Bye Bye Birdie!

We were getting everyone ready for bed the other night, and Conleigh came in and announced that Alex had colored on the wall behind the couch. Take a deep breath. I went and found the Mr. Clean thingy. It worked. For the most part, the crayon came off. As I was standing up, something whizzed by. I ducked and then came around the corner towards our kitchen table. Whizzz! A sweet little bird had found its way inside our house. Peter had had the door open for a few minutes to bring something inside, and I guess that is when this poor, scared bird flew inside. Needless to say, the kids were out of control excited. I wish I had caught Campbell on video. She was squealing with excitement. We did get some video, but it is shaky and only the audio is worth hearing. I'll skip adding it because I've tried 3 times and I keep getting an error. Back to the story... The bird flew back & forth between our living room and dining area a couple of times, then Peter started turning off the lights and instructed the kids to hold their arms up in the air to try to keep the bird from flying another direction. Of course, he really just wanted to give them a job, so they would stand still. Conleigh is only 42 inches tall, so her height wasn't really going to prevent the bird from flying wherever it wanted to go. After about 5 minutes, the bird found the ledge of our back door and flew out into the night. Conleigh waved goodbye and said, "bye bye birdie".