Xavier's First Bird House
Greetings everyone.
Rebecca and I have been keeping our eyes open for a cabinet to put in the kitchen to help organize it and get the clutter off the counters. Last Friday, we found one that fit the bill at Costco.
Rebecca arranged with her sister, Aunt Chellie, to come down Saturday. "I do like visiting with you," Rebecca told Chelle on the phone. "But I really need you to watch Xavier while Michael and I pick up a cabinet. And, we might need your help getting the cabinet off the truck."
Aunt Chellie arrived to the chaos of Rebecca trying to figure out how to get a truck rented before the last cabinet got sold to someone else. The Costco we found the cabinet at is too small to store items for pickup we were told.
Chelle brought with her a nice project for her and Xavier to work: a bird house kit. It was a fun and thoughtful idea.
By the time Rebecca and I returned with to cabinet, Xavier was closed to being finished with his painting of the bird house he and Aunt Chellie assembled. Chelle explained that the roof went on upside down, but the glue was dry before that was noticed.
In the evening, when we went to hang the house in the crab apple tree just off the front porch, we determined the upside down roof wasn't going to work. To help accent that fact, one of the roof panels popped off.
We coerced the other panel to pop off with some effort, then glued them back in place, right-side up. This also meant Xavier's paint job on the roof was now inside the house.
Today, Xavier once more took up his paint to color the roof. The bird house kit came with six colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple and orange. Xavier would dip his brush in the orange, then the purple, then the blue, green, yellow, and finally the red. This he did every time he needed more paint. The resulting color: a warm mud.
Still, things turned out well. Xavier had fun. We got the house hung. All while a little hummingbird sat in the crab apple tree and watched us. I told Xavier, "He's waiting for the paint to dry before he moves in."