"911--What is your emergency?"

Alita likes to play with the phone. She actually puts it up to her ear and pretends to talk into it. Usually she has it backwards or upside down but its really cute. She also likes her toy phone and makes "calls" on it often. Alita turns other objects into "phones" like a calculator and the remote control by putting them to her ear. She jabbers away like she's talking to long lost friends or Cookie Monster or whoever! I know, she's only 12 months old so we are starting a savings plan for her phone bill when she's a teenager now!

Anyway, today we were letting her carry around our real telephone as we have done on several occasions. I suddenly heard the "beep beep" of the buttons. She has never pressed the buttons before so I took the phone from her. I pressed "end call" without thinking much more about it and put the phone away. Not two seconds after I had hung up the phone, we promptly received a call from the Elk Grove Police dept! They said that they had received a call from our number and heard a small child talking!!!!! I apologized to the officer and told them my daughter had been playing with the phone. After I hung up I checked what the last number dialed had been and found out Alita had managed to press "talk" and had dialed "9-1-1-1"!!!!! What are the odds?????? Not only did she manage to get the phone off the hook but she dialed emergency services!!! Is she a genius or what?

"9-1-1, what is your emergency?"
"Help! My parents won't let me eat stuff off the floor! Send the police right away!"