A Cell Phone for Gabby?

Last weekend my sister, Jeanne of I Am Jeanne, asked Gabby what she would like to receive for her birthday: a Vtech laptop or a cell phone. My daughter unwaveringly asked for a cell phone. She says she wants to be able to call me and her aunts whenever she's at school.

Later that night, as I was working in an Internet shop, my daughter texted me: MAMA. She was using my mom's cell phone as she was scheduled to sleep there. When I didn't reply, she again texted: MAMA SUMAGOT KA.

Then, last Monday, my sister texted me. My daughter's texting her again and asking her to help her with her lessons in Math. She was amused that after filling all 160 characters in the text message to my daughter, Gabby only answered OK. As per her words, "ang haba haba ng text ko, OK lang ang sagot."

Obviously, my daughter has yet to learn to put the letters on caps lock and learn to maximize every peso that it costs to send a text message to a different network. Me thinks I have to teach her the ins and outs of texting soon.