When you were as young as nine months or eight months, if we got something from you in front of someone, you started crying really bad. I believe you have a sense of pride, and you feel (may be) insulted and offended if this happens in front of a stranger.

Also, if two people are talking loud, or pretend they are being violent, you cry really loud. First you focus and notice to see what is happening. Then if you feel tension you cry out. First time, I observed if when you were around six months old. I thought it was an accident and co-incidence. But next time, your dad was eating pizza and I told him to use napkins. He teased me and tried to touch my face with his dirty and smelly hands as he was eating pizza. I tried to dodge my head. You were watching carefully and alarmed since the beginning. (And we were just teasing!!!). Once your dad touched my face, you started shouting and crying.

Once again, your dad was coughing, and I tried to hit him in the back to help him with passing the food through his throat, because it was making him cough. I guess you thought that I wanted to hit your dad, and you again started crying and shouting. Both incidents happened before you were one year old.

Again, last night we were at a party and Arash place, you dad’s friend. Sahar was joking with your dad. She started shouting when your dad said he wanted to kiss her to apologize for a comment on Sahar’s facebook photo. Sahar started shouting and dodging her head. Again you were watching very carefully and alarmed all the time. You started crying outloud and shouting.

So, honey, you need to know this for the rest of your life. You ARE a very sensitive person, looking for peace and calm. This is not something that you learned. It is inside you, it is your personality. Live, knowing and appreciating, but harnessing that characteristic of yours.

The farsi word for water. You say it now. You use it for water or for food sometimes.

Sometimes you use “emm” for food!

yesterday I noticed that you pressed the numbers on the phone (you could do it since you were six or seven months old, you remember, you called 911?), then you put the phone to your ear. 🙂 You really enjoy it. Previously, you used to pass the phone to me so that I put it on my ear and talk.

It is almost ten days that you can use a sippy cup very easily. Some times to pour the water on your high chair or spill it on yourself, but that is when you do not want to drink water and you just want to play!

Since yesterday, you clearly communicate if you want water, and if you want to taste a food.

You say “Emm”, which is an effort to say “Aab”, the word for water.

Also, if I ask you something, and you want to say yes, you just make a “eh” sound, which has the same intonation of yes.

And, today, you pretended you are crying to put a power cable into your mouth, after we said a power cable should not go into mouth. You knew yourself that you were pretending, and you didn’t expect us to buy it, really. But that was sooo cute. You were enjoying it, and…we adored it.