The phone game
Aug. 23rd, 2005 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dtmKatherine's world is full of objects which the adults clearly think are important, and won't let her play with. Some of these objects, however, we are slower at snatching away than others. Such as, for example, our cell phones - since we leave the keypad lock on most of the time, if she's not putting the cell phone in her mouth or losing it somewhere, we'll often not take it away immediately.
Katherine's playing with the cell phones has evolved over the past several months. At first, she would mostly just sit there and squeeze buttons until the display lit up, and just stare at the lit display. Then she moved on to holding the cell phone up to her ear and saying "hi?" over and over, and then putting the cell phone to your ear so that you can do this too. She plays this game with the big telephones and with things that aren't telephones but are vaguely the right shape - some of her blocks, for example. She'll also hold the strap on her changing table to her ear and say "hi?" all the while looking at us for reactions.
Lately, though, she's moved on to a slightly more involved game with the cell phones. She'll hold it to her ear and say "what? what? what?", pause, maybe say "what?" some more (especially if she's got an audience), then say "bye", take the phone away from her ear, and squeeze the phone as though she were pressing the button to hang up.
Katherine's playing with the cell phones has evolved over the past several months. At first, she would mostly just sit there and squeeze buttons until the display lit up, and just stare at the lit display. Then she moved on to holding the cell phone up to her ear and saying "hi?" over and over, and then putting the cell phone to your ear so that you can do this too. She plays this game with the big telephones and with things that aren't telephones but are vaguely the right shape - some of her blocks, for example. She'll also hold the strap on her changing table to her ear and say "hi?" all the while looking at us for reactions.
Lately, though, she's moved on to a slightly more involved game with the cell phones. She'll hold it to her ear and say "what? what? what?", pause, maybe say "what?" some more (especially if she's got an audience), then say "bye", take the phone away from her ear, and squeeze the phone as though she were pressing the button to hang up.