Lola and the Eggs

Okay, so while growing up in Trinidad we always had birds...Canaries, Robins,Parrots. No big deal. None of them ever had eggs, so I guess I forgot that female birds lay eggs.
Apparently female parrots of Lola's kind can have eggs at least twice a year and the clutch can be up to about four.
The first time it happened was about two years ago. I had never been close enough to any feathered creature when they laid eggs to know what actually happens. It was one of those things that you never really give much thought to. I just assumed that it was the natural course of things and the egg just popped out. No way! For a female bird, laying an egg is the equivalent to a female human having a baby. The first time was horrible for us...oh and for Lola too! The poor bird literraly squealed and squealed. We had no inkling of what was going on, so we thought that she was dying. Prior to that Lola had been extremely loving towards Azam. We just assumed that she was mellowing and was just grateful that she was obssessed with him to the exclusion of biting us. We were all in bed when we heard her. Of course everyone came running! We took her out of the cage, tried giving her water, rubbing her back, trying in some way to ease her pain. We started discussing whether to take her to a vet. At this point everyone was very emotional. Azam had her in his arms, and was trying to see where she was hurting when he noticed something white. We quickly figured out what was going on and took her back to the cage so that at least she would be sitting when the egg came out. Of course we all stayed up with her until it was over. For a small bird it was quite a large egg. We all went to bed keeping an ear open in case it happened again. Luckily she only laid the one.
When I read up on it, we were supposed to leave her with the egg and she would abandon it after about six weeks once she figured out that it would not hatch. This would also discourage her from more frequent laying.
That six weeks turned into over three months! Two months of hand-feeding Lola because she would not leave the egg for a minute. Three months of sneaking the egg out of the cage to wash it because she would try to feed it cereal and yogurt (it got pretty disgusting). After the second month she started leaving the egg for short periods of time. By the end of the third month we were all at the stage of thinking that it would never end. How did it eventually end? Well I took the egg out to wash it and left it on the counter next to the fridge wrapped in a towel. It was my attempt to wean her away from it. While someone was getting something from the counter the egg broke. Curiously Lola did not even look for it. After all our catering to her, I think that she out-smarted us all! We were the ones who would run to her the minute she made any sort of noise. We were the ones who came home early no matter where we were to hand-feed her. Even Lola could recognize a good thing!
Since then she has had eggs once a year. The last time, she really wasn't attached to it. She laid the egg and it broke when Ansaar was cleaning her cage. She never really sat on it.
This week she laid two eggs. Both are small so she did not have too much trouble. She sits on them, but comes out to poop, eat and shower. She will not poop in the cage once she has eggs. When we are at home, we leave the cage door open so that she can come and go as she pleases. Now we wait until she is no longer interested in sitting on the eggs or until another "accident" occurs.
In the meantime, she is so sweet. She talks to the eggs, gives the eggs kisses. It is absolutely adorable to see her running quickly back to check on them when she feels that she has been away for too long. We do not have to watch where we step because there is no threat of the little red devil on the floor to bite us. My cupboards are left alone, after all who wants to investigate silly cupboards when there are egss to be taken care of?