I couldn't wait until I did my usual update to tell you this. As most of the 'old' people in this site knows, Sweetpea Senegal is my resident genius bird in terms of talking and, especially, cognitive speech [he even makes jokes to make me laugh]. Well, one of his annoying habits is to pester me constantly when he feels I am late with his breakfast by asking "Ready?" over and over again to which he always gets the same reply: "No, not ready. Wait" But, the other day, he happened to fly into the kitchen and perch on my shoulder while I was finishing stirring the flavoring spices into the gloop so, when he asked "Ready?" I replied: "Yes, ready. Eat it! Que rica papa! Go home!" [The 'Go home' is for him to fly back into his cage] And I guess that the fact that he had actually gotten a positive reply for once made him super happy because he immediately let out a string of phrases as follows:
"Eat it! Eat it! Right here! It's right here! That's alright! Kiss me! Kiss the bird! [smack smack smack] Kiss the birdie! [smack smack smack] Where's the birdie?!" And the best part was that I had been trying to teach him peekaboo the right way -and I say the right way because, as he refers to himself as 'Peekabird, I've been covering my face and going "Where's the birdie?" so I can then uncover it and say "PEEKABOO!" But, for some reason and although he always pays attention to it, he had never actually said any of it - but I guess he was paying attention after all because he clearly said "Where's the birdie?"