I love this article.

"When Emilie was a baby, not yet talking, I was convinced that her deep, dark eyes could read right into my soul. She would stare at me with those eyes, and in my mind I would hear a low, gravelly voice say, 'Mommy, I am very disappointed in you.'

"I was surprised then, when she started to speak, and followed those particularly intense looks with words like 'cookie!'

"But that could just have been a lack of adequate vocabulary."