Elijah and the ducks....

On April 12 Elijah came home from pre-k all excited. His class had gotten eggs from a farm and were going to hatch baby ducks! How exciting to see the miracle of life! The eggs were placed in an incubator and were automatically turned each hour. Each kid was given a calendar to mark off the days until the ducklings would hatch. Every day Elijah would take his marker and "X" out the current day. The ducks were to hatch in 29 days. Day 7, 14 and 21 were Candling Days when they would look inside the eggs to see if the embryos were growing. To the kids delight, they were. All of them anxiously awaited the arrival of their baby ducks. Today was the 28th day and guess what...we have baby ducks! Aren't they cute!