I've started making these birds from scrap fabric and old sweaters, after seeing the cool ones at Spool Sewing and Sew Liberated. So far I've made three little guys. And Sam and I chose a branch from the back forty that the birds are going to sit on. But before I got to glueing them, Sam had so much fun playing with them and making them talk to each other. So they might not ever make it to the branch.
The big fuzzy purple one is the dad, while the other two take turns being the mom or the child. My husband tried to convince him that the fuzzy one should be the mom, since I'm the one with crazy curly hair in the family, but he's not having it. The big fuzzy purple one is, and always will be, Dad.