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*CHI: I go put my grape juice right there by you coffee.
*CHI: there.
*CHI: Sue what Nancy an' Becky doing?
*MOT: Nancy and Becky?
*MOT: I don't see Nancy and Becky.
*CHI: Marcia.
*MOT: is Marcia there too?
*CHI: I hab get my grape juice.
*CHI: there.
*COL: what's that I'm drawing?
*CHI: hm?
*COL: what's that I'm drawing?
*CHI: a lady.
*COL: where's the lady?
*CHI: right there.
*COL: thought it was a man.
*COL: well he needs a haircut.
*CHI: write he finger.
*COL: what?
*CHI: write he finger.
*COL: there.
*COL: what's that?
*CHI: a lady.
*COL: a lady?
*COL: d' you not think that's a man?
*COL: okay it's a lady.
*CHI: and that's man.
*COL: oh that's a man.
*COL: okay.
*COL: let's draw another man.
*COL: there.
*COL: is that a man?
*CHI: yeah.
*CHI: two men.
*CHI: two a big one and a little one.
*COL: which is the big one?
*COL: show me the big one.
*CHI: [points appropriately].
*COL: that's right.
[prompting]
*COL: that's a man and that's a man.
[prompting]
*COL: so there are two...
[prompting]
*CHI: mans.
[Mother said that Eve once corrected Mother's "men" to "mans"]
*MOT: when it's one it's “man ” and when there're two it's...
[prompting]
*CHI: mens.
*MOT: no s.
*MOT: men.
*MOT: only men.
*CHI: men.
*CHI: only men.
*MOT: that's right.
*CHI: I drink my grape juice.
*CHI: drink you coffee.
*COL: okay.
*CHI: Mommy I have candle in my birthday cake.
*MOT: candle?
*MOT: is that it right there?
*MOT: I don't think you'd better put that pencil in the couch.
*MOT: pencils don't belong in couches.
*CHI: where is birthday cake.
*MOT: where is the birthday cake?
*MOT: I don't know.
*MOT: what did you do with it?
*MOT: please don't put the pencil in the couch.
*CHI: in the couch.
*MOT: yes.
*CHI: there hole.
*MOT: it will make a great big hole if you put it in there again.
*CHI: it'll make a great big hole.
[note will and 'll]
*COL: you will yeah.
*CHI: I go make it.
*MOT: don't you make it.
*MOT: well that's not a very good idea either.
*CHI: there.
*MOT: did you make a great big hole?
*CHI: uhhuh.
*COL: no you didn't.
*CHI: I laying down.
[appropriate intransitive]
*MOT: I know you are.
*MOT: don't do that again or I'll take the pencil away.
*CHI: you not go take it away.
*MOT: I will.
*CHI: no.
*MOT: yes I will.
*CHI: not go have it...
*CHI: you go put pencil away I go have it.
*MOT: you may have it.
*MOT: but don't poke it in the couch or I will take it away.
*CHI: it belong on my head.
*MOT: it doesn't belong on your head.
*CHI: where it goed?
*MOT: where did it go?
*CHI: bite it.
*MOT: bite it?