Kaylin's big birthday present was an iPod Shuffle. She's been begging for her own MP3 player for a long time and I'm sick of her always wanting ONE of MY earphones while I'm listening so I researched several "kiddie" models. I was not impressed so I finally decided to spend the extra bucks and go for the Shuffle. Now I can easily download her songs off of my iTunes account- I just have to be careful to keep YMCA off of MY iPod!
Kaylin absolutely loves the thing but the ear buds don't fit in her ears. Therefore she's using it with speakers and "I" have to listen to the Macarena ten times in a row before listening to Walking on Sunshine five times in a row, followed by Hannah Montana and the Cha Cha Slide. I think yesterday was the first time listening to music actually put me in a BAD mood! Of course then she listened to Bullet with Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins which significantly improved my mood due to the absurdity of that song being on HER playlist. (One of these songs does not belong here...)
We're all off of school/work/camp today so I think we'll head over to Best Buy for some good old fashion headphones! Perhaps headphones will also cut down on Logan's misunderstood lyrics! My boy is not a gifted singer to begin with, but listening to him screech "I'm markin' on a sunshine" in the car over and over and then listening to the fight when Kaylin tries to correct him, well, it's getting on my nerves!
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Birds 2013
- 201. Field sparrow
- 200. Palm warbler
- 199. American bittern
- 198. Semipalmated sandpiper
- 197. Bank swallow
- 196. Common tern
- 195. Caspian tern
- 194. Bobolink
- 193. Virginia waterthrush
- 192. Whooping crane
- 191. Yellow-throated vireo
- 190. Swamp sparrow
- 189. Olive-sided flycatcher
- 188. Blue grosbeak
- 187. Common nighthawk
- 186. Acadian flycatcher
- 185. Brown pelican
- 184. Black-bellied whistling duck
- 183. Purple gallinule
- 182. Least bittern
- 181. Common moorhen
- 180. Anhinga
- 179. Boat-tailed grackle
- 178. Reddish egret
- 177. Tricolored heron
- 176. Least tern
- 175. Cattle egret
- 174. Chimney swift
- 173. Monk parakeet
- 172. Yellow-crowned night heron
- 171. Scissor-tailed flycatcher
- 170. White ibis
- 169. Red-cockaded woodpecker
- 168. Fish crow
- 167. Black-crowned night heron
- 166. Snowy egret
- 165. Mississippi kite
- 164. Black vulture
- 163. Bell's vireo
- 162. Loggerhead shrike
- 161. Cliff swallow
- 160. Prothonotary warbler
- 159. Yellow-breasted chat
- 158. Laughing gull
- 157. Carolina chickadee
- 156. Mottled duck
- 155. Forster's tern
- 154. Dickcissel
- 153. Great crested flycatcher
- 152. Yellow-headed blackbird
- 151. Orchard oriole
- 150. Cedar waxwing
- 149. Little blue heron
- 148. Green heron
- 147. Black and white warbler
- 146. Solitary sandpiper
- 145. Yellow warbler
- 144. Common yellowthroat
- 143. Ovenbird
- 142. Indigo bunting
- 141. Carolina wren
- 140. Chestnut-sided warbler
- 139. Ruby-throated hummingbird
- 138. Gray catbird
- 137. Tennessee warbler
- 136. Golden-winged warbler
- 135. Scarlet tanager
- 134. Nashville warbler
- 133. Blue-gray gnatcatcher
- 132. American redstart
- 131. Veery
- 130. Northern waterthrush
- 129. Kentucky warbler
- 128. Lesser yellowlegs
- 127. Ruby-crowned kinglet
- 126. Brown thrasher
- 125. Spotted sandpiper
- 124. Great egret
- 123. Eastern wood pewee
- 122. Purple martin
- 121.Baltimore oriole
- 120. Orange-crowned warbler
- 119. Yellow-bellied flycatchr
- 118. Blackburnian warbler
- 117. Rose-breasted grosbeak
- 116.House wren
- 115. Red-breasted nuthatch
- 114. Northern rough-winged swallow
- 113. Wilson's phalarope
- 112. Long-billed dowitcher
- 111. Greater yellowlegs
- 110. Black-necked stilt
- 109. Peregrine falcon
- 108. Eastern kingbird
- 107. Palm warbler
- 106. Vesper sparrow
- 105. Barn Swallow
- 104. White-crowned sparrow
- 103. Swainson's thrush
- 102. Hermit thrush
- 101. Golden-crowned kinglet
- 100. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- 99. Eastern towhee
- 98. Yellow-rumped warbler
- 97. Brown creeper
- 96. Fox sparrow
- 95. Rough-legged hawk
- 94. Double-crested cormorant
- 93. Rusty blackbird
- 92. Tree swallow
- 91. Osprey
- 90. Chipping sparrow
- 89. White-winged scoter
- 88. Brown-headed cowbird
- 87. Common raven
- 86. Golden eagle
- 85. Red-shouldered hawk
- 84. Brewer's blackbird
- 83. Common loon
- 82. Sandhill crane
- 81. Horned grebe
- 80. Blue-winged teal
- 79. Red-breasted merganser
- 78. Eastern phoebe
- 77. Red-headed woodpecker
- 76. Eastern meadowlark
- 75. Wood duck
- 74. Greater scaup
- 73. American white pelican
- 72. Killdeer
- 71. American black duck
- 70. Song sparrow
- 69. Northern shoveler
- 68. American wigeon
- 67. Redhead
- 66. Lesser scaup
- 65. Ring-neck duck
- 64. Northern mockingbird
- 63. Horned lark
- 62. Common grackle
- 61. Pied-billed grebe
- 60. Ross goose
- 59. Eurasian tree sparrow
- 58. Ruddy duck
- 57. Eurasian collared dove
- 56. Pintail
- 55. Bufflehead
- 54. Trumpeter swan
- 53. Gadwall
- 52. Belted kingfisher
- 51. Ring-necked pheasant
- 50. Snow bunting
- 49. White-throated sparrow
- 48. Turkey vulture
- 47. Great blue heron
- 46. Common goldeneye
- 45. Sharp-shinned hawk
- 44. Eastern screech owl
- 43. Rough-legged hawk
- 42. Pileated woodpecker
- 41. Hairy woodpecker
- 40. House finch
- 39. Northern flicker
- 38. Herring gull
- 37. Cackling goose
- 36. Great horned owl
- 35. Red-winged blackbird
- 34. Barred owl
- 33. Wild turkey
- 32. Cooper's hawk
- 31. Greater white-fronted goose
- 30. American robin
- 29. Mourning dove
- 28. Blue jay
- 27. Tundra swan
- 26. Hooded merganser
- 25. Canada goose
- 24. Snow goose
- 23. Canvasback
- 22. American coot
- 21. Common merganser
- 20. Northern harrier
- 19. Mallard
- 18. Mute swan
- 17. American tree sparrow
- 16. Bald eagle
- 15. Ring-billed gull
- 14. Rock dove
- 13. Crow
- 12. Red-tailed hawk
- 11. American kestrel
- 10. House sparrow
- 9. Northern cardinal
- 8. Downy woodpecker
- 7. White-breasted nuthatch
- 6. Red-bellied woodpecker
- 5. Tufted titmouse
- 4. European starling
- 3. American goldfinch
- 2. Dark-eyed junco
- 1. Black-capped chickadee
About Me
- ZuDuSu
- Hi, I'm Susy, wife to Gene, mom to Kaylin and Logan. I love working fulltime as a zookeeper and am slowly coming to terms with the fact I will never be able to perfectly balance home, work, school, activities and obligations. Instead I will laugh a lot and enjoy the ride!
1 comment:
Not sure if you've purchased the headphones yet, but let me warn you about the behind-the-head variety. Sam and Eli go through headphones at an astonishing rate on car trips to San Diego (they use them for their DVD player and pull off the foam and eat it, chew through the wires, step on them, "accidentally" snap them in half, etc), so I've tried them all. I go to Wal-Mart only for a select few items, and their $4.97 semi-disposable (and highly recommended) headphones are one of them. On a recent visit, however, they were sold out, so I upgraded to the whopping $7.97 RCA model that wraps behind the head instead of the more traditional over-the-head variety. I listened to four-and-a-half solid hours of complaining about those stupid headphones (rubbing at the ear, falling off the head, just plain uncomforble, and so on), so I finally ended up turning off the car stereo and letting them watch Ice Age with the DVD's built-in speakers at an excruciating volume. Lesson learned. I will shop multiple Wal-Marts next time, if necessary, and stick with the more traditional varity.
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