Cody and the Birds

Last night we had our family home evening (because Steve has class Monday nights) and we decided to watch a little bit of a documentary on birds that we found at the library called "Winged Migration." Cody loves animals so we knew he would like it. The film shows all kinds of birds across the planet as they migrate. The filming is really impressive. When we turned the movie off in order to get ready for bed Cody just couldn't settle down. He laid out a blue blanket on the couch (the water) and started jumping from the arm rest into the water flapping his little scrawny wings 50 miles an hour. He did that over and over and over. There was just no chance of getting him to focus on getting ready for bed--he was no longer human! Finally, I got him to brush his teeth by saying, "Let's go brush your beak." For the next 15 minutes he was jumping all over our bed catching fish, sitting on his eggs in his nest, and flapping his wings. Cody put on his pajamas when we said they were his new feathers and all during family scripture reading he was "tweeting". He is such a funny kid. It was hilarious! It was so hard to not just sit there and laugh. After we finally got him settled down in bed and asleep Steve and I laughed so hard.