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My husband and I have the new iPhone X.   We’ve been doing a phone handing down process of the older phones to other people in our family.   My in-laws have theirs now and we have their older phones which will be erased and reinstalled for other people, one on the West Coast.   It’s a process but everyone gets an upgrade in the end.

While we were doing this my father-in-law was looking through his things and found an old iPhone 4.   It’s not functional today or it wouldn’t be useful functional with the later iOS operating system and requirements from current app versions.   But he had it and gave it to us and we put it in a stack.  

The change in phone sizes has been upwards and outwards in the past few years.   The stack of phones pictured below is the iPhone 10, 6, 5, 4 with the 4 on top.  I didn’t check actual weights, but the smallest iPhone 4 feels about the same weight as the much bigger iPhone X.

I miss the small phones for ease of storage in pockets, but the screen size and clarity on the newer phones is hard to beat.  That, plus Animoji's, so yeah, win.

The Big Boy Update:  On the way to school we pass by my best friend’s office.   I pointed out to my son six beautiful trees that had all turned a stunning shade of red at the same time.   This morning on the way to school my son said to me, “Eleanor’s trees are gone.”   I looked around to figure out what he meant and saw those trees, now almost completely leafless.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter wanted to play Crazy 8’s, the card game tonight.   She understood the rules and could tell most of the numbers on the cards.   She is getting better at not expecting the deck to be stacked in her favor and she may well be on the way to becoming a good sportsman.  She did win two out of three games tonight though—without intervention on either of our parts—which is good for understanding that losing is part of playing games with friends.