The Telephones

Sam and Claire visited our friends Larry's and Heather's house for their daughter Sophia's second birthday party. They spent the entire afternoon sitting in the play room quietly figuring out and playing with the toys there. Both Lynn and I checked on them repeatedly. Could they still be OK? Didn't they need some help?

One toy that particularly caught Sam's imagination was an old Fisher Price telephone. You probably remember it: wheels, a string, little eyes, a bell that rings when you turn the dial. Lynn tried to buy an updated version of the phone at Target, but it didn't meet her standards. The cord to the handpiece was kept too short, presumably to reduce the choking risk.

So, instead she bought them a lot of five older Fisher Price phones on Ebay. They include a push button phone which lights up and beeps when you press the key pad. There is a little phone a quarter the size of the others. One is old enough that it is made of wood. The babies love their phones. If you sit with Claire and her phone she will hand the handset to you so can take a call. After you talk on the phone for a while and offer it back to her for her to talk, she immediately hands it back insisting that you talk some more. If allowed, she will do this for hours on end.