I caught up with our friend Steve Bilow at synagogue today. Steve deeply regrets that he and his wife, Patt, never got to have kids, so he reads my Facebook posts about Rachel quite avidly.
Today Steve sidled up next to me as I was talking to Melissa and her friend Michelle. I mentioned that Melissa's son, Jeremy, was very impressed last night with Rachel's baseball-playing skills. Steve chimed in that "she'll be Senator Rachel someday" and that he loves reading my posts about her.
Then Melissa mentioned something that Rachel did last night. Melissa's daughter Natalie gave Rachel a toy cellphone. Rachel was enchanted with it and brought it to the breakfast table today; on the way to preschool she put it in her pocket, and along with her striped shorts and blue sparkly belt she looked so tween-like and so...her own person that she took my breath away. As usual!
Anyway...Melissa said Natalie told her that Rachel pretended to answer the cell phone while they were playing upstairs together last night. Rachel opened the phone (it's a flip phone), said, "Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh," then hung up.
And then she told Natalie, very matter-of-factly, "that was a telemarketer."
Steve, Melissa, Michelle and I cracked up.
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