Mr. McGreeley

Laney loves reading Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming.  It is about 3 little bunnies who show up in Mr. McGreeley's yard and eat his vegetables.  It is a really cute story, and the bunnies continuously "muncha, muncha, muncha!" on his yard as he comes up with new ways to keep them out. A toddler must-read.

Well, a few weeks before Laney's birthday we saw a baby bunny run across our back porch.  Patrick and I were worried that it had become trapped in the yard, so we left the gates open for a day hoping it would escape.  We didn't see it again for a few weeks, and then a few days before Laney's birthday I got a big bunny surprise.   I was trimming back some plants along the pathway in the backyard, and decided that the lavender bush was too overgrown.  After grabbing a handful of the plant, I lifted it up to cut and there was a bunny dangling from the branches.  Seems I had scooped up the little bunny as I inadvertently discovered his hiding spot.  I released the branches and he scampered off.  It was then that we realized that he was purposely living in our yard, and we named him Mr. McGreeley.

We saw Mr. McGreeley again yesterday while we were eating lunch.  He was hoping around under another lavender bush, and came out to nibble some flowers off a vine on the patio.  So cute!  I know that he is probably destroying some plants in the yard, but Laney loves spotting him and how can you be mad at something so adorable?  Welcome to the yard little friend!