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Nope, he has not got a clue how wrapped he already is around her talons! So the dirt was a cluster. We are really thinking about changing our last name to my maiden name, Murphy is just tempting fate. So the first dump truck arrives and drops 10 yards of fill. Dirt guy shows and moves 2 buckets into the hole, only 9:30 am so things are going good. Dump truck's air bag deployed on their way back, have to get that fixed before they can come back out. Dirt guy on 4th bucket, gets a flat on his big machine and they try to fill it, no go. He loads up his machine to get the tire fixed. 11am dirt starts to arrive again, noon more dirt, 1pm even more dirt. Ummm, where is dirt guy to get this moved??? 1:30 dirt guy gets back and is doing double time, taking out our neighbors sprinkler head that is marked by a 8' 2x2 in his rush. I have been at work but came home at 3 to feed Kane, things are getting done so I go back to work, he has a long way to go so I will be there for the final load! I get home at 4:30, just in time to see him getting out of his machine and cleaning up to leave. Hole is not filled what is going on??? His pregnant wife was admitted to the hospital with high blood pressure, he has to go and be with her. Can't argue that one or get mad. Get a text from him about 8pm, they are inducing labor in the morning... He has asked someone he has worked with before to come and finish us up but now I have to miss work to watch and I don't have a clue what to look for. lol And take Mary Anne and Oliver to the vet this morning by 7:30 am! Bless Pats heart, he took off yesterday and mostly waited around cleaning the house. He isn't happy at all about this because he can not miss another day.

Dirt day! It feels like this hole has been here forever but I am not sad to see it go. It is going to be so nice to walk outside and be able to get to the hose without having to walk to the back fence and around just to get to it. https://goo.gl/photos/zjLgnbXULjUqXvzc6 https://goo.gl/photos/e9cGozmLF4kEXiBX7 Here are some pictures of Kane from last weekend. The first picture we think she was trying to see what she would have looked like as a boy, sporting a foo man choo!She is perching much easier now, and getting her balance. Last night she was with us watching tv for a bit (been months since I have sat on the love seat and watched tv, felt a little weird) I let Kane run around but she opted for my shoulder. She would grab my glasses and just flap with all her might, I could hear her heavy breathing where she was wearing herself out. Trying to decide where her cage will go when that time comes and daddy Pat said he wants to get rid of the loveseat, get 2 recliners and put her cage in between them. My gosh he just loves Kane and so do I but there has to be a better option! Have I mentioned that this little girl is going to be a handful?

Every girl bird in this house loves Pat, me not so much. So we find out yesterday my "boy" is a girl and I am just fine with that until last night. We have her out in the kitchen with us, big sheet on the floor and we both lay down there to play with her, aw sweet huh? Then it happens, I reach out to give her her normal head rub, she cowers and runs to Pat. I am on the floor (unable to get up) crying deep down inside, she wants him. Really??? For weeks I get up every two hours and feed her, I come from work every day to feed her, I have loved and given her all of me and she runs to Pat. Ha to those who say if a person hand feeds a baby bird it will bond to them, we have just shot that theory right out into orbit!! Dirt update: Hired a company to bring in dirt and fill the hole, poop on the free dirt crap you always see. Been months of calling and calling and hearing that we will be put on a list, there is no list, it is all made up and they lie!!! Let me say, it cost us less to buy and install the pool than to remove it.

Welp, got the blood test back. Please say hello to Miss Kane! Lol

I second that! I am glad Peanut is finally going to have peace and be with the one she loves.

Here is a picture of Kane trying to escape his "travel" tub. Poor thing gets a good hold and tries lifting his foot up but then falls, or rolls, onto his back. He keeps trying but I am not hoping it happens soon, I don't want my little guy growing up. https://goo.gl/photos/oLHbZendpZnLgdXD7 https://goo.gl/photos/yXAeo9ooNpYVPUZn7 https://goo.gl/photos/mnNJqDaKduANaAveA

Kane is trying to perch now and not doing to bad at it either. We are at our weight loss stage as he is coming into his fledging, kinda holding his own at 674g. Trying some fresh foods but not really interested. Poor guy doesn't have anyone to show him the ropes so it will be a slow going process. I had to cut Pat off from the wine yesterday because we were talking about him not having anyone his age to play with or learn with and Pat was ready to buy a red front baby she has there since they are close to the same age. Really? And most people think I am the reason we have so many birds, lol. I guess Pat has been taking our pictures lately and his do not upload to Google automatically so I don't have any new ones to share today. I will get some uploaded for tomorrow. You will be shocked at how much of a change has taken place, he is all macaw now.

I don't know why it is doing that. It is on my end. Kane has grown so much since the last picture I posted to. He has eaten grapes, banana's, chickpeas, sprouts and pellets now. I was told he would be hard to wean because he doesn't have anyone to beat to the food but he seems to be doing very good finding the food and sampling it all. I made him a simple chop of broccoli and carrots, yams, spinach, kale and he actually likes it I think. He could just be face planting into it and have no choice but at least he is getting it down, lol. https://goo.gl/photos/gXHUXKNKgXjfkrgT6 https://goo.gl/photos/uCtNQhQRnPVVtMG77 Hopefully these links will work for the pictures. I use to just copy and paste but it just isn't working that way, found a icon that said to get a sharable link... Worth a try, fingers crossed!

Not sure why the pictures won't copy anymore. Pretty sure it is user error but not sure what I am doing wrong. Blood tests are done and ready to be sent off. I may be taking Marley butt out there also to get hers/his done today too. Out of all the birds nails we did yesterday, Kane of course did the best! I had him with the baby red fronts and it was just so cute to see him cuddle up with other babies. However he did like his stuffed animal the best and never went to far from it!

7 weeks old today!! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tafBHv2-HEFbM47m9PceRenrQ5oyd6zIHMmrtg3xyEut3349lVeXgzgdRwSHTqnPv0fdhLbSp1__FZLMZxggaO-ArF9UmVS1Q6lszUovQzuevU4_lzSPSuaBJoLZBRmB1AALdCtZQ8z8gd0Qs41gWLPaIBKAOKUiGglTIwhVa-eHhekxG0ygUbo6I5yTFK9-JjyOCdsKX_W3nEOH_JCjHMWBztyi5nWOwnYuAYPETp3qztiexrVPPmcGEM3bzx_BhdaUVuzRUVJoJLezlGg_P4jvd0K5POSrpeI9yGcaFLmsM_WseO-6Apahz8wYU6t2MjveppdR5pOvsh6TkgVG66LJmt-rkzy-yw0j0lEoC9PK7YlXMxK9JACsXpgMGo2DAfSpYf-DV9QfICL8ZSJGHwoDwMwybTGe0U0tHUspde7xr02LWfiYwH1D8uVF70nyfMpwDxbPrfElzVQN4O7grjbbGiBV00X44foQhib7IiyvujlQmWUwPIgP7fQSJXMSzjrzB2gzkH3k6BVOHZr6UvU=w380-h674-no My baby is growing up so fast. We are at the fledging stage so loosing weight and flapping around a lot. Today we get our DNA done. Pat is such a love, he said there is no way he could help with that. He said he just loves him so much that he can't bare to watch him get his nail clipped and bleed after all his little toes have been through. I tried to explain that he would need to get his nails trimmed during his life so it is now or never, he said never, end of conversation. lol He was also with me when I fed him last night before bed. He would be a horrible mommy, his kid would be wrapped in bubble wrap and never be allowed to explore life! He had to leave the room because after all this time of me feeding Kane, he knew how to do it better so I tried to give him the syringe to do it himself, he left and said he just couldn't watch any more, That he just loves him so much the feeding scares him because of all the horror stories he has heard. Here comes my Texas twang... Bless his little heart.

Turns out we have been having some feeding issues and I am not crazy, lol. He isn't starving by any means he just only has half a tongue so you have to get that syringe just right or he will push it out or block the opening. I knew his tongue had been nicked by his parents but wasn't sure what a baby tongue looked like so didn't know he was missing over half of it. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/whVUaZDvalbZUuHyuWrFi919ai08hR73U2nsytSnUP4=w380-h674-no

Its the whole thing. And there is nothing safe but baking it. It is 6ft tall and almost 5ft long and 2 1/2 ft wide, i don't know anyone with an over that big.

Found out yesterday after a few days of investigating that my extra, extra large play stand has Powderpost beetles. I am not a happy camper. I kept seeing dust on the bottom but assumed it was just the pellet dust from the guys eating, but no. After looking at it more carefully there are over 100 exit holes and the big branch off to the side is very weak. Over 500.00 invested in this thing and it won't be around much longer. Trying to find the company who made it, it is local here in DFW area, I want to say Richardson but I can't find them on the internet since they don't sell to the public and the 2 pet stores that carried them are no longer in business. My feed store has some that look kind of the same but I'll have to call today and see if it is the same company. Arrggghhh! It is only 3 or maybe 4 years old, I am so sad and angry at the same time, I doubt they can or will do anything.

See if you say it out loud, they will prove you wrong. 694g this morning! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/b2RigqRSIgk9X-JtfU-B94AbxMxl6_6-TrEPslK5H-k=w380-h674-no Chacho has a friend finally! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iDDxA3ldLcgSgrWQBwU01x1qNly1TwJQUx2LzS8OVVk=w380-h674-no

So now we are back up to the 679g. Not sure what's going on so going to reach out to my friend and make sure all is okay with him. I try to stay away from googling it, that always puts the fear of God in a person. lol I had him on the table feeding him this morning and he reached up with his little beak and tried pulling himself up on my shoulder. He seems healthy, I I am sure I am just over reacting and all will be good.

All signs are pointing to Kane readying himself to start weaning. :-( He has started being stubborn with the formula, chewing all kinds of stuff and he took a growth spurt in height and lost a touch of weight.4grams (I think, won't be sure until next weigh in tomorrow. I had a bouncing weight yesterday so I took the one that came up the most, lol. Wrong I know but he wouldn't hold still to get a good reading) He really isn't old enough to wean but if that is what he wants, I guess he will get it, but very very slowly. He is just one day shy of being 7 weeks old. Yesterday he was my baby and today when I was feeding him, I looked at him in the tub that I got for him and thought how when I got it I just knew it would be a while before he was in it. He reached up and grabbed a hold of the top of it. :-(

Sometimes they just need new pretty and I am sure your guys loved their prizes. Makes them feel special and loved. I peeked in on Kane when we got back from dinner, he was chewing his tennis shoe and it was just to cute.

So today i took the extra time i had to bring Kane out to play with me. Of course he doesn't walk well yet but after a few minutes, he was chasing my hand around. More in fear at first but that quickly changed and we played and groomed and then he went to sleep in my hand. I of course am blaming this on exhaustion, but tears just started flowing. I got him back in his pen and went straight to the Pet Supermarket where i had to buy everyone a "just because" shredder! And Kane got a mini tennis shoe and some rattles and... Eh, bills smills. My babies deserve them! And i just told the hubs he is taking me out for dinner! What a wonderful day!

Took the day off work today. Mama bird needed to regenerate a bit. Here is Kane this morning, weighing at 678g. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VxLG6i6yOaMtc__WF4nmeSj6wUavBRCpEzuzPdspziE=w380-h674-no So in this one he was trying to poop but it shows his pretty tail. :-) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mOTmRO02Jl9cua03erMORUUaXCWSHv4nm7izXYdzGaQ=w380-h674-no

lol, gotta love the fart sounds if you live with a grey! Congrats and welcome, can not wait to read more progress reports!

Maybe this "vet" stayed at a holiday inn and now thinks he knows everything. No i am not a vet but 1000g? He must be a whack job. My biggest grey is 480g and he is a big boy! Maybe he mistook yours for a macaw? If so run as fast as you can away from this person. My first thought was that he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Get some aloe as suggested and give your baby time to find his place and comfort in your home. Unless your bird has a REAL medical issue that only an AVIAN vet can know for sure, trash that crap he gave you. Sorry, i don't think i care to much for the moron you called a vet so please don't take my comments personally, just relax and give your baby time and pure love!

Beautiful Scarlet! The other birds you posted about, are they as quiet as they look in those photos? Hahaha!

That is just heartbreaking. People just make me sick and I wish that person could be found and we could do a "trim" on them that equals what they did to that little grey! Aarrgggghhhh! Bongo and Chulo went to the dr yesterday. Chulo got another beak trim and this time they took it all the way back down and it is almost normal looking (if you look really quick) Before https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4axvj_gcz0XeWeNgjnfQD7IhjWX3W6-PMOcUiS0jEF8=w380-h674-no After https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UkA4uriymTqwJFs-SJQmIcuCvmERzcBB3zRy333W2Io=w380-h674-no We were looking at their weights also and Bongo is at 482 grams, umm Kane weighed in at 592. Hard to wrap my head around that one. A baby weighs more that a full grown grey. Chulo was 880g. So here is yesterdays picture. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BqgTU8nUEhS8ACk4lt8iGx5koB5iqjvg6TsfAzi-qRg=w380-h674-no During the day, his tail feathers took a growth spurt and I helped him clean them up last night. :-)

This morning was 592!

On Saturday morning hubby found a display case on Craigslist. Like the ones you find in stores that have the mirrors on the sides and back, glass front and top. ( we are kicking ourselves for not getting a before picture. This is about 2 hours into the transformation into Kane's new play area! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VktRscTilHAZP-PzTdYhBWmPx-SdUyq3azTprnzRCjc=w380-h674-no We took it all apart, removed the drawers and relocated them, made a sturdy base and flipped the unit over where the top is now the front and the back is now the top. lol https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qc0YHqKdoOO-xwGjf2IYtjkyRdQHmOUPNJByeRWDOxw=w380-h674-no It is so large for him right now I had to get Pat to build me a separator so we are only using the front part where I can reach. He is at 562 as of yesterday morning and is starting to move around and even spread his wings and flap some. It broke my heart when he did it the first time, knowing he will never be able to fly.