Hello...who is it? This is Alex

Alex is obsessed with phones.

Everything is a phone. Anything can be a phone. Even nothing at all.

He holds all sorts of big and small objects up to his ear and waits for us to say "hello". It's really funny when it's something really big and he gets mad he can't get it up to his ear. We know that the phone is his magical item right now. When we need to calm him down, like when we're talking on an important phone call ourselves, we give him a phone. And when we give him one of his cellphones (read:fake) and he knows it, and it's a really important phone call - we sacrifice one of our real phones, or the best of the best - one of our real cell phones.

Works wonders!