Day 5 - My First Monday!

Welcome Monday!

Today, I think I reached my full 'poo-tential'.  Mom woke up to a pretty messy situation.  What can I say?  I'm a baby duck. We eat, peep and poo.  I didn't get any input into my design - if I had, I'd have voted YES to the sphincter muscle.  Mom says thank goodness for puppy pee pads; they're great!   I'm going to get some straw in my brooder this week.  Mom says it'll help keep my brooder box a little 'fresher'.  Not sure what that means, but I'm excited!

Swam a bunch today.  I also got to follow Mom around outside today.  I found all kinds of great things to check out as potential food: honeysuckle flowers, little tiny bugs (Yum), leaves, little sticks to pick up, drop and pick up again - over and over.  What is it with ducklings and sticks, anyway?  You give us a toy and all we really want is a stick.

I'm getting really good in the pond.  I dove three times today- LOVE IT.  I can even preen myself without falling over for an unexpected head dunk in the water.

Mom says I'm growing before her eyes.  My beak is becoming longer and a light shade of orange.  My feet, (I love my feet), are already a lovely shade of orange.  They are so perfect to paddle me around the pool and when I follow Mom around the house, they go 'slap, slap, slap'.  And I do follow her - I try to stay right under her.  It's the safest place to be.

Little Girl came to visit again todayl   I think she's part of my family.  She really likes to hold me, but sometimes she holds on a little to tight.  So Mom put me in a box and strapped the box into a doll stroller and the little girl pushed me all over the house.   I got a great tour of the house, over and over, and over again.  It was such fun!

I think Mondays get a bad rap.  Mine's been great.  It's an opportunity to start fresh.  Let go of the bad stuff from last week, grab hold of the good and slap, slap, slap forward!