In the afternoon, we headed to Wichita to Jarrett's mom's house. We bought more fireworks on the way and the kids were excited to set them off.
Jarrett's mom lives on a lake and the kids always have a great time in the water. They can't swim in it but it's fun for wading.
Midnight sat on the dock and watched.
As we were playing, a tiny duckling swam up to shore and started waddling towards us. Just as I got done telling the kids not to touch it and scare it, it walked into Riley's hands. Apparently ducks don't scare as easily as you'd think.
The boys held it also and then we tried to return it to it's duck family. We found the family and brought it down but it was obviously the runt of the family. The other ducklings were twice it's size and could swim much better. The mama duck tried to bring him with but he couldn't keep up and kept coming back to shore.
We kept him with us through the fireworks, ducks really don't like loud noises! Actually, neither does Kelly.
James doesn't have that problem!
We looked up baby duck diets and found out that they eat mostly worms and soft bugs. Unfortunately, we didn't have either of those. We had no idea what to do with him!
As we were looking for the duck's family, one of the neighbors had told us that the geese will sometimes adopt abandoned ducks. After the show, we took the duckling down to shore near the geese. He must have been really hungry by that point because he squeaked like crazy! Sure enough, the geese swam up as soon as they heard him. We're looking forward to checking on him when we go back to Wichita again.
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