Baby Birds "Nanarized"

We came home Saturday afternoon around 6:00. While unloading some of our things from the truck we noticed the door on our bluebird house was open. This wasn't good because we knew there was a family of baby bluebirds inside. As we walked over to check it out we saw one, then two, then three little babies on the ground. Thinking they were dead I reached to pick them up so Lewis could bury them. To our surprise their mouths opened wide and their fragile little bodies started to move. Thinking their mother would return we carefully placed them back in their nest and closed the door. This morning while drinking my morning coffee I watched the birdhouse to see if the mother had returned. After 30 minutes of watching it was clear to me there was no mother in sight. When Lewis woke up I told him and he looked on the internet to see what we should do. It said they would have to be fed every 30 minutes using tweezers if they were to survive. They recommended dry dog food moistened with water. Since we didn't have any dog food we decided on the next best thing... Captain Crunch Peanut Butter cereal!!! We moistened it with water and then I found myself outside with hot rollers in my hair, standing in a chair trying to feed 3 VERY hungry baby birds in their nest while Lewis held the bowl! I can imagine what the neighbors across the street thought of us! We went back inside to get ready for church and talked about how in the world we would feed these little fellows every 30 minutes!! Then as we were getting ready to leave the daddy and mama bluebirds returned. They were probably surprised to find their babies back in their nest and even more surprised to find Captain Crunch all over their faces!! Lewis said I had "Nanarized" the baby birds because they were probably telling their mom they didn't want worms to eat, they wanted more of what Nana had fed them! I really don't care what they were saying, I'm just glad their mom and dad showed up to take over so we didn't have to adopt 3 little baby birds! From what we read the parents have to make 480 trips back and forth in one day gathering food...that's way too many trips for us!