@Font: Win95:Courier:-13:1 @Begin @Participants: MOT mother, CHI child @ID: en|flusberg|MOT|||downs||mother|| @ID: en|flusberg|CHI|||||child|| @Age of MOT: @Sex of MOT: @Group of MOT: downs @SES of MOT: @Age of CHI: @Sex of CHI: @Group of CHI: @SES of CHI: @Comment: this visit 4 taping took place on 09-19-85, the first speaker is the mother and the second is the child, c is unwrapping his present, bubbles with bears on the box *MOT: [/?]. *CHI: [/?] god. *MOT: what do you think it is? *MOT: what's the bear doing? *MOT: look at the picture of the bear and see what he's doing. *MOT: can you see what he's doing? *MOT: do you know? *MOT: what do you think it is? *CHI: playdoh? *MOT: no, not playdoh. *MOT: she brought +/. *MOT: when did she bring playdoh? %com: c laughs *MOT: last time. *MOT: do you see what he's doing? *MOT: he's got something in his hand and he's doing this. %com: m makes blowing sounds *CHI: [/?] bubbles. *MOT: yes, that's what it is. *MOT: I think there's a seal on top like a wine bottle. *MOT: wait a minute. *CHI: seal? *MOT: a seal, like you know it's closed tightly. *CHI: a cap! *MOT: no, nope. *CHI: a cap! %com: c points to his head *MOT: a cap, like a hat. *MOT: yeah, a lot of the words the same [/?]. *MOT: I think this is neat, yeah. *MOT: this is the kind that has the handle right in the cover. *MOT: try that one. %com: c picks up toy and lifts up its cover *MOT: oops. *MOT: not too close to your lip-s, you'll have bubble soap in your mouth. %com: c makes noises *CHI: oops. *CHI: [/?] dip. %com: c makes blowing sound *MOT: mhm point it up a bit. *MOT: usually those are excellent bubbles. %com: c blows bubbles *MOT: [/?]! *MOT: you got it! *MOT: look out for the soap. *MOT: that's staying. *MOT: you got to keep the bottle straight. %com: c is blowing bubbles *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: hey, how many did you get? *MOT: two. *MOT: [/?] that one's going to stay. *MOT: blow it again. %com: c blows bubbles towards m *MOT: [/?] I popped it. *CHI: [/?] dip. %com: c is blowing bubbles *CHI: [/?] it's dripping. *MOT: it's dripping. *MOT: it's all right, the paper is catching it. *MOT: I think you only need to dip it once. *MOT: just blow gently. *CHI: playdoh? *MOT: you thought it was gonna be playdoh? *MOT: hey! *CHI: bubble-s, [/?] yeah! %com: m laughs, c sings these words *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: do you know the song? *MOT: [/?] +/. *CHI: blowing bubbles. *MOT: [/?]. *CHI: pretty. *MOT: [/?]. *MOT: [/?] +/. %com: c holds up wand with bubbles on it *MOT: [/?] how do you do that? *MOT: you pick it up +/. *MOT: now, blow in that side, you can make it bigger if you just blow it gently. *MOT: did you see what happened? *MOT: you made two. *CHI: two. *MOT: you got to blow first. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: try it again. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: wow! *CHI: I'm blowing bubbles. *MOT: careful, keep your soap dish up straight. *MOT: you have two on there. *MOT: do you see them? *MOT: twins. *MOT: [/?]. %com: m laughs *CHI: [/?]! %com: c licks bubble solution off of table *MOT: yeah! *MOT: oop it's not good for [/?] chewing. *CHI: chewing. *MOT: yeah, I'm going to get you a towel. *MOT: do you know what would work? %com: m sets bubble bottle on table, c interupts *CHI: what? *MOT: is if you put the bubble thing here and dipped it in there like that. *CHI: ok. *MOT: I'll just get you a towel. *CHI: ok. %com: c looks towards the camera *CHI: I's gonna blow some tina [$0e]. *MOT: you're gonna blow some for tina? *CHI: I blowing bubbles [$0x]. *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. %com: c laughs *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. *CHI: yeah, bubbles yeah. %com: m moves over and c sits up in the chair *MOT: excuse me? *CHI: what? *CHI: [/?]. %com: c makes up song *MOT: [/?]. %com: c continues to blow bubbles *MOT: [/?] they're great! *MOT: it's a half a bubble. *MOT: look at them. *MOT: [/?] bubbles on the microphone. *MOT: do you see how that's a half a one? *MOT: [/?] no I don't think it needs to get wet. *CHI: yeah. %com: c laughs *MOT: no. *CHI: [/?] bubbles! %com: c laughs *CHI: blowing bubbles [/?] [$0x]. %com: c blowing bubbles *CHI: [/?] yeah bubbles yeah. *MOT: look do you see how these are [/?] little ones? *MOT: and there's a big one that you blew? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: well you got it! *MOT: try it again. *CHI: blowing bubbles [/?]. *MOT: they can go up. *MOT: [/?] that one went almost to tina. *CHI: xxx blow one to helen. *MOT: that's helen. %com: c blows bubble *MOT: here comes helen's bubble. *MOT: [/?] give her another try. *CHI: ok. *CHI: both. *CHI: together. *MOT: together. *MOT: hey, that's enough for everyone. %com: m giggles *MOT: fantastic. *CHI: [/?]! %com: c continues blowing bubbles *MOT: that is magic is n't it? *CHI: magic! *MOT: I know, I always thought +/. *CHI: I love peanutbutter sandwichs. *MOT: sandwichs. %com: m and c say sandwiches together *MOT: is that how the amazing mumpfred makes magic? *CHI: yeah. %com: m and c both giggle *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. *CHI: [/?] bubbles. %com: c blows bubbles *MOT: wow! *CHI: xxx. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: oops, extra. %com: c spills liquid on the tableand moves away from m *CHI: extra. *MOT: xxx. *MOT: just stay over here where the towel is and then you don't have to worry about spills. %com: c blows bubbles *MOT: wow, that was a twin! *MOT: did you see it? *CHI: no. %com: m tries to take bottle away *MOT: just put your bubble stuff here and then if it spills we catch it. %com: m points towards chair with towel on it *CHI: ok. *MOT: mothers worry about these things. %com: m and c are making laughing sounds simultaneously *MOT: let me see some more, I like [/?]. *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. *CHI: [/?] bubbles. *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. *MOT: [/?]! *CHI: [/?] dip! %com: c blowing bubbles *MOT: wait a second. *MOT: hold it up. *CHI: [/?] ok. *CHI: [/?] dip. %com: m pionts to two bubbles *CHI: tina and gregory. *MOT: [/?] look, do you know what that looks like? *MOT: that looks like an igloo. *CHI: igloo. *MOT: did you see it? *CHI: no. *MOT: it was a big one here and a little one in front, it looks like the ice houses that you make in the winter. *CHI: no. *CHI: I'm a gonna icecream. *MOT: ok, do you want to make something else? *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: I'd like a double dip please. *CHI: double dip [$0a]. *MOT: uhuh, can you blow me a double dip? *CHI: blow me a +/. *CHI: I want a +/. *CHI: helen? *MOT: yes, I don't know, maybe she'd like a triple dip. *CHI: helen you triple dip [$0a] [$0do] [$0want]? %com: helen says yeah *CHI: what size? *CHI: a medium or large [$0a]? %com: helen says: large *CHI: both? *MOT: large. *CHI: [/?] large? %com: helen says: I'm on a diet and since this is pretend I'll have a large *CHI: diet? *CHI: [/?] ok. *CHI: [/?] yes. *CHI: what do you want? *CHI: a double dip or a single dip? %com: tina says a double dip *MOT: double dip for tina. *CHI: ok. *CHI: for you and for you. *MOT: wow! *MOT: ok. *CHI: I'm gonna put some on your face. %com: laughter *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. %com: c sings his song *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: is that your bubble song? *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: I think I'm losing my hair here, ok. %com: m picks a piece of her hair off of the table *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. *MOT: [/?]. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: excellent, [/?]. %com: c laughs *CHI: it's a igloo. *MOT: an igloo and it disappeared! *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: wow, you got many that time. *CHI: a double dip. *CHI: helen and tina. %com: c points with his bubble wand to the left and to the right *MOT: a double dip for helen and tina. *CHI: blowing bubbles [$0x]. %com: c sings his song *CHI: [/?]. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: that is three. *MOT: that is a triple dip. *CHI: see. *MOT: did you see it? *MOT: there [/?] three there. *MOT: that must have been helen's large. *CHI: helen's large. *MOT: that must have been her pretend large. *CHI: ok, serving number one. %com: c pretends to be icecream man, c yells while looking at the camera *MOT: this is a number one. *MOT: try it again. *CHI: [/?] dip. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: whoops. *CHI: [/?] dip. %com: m laughs *MOT: can you just slow down, they're disappearing. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: you got it! %com: c points as bubbles go towards camera *CHI: I'm got it through the camera [$0e]. *MOT: there's one right on the edge. %com: c reaches towards the edge of the table to get a bubble *CHI: the edge? *MOT: [/?], yep. *CHI: this one's away. %com: c wipes bubbles away with his wand *CHI: [/?] look. *CHI: my got it. *MOT: disappear. *CHI: igloo, my igloo. *CHI: blowing bubbles [/?] [$0x]. *CHI: [/?] dip [/?]. %com: c talking to bubbles *CHI: [/?] come on bubbles go for tina. *CHI: come on. %com: c wipes table with his wand *MOT: do you want them to stay longer? *CHI: yeah, stay longer. *MOT: that's the thing about bubble-s, they come and they go. *MOT: you have to remember them. %com: c blows bubbles at m *MOT: whoops, to close. *CHI: [/?] dip. *MOT: [/?]. *CHI: two [/?] double dips. *MOT: two double dips. *MOT: [/?] so many! *MOT: [/?] one staied. %com: c pours bubble solution on table *MOT: [/?] towel time! *CHI: towel time. %com: m wipes bubbles off the table *MOT: ok, we lost them. *CHI: we lost them. *MOT: do you know that? *MOT: when it comes out of the tube. *MOT: if you pour it out, the tube is then empty. *MOT: do you know that? %com: m shows the bubble bottle to c who tries to blow more bubbles *CHI: yeah, blowing bubbles [$0x]. *MOT: but you can't, it's on the table now. %com: m points to the cloth on the table while c smiles *CHI: I'm sorry! *MOT: [/?] I know! *MOT: and the bubbles are gone. *CHI: bubbles all gone [$0uc]. %com: c pretends to cry *MOT: and it's a bit of a mess. *MOT: are you pretending to cry? *MOT: why don't you help to clean it up? *MOT: I think that would be a better +/. *CHI: yeah! *MOT: yeah, put this top on. *MOT: you can wipe that one. *MOT: we're definitely going to have a clean table here. %com: c wipes the table near the microphone *CHI: I'm a singging in the microphone. *MOT: and you sang in the microphone? *CHI: no, there! *MOT: [/?]. *CHI: excuseme. %com: c lifts microphone up, cleans underneath *MOT: ok, I think it's a good thing the bubbles didn't go on the microphone. *MOT: or we would have had bubble noises. *CHI: let me talk. *MOT: you can stay there. *MOT: they can pick up your voice right there. *CHI: I wanna talk. *MOT: you can talk with it sitting right there. *MOT: what would you like to talk about? *CHI: I talk about the weather [$0will]. *MOT: the weather? %com: c drinks soda and speaks *CHI: get fat! *MOT: you think you're going to get fat? *CHI: burp! *MOT: because of drinking coke? *CHI: yeah! *MOT: what would you like to talk about? *CHI: I'm talk with coke [$0a] [$0ing]. *CHI: come on, sing. *CHI: how come the coke can't sing? *MOT: I don't think coke can sing. *CHI: coke can dance around. %com: c turns his cup around *MOT: can coke dance around? *CHI: [/?] coke. *CHI: friendlys. *MOT: can that cup dance around? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: how? *MOT: if you make it dance around? *MOT: is that alive? %com: m points to c's cup *CHI: is that alive? *MOT: what is it? *CHI: a cup. *MOT: it's a cup made of what? *CHI: made out of plastic. %com: m points to the cover of the cup and then the cup itself *MOT: this is. *MOT: I think this is paper. *CHI: paper. *MOT: [/?]. *MOT: but it can't really dance. *CHI: can't really dance. *MOT: so, tell me about your friend christopher. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: what happened? *MOT: you and christopher had an argument? *CHI: a argument. *MOT: what was it about? *MOT: can you remember? %com: c points toward the camera *CHI: what's that over there, tina? *MOT: yeah, she's there. *MOT: can you remember what the argument was about? *CHI: hello. *CHI: I'm gonna sing the microphone [$0n]. %com: c speaks into the microphone and then covers his mouth as *MOT: hough laughing you don't want to talk about christopher right now? *CHI: I'm gonna sing on the phone. *MOT: alright, but I was asking you about christopher. *MOT: can I talk to you about it later? *CHI: later. *MOT: fine. *MOT: what would you like to say? *CHI: gonna sing on the microphne [$0x]. *MOT: [/?]. *MOT: you can sing in the microphone but you need to choose a song. *CHI: need to choose a song? *CHI: ok, beatit! *MOT: a beatle's song, oh please. *CHI: beatle. *MOT: you're testting my memory. *MOT: what beatle's song do you know? *CHI: I know [/?]. *MOT: are you thinking of rock songs? *MOT: wearetheworld. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: the talkingheads, yeah. *MOT: I don't know any songs that they sing do you? *CHI: I watch thundercats [$0a]. *MOT: you watch the thundercats? *MOT: do they sing? *MOT: is that's a cartoon. *CHI: cartoon. *MOT: [/?]. %com: c handles the microphone during his next several utterances *CHI: I'm gonna talk and sing. *MOT: you're going to talk instead of singging? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: well, that's what you are doing, lots of it. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: [/?]. *MOT: what do you want to say that you haven't said before? *CHI: xxx. *MOT: do you know that this is the first time helen has come and you-'ve been going to kindergarten? *CHI: why [$why] [$-aux] [$rel] [$inf] [$ign]? *MOT: you could tell her about kindergarten. *CHI: what [$what] [$-aux] [$rel] [$qrc] [$rq] [$rcl]? *MOT: what you do? *CHI: what do I do [$what] [$aux] [$rel] [$qrc] [$obl]? *MOT: tell us. *MOT: I go to +/. *CHI: I go +/. *MOT: what's the name of the school? *CHI: [/?] xxx. *MOT: baker. *CHI: [/?] baker school. *MOT: baker school [/?]. *MOT: and what's your teacher's name? *CHI: mrsford. *MOT: [/?] it is, is it? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: well who did I meet last night at backtoschool night? *MOT: she said that her name was something that began with a [/?]. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: mrs [/?]. *CHI: mrscarey. *MOT: mrscarey, right! *MOT: and there was someone else. *MOT: mrs [/?]. *CHI: misscrean. *MOT: mrscrean, I see. *MOT: why don't you put that right there because it can hear you wherever it is? %com: m points to the table, c makes protest vocalizations *MOT: you'd rather do an interview? *CHI: no. *CHI: yeah. %com: c gesters m towards the microphone *CHI: [/?] closer. *MOT: I have to be closer. *CHI: yeah. *MOT: ok. *MOT: we're talking about kindergarten. *MOT: what can you say about kindergarten? *MOT: what do you do there? %com: helen (h) says to c: let me just show you how to hold this ok *CHI: [/?] how to hold it. %com: h continues to show c how to use the microphone *MOT: what do you do at kindergarten? %com: c puts microphone towards m *CHI: what I do [$0do]? *MOT: that was my question. *CHI: what? *MOT: what do you do at kindergarten? *CHI: what? *MOT: it's your turn to answer. *CHI: I [/?] at baker school. *MOT: I know you're at the baker school but what do you do there? *CHI: I writing and pencils [$0x] [$0e]. %com: m puts c's hands on the silver part of the microphone *MOT: hands on the silver. *CHI: hand on the silver [$0s]. *MOT: writing and what else? *MOT: [/?] up here. *CHI: ok. *CHI: not on black [$0a]. *MOT: not on the black. *MOT: up here. *MOT: writing. *MOT: up here. *MOT: writing, what else besides writing? *CHI: here? *MOT: yeah, that's good. *MOT: what do you do besides writing? *CHI: what are you doing? *MOT: you, you I'm asking +/. *CHI: I don't know. %com: c is holding microphone and doing a mock interview *MOT: I asked you the question. *CHI: why? *MOT: what do you do at the baker school besides writing? *CHI: I don't know. %com: c points microphone towards m and smiles *MOT: you don't know. *CHI: I don't know. *MOT: you've been there all this time and you don't know what you do there. *CHI: [/?] I know. *MOT: wait a second. *MOT: I saw alot of tables. *MOT: what are the tables for? *CHI: they are for the lady and men [$0s]. *MOT: the lady and the men? *MOT: what about the boys and the girls? *CHI: boys and girls are for there, over there. *MOT: they're over where? *MOT: they're over where? *CHI: dark side [$0a]. *MOT: they're over there on the dark side? %com: m laughs *MOT: are you fooling around with me? *CHI: no. *MOT: I think so. *MOT: I think this is a phony interview. %com: c pointing at m with microphone *CHI: it's not phony interview [$0a]. *CHI: it's not [/?]. *MOT: I think you are bing kermitthefrog and you are bing phony and we are getting nowhere with this, nowhere. *CHI: [/?] no. *MOT: I saw tables last night and one of the table-s, for instance, had a jackolantern on it that was made of felt. *CHI: no, you're wrong. *CHI: you're wrong. *MOT: and there [/?] many eyes and noses. *MOT: the eyes and noses [/?] sitting in a box. *CHI: you're wrong. *MOT: and there [/?] buttons on the jackolantern's face. *MOT: what do you do with those eyes and noses? *CHI: you see better. *MOT: you make them see better? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: what else can you do? *MOT: can you give them a new mouth? *CHI: no. *MOT: they had mouths there. *MOT: the jackolantern had many mouths and there [/?] some smiling and some frowning. *CHI: yeah. *MOT: yeah. *MOT: could you button them on? *CHI: [/?] no. *MOT: there [/?] buttons on the jackolantern. *MOT: couldn't you button them on? *CHI: no, I can't [$0ip]. *MOT: you don't do that game. *CHI: don't do that game. *CHI: you talk. *MOT: I [/?] talking. *CHI: why? *MOT: because you're not. %com: m and c laughs *CHI: I don't want to. *MOT: ok, besides the jackolantern, I saw a table that said [/?] games. *CHI: [/?] maybe. *MOT: it said games. *MOT: it didn't say maybe. *MOT: what games are at the game table? *CHI: a black thing. *MOT: there was a black thing there, yeah. *MOT: what's that for? *CHI: [/?] why? *CHI: xxx. *MOT: ok, at school. *MOT: I was talking about the games table. *MOT: last night. *CHI: yeah. *MOT: I saw it in your classroom. *CHI: yeah. *CHI: why? *MOT: I want to know what kinds of games you do there? *CHI: [/?] me do the baseball and the football and stuff. *MOT: those are games but do you play those inside? *CHI: no. *CHI: inside. *MOT: where do you play those game-s, football and baseball? *CHI: football and baseball are sport [$0s]. *MOT: I know it's a sport. *MOT: where do you play a sport? *CHI: [/?] we are playing +/. *CHI: kids all fool around [$0a]. *MOT: at the table that's what you do? *MOT: you just play fooling around? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: but what about the sports? *MOT: you play those outside, right? *CHI: no, there. *CHI: that way. *MOT: inside? *CHI: inside. *MOT: I doubt it. *MOT: I think you'd get hurt if you plaied baseball inside. *MOT: I saw alot of games. *MOT: then I saw a big table that had sand in it. *CHI: yeah. *MOT: ok, what do you do with that? *CHI: look at the snails. *MOT: there [/?] snail shells. *MOT: there [/?] also other things. *MOT: can you remember some of the others? *CHI: no, my can't tell you. *MOT: you're not going to tell me? *CHI: no. %com: c is poking m with the microphone *MOT: why don't you put that right there? *CHI: mhm. *MOT: it's more fun pointting it at me? *CHI: yeah. %com: m laughs *MOT: I feel like I'm on johnnycarson. *CHI: yeah. %com: c makes noises *MOT: ok, you can't remember anything about the shells? *CHI: no. *MOT: there's a sign over the table. *CHI: [/?] yeah. *MOT: and it said can you, can you what? *CHI: can you please. *MOT: can you please what? *MOT: what do they want you to do with those shells? *CHI: touch them. *MOT: you can touch them. *MOT: do they want you to match them? *CHI: no. *MOT: there [/?] some on the wall and it said, could you find three? *CHI: could you find five? *MOT: you'd like to find five? *CHI: [/?] yeah. *MOT: I saw that. *MOT: do you ever play that game with somebody? *CHI: no. *MOT: I saw mussel shells. *CHI: why? *MOT: I saw mussel shells. *CHI: yeah. *MOT: and, [/?] what else? *CHI: we [/?] got a +/. %com: c points to tina *CHI: what's the name of her? *MOT: tina, that's tina. *CHI: alright tina, what are you doing? %com: tina responds *CHI: ok, how are you helen? %com: helen responds I'm fine, how are you?, c looks to tina again *CHI: good, how are you doing? %com: helen responds: very well, what are you doing, c touches his m *CHI: my mama's over there. *MOT: she said, what are you doing? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: what is this called when you do this and that? *MOT: you're making a what? *CHI: a television. *MOT: it's like on television. *MOT: what's it called when you do this with a microphone? *MOT: you're giving an in +/. *CHI: interview. *MOT: an interview. *CHI: I'm doing it. *MOT: it's one of your favorite thing-s, is n't it? *CHI: [/?] yeah. *MOT: when you don't have a real one, [/?] tell her what you use for a microphone when you don't have a real one. *CHI: [/?] I can't use it. *MOT: what do you use for microphone? *CHI: [/?] dancing [$0for]. *MOT: and you use it for dancing too. *MOT: but what is it? *MOT: what's the thing you use for a microphone? *CHI: why? *MOT: the thing that I used to cook with. *CHI: [/?] a saucer. *MOT: no, a stirrer. *CHI: a stirrer. *MOT: you used my whisk. *CHI: I use it [$0ed]. *MOT: and what else? *MOT: a flash +/. *CHI: a flashlight. *MOT: but you've never had a real, real one, have you? *CHI: no. %com: m and c are laughing *MOT: this is special. *CHI: special. %com: helen says that when the project is over she is going to give jerry the microphone, m looks surprised *MOT: did you hear what she said? *CHI: what? *MOT: she said +/. %com: helen speaks to c: I have one at home for you *CHI: have one at home? *MOT: yeah, a real microphone. %com: c points to microphone *CHI: this. *MOT: oh, are you lucky! *CHI: yeah! *MOT: where did you get a friend like her? *CHI: like her +/. %com: c wiggles microphone *CHI: do it like this. *MOT: how do you get friends like this? *CHI: like tina. *MOT: and like tina. *MOT: how do you do that? *MOT: you must be just a charming, charming fellow. *CHI: [/?] no. *MOT: is it because you're a charming fellow? *CHI: no. *MOT: that's pretty nice of her. *CHI: yeah. *MOT: I don't ever remember having a microphone when I was a kid. *CHI: why? *MOT: I used to play with my grandmother's candlesticks. %com: c laughs *MOT: you know, like those things up there that you put the candles in. %com: m points towards the ceiling *CHI: yeah. *MOT: that's what I had for mine. *MOT: I used to instead of doing interviews because, believe it or not, we had no tv. *MOT: instead of doing interview-s, I pretended I was a telephone operator. %com: c laughs and screams, and m holds hands up as though they were a microphone *MOT: [/?] I'd say number please, one moment. *MOT: I'd do all that kind of stuff. %com: c laughing *MOT: and I'd say excuse me. *MOT: that line is busy. *CHI: that's cute. *MOT: is n't that cute? *MOT: see, all kids like to play the same stuff. *CHI: why? *MOT: because they're kids. *CHI: why? *MOT: because it's fun. *CHI: why? *MOT: too many whys. *CHI: why? %com: c laughs *MOT: ok, you need +/. *CHI: no, you need +/. *MOT: give me some answers. *CHI: answers. *MOT: [/?]. *MOT: what else is in the room besides the sand table? *MOT: at kindergarten. *MOT: is there a place where you can do interviews? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: what is that called? *CHI: candlesticks. %com: c laughs *MOT: oh, you think you have candlesticks. *MOT: do you have any kind of [/?] a puppet place? *CHI: [/?] no. *MOT: there's no stage. *CHI: no stage. *MOT: there's no stage, [/?]. *MOT: I thought I saw a stage and puppets. *MOT: [/?] yeah, why? *MOT: I think you're forgetting what I'm asking you. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: I saw a stage with puppets. *MOT: I wondered if you could do an interview. *CHI: [/?]. *CHI: where's the stage? *MOT: at school. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: right. *CHI: at home. *MOT: like you do at home. *MOT: did you ever try it? *CHI: no. *MOT: you could get alex or ben or one of your friends. *MOT: and you could say to them, can I interview you? %com: c walks away from m with microphone *MOT: you can't walk around too far with that because it has a string and it's attached to the camera. *CHI: [/?]. *MOT: you better put it here jerry. %com: c puts microphone near chair *CHI: gonna put the thing to the chair [$0x]. *MOT: do chairs ever talk? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: seldom. *CHI: no. *MOT: I have never in my experience heard of a chair +/. *CHI: [/?] yeah. *CHI: she's not serious. *MOT: I [/?] serious. *CHI: I'm serious. *MOT: are n't you serious? *MOT: [/?], ok. *MOT: and what would you like to ask this chair? *CHI: how to make a cookies. *MOT: how do you make cookies? *MOT: ask him, see if he answers. *CHI: alright. %com: c points the microphone towards the chair *CHI: how do you make cookies? *CHI: it doesn't answer [$0ip]. *MOT: it didn't answer? *CHI: no. *MOT: well, you didn't finish the question. *MOT: ask him again. %com: c points the microphone at the chair again *CHI: how do you [/?] make cookies? *CHI: sardines [$0with]. *MOT: he makes cookies with sardines? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: that was his answer? *CHI: yeah. *MOT: what a silly chair. *CHI: a silly chair. %com: c continues interviewing the chair and looking to m *CHI: what is degrees [$0a] [$0e]? *MOT: how many degrees? *CHI: say you have four and four. *CHI: say you have three and four. *MOT: what degrees for what? *CHI: what degrees where are you [$0e]? *CHI: seventy forty two. *MOT: are you talking about baking? *CHI: baking. *MOT: baking. *MOT: so you want to know what temperature? *CHI: what room temperature? *MOT: the oven. *CHI: the oven. *MOT: [/?]. *CHI: two forty one. *CHI: two forty one. *MOT: two forty one. *MOT: for baking cookies? *MOT: yeah. *MOT: [/?] that might work. *CHI: how about you? %com: c walks away *MOT: [/?] wait. *MOT: ok, slow down jerry, you're going too far away. *MOT: you are going to get in trouble here. *MOT: back over here please. %com: helen says to c 'we're going to have to finish now' *MOT: all finished. @End