEVE God wanted us to have this special adventure day today, don't you?

And I am so happy I made a new little friend, Isabella and her dolly Frozen.

I am very thankful to God for these special blessings today. 

This comes from the little devotional book that Auntie Opal gave to Mommie and me called 

"Choose Grace".  Mommie said she thinks it goes along very well with what we are talking about today.

I believe she is right, don't you?

Have a Happy Day, my friends!

God has many wonderful things yet in store for us!

Bye bye for now.

Love,

Lily Grace

xoxoxoxo