Phone Jack

Jack is in love with the phone. He just love love loves the phone. He has a total of FIVE toy cell phones, an old cell phone of mine that I charge nightly for him, and an old cordless phone that I also keep well charged for his talking pleasure. Sometimes, when he can’t find a phone, he’ll use anything he can find: a pen, a remote control, a lego. Still, he would rather have any phone that I am on. It’s as if the phone’s market value goes up by virtue of the fact that I’m using it.

This is not a new obsession. His love affair with phones goes way back. When he was still an infant, the phone was a surefire way to distract him out of a fussy mood. Jack’s crying? Hand him a phone and- voila! Of course, my cell phones have taken a beating because of it. They’ve been dropped and thrown and drooled on so much that I’ve had to replace four of them since his arrival less than two years ago. (This, by the way, was a surprise expense to me. It should be in What to Expect When You’re Expecting under Things to Save Money For: diapers, car seat, cell phones…)

Now watching Jack “talk” on the phone is one of my very favorite things in the world. I love it because he is simply mimicking what he sees me do and it is so DEAD ON. He walks around the house with the phone pressed to his ear, head cocked to his shoulder, squeezing the phone in place. He’ll chat for a moment and then pause, only to follow it up with a huge burst of laughter. It’s all so, so funny and so adorable that I can’t stop videoing it every time I see it. The result is a TON of footage of my Phone Jack. Here’s a few samples: