The joys of indoor plumbing

As we had mentioned before, there was a leak with one of the pipes in our bathroom. Almost 2 weeks ago, they came in, tore up some of the floor and wall around the toilet (that was not leaking, just the pipes for the radiator Last Sunday (10th), they came back just as I was getting home from church (Chelsey had stayed home with Jada, as Jada had a bit of a cold) and told us that they were going to fix the floor and wall, that it would take about 4 days, and that we needed to go. It makes sense, as 4 days with out an available toilet would have been... interesting to say the least. We quickly called some friends, the Bensfields, who very kindly let us stay with them until it was fixed. We got back to our home Thursday morning. We love visiting people, just really like being in our own home more.

We had left Amber the bird with a big bowl of water and seeds and put her in our bedroom to keep her out of the way. This bird was quite happy when we came back, and all of a sudden decided that she likes us, especially Jada. If we are sitting on the couch, the bird will fly over and sit beside us. She still does not like our hands that much, but is getting better. Anytime Jada is playing with her toys, Amber wants to come over and play too. There have been a few times where Jada will be on her wiggle worm and Amber will fly right down beside her. Chelsey was telling me that earlier, Amber was trying to grab the toys when Jada was moving them around. Then the bird got hit by an errant baby hand and gave a squawk and flew back to her cage. This probably will not deter Amber very long from playing with Jada.