Thank you everybody!
The first day went really well. We are just letting her get used to us and we have held her occassionally. She is tired from yesterday but being in the busy part of the house she had a hard time napping, would open her eyes every time somebody walked by. Will she get used to the hubbub or should we look into a nap cage in a second room?
She LOVES food. The cage is within sight of my food prep counter in the kitchen. Whenever she saw me getting food ready for the kids she'd come over to the side of the cage, lean forward with wings open and wave back and forth. So she got bits of all sorts of things today: Peas, a few baby carrots, apple, almond, a noodle, and a bit of peanut butter on a spoon. For the chunk of nectarine I put it in a baby bowl and held it for her while she sat on me so she could rip it to shreds. It's fun to see her rip up their food. She seemed more nervous and would even growl when my husband was talking to her, so he fed hand-fed her the peas.
She has made a few noises, one that sounds like a smoke detector battery beep that her previous parront said she got from their caique, something that sounds like a gravelly deep Hello, and a contact call type chirp. We have done lots of talking to her and hanging out near the cage.