In Awe

Well, the fifth baby hatched at about 4am this morning. Here is it's newborn picture at about 7am:


Then, here are some amazing pics of the babies at almost 10pm tonight. Look at how much they have grown. The first one hatched a week ago. And his little fuzzy feathers are starting to get dark and I would say he is 3-4 times larger than the one that hatched today.
This is just amazing!


Here is a little movie of them in the nesting box tonight at about 10pm. It is a bit dark, but I didn't want to disturb them with too much light. And at least you get to hear them. Things are still mainly quiet, but I'm sure if they 'talk' like their parents... it won't be long before it is way noisy here.

Jacob

Jacob is getting into his trucks now. Moving them back and forth and all over the room.

On Thanksgiving Jacob was up and down, up and down. At least it was Aunt Cyndi on the receiving end and not me this time. (sorry Cyndi ~ I know how exhausting that is.)

Jacob is watching every move. He is our 'yogi' and had to make sure they were doing it right. (We had brought the TV in to watch "The Sound of Music" and during its brief stay PBS was turned on. It was 'pledge' weekend and a Yoga program was on. Miranda says she loves yoga!) Jacob accidentally turned off the TV with his knee a couple of times and started yelling quite loudly about the interuption in his program. We always felt he was a Yoga Master. Now, we know.

Afterward, he fell asleep on daddy. Just so much work!

Love Bird Hatching Update

And then their were two... (November 29, 2008)

And then three... (December 1, 2008)

And then four... (December 2, 2008)

They are hatching in the same progression as the laying, with a day ~ more or less, between. I guess that gives mom and dad some time to get geared up and used to feeding/caring for a nest full of babies. They are growing at a tremendous rate. The first one is almost triple the size of this last one!

I tried catching mom or dad feeding one of the wee ones, but that didn't work out, yet. I did see them in action though. At this stage the little ones can't do much but roll around and they are rolled onto their back and then mom or dad regurgitates food into their beak. When done feeding they roll back over and then cuddle up with their siblings. They have such sweet little voices.