she says.

Amie and I come across the word “telephone” in our reading lesson.

Amie: “Oh! I know what a telephone is! It’s from the past … like they didn’t have cell phones, they had phones with buttons and a cord and something you put up to your ear and mouth to talk.”

me: “That’s right! Actually, did you know that when I was your age, we didn’t have cell phones at all? We just had telephones like you’re talking about.”

Amie (eyes big): “Wow, Mom, you lived a long time ago! So did you, like, have to wear dresses all the time too?”