Already she doesn't like me

Naomi has learned the words "mine" and "no." I find "mine" to be a particularly interesting acquisition because it's not a word that we use very often here-our sentences more often sound like "That belongs to Mama/Papa/Miriam/the cat, Naomi. It's not for you."

And she makes me feel terrible because she never asks for me. When she gets upset because I've applied some sort of discipline or refused a request she looks at me with big eyes, sometimes tears and says, "A Papa?" She also goes over to the door during the day and looks out the window and says, "A Papa?"

I'm just not important. I'm just the provider of play and lunch and bananas (her current favorite food which she asks for several times a day.) But I'm not "A Papa."