Easter Chickens!

For Easter we visited some of John's mom's extended family. John's cousin, once removed had bought some Easter chickens. She was saying that the chickens are injected with some dye either before hatching or right after. The color doesn't stay on them forever; they lose it when they lose their baby fuzz. They were pretty cute though. Levi finally held one, although he was very tentative at first.

Levi is understanding the concept of there being a variety of birds. There are different kinds of birds which make different noises. For instance, he know that a rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo" and he knows that a chicken goes "cluck, cluck". He still hasn't totally grasped all of the birds' sounds because this morning we were putting a puzzle together, and one of the pieces was an ostrich. I told him it was an ostrich and then he said, "cock-a-doodle-doo". :) That was the first time that phrase came out where I could totally understand what he was saying; however, it came out with the wrong bird. I tried to tell him that is not what an ostrich says, but I didn't know what to replace it with. Anyone know what an ostrich says?