Psellos told Ioannes kaisar of the birth of a grandson, warning him of the need to face a second Psellos. He was bravely silent as his adopted daughter Euphemia screamed, while Ioannes had wept when his daughter-in-law (Maria of Bulgaria) had a difficult birth. Psellos regarded himself as rather masculine in his studies but feminine and emotional over things like childbirth - though he kissed his grandson while still bloody like a warrior. He enclosed a letter notifying Konstantinos X, which was to be delivered or not at Ioannes' discretion. Later Psellos speaks of competition in the palace to christen the infant: the empress Eudokia prevailed over the emperor. Soon he took his grandson to the baths, where neither of them liked hot water. He wrote him a logos at age four months, so that the young man would remember him