Baby Birds

Madison is pet sitting for Heather's family this week, until Sunday. They live 2 doors down from us. She is going over 3 times a day to let their dog out and is feeding/watering the ferret and turtle. She is also watering flowers. She is a busy girl! I think she is enjoying it and tonight our neighbor across the street (Nater's mom) called and asked if she would dog and cat sit from Wed - Sunday this week. Looks like she'll be making the rounds... just like a nurse, checking in on her patients, going from house to house. Tonight she asked me to come over to Heather's because when she was watering some flowers she noticed this bird's nest filled with baby birds. They are so little! ... They even look a little damp yet. You'll probably have to double click on the picture. Of course may be they were sweating their feather's off because it's 95 degrees outside! I'm glad she didn't accidentally water their nest.

Madison spent her morning at a Dutch Soccer Camp, from 9-noon. She has been looking forward to it all summer. It's Mon-Thursday of this week. She had a good time but said it was just soooo hot! The coaches are either from Holland or have played in Holland or somehow have a Dutch connection. They are here just to hold this soccer camp. Don & Isy are actually hosting one of the coaches... hoping that he would be a Dutchman. It turns out that he is very American, from Michigan and went to Olivet with me!!! He graduated the same year. I pulled out my yearbook but couldn't place him. He was a PE major and played soccer so I don't think our paths crossed much. John & Evelyn also were interested in keeping a "Dutch" coach and I'm so relieved that their coach is actually from the Netherlands. They wanted to talk about the "old country" with them. Ha!

Tonight Madison had her last all-star practice. They only practiced for 1 hour. I'm glad because it is too HOT! Tomorrow starts the first game of the run of 5 games between Tuesday and Sunday. It will be busy! She enjoys softball and she chose to play but soccer is certainly her first love. I told her to expect a fair amount of time on the bench during the all-star games. She is and she's fine with that. She loves to be busy all the time!... it's too busy for me.

Well, I best be moving along. Hope you had a good Monday.

Love, Leah

(Sorry, blogger has decided not to allow any lines between the paragraphs tonight!)