Maia absolutely loves telephones. She'll put them up to her ear and go 'eyo' 'eyo'. Funny how much they pick up at that age. They play with telephones at nursery so it's hard for us to keep her away from our real phone, but we try as hard as we can to interest her in playphones and old mobile phones (glad i kept 'em now!). the funny thing is that anything can be a phone, remote controls especially, make good substitutes.