Where the heck am I?  I  know I can't open my eyes yet.  I just got out of that big shell not too long ago and then I remember laying in this nice soft bed of what seemed like shredded paper.  But I also remember I was not being fed and didn't get any food.  I think that's when JO stepped in and took me upstairs into the Babies Room and gave me some nice warm grub and a nice warm bed.  She was feeding me very 45 minutes for the first day and man oh man, she said it was hard and very time consuming.  I am so very, very, very tiny that Jo has to drop it into the side of my mouth and let me suck it in sort of.  I don't take very much at each feeding.  She is keeping me nice and toasty at 31 degrees C.

And I made it thru the night and Jo's one happy camper.  Says still have a ways to go before I'm out of the woods yet though.  She's feeding me every 1 1/2 hours now.  Seems to JO like I have not growed one little bit.  She is still pretty nervous for me.   Has to be extremely careful in feeding me, temperature of my brooder, outside air temperature in the room when she takes me out to feed me.  My little toes are so tiny they don't even resemble toes yet! 

I may be tiny, but holy gosh Jo says I have one mighty cry.  Says she opens the Babies Room door and she can hear me right away.  Jo also has to apologize for some of these pictures as up to day nine of my life they could be deceiving.  See in this one I look pretty big huh, but then in the next one I look smaller.  That's cause this one has been zoomed in on three times.  Same as my 7 day, 8 and 9 day pictures.  

And I am up to 2 1/2 hours between feedings.  Jo is really holding hope for me now.  It's getting much easier to feed me as now I will open my mouth for her and just gobble that formula right down.

8 days old

This picture has been zoomed in on as well.  Jo wanted you to see how my feathering is starting.  Right now I still have a lot of white fluff still all over me, but you can see the dark spots, especially in this picture on my head, where the feathering is going to start.  Notice how my wings are getting darker as well.  See how my crop is nice and full in this picture as well.  Just after supper.

Notice in this picture my crop is only half full, not nice and round.  That does not mean it's time to feed me yet, about 1/2 hour from now, Jo tells me is supper time.  

So you can see I may have started off small, but I'm only 1o days and that band had to be put on, see how fast my toes growed!  By the way, Jo uses size M bands for us, cause your interested.  While it is good to make sure our bands are not too tight, it is also better not to have them too big.  Jo lost one of her beloved linnie Mom's  cause her band was so big around and she got it caught in a toy.  Jo was out for two hours and came home to find poor Edith gone.  

And my eyes are OPEN!  maybe only half in this picture, but thats only cause they have these flashes from that camera going off in my eyes.  Look at  Jo's ....sooooooo big, but hey I'm getting there!  Still can't tell my my colors are going to be yet though.  

Jo calls these our "smiley" pictures.  Says we look like we are smiling at her.  (maybe we are!) 

Can you tell Jesse loves us linnies!  He has one as Jo has mentioned numerous times, but first thing he wants to do every time he comes to MeMere's House is go see the baby linnies.  He's already hitting Jo up for a partner for his Cuddles.  Yes I got my eyes wide open now, I squeak and squeak and squeak and Jo is just so proud of me.  I'm practicing fluttering my little wings already.

And some kinda handsome I might add!  

Great news to report Jo says.  Before breakfast this morning I got my weigh in and tipped the scales at 38 grams.  Gets better......  better getting my supper tonight I weighed in at 40 grams!  Let's see what tomorrow brings.  

Did Jo ever tell you yet what I am eating?  It's not bad really. Tropican hand feeding  formula, which contains all vitamins, mineral, amino acids and other nutrients us guys need.  Jo supplements the hand feeding formula with  Formula Plus.   Now you want to hear what my schedules like now.  I get breakfast at 6, then I get a snack at 8 or so, then I get dinner at half past noon, I get supper, bedtime snacks (another meal really) at 11.  

Me and that little masked fellow are sharing a brooder.  Our temp is down to about 27 C.  We got this little wooly stuffed crab that we snuggle together beside.  

See me here with my roomie.  He's a violet masked and I just love being able to snuggle with him.  Jo still can't tell what mutation I am going to be but I can tell you this morning before breakfast,  I weighed in at a whooping 40 grams.  

Can you make me out here?  Jo has us out of the brooder laying on a nice soft cloth with our wooly crab to tuck under while she is cleaning our brooder.  My roomie there, he's got his head stuck right under our snuggly, while I have my head resting on his back.  I didn't get my weigh in first thing this morning, but before supper I weighed in at 48.  Let's see what tomorrow morning brings.  

Oh but I am good.   Before breakfast this morning, got put on those scales and tipped again at 48.  Didn't even get to have my snack at 8 this morning.  Guess I'm down to 4 square meals a day and maybe a little snack.    I am really active now and I heard Jo saying tomorrow I am going to loose my roomie.  Why ......cause I'm all over him.....I may be shorter than he is, but I can stretch these little legs pretty high, almost high enough to get right in his face to squeak at him!  I think I may be squeaking a little too much though as now he's ignoring me.  He's real good, he has not tried to nip me (or Jo would've had him out of here Pronto) or push me around, almost like he tolerates me cause he has too .... lets me snuggle up to him at night.  I think he just figures he is more mature than me,  But Jo can tell he's had enough of me being so active.  

52 grams

54 grams and Jo didn't take no picture!

54 grams

58 whooping grams.  Guess I had better petter off soon.  That's pretty much the size I'm gonna be when I'm all growed up.  I'm really startin to feather in now and Jo can tell I'm going to be a beautiful green.  Today me and my buddy Ida I'm still with him) got moved to an apartment, lower level with a nice big cuddle to sleep and cuddle under.  Our Babies Room is kept nice and warm.  Jo's got bits of cereals, egg food, millet, and a very shallow dish of water on the floor for us.  Me, I poked at it a bit, but not much.  I'm still getting four square meals a day from Jo.  

58 grams

a whooping 74 grams.  But now I guess I have to tell you that I got my weigh in tonight AFTER supper.  

68 grams BEFORE breakfast this morning, which is served up at 6:30 now.  I just had me supper and as you can see Jo has not done a good job wiping my face for me yet.    I expect another four or five days and Jo will be taking most of my dinner from me.  She's got all kinds of foods in here with us now, CeDe, soaked seeds, veggies, cereals, seeds, millet, dish of water.  Far as Jo knows so far, I have not touched any.  Any day now I should be pickin at it.  Probably I would be by now if I didn't have such a shy roomie.  We pretty much follow each others example and him there, he's not pickin at the food too much yet either.  (even though he should be Jo says)