Floyd

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Thank you!
We have had Floyd for only a short time, so we have not had a lot of time to influence his personality very much. Wish we had had him since he was tiny. Floyd is eighteen years old. He is from some of my husband's relatives. He has had about three other homes before he was passed on to us. I believe my husband said that Floyd used to hear his sister say "Kevin, take out the garbage!" and said Floyd picked up on that after awhile and would yell, "Kevin, take out the garbage!" He hasn't said any of the phrases we were told he is capable of saying yet, but since he has been with us, he does say, "Goodmorning Floyd!" and "Hello Floyd!" My son, Blake giggles when he walks through the door from school and Floyd greets him with "Hello Floyd!" He thinks it's funny that in this household, since Floyd came to live with us that we are now a family of "Floyds"! Because he greets all of us, especially Blake who he is more vocal with, by the name of Floyd. Floyd will not tolerate touch with us yet, and I am not sure if this will change about him. I am not real experieced with birds, so I really couldn't even guess if he will ever tolerate it or not. I need someone who knows about Parrots to tell me what is typical of these feathered babies. As I have said on here before, Floyd is really smart; when we come to him at night and say, "Let's go to bed Floyd..." , he starts down from the top of his cage where he stays the majority of the time and right into his cage he will climb. But-if we try putting him to bed earlier than normal, he seems to know and will not go right away, he will need us to hold his cage covering up and walk toward the cage, he takes the hint that we are not negotiating with him on it and he will go ahead and go on like a pouting child! He had a problem for the longest time that at first was fascinatinng, but in time it began to wear on our nerves. Everytime one of us would leave the room, he would cry with this extremely loud "HONK!!!" over and over until who ever left the room would come back and talk to him or someone else would go and talk to him. We understood this must have been lonliness and it must have been his way of demanding attention. This problem has stopped since we hung a large mirror behind his cage. He still gets attention, but when we are unable to keep him company as often as he likes, he doesn't have to feel alone. He loves to be talked to; when we change our tones of voice he seems to like the variation. It is funny when we clean around his cage, he stoops over and looks down at us with such curiosity that it is funny to us everytime. He loves music and is quite a dancer. Those kids that do their hip-hop dancing have nothing on Floyd! He does this thing with his neck kind of like the kids do when they listen to that type of music. Thank you for your nice coments and your interest in him. I will attach a picture of him for you.