Bonding progress week 1

It's been a really eventful so far!

Since they're not fully used to us yet I have been cleaning out the cage and feeding them while they're asleep. So far it's 15 mins daily changing paper in the tray, wiping round the wheel, cleaning out any left over food.
5 mins every evening feeding them and changing their water.
It takes me about 30 mins once a week to make up their diet for the week (to freeze). I take today's portion out the freezer when I come home from work.

The first night we didn't go near them at all.  We occasionally sat by the cage and chatted to them but didn't put fingers in etc. We could see that they weren't afraid of us (no crabbing etc) but they weren't interesed in us either.

Monday & Tuesday night we fed them yogurt from our fingers through the bars and talked to them.  They seemed to really like this. 
Here's Tear enjoying her yogurt:
Tera enjoying her yogurt

Wednesday night I put my whole hand inside the cage and let them jump on for yogurt.  This went slowly at first, but they were fine by the end of the night.

Thursday I sat up till 3.30am playing with them inside the cage.

Friday we took the pouch out and sat it on my knee, I coaxed them out with yogurt.  Once they woke up (and gobbled up the yogurt) they scurried down the back of the sofa and we had a nightmare getting them back out, the gap between the sofa and the wall's really small.
We had 'glider proofed' our lounge before we let them out (no cables or small spaces etc) and there's nothing down the back of the couch to harm them, but I freaked out that I couldn't see where they were or what they were doing.
When we presented the pouch to Tera she hopped right in, but Plo wasn't interested.  He ran round the outside of the cage but didn't seem to know how to get in.  I had to pick him up and put him in, he was reluctant to let go of the bars, but I took his feet off one by one and he was fine. Not even any crabbing. :)

On Saturday we waited until they were awake and opened the main front door so they could hop out themselves.  This seemed to work because now they understand where the doors are and that they can hop in and out.

They ran around on and under the cage for about half an hour, then got fed up and went home.  Plo ran straight back to his stealth wheel, he loves it!

Week 1 was pretty awesome!

We have been REALLY lucky that we found a really good breeder, Scottish sugar gliders and our babies were already well socialised when we got them.  Many people spend weeks getting their gliders to let them put their hands near them and get nothing but crabbing.  We don't have to tame them from scratch, all the hard work has been done for us and we just have to let them get used to us at their own pace.