Post your slice each school day between now and the start of Spring Break!
On the walk, from thirty yards away, she spotted a large, orange-sherbet and whipped cream cat sauntering around the foundation of a neighborhood house, and exclaimed confidently, "Kitty!" like Bo in Monsters, Inc. My parrot parrots so well, I sometimes change up the options given in my question to discern if she's just 'choosing' whatever thing is last in the list: "Peanut butter? Jelly?" "Jelly!" And, she does have her own opinions.
My parrot's alert, sponge mind has encouraged more 'umphy,' colorful adjectives and exclamations to vanish from my vocabulary in a preemptive maneuver to keep them out of her mouth. Whether it's the choice to go for a family walk on this blue-sky, sunshine 70*F day, or being happy to take a bite of a new-to-her food to say, "Oooh, yum!," I'm modeling for my parrot, because she's not a parrot at all.