Denise, Matto nailed the description of Gigi. She is busy all the time, biting, hanging from and attacking her toys. She manipulates her toys too, trying to get them to wrap around perches, go on either side of her boing or swing. She has lots of opinions, contact calling me when it's time for her to go to the living room for the day, time to come out of the cage, time to go back to bird room, time to dim the lights. She has me very well trained. She really loves me and wants my attention, but doesn't always want to be touched, then another time she will allow me to work on her pin feathers, laying perfectly flat on her face for 10 minutes, or hanging on the inside of her cage while I pet her for as long I will. She will burrow into a towel on my lap and close her eyes for a long time. She attacks the cloth I use to clean off poop, clicking, buzzing and shrieking at it occasionally. I have to put her in her travel cage to deep clean her cage and switch out toys because she will possibly nip me. She is so interested in everyone, including my little grandchildren. She comes to the closest part of the cage whenever anyone approaches her. She is somewhat quiet, but knows 4 trick whistles now and does them often. When I open her cage door, she immediately comes to the edge, hanging and trying to decide how to get out. She won't step up from there. But eventually she catapults herself out to my lap, the nearby chair or the floor. She will happily take a spray shower, hang out on top of her cage on her play gym, just stand on my finger while we watch TV, sit on my shoulder, preening my hair, then she runs across the top of the sofa behind me. She has been to the veterinarian twice and both times, she did a kiss noise when asked. Then we came home and she acted like she always acts. She's very resilient and is just so fun! It will be interesting to see if she mellows out as an adult.
She is night and day from the calm and docile cockatiels that I had years ago. But that's just my experience with cockatiels and others could be much different.
Matt, I know you bought Gigi's parents, but I didn't know that you have any of her siblings. Who do you have? What is your plan for them?