One Smart Bird!!!

Tuesday night the 'friend' and I were counting with Kanoni, trying to reinforce the numbers and also trying to create a connection to their meaning by holding up fingers to correspond. We held up one finger and said, 'one', a second and said, 'two', and so on until we reached ten. Then we asked Kanoni if she could count with us. We expected her to reply by verbally repeating the numbers she's heard over and over, since she's become keen on verbalizing new words lately (her latest was 'bye bye'...which expanded into "Hey (friend's name), let's go bye bye.").

To our surprise instead of actually speaking the numbers (which as of yesterday she is also doing), she held up her little claw and literally showed us one, then two, etc. in this manner. Amazing, huh?!?!! Well, you can imagine where we went with this!! By the end of this brief session with her (she IS a 'quick-study') she not only counted along with us using her claw, she also learned to high 'four' (birds are missing a digit, ya know?!) with us!!

If you don't believe me....take a look!!! :)) (In the first two pics she is counting, and giving a 'high four' in the latter two. My digital camera hesitates before the pic is actually taken, so there was a delay, argh!)