The Cell Phone

I can remember being just amazed when the neighboring toddler would play with an old cellphone his parents didn't use any more. My Sister Mary 1 tells me the technology or computer ability in those things surpasses the big giants of 25 years ago. But this was 3 years ago, when I didn't have a cell. So this babe was playing with something I couldn't afford for myself. Now I'm pretty sure that most every ones 5Th grader has a cell and it is nicer than my little $10 tracphone. But I'm happy just to have a cell. And since I can't even load a picture on face book, what would I do with a camera on my phone? The Prof began with the same little phone and then upgraded to the very hip $25 camera tracphone. And no, he doesn't know how to download the pictures either. Soooooo, now there is this little phone, just like Mommy's for Mite to play with. Yep, he has his own cell. The other kids even refer to it as his. Although, Cents occasionally likes to make a call on it. I even find myself charging the thing so that it makes all sounds and lights up for him. He is playing with it now, alternating talking on the cell and the teddy bear of about the same size. It isn't active and he can't swallow it, and it bought me the few minutes to write this.

It got me thinking about the old rotary dial phone in the hallway that was heavier than a one year old (yep, pretty much measure all weights in comparison to lugging Mite around). There I sat for the whole world to hear, or at least Mom, anything I needed to say. It is where I did my math homework (that explains that lack of skill). The little phone table is where we stored the booster seats of long ago: the phone books. It was conveniently in reach of the pantry, but that was as far as you could possibly stretch that cord. Now our phone gets lost several times a day. Half Buck leaves it in places like his bed, the driveway, under the couch. Then it is accessible for Mite to dial up, well, who knows where he is dialing when he starts pushing those buttons. From April 2009