Take her to her vet! My exotics vet can clip toenails in seconds, and they're an old hand at it, so I never worry. They actually taught me to do it myself, but my birds are good about it. She may need to go to the vet every time.

We've had her since she was a very tiny baby.....most of her life actually. We bought her from a respectable breeder in Shakespeare and she was hand raised. Yes we sometimes take her for car rides and such but she's still too loud to take anywhere in public like inside a building or something....maybe those carrying thingiesarea good idea and i could take her more places so she gets used to different people. Can anyone recommend what size i should buy?
Oh yeah and funny thing. I have one friend that Sammy absolutely ADORES. She even gets upset and runs away when i try to take her off lol. I dunno what it is but my bird has ISSUES haha.

Sammy is somewhat near a window...enough to look out of but far away enough so that she won't get any drafts that come from the window in winter or at night that might go under her blanket. As for out of cage time.....hours upon HOURS AND HOURS of time out of the cage. She is a big sucky baby when it comes to the family. She will take naps with us by sleeping next to our heads on pillows she'll sit with us on the computer and she will play with us. The only thing is she doesn't occupy herself. if you leave her to her own devices she will ALWAYS try to find a way to climb, crawl, or fly to a person for attention. she is VERY well loved here

Could it be that she has bonded a little too much with the three family members? she seems to be very jealous even if our other bird gets attention (we have a single peach faced love bird, male, who has bonded to me because he was kept by himself at the pet shop) I think she's just very jealous that someone might be taking "mommy's" attention away from her...could this be the case? any thoughts?

toys....umm.......she likes things she can throw off of tables like plastic bottle caps and anything she can destroy by chewing lol. Would getting her interested in a play gym help with her behavior a little bit?

There seems to be 2 school of thoughts on keeping birds by the windows. Some likes it because it lets the birds look outside and entertain themselves. Others feel that birds may feel insecure/threatened by whatever is going on outside because they don't have the concept of the window being there thus protecting them from the outside. I've heard of hawks flying by the window where the bird sits and scaring the crap out of them, etc. Just a thought.

IMO as important as it is to spend a lot of time with your birds, it is also critical to help them learn to occupy themselves without you. This is not only to save your sanity but it'll help your birds to be more emotionally stable. I don't want my birds to drive themselves nuts if I'm unable to spend all my time with them, or I want to be able to leave them with sitters/family members if I have to go away or something.

Playpen with lots of toys is great (my Ekkie is sitting on a homemade playpen right now attaking toys and eating treats) and it is not very expensive or difficult to make. Many people make theirs with PVC pipes, wood, branches, etc. Mine is a combination of the playtop we took off of top of Miki's cage, large wicker basket, and some branches we found in our backyard. Hang some toys, toilet papers (which Miki LOVES), put some treats in the bowls, and we're happy campers

Thanks for the tips everyone! Do any of you have or know of a website that would help me make one of those tabletop gym thingies? i'm not sure how to start lol.

oh and is it normal for birds to recognize words that correspond with favourite foods? for example my bird goes nuts whenever she hears the words cracker, toast, and juice so we now have to SPELL them when she's around...bizarre huh? anyways thanks again and any websites would be appreciated!

Well, first bought a book on how to make tons of parrot toys.  (WASTE OF MONEY!!)  I then realized that I could pretty well copy anything just by looking at it. 

So - after the holidays, if someone reminds me I'll be glad to snap some pictures of Ozzies playgym and put the dimensions and directions.  Just send me a PM or topic to remind my very forgetful brain!

Good idea I'll put it in the Home Tweet Home section... since toys are sort of like furniture? LOL