Our First Babies Day 3 Check out the tiny little whiskers on the chubby white one (the one with it's chin resting on the black one.) These babies are just about 3 days old. Too bad I didn't take any pictures when they were first born -- no hair! The black and white ones were black and pink! By the way, these guys are not sleeping. Baby rabbits are born with their eyes closed. In fact, while it looks like they are just laying around, these little guys were actually crawling all around, as well as vigorously twisting and leaping. Sometimes they sleep all in a mound, and when you touch one of them, it starts the whole pile leaping and squirming and snapping. (Looking for a nipple.) It's rather like disturbing a colony of baby alligators. No wonder the mother doesn't want to stay with them!   Aloh Mayla The Mama Bunny   Papa Bunny, checking things out. Baby bunnies snoozing in a basket (while the cage is being cleaned.) Day 6 The babies are now almost twice as big as when they were born and have plenty of soft, satiny fur.   Day 11 No picture today, but I did want to report that the babies eyes are beginning to open! Plus, their little ears are starting to stand up a bit at times.     I am calling the chubbiest one "Piglet". Tonight Piglet was snuggling in my hands, licking at my palm, washing and grooming herself (all while in my palm), and then she rubbed the side of her jaw on my hand -- just the same motion big rabbits use on things when they want to mark their territory. I guess I have been claimed.   We let Piglet smell a piece of apple, and she let out a little sound and flailed and wiggled wildly. Her ears stood straight up for a moment. Then she sniffed it some more and tasted it. She couldn't really eat it, but she was very excited by the taste.   Day 12 All the bunnies eyes are open now! Now they can figure out where Mama Bunny is when she hops off to another part of the cage. They are really getting furry and fluffy. And when they want to eat, they burrow and wriggle their way under the mother, then turn over onto their backs, with their big fuzzy back feet wriggling in the air. It always makes me laugh. No pictures -- the digital camera isn't working.   Day 13 The babies started eating "solid food" today. They sampled an assortment of weeds and grasses from the garden. (All "organically grown", of course!) They are still nursing heavily from the mother. She still doesn't like it, and tries to get away. Day 14 The bunnies are beginning to hop a bit today!   Day 16 The bunnies are great hoppers now. They are so proud and excited about their bouncy little legs, that they hippity-hoppity-run back and forth across the cage, and sometimes bounce a few inches into the air just for fun! We are letting them out of the cage to hop around the living room. They're getting bigger every day, and now their fur is thick and very fluffy. They are getting really good at eating grass (although they still live mostly on milk), and today they enjoyed raw broccoli. They loved it so much they leaped with excitement. If only human children reacted that way! My favorite thing to do with the bunnies is hold them in my hand, lay them on their back, and stroke their foreheads. It hypnotizes them! They relax... relax... relax.. go limp! (However, some relax more than others!)