February 11

I put the baby parrot in a bowl of water and poured more water on it's head. I thought it was nice to give the bird a bath, but Alex just thinks it was mean.

This is Alex writing now--the bird screamed, jumped out of the bowl, and tried to hide. Later, we ended up brushing the bird with an old toothbrush to get his/ her lice off. We've named the bird multiple times today: We've decided on Siviru (see-vee-roo-- the language name for parrot) BIll Sisi--Sivi for short

He's not as cool as a bat, but he's growing on us. He sings in his sleep which is really sweet, but we worry that he'll get eaten by the cat if he keeps singing at night.

We've finished moving out of the other house. It's a big pain to move every thing you own by foot. What didn't seem too heavy at first, gets really heavy after a while. We've been puttering in the new house and making it homey--This house will be the longest place we will have lived together since we've met.