I believe it is a major step. Yesterday you pretended having a tea party with me!

You got the idea from your book “Dora”. Dora arranges a tea party in that book. Layla (Forouhar) had brought us a teapot as a gift from Iran, Shiraz. We had no idea what to do with it. so after they left we had put it there on the corner of the living room. You spotted it yesterday, and out of nowhere said “tea party”!! First, I couldn’t understand what you were talking about. But then it just clicked. You wanted to have a tea party!

We got the teapot, I brought in a couple of tea cups, and cookies, and we pretended we had a party! We poured imaginary tea in cups, blew to make it cold, and then pretended to drink them! And, I made you eat a couple of small cookies. 😀

And, you are still the most adorable little thing ever.

You count to ten in farsi, and you count to six in English.

You distinguish numbers 1, 2 and 3 in English, and letters are still as I told you previously: O, A, H, D and sometimes M.

You are adorable.

For the past couple of months, you have been realizing that letters and alphabets means something and can be read.

You know 2 (or may be 6) alphabets so far: O, D, A, H, U and M. I am sure about O and D and A, but not quite sure about H, U and M. You know A, because of Archie. You know D because of Deeba, and you know O, I don’t know why!

You understand numbers and can count.

You refuse to read or count if we ask you, but more than a couple of times we were surprised as you were counting on your own!

You know two colors: blue and yellow (in farsi), and you can recognize (and sometimes mention) another couple of colors green and red (again in farsi).

You can name many animals, including monkey, crocodile, cat, dog, zebra, lion, snake, parrot, and more. Actually you cannot name them all, but show them to us when we ask you. You call cat a “maou”, dog a “happoo”, and you call monkey a ‘monkey’. You can easily say zebra and bear.

You understand what a friend is, and you call some of those animals friends and then you say “hug”.

You still love Thomas, Percy and James. Your favourite seems to be Percy!

You are adorable, and everybody loves you.