Telephone

     A few weeks ago my husband decided to move the telephone that was in our sons' room into Emily's room. She turned 8 in June. She has called her friends on occassion and has been starting to use the phone more and more. His main reasoning was that she will actually answer the phone. As oppossed to Robert who would check the caller id and then usually not answer. Emily doesn't care who it is she'll run to the phone to answer. If I'm avoiding a call I'll have to yell at her to not answer the phone. Otherwise I guess it's not a bad thing, but part of me feels she's a little too little.
     Shorty after moving the phone Emily got her teacher for school. They wait until right before school starts to send it out. I believe it's so you have less time to switch teachers if you get someone you don't like. Anyway, she couldn't wait to call her friends and find out who they had. We found the old class lists I'd kept and she ran up to her room to call. We also found a few she had made up on her own as she got numbers from friends at lunchtime too. I had no idea she was going to call everyone on the list. And I do mean everyone! I guess she figured why not?
     I was quite surprised when she excitedly told me Angelo was in her class. I had never even heard of an Angelo before. At some point in time he was in her class and she had his phone number. I warned my husband that we may be hearing a lot about Angelo this coming school year. He had the same question I did, "Who's Angelo?" I joked, "Her new boyfriend." So over dinner later he of course asked her about Angelo. I said I can't wait for him to call her so she can run up to her room for the phone.
     I'm not sure when I really started using the phone a lot. I have a sister who's three years older, and one three years younger. At some point my mom was sick of us hogging the phone and got us our own phone line. That was high tech then. We had our own line, sure we had to share it, but it was still cool to have. I know I didn't even have my own room until 4th grade. Maybe 5th grade came the phone? More likely 6th as that was our last year of elementary school then. Either way it definitely wasn't 3rd like Emily.
     Rob and I have both said no cell phone for her until high school. We can't believe how young some kids are that have them. It is a waste. But I wonder if that will change when it gets closer. She already plays with and uses both of ours. And of course her older brothers' too. I wonder, will daddy wind up giving in sooner? He didn't even ask me what I thought about putting the phone in her room. He just did it. She had an MP3 player before her older brothers and myself. Daddy's girl has him wrapped around her finger. I'm pretty sure she'll keep him that way. Only time will tell.