So here's one of our babies at 20 days :)  From the color of his wing feathers, am thinking he wil be a miniature Dash (their dad, last photo) :)

*Edited to include pic of all four 

*Taken by mg S700i (still!) because I didn't want to use the flash on the 5D and hurt their eyes. 

Here are our new babies (getting more adventurous everyday!).  The two oldest have hit their 14-day mark today and are growing their pin feathers on their wings, cheeks, tail and crest. 

I clean their nesting box everyday, handle and talk to them so that they know who I am and will grow up tame and human friendly like their parents.  Unlike their parents though, we chose to not handrear them because I still am not confident of my abilities to use a crop needle and because Daz and I are away from the house for a significant part of the day that we cannot stick to a feeding schedule at all.

The first two already show gray and yellow pins, so I am assuming they will be cinnamon pearls like their dad.  The youngest though, is showing that it might end up a lutino pearl like the mom :)  Can't wait another two weeks until they're nearly fully feathered. 

I got home from work yesterday afternoon and the first thing MIL said to me was "Guess what!" and I said, "What?" and she said "There's a baby!"

So I ran to the bedroom (where the nesting box was) and sure enough, there was an empty eggshell right at the front of the box and I could hear a chirp chirp chirp :)But the mum and dad were very very stressed out and kept hissing at me (I couldn't believe it!  Our sweet and gentle Dash was hissing LOL) so I very hurriedly left them alone to call Daz and tell him the good news :)

A little later I came back and I finally saw it --a little naked baby cockatiel trying to run around with his cute perfect little legs and raising his cute perfect little wings!! :)  Right beside him was another egg that had a hole at the top.  I left them alone again and when I came back a little later --there were TWO!!

I had to turn the heater on because the parents weren't sitting on them and I was scared they would die of cold but when I woke up earlier and shone a little light, I saw the mum sitting on them, feeding them :)  Yay!  They might survive yet!

This is our cockatiel's second clutch, but first hatch so we have been told over and over that the babies will probably not survive because handreared cockatiels do not make the best first-time parents, but I hope they do!

Will try and take pictures when the parents relax a little bit and let me do it :)  

Am a bit disappointed, really.  I wanted 32G and the original alum back, not a plastic back and the usual 8 and 16G. It's also cheaper (and I am selfish this way) which means everyone will have it.

People have already been pre-ordering from Optus, but I would like to wait a little bit until the reviews come in for v2.  I'm even thinking about holding out for v3, or until they come up with a 32G one maybe later this year.

I also want to know what sort of plans the networks are going to offer with it; so far no information on that. 

(edited to put actual wwdc footage)

Finally here, picked it up today. *Big grin*

We also get a free Canon M80 which is a (cool!) storage device for our photos and will be handy when we travel.

Now, hopefully I get to put better photos on this blog hehe 

And now that Daz has his toy, I am sooo waiting for the 2nd Gen iphone!  Rumors running rampant that version 2 will be 3G and will be announced on the 9th.  

In other news, am also LSS on Joshua Radin's Sky.  It's a pretty song, but I wake up with it in my head and I really do not want to get sick of it :(