Our duck

Our duck showed up in our sandbox on the evening of May 9, 2008. Nathan & Brandon were playing in the sandbox and suddenly, Brandon said, "Nathan, I see a duck!" Nathan didn't believe his little brother. Then, Nathan turned around and saw the duck. Nathan then ran to tell Daddy that there was a duck. Daddy said, yea, a toy duck. Nathan said, "No, Daddy, a REAL baby duck!" It was really cool.

For the first few weeks, Duckie stayed in the house in a dog carrier. Later, we built Duckie, a "duck coop" where she now resides most of the time. Last weekend, we thought that Duckie had left. We were all sad. She left the fence and went over to the neighbors' house and just hung out for a couple of hours. We discovered her and brought her back home.

She likes to take a shower with the sprinklers or someone hosing her off. She likes to eat grass and bugs. She loves to swim in a pool of water. She sits on our back porch and poops a LOT. Her wings are getting bigger and she is practicing her flying. Last night, she got about 6 feet in the air, but didn't go anywhere.

This morning she was eating grass out of Nathan's hand. She kept begging for more. She is not afraid of Nathan & Brandon, but she's not fond of Jason or me. She and Missy get along most of the time. But occasionally Missy gets a little crazy and starts chasing Duckie all over the place. She is usually bad when we leave them alone outside together.