Life

Cameron has had to think about dying the past few weeks. Fortunately, just with animals we've encountered outside. First it was a chipmunk by a pond in our neighborhood about 2 weeks ago. I'm not sure what happened to him, but Cameron found him laying on his back with all 4 legs sticking straight up, he was clearly gone. Cameron thought he was taking a nap and I said, no he died and he is in heaven. He looked so confused, how could he be in heaven if we were looking right at him? Then this weekend, Lonnie picked up a lil frog and put it in his bug box. He played with it for a bit, brought it to his room for his nap and shortly after Cameron woke up the frog took one last jump & died. He was so upset about the frog, cried hard and everything. Then last night he told me "he wanted me to live here forever". I was in the kitchen making dinner so I thought he meant in this house. So I said where am I going? He said I don't want you to go to heaven yet! So then he finds a baby bird alone in the grass during our walk last night. So tiny and fragile. I told Cameron, we will try and save him, but he really needs his mommy. He might die. And if he doesn't die, he is going to get big and strong and fly away. He doesn't want him to ever leave us he said. We have him in a big box, Cameron has added flowers and green leaves. We feed him water thru a straw with dog food that has softened in the water. Last night we put him in the garage because it was going to be a lil cool. Today, there have been 2 birds in the back yard. I guess they are his mom & dad. They all just talk to each other. Not sure what's going to happen to this lil guy. He hasn't even opened his eyes yet, but our day has revolved around this lil visitor.