speech effect

Yesterday, I bought Sage a little press-and-play voice recorder. She was asleep by the time I got home, though, so the Big Kids (a.k.a. Sage's parents) fooled around with the toy for a while before setting aside to give to her in the morning.

By the time I remembered to show it to her, Dean had already gone off to work, which explains the round-eyed look of awe that crossed our little girl's face when she pressed the 'play' button and heard her father's voice saying, "Sagey!"

The first thing she did was look all around her, searching for her unseen father: "Daddy!" Then she looked at the toy again. Then she got to her feet, turning a full 360-degree circle, calling, "Daddy?" When she didn't see him anywhere, she even went to the bathroom, attempting to peer under the closed door. "Daddy..."

As I was trying to explain to her that it was only a recording, she looked at the toy again, apparently deciding that it was without question the source of her father's voice. She therefore surmised that it could only be some sort of cell phone, and put it to her ear, settling in for a nice chat with her father. "Hello, Daddy, it's Sage."

She figured out how it worked later, and spent the rest of the day commanding her nanny to sing, speak, and make various animal noises for posterity.