Last night as we were closing the blinds to get ready for the bedtime routine, I spotted three little bunnies in our back yard.  I called Audi and the kids over to come look.  All three bunnies were playing and chasing each other not ten feet from our window.  It was so cool.  We watched for a few minutes then Audi spotted another rabbit behind the fence of our neighbor.  He came to play too.  Then we saw another one!  They were all playing around our next door neighbor’s crab apple tree.  As we stood at the window in amazement, one little bunny came over to the tree line at the back of our property and started scratching his ear with his foot.   Audi began narrating his thoughts.

“Eeewww.  My foot stinks!”  The bunny then put it down and picked up his other foot to scratch his other ear.

“Whew!  This foot stinks too.  No wonder the other bunnies don’t want to play with me.”  The bunny timidly started to hop towards the rest of the gang.

“Hey, guys!  Do you want to smell my feet?  They stick really bad.”

“No way!” the other bunnies yelled.  ”Get away!  That’s gross!”

“Aw, come on!” said the bunny with stinky feet as he started to chase the other four through the yard, around the tree, and under the fence.

It was a lot of fun hearing Audi make up dialouge like that, and Jayden loved it.  I can’t remember ever seeing anything like that even when I was little and lived at the cemetary house, which would have been the best chance I had at seeing a group of rabbits at play.  It was really neat.

I went off to get the kid’s rooms ready for bedtime, and Audi said two more rabbits came to play for a total of seven.  I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more of them soon, and it’s nice to know that this is a great neighborhood for kids of all species to play!