by KimberlyAnn » Thu May 22, 2014 12:43 am
Haha I love this thread. Chance cracks me up!
Emmi's thank-you comes from getting things like blueberries. Since treat number 1, I told her to say thank-you. Recently, this has become her favorite word. She also sounds so cute when she says, "Hi Emmi" because of my Swedish and Finnish family background, I have a sing song voice, I've been told. Not monotone at all and lots of ups and downs. So to say it how I say it to her, she has to move her head back and forth, up and down. It's really funny to see. My husband is the opposite. He's from Iowa and has that dull Midwestern tone to his voice (totally not dull...but that's the only way I can describe it) and she's only picked up "pretty bird" from him. That's what she calls him. But when she says this, she puts her head down and huntched shoulders...it makes pretty bird sound so robotic. We've learned a lot about our accents through Emmi. Lol
She's talked a lot from the first week we got her, but I also talk a lot too. I really have to watch my language around her. She's said, "God Damnit" before for three days. I had to turn it into "Go get it!" Until she got bored with that.
My mom had a cockateil named Casey when I was in high school. I think I shared this story before, but we would say, "Casey, what does a thousand pound canary say?" And he would answer back..."HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY!"
My family: "Emmi" Green Cheek Conure (12/15/2012), One husband, two step kids, and one baby boy born in January 2015!