Today, Sunny played on the couch, hopped around like a little bunny. Sunny played with his favorite duck toy. We laid his toy on the couch and squeezed it to make a squeaky sound and Sunny will start chasing it. He climbed up when we put his toy up on the top of the cushion, and when we put his toy back down and he will climb back down or fly back down and jump around like a bunny again. Guess he enjoyed the chase and tag of his toy back and forth.
After playing, Sunny flew back to his cage where his little mirror is and taps on it. Tapping the mirror is Sunny’s one way of saying that we need to put his toy back. When he got his toy back, he would start kissing and talking to him while looking into the mirror occasionally.
Are you wondering how did Sunny learn those words? Well, every time we have to do something we say the word as well. It is saying the same word with the same activities. We call it learning by association. Just like for example, when we kiss him, we would say “a kiss… a kiss...” The same thing he does when he is front of the mirror, looking at his reflection he would kiss himself and utter the word. The more he watches us, the more he acts like us. When people in the house get loud, he gets loud as well especially when he wants something or when he is unhappy.
