A Little Pro Hart

I came into the room to find Ayako and Tia getting paint everywhere - worthy of a few photos. Hope that paint is actually non-toxic as the label claims.

Kirra Lines

Kirra and Cooly had some solid, difficult (due to the max. 10 sweep) surf for a week. This is one of the not very good days during the swell.

Free Love[Bird]

I took Bird1 outside for his first free flight in the big wide world.

He flew back in the house no problem, I had to then keep taking him back out. Then I just left the doors open for a while and left him thinking he'll be fine. He went back out then I think got a bit lost as to where the door was to get back in. He flew around the front of the house and we had to get bird2 to call him back. It was interesting to see both birds communicating from a few houses away.

Anyway he made it back and is ok. Check it out. He looks pretty cool in the tree. Better than the cage I think.
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LittleBirds A, B, C & D

Well just like "The Cat in the Hat" book we now have LittleBirds A, B, C & D. All four eggs have hatched. The final one this afternoon. I cleaned the cage about 3pm with one egg left. On inspection at about 6pm it had hatched. Mumma bird looks a bit ruffled due to her dedicated sitting, with Dad feeding her to then pass onto the chicks. It's quite funny, they are growing so fast all the birds are in sequential sizes as to hatching order. LittleBird A is more than twice the size of LittleBird D. They remind me of the Russian Dolls that are all the same with different sizes.

Anyway not bad, 100% success so far, which I was not expecting. I'll remove them to be hand fed in a two weeks.

First Steps

Tia took her first steps today. She had a paradigm shift in her head and just started walking. Pretty exciting for us all. She spent the couple of hours before bed practicing and looked so thrilled with herself.

LittleBird A

Today we noticed one of the Lovebird eggs has hatched. The miniature bird looks to be healthy and strong. It is even flapping its little wings. In the picture it is probably only about 8 hours old. It even has a small belly button hole from the umbilical cord. It's pretty cute. Surprisingly there was almost no trace of the shell left, one of the birds must have crushed it up or something. The rest of the eggs are expected to hatch in two day intervals, as they were laid and in the same order.

We have named it LittleBird A (like Little Cat's A B C & D ect from the Dr. Seuss book the "Cat In The Hat Comes Back" which Tia and I have been reading recently).
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On ya bike

This is Tia and I setting off for a ride together on our new bike. She doesn't look too enthusiastic but is happy once we get going. This time we rode down the beach on the sand.

Top Shot

We just downloaded a few months worth of photo's Ayako has been taking on her mobile phone. There are some really nice candid moments. This is the beauty of the mobile phone used as a camera, many of the photo's are taken without expectations which can lead to unexpectedly good results.

I think this is a beautiful photo. Tia in her pram behind a plastic rain shield.
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Tia's Birthday Party

Tia turned 1 today on the 4th Aug 2007. A group of our/her friends came to celebrate. Tia says "thanks for all my presents".
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4eggs

Bird2 has been sitting on four eggs now for a week so we think that is all there will be this time. We'll see if they all hatch in a couple of weeks.