communication

I was recently talking to Jed about a phenomenon I've experienced a couple times now with Nate. Sometimes we'll both (Nathaniel and I) be having such a good day together, grooving along...I'll be picking up on the cues he's giving me when he's hungry, tired, bored, etc. and because of such, he'll rarely have to cry. Sometimes he'll do his "quack" to let me know that he needs something and he'll also spend a lot of time talking away, but no cries. Well, on those same days, if there's some time when I'm not really paying attention to him and am off in my own world, all of a sudden I'll hear him give a brief cry. The strange part of it is, though, is that I'll come up to him and wonder in my mind, "Why is he crying? Why doesn't he tell me what's wrong?" That's because, up until that moment, as strange as it may sound, I'll truly have felt that he and I will have been "talking" all day to each other. It feels that we're really communicating on such a level that I'm genuinely confused when I hear a cry. I wonder why he isn't using his words and talking to me. It would be as if I walked into a room and Jed is sitting there crying, after we've had a great day together, for no apparent reason. It wouldn't bother me, it would just catch me off guard- that's what it's like with Nate.

I guess it's harder to explain than to feel. It's one of those things I suppose.