Ana develops Empathy

I have to document Ana's latest before it passes us without memory...Ana has a book called "Ho, Ho, Ho Tucker". Tucker is a dog who loves Christmas and in the book he partakes in all the holiday traditions from a puppy's perspective. About mid book Tucker eats Christmas Cookies right off the hot pan and burns his nose. At this point of the book, Ana begins to cry (I mean really cry with tears and all) and says, "oh no, Tucker, owie, nose, hurt" over and over again. She now stops me on the page before the burning incident and says "all done mommy" and closes the book to avoid the trauma of seeing an injured Tucker, and talks about his "Tucker's hurt nose" all day long.

I never knew a 16 month old could have such empathy. She is such a doll!!!!