Kira answers the phone when it rings. I try to beat her to it because who knows who could be calling, but usually she's faster than I am. Most of the time it's a friend or family member, so not much harm can be done. Besides that, Kira knows more or less what to do. She picks up the phone and says hello. Then she tells the person what she's doing, be it painting flowers, eating cranberries, watching tv, building a city (with her blocks), or watching mommy feed mei mei. Kira has used the phone before, but only recently has the light bulb gone off in her head that the phone is used for communication, as a means of exchanging information. Before, she would just talk gibberish into the phone, but now she can answer questions posed to her, and she can pose questions to the caller. She still has some things to grasp; sometimes she will tell the caller to look at something and proceed to point the phone at the object. Oh, and one more Renee thing, too: Renee cries a lot les...