Featured Blog: Cute Kid Story -I Promise Just This Once!

I have a 17 month old nephew, Gage, who is the only infant in the family as the others are all, at minimum, 8 years older.

I was over visiting him the other day and it amazes me how smart kids are with mobile phones and electronic devices. I bought him, what I thought, was a toy phone from Target. You could hit the numbered buttons and it would play music, make noises and light up in different places. I gave it to him and he pointed it straight at the TV as it was, duh, a toy remote control!

I’m sticking to the idea that I would have figured that out if I would have just looked a little closer…

I was telling that story to my friend Cindy, who is grandmother to a 4-year-old granddaughter named Piper. Cindy said she was reading her a book the other day and Piper asked her to ‘pause’ so she could go get another one.

If Gage sees an iPhone or any kind of mobile phone he knows how to touch the screen to move the icons and open up photos. This is something he loves to do which brings me to this ‘CUTE KID” story.

Gage is learning to talk and has mastered saying No along with Da Da and Mama. While I played with him on the floor his mother Julie  picked up a People magazine and opened it to a Dolce and Gabbana ad.  It showed two models sitting on some rocks by the ocean –  supposedly selling cologne.

“Check this out,” Julie said to me as she showed Gage the ad.

“Dada’ he immediately says, pointing to the man. Dada, at this point comes wandering out with a tiny smirk on his face when Julie told him Gage had done it again.

“Gage, where’s mama, “Julie asks. “Da Da," he points again,

Mama, no slouch in looks department herself, said, ‘I know Gage, but where is mama? Point to Mama!”

He started turning the page looking for her!

At that point I told him I would give him ONE million dollars if he would just point to that photo and say Auntie Julie!

…didn’t happen.