When I was teaching I couldn’t believe the number of my students (mainly 6th graders) who had cell phones. I think when Luke can start asking me for things, one of the first things will be a phone of his own. He is obsessed with phones.
About 6 months ago I was getting out of the shower and heard “…beee..beee…beee…sorry your call can not be completed as dialed. Please hang up and try again.”…..I thought I was going nuts..till I checked on Luke who was in the living room. He had the phone in his hand and was getting ready to throw it across the floor. I thought maybe he just grabbed it and somehow started dialing. But, when I looked at the phone..I saw we had a missed call and a message on the machine. It turned out that Grandma had called while I was in the shower and the munchkin probably heard her voice and was trying to answer the phone.
Ever since then he has always gotten excited when the phone rings. He gets animated with his arms and says, “aahhh….aaahhh” and starts crawling towards the phone..or towards the sound of the phone ringing. I should say he doesn’t just crawl…but “turbo” crawls. He actually makes a pretty good phone finder....if I lost the phone all I’d have to do is call it and he would lead me there.
Anyway, last week he decided to “up” his phone skills. He stood up got the phone, brought it down to where he could reach it from the floor, pushed talk, got it on speaker phone, started dialing and pushed send. I heard the numbers being punched in, but figured I’d let him have fun for a little while…but then I heard “bee….beee….beee…sorry your call can not be completed as dialed…..” So I said no…laughed and took it away. I was afraid next time he would call “9-1-1”, then we would be in trouble.
So now not only do I need to keep the remotes of reach…but the phone as well. As my husband says (often) “you just can’t trust 2 year olds”.
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