OK...I'm really going to TRY to quit neglecting this thing like I have been here lately!
Update on the kids:
Gizzy: She's been really good lately. She recently had her wings clipped. The neighbors are getting a new roof and the contractors outside banging around scared her, so she bolted downstairs in a panic. We don't need her getting hurt! I really hated to clip her but she doesn't need to be flying around like that! The vet says he can see MAJOR improvements from the day after I brought her in. He said she's really filling out nicely and her feathers are getting a really nice sheen to them. I'm very excited. She's also picking up a lot of new words and sounds. I think she's trying to sing the Menard's commercial on the radio. She's also dropped the S word on me as well. But that's what I get for trying to fiddle around with my printer in her presence when it wasn't cooperating! Oops.
Her favorite thing ever is oatmeal. She'll go nuts for it. I usually give her oatmeal a few times a week with baby food mixed in (only the baby food with the veggie/fruit puree and water! no added iron and such!). She LOVES the Chiquita Bananas and Squash. Yum yum. However, her squash gave her the runs tonight. Ick. We had 2 accidents outside of the cage.
Cheeko: Well, he's molting. His cage is full of orange feathers. There's enough there that it looks like an orange massacre lol. He's gained quite a bit of weight since I went to Sheffield. Ryan spoiled him a lot when I was gone. ;). I really need to get a gram scale so I can keep track of his weight. I'm trying to get him to exercise...he LOVES to run up and down the hall and climb his birdie ladder. So I do that with him daily.
He's also been super grumpy since he's molting. I was laying down with him yesterday (yea, all 3 of them are worse than dogs are with the bed...each thinks it's "their" place lol). So I was just lying down when all of a sudden an orange bundle of fluff decides to run up and grab me between the nose. My nose bled on and off again for a couple days. The scab is finally gone. Which is good. I know this is gross, but I'm a huge fan of those nasal irrigation things. Hadn't been able to use it since it's mainly just salt water and that'd burn like heck in my injured nose! Geesh. He's been really loony.
Maverick: Oh I finally get to see him tomorrow! I'm super excited! I can't wait! He's such a lover and such a sweetheart. Last time I was at Ryan's and I left to go back to Columbus, as I was pulling out of the driveway, Ryan called and told me as I was pulling out, Maverick looked up and said "Bye! Bye!" He's such a little Einstein. His hormones are getting a lot better than they were last time I visited. I'll be glad when "breeding season" is almost over! For the non-bird people reading, all parrots are extremely hormonal and moody in the springtime, as in the wild, that is their natural mating season. So one minute they're biting you or screaming at you, and the next their regurgitating their dinner on you...yes gross, but in the parrot world-regurgitating food is the way they say "I love you." Maverick's "Hello!" is also getting REALLY clear!
That's all for now! Ryan will be here this weekend and I'm sure we'll get pics of them all to upload.
