I like this thread a lot- I’d been wondering how much other GCC’s could say, because I also heard they were only supposed to say “a few things” but Tuli’s 10 months old and up to around 30 things he’s said at least once. Here’s a list of what he’s said more than once:
-Hey baby
-step up
-gimme kiss
-gimme yummy yummy
-stop it!
-Ow!
-No!
-gentle/be gentle
-what a good bird/who’s a good bird
-wanna step up
-you stop!
-kiss me/hey sweety (half the time I can’t distinguish between these)
-Tuli (his name)
-come here
-come on
-Who’s the birdie?
-go potty
-poopie
-sleepy/are you sleepy? (he’s only said the latter twice ever)
-monster (my nickname for him sometimes)
-I love you (only a couple of times ever- I wish he’d say this more)
-let’s go (he could say this when I got him, but he rarely says it now, since I rarely say it)
-kiss noises
-smacking noises when he eats (mimicking when I’m lazy and eat with my mouth open)
-ha ha ha! (a very fake sounding laugh, LOL!) he also mimics my laugh, and I have a pretty weird laugh, so it always cracks me up when he does it.
He was 6 months old when I got him from a bird store that interacts with and socializes their birds fairly well. He could already say “let’s go,” “step up (not very clearly),” “ha ha ha”, and make kiss noises, but he was a closet talker, and would only talk when I wasn’t in the room for the first couple of months that I had him.
What amazes me the most is how much he uses his words to communicate, and that he says them with the proper inflections in his voice. Like when he’s really begging me to pick him up, he says “step uuuup” over and over with a whiny tone to his voice. And every time I leave the room without him he shouts something like “stop it! Wanna step up! You stop!”
