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MOTI have a big book upstairs .
MOTit's a Richard Scarry dictionary, the real big one .
MOT*MOT: it's beautiful, but I don't want her to really watch it without me, you know, looking at it with her .
MOTcan you show mommy some pictures in the book ?
MOTtell me what's in there .
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MOTthat might be a nice idea for Christmas .
MOTxxx .
MOT*MOT: I don't like things with parts .
MOTlike all the Fisher Price toys, are little people and animals .
CHIlookit, Mommy !
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MOTand finally I said +"/.
MOT+" what's the sense .
MOT*MOT: they've gotta play with it, and it's all going in baskets .
INVo:h, you've got the elephant .
MOThere's the porcupine .
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MOThe won't squeak anymore .
INVwhat's that ?
INV*INV: right there with the orange stripes ?
MOTseems to me that those were twenty nine or thirty two dollars before, and now I think I saw them yesterday for twelve dollars .
MOTninety six .
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MOTto Parent ?
CHIporcupine .
MOT*MOT: [- to inv] Parent's the one with the hand+me+downs .
MOTyou poor little thing .
CHIParent, don't touch the porcupine .
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MOTif you tell her something, she'll remember it .
MOTbut I just haven't had the time .
MOT*MOT: I've been so busy with diapers, and keeping everybody clean, that I feel negligent in that way .
MOTwell, then I thought, she will pick up on it .
MOTit's a learned thing .
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CHIParent, don't .
MOTcan't Parent have one ?
MOT*MOT: give Parent one to play with, ok ?
MOTParent might cry .
CHIParent, don't .
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CHIxxx porcupine .
MOTshe likes those little dolls, because they're more easy to manage for her fingers .
MOT*MOT: she'll take em upstairs and sleep with them .
MOTshe's got little dogs and xx .
MOTmy daughter won em at Chuckey Cheese or something .
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CHIthis is Santa Clause .
MOTthat's his stocking .
MOT*MOT: a stocking with toys .
CHIa stocking with toys .
CHIxxx .
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INVI think it's right, oops, behind you .
INVhi there squirt .
INV*INV: it's amazing that these kids ever make it until they're adults, with all the time they fall down .
CHImommy, I want xx .
CHIwait .
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MOTit's not better ?
MOTxxx cut a hole in your pants .
MOT*MOT: Uncle Doug gave you this sweat suit, and it was in real good shape until you cut a hole in it with the scissors .
MOTdon't make it bigger .
MOTI'm gonna get you a kleenex for your nose, ok ?
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MOTisn't it funny xxx they know to turn everyt(h)ing to look at the tail [=! laughs] .
MOTdon't bite it, cause Investigator_one has to take that duck back to school .
INV*INV: yeah, I have to take him back with me .
MOTand she'll get in trouble .
INVright .
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MOTyou know when you're around your children all the time, you get used to the way the talk .
MOTlike I told you, for writing, she says <ai@c> ["], and I know what she's talking about .
MOT*MOT: every time you go somewhere, or if you're gonna leave em with somebody, you feel you have to leave this dictionary xxx, because you're so afraid that someone is not gonna understand em .
INV[- laughs] she speaks pretty clearly though .
INVare you biting my duck again ?
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INV[- laughs] she speaks pretty clearly though .
INVare you biting my duck again ?
INV*INV: I have to take that duck back with me .
INVwhat if it's broken ?
MOTdon't break his beak .
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INVwhat's that ?
INVthis blue thing ?
INV*INV: what do you do with this blue thing ?
CHIxxx .
MOTtell Parent not to touch .
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MOTwhich is too bad, in a way, because even though they're talking, you're still not seeing the real child .
INVyeah .
MOT*MOT: it's too bad you can't do a month's study, just getting friendly with the kids .
MOTxxx calm down xxx .
MOTxxx phone books and catalogs .
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MOTpunk rock dolls .
MOTthey are ugly .
MOT*MOT: I could see if they had pretty faces with makeup, but they're just ugly .
MOTI still like my Shirley Temple doll, and I had Betsy Wetsy, all those Madam Alexander dolls .
CHIpants .
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MOTmommy has to send it to Texas Instruments to be fixed .
CHIwhere's it ?
MOT*MOT: I don't know what I did with it .
MOTI put it away somewhere .
MOTI called them about it .
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CHIno .
MOTno ?
MOT*MOT: she has to take her toys with her .
INVyeah .
INVbut you wanna help me put em away ?