Henry has signed two-word sentences before but never has his understanding been so palpably real. We were in the kitchen. Henry was playing with his new Mickey faux cell phone. When he wasn't paying close attention, I slipped the phone out of his grasp and put it in my pocket. Next thing we know, Henry signs "more" followed immediately with the sign for "phone." Yes, we owe our child's linguistic development to a $5 piece of mass-marketed plastic.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
More phone
Henry has signed two-word sentences before but never has his understanding been so palpably real. We were in the kitchen. Henry was playing with his new Mickey faux cell phone. When he wasn't paying close attention, I slipped the phone out of his grasp and put it in my pocket. Next thing we know, Henry signs "more" followed immediately with the sign for "phone." Yes, we owe our child's linguistic development to a $5 piece of mass-marketed plastic.
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2 comments:
I sure hope you obliged and gave him more phone.
(I know I find it really hard to say no to anything that Josie actually makes the effort to ask for by name.)
Awesome.
Just wait a few months - then you'll be in the car talking on your cell phone (not that I ever do THAT) and Henry will be in the back YELLING at the top of his lungs, "MAMA! PHONE! PHONE! MAMA! PHONE!" And of course grandma will hear and demand that you give into the screaming and give the toddler the phone.
Not that that has ever happened.
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