Dumb Parents

March 15, 2008 by Dad.

We just had to admit this to ourselves today when Cezanne tried really hard to tell us something, the story goes…

We had just finished breakfast, or lunch, I forget which, but I had put out seed for the birds in the feeder which is just off the deck and close enough so that Cezanne can see the birds when they come to the feeder. We had been telling her all about the birds and asking her if she could see the birds and encouraging her to respond.

After thinking about it and checking them out for a while she stared responding but her response and our interpretation of the response was not quite the same. We have taught her a few signs to help with the communication, one of the signs, the sign for cat to be precise, involves putting your fingers near your mouth and pulling on your whiskers ( if you actually were a cat and had whiskers ). Another similar sign involves tapping your finger tips near your mouth to represent eating.

Cezanne was talking up a storm, not really saying anything we could understand, but repeating herself and then started using her signs, she made the sign for cat, or at least that was our interpretation - we looked for the cat but saw nothing - so we asked her were the cat was and what the cat was doing. She went on about this “cat” and the birds, making the sign for birds (tapping thumb & forefinger together as if a bird). After this went on for a while the translation finally kicked in and we realized what she was telling us, there was no cat, the birds were eating !

What a bunch of idiots we are - Cezanne, good luck, we are all you got !

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