28 Days of Loving Lily: Day 23- Your Love of Talking on the Phone

My Little Chatterbox,

Dare I say that your love for talking on the phone has already started?  Ever since you were seven months old and were pulling up on everything, you discovered that the telephone had been perched all this time just above your head and now you could reach it!  Your joy of pushing the buttons, paging the receiver, your discovery of speaker phone and redial buttons...oh the fun is still continuing today.  We disconnected our land line a few months back, but have left our phones plugged in because you enjoy walking around and "talking" and pushing the buttons.  Your little "hello?' when you pick up the phone or want to know where the phone is, is super cute.

Of course you love to play with your Daddy's and my real phones, but we try to keep that to a minimum (as much as we can!)  You also have your own pretend phones.  You have a little one that makes various animal noises when you call the respective animals.  You have a little purple cell phone that calls a puppy named Violet and helps you learn to count.  You have a little Elmo phone where his eyes open and close and a Little Mermaid one as well.  We keep a couple at Nana's house and two of them in the car for some no-fail travel entertainment when reading or looking out the window grows old.

Over the past month, you have recently developed a fondness for actually calling some of your favorite people on the phone.  You have picked up on my tendency to talk with the same people on a near daily basis...your Daddy, your Papa, your Nana and your Uncle Mark.  Those are the people you love to call.  You see my phone and start saying their names over and over...and we will call them and you say, "Hi" followed by something usually indiscernible followed by a very clear, "bye-bye!"  Your conversations are brief, but sweet.  As soon as we hang up with one person, you begin saying the next name on our regular list, (Nana, Mark, Papa etc) and we will go down the list either speaking in person with them or leaving some fun voice mail messages.  

We are still trying to work out the timing of the whole voice mail thing- you know, waiting for the beep...sometimes you say a very clear, "Hi Mark!" only its before the beep, so when it's actually time to leave a message and I tell you say it again, it comes out a mere whisper and I have no idea if your little voice can be heard across all of the miles.  I certainly hope that it can be because yours is the sweetest voice in the world leaving your own little genuine messages of love.  I can't wait to get one myself someday!