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INVokay, let's see, today is the +...
MOTseventh .
INV*INV: seventh of November, and this is Child and Parent at Child and Parent's house .
MOTChild, Observer came to your house , huh .
INVright .
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MOTwe're gonna ask Santa Claus for some new train tracks, because this doesn't go very far, we don't have bridges and tunnels or anything .
MOTand <we don't have a> [//] what don't we have on the engine, Child ?
MOT*MOT: what are we missing on the front of the engine ?
MOTwhat's it called ?
CHIscraper .
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MOTwe don't have one, do we ?
MOTand we need one .
INV*INV: Child, you seem to have a lot of toys .
INVyou have some that, that I didn't see at the Child Study Center .
INVlike that's a very big truck there .
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MOTthey can't drive by themselves, can they, down the street .
MOTthey have to be taken to the job on a flatbed .
MOT*MOT: I think Chuck's falling out of his digger Child .
CHIoh .
MOTlooks like he's falling out .
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CHIyeah .
MOTthis is his second breakfast too .
MOT*MOT: a whole bowl of milk and another bowl of xx .
MOTxx huh Child .
MOTChild, what else do we have .
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MOTyou had a book you wanted to show Observer, didn't you ?
INVoh yeah ?
MOT*MOT: with a lot of pictures in it .
MOTwanna go find that book ?
CHIyeah .
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MOTit was the first and last time he's ever colored .
CHI+< xx .
MOT*MOT: hey, Child, come around here, that way Observer can see the top of the book too .
MOTyou sit over this way .
MOTlook, otherwise, she's gonna see everything upside down .
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MOTdo you know that story, Mike Mulligan and Maryanne ?
INVno .
MOT*MOT: that's, Maryanne is the name of a steamshovel in another book he has .
INVI see .
MOTthat looks just like Maryanne .
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CHIthat's that's a freight car .
MOTthere's Maryanne .
MOT*MOT: you tell Observer this is one of your favorite books ?
CHIhe's got smoke too .
MOTturn around this book so Observer can see him .
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CHIhe's got smoke too .
MOTturn around this book so Observer can see him .
MOT*MOT: what does he have coming out of here ?
CHIsmoke .
MOTthat's right .
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MOTthat's right .
MOTwhat's he doing ?
INV*INV: oh, those are all the different parts of the, uh +...
CHIxx .
MOTsave that one til later ?
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MOTsave that one til later ?
CHIxxx .
MOT*MOT: +< this is funny, this was one of my little brother's very, very favorite books when he was a kid, and he loves it .
CHI+< I got chapstick, too .
INVyou have chapstick too ?
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MOTput the cover back on now .
MOTChild, put the cover back on now .
INV*INV: what does it smell of ?
INVit has a particular smell .
INVdo you know what it smells like ?
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MOTbut when Observer goes home, then you can have a piece .
MOTok ?
INV*INV: can you tell me about some more of these ?
MOTxxx .
INVremember that I brought a book last time ?
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MOThere, you can put it there .
MOThere ?
MOT*MOT: see the smoke coming out of the back of the jets ?
MOTsee that ?
MOTwhat's this one called over here ?
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MOTwhat's this one called over here ?
CHImm . [+ V]
MOT*MOT: you have one of those in your airport .
CHIwhere ?
MOTover in that, over in that blue box you have one .
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MOTthe engines were inside this little box, and the the smoke comes out the back like that .
CHII, I can't see it though .
MOT*MOT: no, well it's kind of pretend .
MOTlook in the front here .
MOTyou see those little lines ?
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MOTyou see those little lines ?
MOTthose are the engines .
MOT*MOT: there's not really a whole engine in there, it's kind of pretend .
CHIokay .
INVyeah .
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MOTyeah .
CHIand dis is, dese are, where does the smoke come out ?
MOT*MOT: it comes out the back, the back of the jets, right where your thumb is .
MOTwho's gonna go on an airplane next week, Child ?
CHIme .
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MOTyeah, where's it going ?
MOTwhere does the school bus go ?
MOT*MOT: it's funny, in the middle of that picture of all the country, a school bus .
INVmmhm, mmhm .
CHIschool bus .
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CHIno .
MOTI see smoke behind that school bus, you see it all ?
MOT*MOT: tell Observer when we see smoke coming out of cars ?
MOTwas it +...
CHIin the car .
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INVreally ?
CHIyes .
MOT*MOT: we've got an old nineteen sixty Mercedes and it starts up xxx and he love the smoke that comes out of it, ha ?
MOTbut you can't ride in that car, can you ?
MOTwhy not ?
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CHIwhere's my other jeep ?
MOTyour big Jeep's in the kitchen .
MOT*MOT: the big one that that makes a lot of noise ?
CHIyeah .
MOTI think it's in the kitchen .
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CHIyeah .
MOTI think it's in the kitchen .
MOT*MOT: look on the other side of the counter .
MOTover by your tape recorder .
MOTis it over there ?
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CHIyeah .
MOToh, lookit .
INV*INV: oh, what kind of money is that ?
CHImommy money .
MOTmommy money ?
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INV+< Child, here's some more picture that I thought you might be interested in .
MOTlook, what do you see ?
MOT*MOT: I see a lotta [: lot of] new things .
MOTthis is a great book .
CHImommy, lawnmower .
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MOTyeah ?
INVdo you know what these other things are here ?
MOT*MOT: Grandaddy brought one of these over one day .
INVwhat was it ?
CHIsaw .
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MOTo:h Child, I see some other things that I bet you know .
MOTI bet you know what this is called .
MOT*MOT: we've got one of these in the kitchen, I think .
MOTwhat's that ?
CHIbig thing . [+ V]
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CHII want to !
MOTChild .
INV*INV: everything reminds him of something else .
MOTyeah, everything .
INVright .
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MOTperfect .
MOTgreat .
MOT*MOT: Child, I see a picture of something we found in the wood pile .
INVwhat was that ?
CHIworms .
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CHIworms .
MOTwell, it's something a little bigger than a worm .
MOT*MOT: remember Mommy was a little scared of it ?
MOTwhat's that called ?
CHIworm .
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MOTa snake .
MOTit scared me, didn't it ?
MOT*MOT: we were bringing in wood for the hurricane, and Mummy picked up a piece of wood and there was a big snake coiled up under there .
INVhmm .
MOTand did you come over and look at it ?
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CHIdog food .
INV[- MOT and inv laugh] dog food, right .
MOT*MOT: +< his baby+sitter gave him a piece of dog food the other day; he carried it around for three days .
MOTha, Child ?
MOTChild, I bet you don't know what this is called, over here .
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MOThmm .
MOTwhy don't you go show Observer the big coloring book .
MOT*MOT: it's on the end of your shelf .
CHIwhere ?
MOTand I'll get ya a drink .
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MOTthere it is .
CHIwhere ?
MOT*MOT: [- MOT and inv laugh] it could be right in front of his nose, I think it's so funny .
INVis this it, right here ?
CHIbut where's the crayons ?
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INVlet's take the book first, okay ?
INVand then we'll see +//.
INV*INV: maybe you can tell me about some of the things in this coloring book .
INVnow where are the crayons ?
INVthat's a good question .
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MOTwe'll find something else to do, because you know that's not good .
INVright .
INV*INV: maybe you can tell me about some more of the things in here .
MOTlook it, look what Observer's got in her book .
INVI've got another thing here that might interest you .
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MOToh look !
MOTlook !
MOT*MOT: I see one of your favorite things in the whole world on that page, Child .
INVwatermelon ?
CHIyeah .
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CHII don wanna .
MOTlet me see what else is in the picture .
MOT*MOT: did we grow some of these outside, this summer ?
INVdo you want to sit on the hassock ?
CHIno .
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CHItomatoes .
MOTyeah .
MOT*MOT: and what do we make out of tomatoes ?
CHIuh pine needles .
MOTpine needles, no [% MOT and inv laugh] .
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INVI think it's quite nice, actually .
MOToh, by Harry McRoth .
MOT*MOT: this is the same guy, that we have a lot of books by him .
INVoh yeah .
INVI thought the drawings themselves were nice .
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MOTthey're very clear .
INVyeah .
INV*INV: a lot of the books that I looked at aren't so clear .
MOTwe have a bunch of books by him .
MOTis that yours or Child's ?
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INVyeah .
INVa lot of the books that I looked at aren't so clear .
MOT*MOT: we have a bunch of books by him .
MOTis that yours or Child's ?
INVno, that was Child's .
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MOTis that yours or Child's ?
INVno, that was Child's .
MOT*MOT: oh, we have a bunch of books by him .
INVwhat's that .
INVwhat is that ?
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MOTwhen we get back from Hawaii that's when we're just gonna start making Christmas cookies .
MOTokay ?
MOT*MOT: we made em last year, xxx [% because of laughing] the flour .
MOTmy mother came in, and we just had, it was just the biggest mess in the whole world, but that, for some reason that day I didn't care about it .
MOTso we had so much fun .