Not a day goes by that little man doesn’t do something that cracks me up. As an example, everything these days is a phone. He especially loves it when he can get a hold of our home phone because it makes lots of booping and beeping noises. It seems that any toy he has in his hand these days will become a phone to him, as he nods in agreement with the imaginary caller.
On the rare occasion he’ll even just hold his hand to his ear and walk around the living room spouting off jibberish. But the funniest thing I’ve seen yet was when he took this little hand puppet story book thing, opened the book part of it and pretended that was a phone. I just happened to be on a call when he did that, so I wasn’t able to snap a picture of it.
This is just one of the many examples he provides daily that he is a silly, slobbering little sponge. As he’s grown he’s obviously seen us on the phone, but is now starting to imitate our behaviors. Because of this I’m even more thankful that I’m out of the corporate world, as I’ve broken a few phones in my day.
Since my wife’s parents live a few states away, we’ve always held our phones to his ear so his Oma and Opa can say hello. It’s kind of a fruitless venture in that he isn’t going to respond aside from the occasional giggle. Still, they enjoy it and obviously he has been paying attention. I guess we will soon see if he has learned proper phone etiquette.
