Mom's birthday part deux

[matrixrefugee]

A few things I forgot to mention about Mom's birthday on Sunday:

--Flurry the budgie was chattering up a storm during dinner: he's starting to talk! Not clearly, but he's getting there. So far he can say "Baby" and "Baby bird" and repeats it if you say it to him. I heard him say "Baby 'keet" and "parakeet", and we think we've heard him say "Good bird".

--As my dad and I were singing "Happy Birthday", Oskar the cockatiel started making these "Yerk?" noises, as if he were trying to sing with us! He's never done that before!

--We waited till tonight (well, Monday night) to cut the cake, which had a picture of Hello Kitty drawn on it. This conversation ensued:

Mom: "Whoops, it looks like I cut her head off."
Dad: "Ooh, you're so mean!" :: Kidding::
Me: (In the kitchen, getting a knife) :: Adjusts glasses, lets out evil/insane giggle::

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[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

She can be a bit too serious at times (but there again, life has been too serious with her...) but she does come out with the craziest things sometimes.

And Flurry is starting to become sweet little buddy to us: he's a bit shy and skittish still (we think he may have been handled roughly somehow) but he's starting to trust us more. Not sure if he'll have quite the huge vocabulary that Merry had, but time will tell.