Tiny has learned a new word...

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...and that word is "No". Unfortunately, much like that bloke in The Princess Bride who keeps saying "Inconceivable!", we are not certain that he is using it correctly. In fact, we're bloody sure he's not using it correctly.
For Tiny, the telephone is an object of unending fascination, and the one in the front room is at the end of a challenging climb across the furniture. Since the time when we took it off him after he'd dialled 99 (and was getting ready for a third press), we try to keep it out of his hands, so whenever we see him heading for it, we say "Tiny, no!" Repeat this enough times, and the sound "no" becomes linked to the concept "telephone".
We've tested this, by waving the handset at him - sure enough, "No! no! no!" in an excited toddler voice. He can't name many things, but he's very proud of the ones he can name (star, car, cat, plane, daddy, apple (especially apple), and now no).
We have warped his fragile little mind.

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Isn't the trick to try and provide positive distraction so that when he heads towards the phone you cry, "Tiny! Look at the..... " [thinks furiously] "... exciting thing over here!"
It can, of course, turn out to be exciting because it is invisible LOL.
I remember a friend saying (of his small child who liked to empty the CD rack), "He's got to learn the word "no" sometime..." . Oh how my mum laughed. "And when he has," she said, "Boy will they be sorry!".

I suppose No=telephone could make the Terrible Twos quite surreal!