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the baby. yeah. xxx does he do that? yep. play peek a boo where are you? [CDS] do you guys play... peek a boo! [CDS] do you guys do that kind of game at home? yes. so he's done that before. yeah but usually he always waits for me to initiate it I think maybe because it's a peek a boo book we just we just read. but normally I hafta initiate it and quite often he waits for me to do the work. those things I'm like I see this as a pattern with both of my male children is it a... a boy thing. uhuh. wait for Mom to initiate it yeah [laughs]. uhuh. [laughs]. and then you can do the work. you do it. at least in my experience. oh we're losing our microphone cover. and then um I wanted to ask about the animals was he interested at all in the animals? I tried making noises with them and and he just he wouldn't even look at 'em. no okay. and then um... and he's been around a few animals and he's very scared of them so I think that might be part of why he's not interested in stuffed animals yet. oh okay.
okay. I was thinking the dog which actually looks enough like the dog that we that he's had interactions with that I though he would recognize but... no? nope. so he might know the name though. he might know dog and he knows... um pictures we've done pictures and associating sounds with cows sheep ducks and horses and he seems to recognize those and anticipate those. um. frog too? I don't think frog yet. um and probably not any of the more unusual animals that you have there. yeah. I was gonna say some of these I know we haven't even xxx. yeah. hi are you just kinda sleepy you're gonna put yourself to sleep? [CDS] well let's see if there's anything I think that might be it. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/11/5777FC.cha = = = is it okay if I ask you a few questions? sure! um yyy [rearranging themselves]. [situating child] we're making peas with our friends. sure. so have there been any changes since the last visit in what he liked or didn't like or anything? um last time I remember he really liked the peas. and the icecream cone. mhm. um and I think he was even like two fisting with the icecream cones.
and this time he did not wanna let go of the spoon it seemed like. um and he used it like as a tool against the other toys and stuff. um ah which of the toys seemed to interest him the most besides those would you say? um the spoon definitely interested him. the most. um other things. I guess the fake food in general. the pizza the peas. the meat. the pitcher. um he was a bit more interested in the books this time. but not a great deal. yeah haha. yeah. he seemed to like that one. um how about any of the stuffed animals or anything was he into or...? um he wasn't really into them unless I made him be or interacted with it. yeah he remembered the bee. or remembered it or interacted with it a little bit. but. um which of the toys d' you think he was least interested in this time? um probably the baby doll. except for its location was kind of in his way a little bit. um but that along with the rest of the stuffed animals so. d' you think there's like... this is kind of like an interesting question but. d' you think there's like a toy that like fits his personality best at this stage? um usually it's things that make noise. so I think he was excited to see the spoon and the pitcher could make a good noise. um he loves putting things in his mouth.
so the food definitely goes along with that. thank you! and he's pretty social. so things he can be social with too. are a lot of these like foods you have in your house that he would recognize and? um I think so. we don't have them as toys. but um except for the sweets. he's probably had most of the food. um just 'cause we like table food. no purees for you right guy? so um yeah so he's probably had most of it. I mean not the icecream. but like even an icecream cone. mhm. so. or what was the book again that your child preferred to look at? yeah the Karen Katz peekaboo book. here it is. yeah. he got all excited. peekababy yeah. um d' you normally like read with him at home? definitely. a lot of reading. we have a Karen Katz book too. um I definitely encourage him to turn pages and that kinda thing. d' you think he prefers like books or toys or? um it useta be books. I think he's getting more into toys now.
but um he still likes the books. that's good. you're pretty literate right kid? um d' you think he's starting to recognize the names of any of these more? like showing signs of...? um I do. sometimes um at home if he seems upset or whatever. and I get him into my lap to calm him I'll say " oh let's read a book!" and he'll get excited and that kinda thing. um d' you have any other...? and ah some of his stuffed animals at home have names. and he recognizes those. like Tigger. um what about the food Frances? did you recognize the names of food? I think so. I don't know that there's any evidence of that. but it's just kind of a feeling. I don't know what we filled out on our chart. is there anything at home like stuff at home too that he recognizes? you mentioned Tigger. like anything other than that too or? um Tigger. some other blocks that he hasta build with. um you like blocks right? and then trying to think what else. yeah some other stuffed animals. the fish or. or different books.
things he likes the most? yeah. definitely. yeah. I guess that's pretty much it. okay. great. well. did you pass? did you pass you did a good job? did a good job. thanks. it's funny 'cause... xxx the bee. yeah yeah he loves that hair. it's funny coming back here 'cause of course the toys are generally set up the same. but he does interact so differently over a month or two later. um it's different than seeing it at home. you know day by day you forget but. pretty neat. d' you notice like home too you said he's being more into noise and stuff like that. is there anything else that you see his interests are shifting from one thing to another? sure. um well definitely he's more into moving things now. so he might you know go get a toy and then bring it to another area. um yeah you like to stand up too. so sometimes he'll play with toys up. and puzzles. we have a shape sorter. and it's funny to see him progress with that.
it's fun and funny. 'cause first we would just took the lid off. and dumped shapes out. and then he started putting shapes into the bucket. and now he's putting shapes into the shape sorter. um so we'll see if it goes into the shape sorter lid and then into the bucket. he's not quite there yet. but haha that's alright. you're having fun. so and it's funny the shape sorter. 'cause he'll realize okay the circle shape goes into the circle hole. and if I take the lid and turn it around he'll still put it in that top left corner so. he's figuring it out. that's good. you seem to do a really good job of like explaining things to him and everything. thanks. yeah maybe I overcompensate here. you know I like to give him some independent play too at home. but it's fun! part of the reason to have a baby! is to interact with the toys so [laughing]. [additional couple of minutes of wrapping up and discussing other studies.] = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/11/5244RE.cha = = = haha ha. [directed to the child until line????] hi! you xxx here now? haha. uh huh.
okay. so. there. there are going to be a lot of the same questions. sure. haha. Im useta it. haha. haha. um. so what was his favorite? [silence]. um. this genre. [silence]. uh. any in particular? [silence]. mm I wouldn't say in particular. [a little toy noise.] cause he kind of liked to play with. whatever is in his hands. and when he didn't like the. pea on the plate thing. um. but I'm not sure what. how to. classify that. haha hah. [silence].
mhm you sharing? [vocalization]. [addressed to the child.] [vocalization]. oh. ha ha... that remind... and you don't wanna share? [addressed to the child.] ha haha. haha. that was silly! haha. [addressed to the child.] haha. um. so. does he eat that at home? mhm. yeah. [slight noise.] ah version of that. he's never seen actual spaghetti and noodles but. [child making noise.] like rigatoni noodles but. easier to grab. now you're gonna do it? [addressed to the child.] he definitely eats peas. bread.
cheese. [silence]. okay and you said that. um. some of the things his. older brother might eat. do you think he recognized them? [toy noise.] [smacks lips together]. [babbles]. no. I just kind of. try to incorporate Brendon. into it cause it's not enough. [child making noise.] that he seems him eat icecream. [child making noise.] hah'. yeah. and like for the first time yesterday and. [moving toys around]. stuff like that so. do you think it hasta do anything with the shape of them? I don't know. [child making noise.] if the shape or the color. [child making noise.] [silence]. um. I'm not sure.
like the texture maybe? an' yes. I definitely think the texture. cause he'll like touch it and then grab it. so and. haha. and that is a pretty cool texture. yeah it is haha ha. um. [toy noise.] did you think some of? did you? do you think that? he thought some of the things were real? the bottle. yeah. definitely saw that. haha! oh I know I felt it. and the peas. but um. other than that uh. I don't think so. maybe the cheese. but. and does he uh? use utensils too? [a little noise.] no. he's all his hands.
I can put it in his hand. and he'll put it aside and use his hands. he's not into that right now. all barbarian boy right now. so you... haha. haha that's what you're saying haha. haha... so you think he might not know what um...? [toy noise.] no he knows. I don't think he has the patience. [toy noise until line 151.] for it right now. or the desire. to do it. cause he'll see me. and he'll maybe do one time. [toy noise.] and then. doesn't wanna do it anymore. [toy noise.] with a fork or...? mm mhm. [moving toys around]. there hasn't been much need for a spoon so far. [slight toy noise from the middle to the end.] [moving toys around]. what do you think he got out of those uh stuffed animals? ah um.
[moving toys around]. he'd like to look at 'em. and touch 'em. but. neither one of my kiddos really seem that into stuffed animals. [noisey line.] yeah I guess maybe get a little bit older and know what they are before. [slight noise.] they see a. [slight noise.] [patting noises]. I dunno. [silence]. uh. [silence]. what about? the other items on the floor? well he was not interested in the books. I know that was different haha. haha. that's a definite personality difference. he does not sit. he moves all the time. so he's definitely all boy. ha just like his older brother. [silence]. and what about the dog? [silence]. he actually acted like it was real. um at first and kinda of.
[slight noise from child.] and then touched it and think he realized it wasn't and then. got over it. [mother is laughing.] but uh. [mother is laughing.] other than that that's his... [someone sneezes] in this. these sessions are the only time he's ever. come across it so um. if he gave much thought after he realized it wasn't a. a threat to him. haha. so he doesn't. [can slightly hear mom laughing.] play with his sisters? that's ours? no. yeah. okay. yep. I know. but no he you know what. honestly his toys at home are. balls. and. trucks. and cars. so he likes to do that kind of stuff.
roll the ball around and. this. those are action... things so I think he likes those. [moving toys around]. where are you going? [addressed to the child.] mm. [silence]. and you used um... ow! [addressed to the child.] uh huh. [first part addressed to the child.] you didn't use it as much with him. but. the. noises that the animals make. yeah. cause that didn't have the opportunity I guess. ta. really. I didn't really want... do you do it? know what to call this. haha I mean it's a dog but haha. do you do that with him at home though? oh sure. yeah. [silence].
he just wasn't interested today. not today I guess. with them. [silence]. and we have um. animals at home that are. like this kinda material. that he likes to play with. and he really gets into that. a little more than the stuffed animals. I dunno if he doesn't have like a fantasy. imagination yet. to understand that they represent... but uh he likes those little things a lot. [silence]. good and what about um? noise. [clinician makes a weird sound before she speaks.] like how does he like? toys with noise? oh yes! the louder the better. and he will laugh. and. I mean always. I mean wesed call it keepin' the beat cause he will just. bang bang bang bang and ha' it is so funny. yeah Reese! [keys rattling. addressed to the child.] it's usually what he.
[keys rattling.] goes right for. [keys rattling.] [moving toys around]. does he? play with yours? with my? the keys. oh yeah. yes. I don't really allow that so much these days cause the teething thing. just everything goes in the mouth but yeah he likes... and he's got. a whole set of keys that are. much more involved than that one. that they play with. [silence]. um um. [moving toys around]. words of encouragement again? you used um. you used a few of them here with him. [mom almost beginnings to mumble something in the middle.] you do the same thing where as? whenever? he does something good. you praise. oh yeah! uh. they just really um.
[silence]. just to help them develop. you could almost see it. you know that they become the person. they're sposta be when you. let 'em know they are doing something. [silence]. the right way. now do you usually say things or do you? clap? both. mhm. [slight toy noise.] [moving toys around]. it depends on if. if its something that is the first time I've ever seen him do it. then I clap. cause that's like a. a lot of times that's what I'll. a wow really good! try that again. that's really good! and then I just. encourage him if it's something he's done. alright. I think we've asked all the questions. alright. [bad lines due to microphone noise through the end.] alright. thank you so much.
it's a long. hah a long study. I really know how much you guys are doing its is um. haha. twice as long. haha. as but. most but... = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/11/4929MM.cha = = = um I know you were just here recently. but I wanted to just ask if there have been any chances that you noticed in her interests in terms of what she wanted to play with today. compared to last time? seemed like at first the bottle and the sippycup and the baby. I don't know if that's because she's getting hungry. and she associated the bottle with herself but... um she seemed more interested this time in the baby. um this is what really had her going last time. texture 's been a real big thing lately. [vocalizes] um. is that a sippycup? [to child.] oh thank you. [vocalizes] [coughs]. um different this time? didn't seem as much into animals this time. [vocalizes] no that's not for the baby.
[to child.] that's for this baby. [to child.] see? [to child.] anything that pretty much bangs. she seems like she really just likes to make noise. and she definitely imitates more. I've noticed even the last couple of weeks. okay. anything that I do she tends to wanna do it too. like when I was doing this. then she wanted to put something in it too. so she definitely likes to imitate. more than she has lately haha. [tapping toys]. so that's a new thing. yeah she was kinda xxx different things this time. [vocalizes] okay. um but again we have a book very similar. and she loves opening the flaps. mhm. so I think a lot of things today she was picking up things she does at home. okay. such as the baby doll. the bottle. the sippycup. this book. so she does have a baby doll at home?
it's a little bit smaller. but she has a baby doll at home that she puts in the cradle. she kind of tends rocking it and... does she feed that baby doll also? she tries to with her bottle at home yeah. okay. um does she play with pretend food at home? um not as much no. so I don't know if it's just something different something new that she just... I didn't notice did she play with any of the food items or kitchen items today much? yeah I mean just kind of more the banging part of it. more so than j really like putting it in something. okay. she was putting 'em in here. but um was just kind of all different things today right Megan? do you think she would recognize any of the food um from the last time or from home? any of the food items? um not as much. I mean 'cause we don't really have any actually any food items at home. mhm. so I don't xxx just maybe from last time just from playing with them and banging them. but I mean we don't have any of these same foods. any of these... mhm. fake food items. no. do you think she would recognize any of these um comp you know as real food items? I know peas don't really come like this. but they look a little like this. she still really...
she has kind of food aversions. she's really only eating mainly baby food. so I don't know if she'd really recognize... she would recognize these okay. she's a little young for that. yeah maybe like the cookies just from holding trying to you know take bites of baby cookies but... okay. I think this she definitely recognized from last time haha. unique. she likes the hair texture. which of the toys do you think or which toy is good for her her personality? no no no no no. [to child.] um she's pretty active. so she likes to you know do the noises and haha hold things. she's pretty active pretty ah personable baby. so I think doing things that make you know sound and effect or... making people look at her haha. [laughs]. like doing that. [laughs]. which is maybe why the animals she doesn't really have as much of an interest. I see they don't do... it's pretty much of her like sleeping thing at home. she sleeps with an animal but... okay. that's really the only time she really plays with stuffed animals. do you think she prefers books or toys? um during the day I'd say probably toys. I mean she's at daycare all week.
it's mainly you know toys. that they're kind of playing with. although th this book she seems very fascinated by the flaps but... we do read the books at night and so... but I think during the day she mainly is with toys. haha Megan. which of these toys do you think interests her the least? um well other than this I'd say all the stuffed animals. I think when I put 'em in front of her she didn't really seem to go for them. let's see. you like this one though huh? [to child.] you like that hair tickle your tummy? [to child.] which which of these books do you think she would most wanna look at with you? um xxx the peekababy. okay. just 'cause she's involved in it. and she can do something also. mhm. okay I think that's it. do you have anything else that you think we should know about that I didn't asked you? not that I can think offhand. I'm surprised she actually sat here. and now she's so mobile crawling around. she did. she does a lot of the crawling all over the place at home. so I'm surprised she sat here for the... so she was definitely interested. I think maybe 'cause it was something different.
yeah. I mean that's why she sat so much longer than at home. it's the same old toys. yeah. so I think she gets more bored easily. she did sit the whole time. oops. yeah she's usually crawling on everything. all over the room so... haha is that fun? you like that hair. [to child.] that is fun isn't it? that seems to be your favorite toy right now. [to child.] sure does. okay well I think that's all I hafta ask you. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/11/5837JK.cha = = = [silence]. okay. um. you can leave that right there cause that way I don't hafta write the answers to the questions. okay. and she can just continue to xxx or play or whatever she's doing. okay [laughs]. with her spoon. um so first question is have you noticed any differences in what she's interested in playing with or the way she's playing with toys since the last time she was here? um I think the last two times um she showed pretty equal interest in everything and this time she pretty much ignored pile number three here. mhm.
um I kind of think that teething has trumped everything else she went straight for things that looked hard and yummy to chew on. um and she caught a top tooth yesterday and so I just think... ah... [babbling]! yeah you got some spit on you. um I kinda think that that trumped everything else in the play session today. mhm. um but she also showed interest in the frogs so you know it's it wasn't to the exclusion of other things. okay. did she um was she interested in any of the other animals that you got out for her? um. the frog and the chicken were the two that she showed the most interest in. I you know pointed out some other things but she didn't really going for it she definitely liked this frog. [seem to go for them.] uhhuh. cool. you too! what about the hard toys that you said she did like the best? um did she have certain ones that were favorites today? the cookies. the two cookies she really liked um. the smaller of the two spoons she liked. um she spent a little bit of time with the sandwich parts um but mostly the cookies and the spoon. and do you think she would um recognize the names of any of these especially like the food items um... I don't know because it looks different. I make them sandwiches with cheese and turkey but I cut them up really small so it doesn't look like that so I'm not I'm not sure that she did that. um they're not drinking juices yet so um apple juice is foreign to her. okay. um. so probably not right.
not at least by the way they look. right. okay. but she's heard you say you know sandwich or turkey or she xxx mhm. uhhuh cheese yeah she's definitely heard those things bread. lets see what else. and did she look at books today? um not really I tried to get her interested in this Good Night Moon one but she didn't really seem like she was interested in it. 'kay. lets see. and... um how about toys at home does she have stuffed animals does she have a baby doll? mhm. we don't have baby dolls um. she does have lots of stuffed animals and she does have plastic food and um ah... oh she does okay. that's recent she got a shopping cart from grandma for christmas including plastic food. so um so that's a new thing. we have tons of books at home um so she's familiar with some of these things. okay. does she have any books like the ones that we have here? um yeah very similar yeah. okay. we've got Doctor Seuss we've got the original Good Night Moon not this particular one. mhm. [yell]! okay. are you makin' a mess baby? so the main difference in the way played was the teething thing and so you feel like she was chewing more? I think yeah I mean she always chews when she comes here but um.
but yeah I think that her exclusive interest in the food was because of that yeah. because of that alright. I think that's everything I needta ask you um. and I'm probably gonna ask you very similar things for Allison. of course yup! because that's the way it works with twins. and I'll go ahead and take it out and turn it off. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/11/5224EZS.cha = = = so I just have a few questions for you. mhm. so do you think there have been any changes since the last visit or things she plays with? um yes she plays with this. this kitchen. equipment. these kitchen toys where before she ignored them. [clinking toys]. any in particular? any toys in the kitchen? um she likes the measuring spoons. she liked the fake bottle. agu ah ahdah [baby babble]. um. yeah I think the spoons and the bottle. [baby coos]. so what toys out of. any of the other categories does she like the best? um she likes this bumble bee. and... what do you think attracted her to it?
the colors. definitely. and uh this. spongy texture. for the hair. right? [addressed to the child.] yes. does she have any of these toys at home? no not these exact toys no. obviously she has bottles. [chuckles]. mhm. and um. the sippy cups but no not the exact toys. [coos in the background]. [coo]. so do you think she was attracted to the bottle because shh... looks like a real one? yeah. because she tried to suck it. [laugh]. so [chuckle]. right? [addressed to the child.] [babble] xxx. um. which toys do you think she likes the least? [cooing/whining]. the doll.
do you have any at home? no. [ cooing loudly] xxx. huh? no baby dolls at home. [addressed to the child.] oh no we don't want the microphone. [addressed to the child.] well we do want the microphone but we can't play with the microphone! [addressed to the child.] are there any of the books? do you have any of those at home or... not the exact books. we have a good night moon but not that version. [whispers inaudibly] xxx. [babble]. [gasp]. so what did you say she played with last time? last time she played with the bumble bee a lot. mhm. um. and these stuffed animals if I remember correctly. are there anything in the... that you thought she might've recognized. in names of... or even things at home that. you've noticed that she'd recognize? of toys? um. not really.
I mean she recognizes bottle I think. um. but the names of toy... she probably recognizes. uh dog. although I don't think I said the word dog. but she probably would recognize dog. cause we have a dog. but other than that no I don't think she would recognize... she may recognize the word spoon... come over here. [addressed to the child.] Elenor! [addressed to the child.] [laughs]. [ inaudible speech due to distance from microphone] xxx. [rustling]. where you going? [addressed to the child.] [chuckles]. and do you use? does she use things to eat? she tries to. [chuckle]. it's not very successful. but she does try. right here. [high-pitched sigh sound]. oh. [addressed to the child.]
[cooing]. has she started eating any of the foods here? like cookies or? um. yes. but not in the... it wouldn't look like this. it's all... she has waffles but they're all broken up. so I don't know that she would even recognize. what it looked like. and cookies of course. right? [coo]. but you. use the names in the house? we do. and everything? what are you doing? [babble] xxx. I mean she would recognize. if I took the Eggo box out she would recognize what it is. [ while laughing]. definitely. right? [addressed to the child.] [low noises]. she wants to play with you! yeah. [laughs].
she wants to play on me. right? [addressed to the child.] do you guys? when um. I may have missed this question. when you play at home? mhm. [ high pitched squeal]. do you play? uh. what do you play most with? what does she like at home? [ babble] xxx. at home? um. right now she likes her wheely cart. [ cooing]. where she can stand and push it. uh and that's probably her favorite. thing right now. but we also have sort of sta. stackable cups. that break apart and go back together. and she likes those. those are probably her favorite things right now. okay. alright? why do you think she likes those [feedback from microphone]. stackable cups.
[loud whine]. the cups? uh. they're rightly rainbow colored. [sounds of grunting in discomfort]. oh I know! [cry]. hey! [whispers] xxx. um. um. I was curious about the first two. I'm like why are... you know. the questions kinda seemed a little... I'm like okay. [laughing]. do you wanna pick a toy? let's see I got a couple. oh. look at those. which one do you want Samantha? you get to pick one! which one do you want. why don't ya pick one. what one do you wanna take home? do you wanna book? or a truck? a truck? the playdoh might be okay.
Elmo! which one? you found one? oh she saw something! what'd you see? oh! you got sesame street books! did you see Elmo? I though I heard Elmo. Elmo! do we have a winner [laughing]? I think we're good! thank you! you got Elmo we're all good now! yeah. [laughing]. mommy! what did you find? look. Elmo. oh Elmo books! two books. wow! what's that? they must've restocked the box. yeah we got a big shipment in three weeks ago. [silence]. what'd ya get? wow. who's that?
do you know who that is? [vocalization]. cookie monster! why is the cookie monster holding grapes? I don't know. the cookie monster doesn't eat grapes. there's shapes. that's a triangle. but there better be a circle in there somewhere. [laughing]. mommy! what honey? what's that shape? is that into a triangle? do you wanna open it? yeah. there you go. go. here go. go. here. [vocalization]. here! [vocalization]. which one do you wanna? which one do you want? oh! here's your recycling bin. I like your... I love those!
I was reading that! that's kind of a great idea though! yeah! to help people recycle and now just throw. we just got. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/7660HK.cha = = = = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/4629AB.cha = = = aw. uhoh. look. here. it seems far from him. what's that? the penguin is here with your dolls. so we have cooler toys. yes? oh yah. yah. he's doesn't. have any of the food stuff. oh no? um no. he has um. for his birthday his. his grandmother just got him like a cupcake. you make happy birthday cupcake. you know the Melissa and Doug type wooden. oh yah. things.
and then. um. he has some vegetables but. otherwise it's all like puzzles. and animals and. tools so he. shark. doesn't have anything like this yet so. it's cool. yah he seemed to. know what that was. oh yah. yah [laughing]. that's a dolphin. dolphin. does he have a tool belt at home? like tools. well he has a ton of tools. like toys. ow. uh everything I mean he got hand me downs. shark sharks. his uncle got him a whole. sharks sharks. sharks. shark? [biting noise]. it's not. ow. [laughing].
it's not a shark it's a dolphin. oh here's the doctor. ah uhoh. he'll make it better. yah. he has a little doctor's kit. he loves that. he had a lot of um cooking play routines though. oh I cook all the time. so I don't know if it's just watching me. or what but. yah because uh what did I see. I saw that he could. mhm. stir and. mhm. what else. does he do? um. I don't know. he kept wanting to put everything in the pot. and he knew everything was hot. and everything like that so. that's for sure. um. that's true. that was neat. are there any foods here that he would um. help. help me.
eat actually in real life? oh yah. yah definitely um. the cupcakes. the banana the corn. the peas. hotdog. ice cream. those all pretty familiar. we really try get a good xxx. help help me. it's a good. mix although it's hard. you were able. open. to find all those things. to put on a sandwich. huh? oh yah [laughing]. what do you like cheese? or what? tuna cheese and uh pickles. oh perfect. [laughing]. I just xxx do we have bread? or does it matter. yah. oh okay. a hamburger roll. [laughing].
that's good. we also have some sweets over here. some what? I'm sorry. we also have some. of some sweets. oh yah. that's in there. yah he. saw the ice cream and the cupcakes. you like the cupcakes. you want me to take that off? yes. okay. okay. turn around. you wanna play with the animals? sure. yes. well he um. he really likes those animals huh? he does. he does. now uh they like it. do you have xxx stuffed animals at home? he he has a combination of stuff. because it's. stuck. cause it's a combination of um. things.
of hand me downs. and some new things. so he has a lot of um. ouch. you can just xxx. ouch ouch. oh ouch? oh he'll help you. oh here. what happened? he's a doctor. he'll fix it. ah is that better? good. the dolphin shark bit him. oh no is he all better? is he all better? oh it was right here. on his tummy. uhoh. here. [laughing]. [laughing]. [laughing]. I know. and does he know some of these animals? put some new shoes. yah he definitely knew most of them. I mean he doesn't have the style. he has like the fisher price.
um. the ones that have a circle on the bottom. mm. so they're more. cartoonish almost. I don't know. but um. he knows most of em. cause he has a Noah's ark. so he's got a good variety of. ah. of the animals. um. so yah like. zebra. shark. penguin. bear. right there. and the lobster? I don't think he knew the lobster. Alex what's this? hm. I don't know that he knew the lobster. he knows crab. well I don't know about the but I don't know about the lobster. put the socks on. do you oh shoe on. where's another shoe? there's another.
you need another one. good Genesia will help. let's put his socks on. and um is there anything that. he usually likes to play. that we didn't see? um. he does a lot with like cars. and trucks. and trains. it's vocabulary limited we just give room. sure sure. I can understand that [laughing]. yup um. otherwise. we we do a lot of outside. especially now. so he has a lawn mower. like his you know miniature one. which he'll push for hours. and um. any kind of ball or. bat or. do you have. he's got this little golf thing. he's got a ton of. he got spoiled. on his second birthday. [laughing] from all the family. [laughing] yah [! laughing].
um I noticed. he's got good play routines. for the animals though. too he um. you know. he feeds them and. mhm. what other kinds. of things does he do? um I would say. feeding them. and sleeping. that's the biggest thing. um and then he'll do stuff. like doctor. type things. so if one gets hurt. he'll give it a kiss. yah so he does that. um. and they were swimming? right at the very beginning? yah. I said. should they go swimming but. I don't know. he wasn't quite uh. he wanted to throw. the mud in the water. oh the mud.
he said ew. [laughing]. he said. I think it's a burger right? I was wondering [laughing]. it does look like mud huh? that's perfect. uh and most kids. don't actually have an eel. no he's never seen. that before. so that was neat. osh ouchie. he's got a lot I think. I guess he also has a vocabulary. for the animals. from the books. that he reads. cause he's really xxx. he's a. book kid yah. yah. we read books all the time. he likes that. that's a. lobster yah. well that was really fun to see. [laughing]. well he was. you know.
he was good with the kitchen. that was. interesting. I. that is something I I'd like to have. he he has a. wheels xxx. that's true. that's true. we actually just finished. renovating uh our kitchen. it took about seven months. we just finished it. in February. um so. yah yah. we don't we don't do much. with um uh dolls. oh no? he doesn't really have any dolls. he has like animals and. like a baby? I don't think. he has any baby dolls. he has bears. he's been really into that lately. like this morning. when I picked him up. out of bed. um he wanted me to bring.
all of his animals. all his bears. and his Donald duck. and everything. and everything. and bring it with us. and last. night when read our books. we read our books. with Donald. and your bears. and your monkey. wow. so but he actually. doesn't have any dolls. so [laughing]. these are big kid dolls. well whenever he sees um. someone else with a doll. he always wants it. so. this is cute. yah. [laughing] he loves dress up. yah? yah. he definitely likes dress up. anything that's a hat. or a helmet. and um.
capes. oh. we'll use blankets or towels or. something you know. he loves that. so [laughing]. oh that's great. [laughing]. xxx take off the socks? whats that? I think that's pretty much it unless you have any questions. Okay. because we did a lot of stuff. no yah yah. I feel like I give a brief thing to. parent's because um we have a lot to do. yah you have a lot to do no. no I think that's great. to make sure I go all the way. yah. I um I have a. two file xxx to look at. okay. and I'll let me explain myself. and and then I'll give it to you. okay. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/7075MB.cha = = = = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/4946RC.cha = = = = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/7018NB.cha = = =
keep playing and then we'll see what we wanna do. okay. so do you wanna tell me what he played with? the food. always the food. the food! he has played with the food everytime we've been in here. [babbling]. does he play with the food at home at all? its funny we don't have that much food at home. and because of this I keep joking that we needta get some. so we got some at christmas but he's not that into it at home. [babbling]. [babbling]. he'll play with it... but not like here. right. so was some of the food here different from previous ones? yeah it seemed like you had more and different stuff this time. was there anything he was...? the cupcakes I think he was pretty excited about because xxx. and he actually loves muffins and cupcakes and pizza. pizza you've had before and he's obsessed with every time. and you useta have spaghetti that he was obsessed with because that's another... he's an extremely picky eater so its kind of ironic that he's this obsessed with the food. extremely picky eater. so I'm like most of these foods you don't actually eat. has he seen any of the foods in real life before? yeah he loves these but he can't eat them very much because they're not good for him. these not for a while because of the season.
[babbling]. we give him tuna but he rejects everything. does he know the names of those foods? he knows this. he said this. muffin. [babbling]. muffin. pizza. peas. he knows peas. [screams]. hey buddy! he knows cheese but he usually eats it in stick form. he wouldn't recognize it in these little floppy slices. come on! do you see the corn buddy? huh? do you see the corn? huh? corn! [burps]. that was a good burp there. lets put everything away. you wanna help me put it all away? okay lets put it away. was there any other food that he was interested in or maybe even not interested in? these gross me out. the soft ones. so...
[babbling]. he was thinking about making faces probably like I was. mhm. I don't know. I mean this didn't interest him because he doesn't really eat big chunks of meat so he probably just doesn't even recognize that. [babbling]. [yells]. its not stuck so much as mommy is wearing a microphone. here. there we go. unstuck. better? stuck! wanna put those in the basket? [yells]. I'm wearing that. that's my decoration. you're a little pissant! [kisses baby]. we're almost done okay? mommy's going to wear that! [crying]. can you put that in the basket for me? [adult speech from line 89 all directed to child] can you put that in the basket? and then did you try to get him to play with anything else besides the foods? not really because I know that he only wants the food. yeah. you know if he showed interest a little bit I'm happy to involve him in other stuff. but I know from experience he's obsessed with the food so I'm like go for it.
mhm. yeah. he was playing with something but I can't remember... the animals. he was playing with the doll but then kind of the animals. this is like at home. he's not super into books. he's got a few at home that he likes. okay. and we'll read him some for sure. like my daughter loved reading and he's like alright it's one activity that you can make me do sometimes. yeah. uhoh. hi baby. were there any animals that he played with a lot? well he has dinosaurs that look like this. but he doesn't have animals. put away! put away! yeah you're going to put them right in there. I pointed out the panda bear because he knows panda bears. he was looking for an elephant which I couldn't find. he likes elephants a lot. I didn't find one huh buddy? any other animals? [whining]. he seemed interested in this guy. but I didn't... do you know what that is? what is that?
penguin! a penguin! you do know! how do you know penguins? [squeals]. do you know penguins from Curious George? I don't know how you know penguins. I know its my pin huh? its like my little decoration. [squeals]. you're going to make an interesting page for them to listen to! stop! can you put the penguins in here? penguin. say bye penguin! bye penguin. you wanna put this food away too? penguin goes in here... no stop! why do you care? [screams]. its okay. lets put the food away. can you get the pizza? can you put it in the basket for me? where's the pizza? pizza's gotta go in the basket. can you get it. [screams]. calm down.
okay mommy can pick it up. let go please. [screams]. we can go know but we hafta clean up first. help me clean up. no. yeah. food away. food away. food away. [adult speech from line 148 all directed to child] was there anything else that you really saw...? food away. that was interesting to him? food away. no. aside from the food. okay. food food and more food. alright. so do you think it would probably be better to come back another time. [babbling]. I think yeah. okay. [babbling]. this is by far the longest he's ever sat for anybody so well done. well yeah its tough sometimes. we're asking them to do a lot sometimes. bye John. bye John!
he's saying goodbye to you. would it be easier for me to email you or just set it up now? we can try now I've got my calendar. bye John! it helps that he also thinks your name is John because he has a lot of Johns in his life. yeah. well that's alright. bye John! bye John! here we go. we're going to put it away! put away this one. is there any day that's better for you? do you know? well how much longer will it be? about an hour? do you think? it should be about an hour. I assume the sooner the better. yeah. put the shoe in here! huh? here we go! alright nice job! chair! you found a chair? [babbling]. oh there's no reception here. yeah. I know its very inconvenient.
come on! tomorrow won't work. thursday... if I stand by the doorway will it xxx. like the outer door? maybe... I'll hafta call you I'm terrible at... okay that's fine. I know tomorrow won't work. but thursday and friday. thursday won't work. friday might. okay. would it be easier... [whining]. here squirt have your cup. would it be easier if I called you? yeah. lest I forget. okay. is one better than the other? email or...? email is better because xxx. okay I can send you an email for this week or early next week. bye! alright. here I'll put that away. thank you. bye! bye!
we're going to get your jacket okay? is it hanging up in the...? yeah. okay. excuse me we're going to put the chair back. thank you. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/7658LT.cha = = = but you gotta get all the toes in. thank you! you're welcome! okay. Leah can you play with Devin? [laughs]. so what types of things did you notice that she was playing with? okay. what was she drawn to? fake food. because we have that at home. she has one of those shopping carts. um. totally different food though. so I think that's why she liked the cupcakes. or anything like that. um. she has some animals. we go to the zoo a lot. because we have that national zoo membership. so I was kinda trying to see if she. because we don't have the play animals at home.
I was trying to see if she'd play with them. yeah I heard you using some kind of obscure words. the lemur? cause thankfully the national zoo is really nice. and they got a lot of stuff. she knows a lot more animals. like when we'll go. she'll go that's the panda. that's the fox. that's the. the lemur was new. we just watched. um. Madagascar. and they have lemurs. so we were doing the lemur dance at home. um. she has a baby doll. at home. a lot less clothing. but shoes fascinate her. she actually hadta get tie shoes for school. because she kept taking her velcro ones off. so she likes to dress and undress her baby doll. who just has like a shirt that we put on and off. does she do the tie shoes? she keeps them on? yeah. because we double not them. um.
other clothes that worked? um. no. she tried to put the skirt on the little girl's head. um. cause she's just starting to like dress herself. like in the morning. she'll wanna help. and we'll put her feet in. and she goes. okay I pull up. so the whole dressing thing. is still kind of new. um. I thought she'd like the magnetic toy more. cause she has one at home. but it's down in the basement. so she doesn't play with it as much. it's not where. our normal play area. but she didn't go for it. she did however. try and pack all of those animals. in the little girl's lunch. which I thought was funny. [laughs]. cause that's a big deal in the morning. is getting her lunch box. to go to school. and what did she pack in the lunch box?
um. we got a hot dog in there. which makes sense. cause she gets hot dogs. for her lunch sometimes. and then. she packs all of the magnetic animals. so. there's no vegetarianism in our house. [laughs]. yes. um. what other foods does she play with? she liked the mashed potatoes. and the ice creamed cone. which is funny. cause she doesn't really get ice cream at home. [laughs]. um. I don't know. she kinda picked them up. and set them down. the orange juice she likes. she loves orange juice. and she likes juice. that's what she was feeding the baby. the little juice can. but her juice boxes at home have a straw. so I think she was confused. she kept holding it up.
and I was like. there's no straw! sorry! um. okay. and there were particular. sets of animals that you were looking at. I know the zoo for awhile. yeah. we played with the aquarium. for a little bit. cause she loves penguins. and she has a stuffed penguin. she sleeps with. cause we get. penguin and panda before she goes to bed. so the penguin she loves. monkey's we really like. I'm trying to think. who else she picked up. for the aquarium. oh and she kept grabbing the cow. to tell me what noise he made. oh and panda. she found panda. but she was gonna put panda at the aquarium. so. [laughs]. yeah. cause at one point.
she picked up zebra. she was putting zebra at the farm. at the zoo. and then we did the farm. but some of the animals. she sees at the little petting zoo farm. we go to weren't here. cause I think she was looking. for like the rabbit. and the goats that they can go in and play with. no we actually didn't get down there. cause that was. she just wasn't feeling well last weekend. so we just kind of avoided it. so I know you've done. did you come in for the eighteen month play session? no. they just had us do a survey or something. so what difference? I mean it's been a long time. yeah. cause the one we did. the last one we did. would've been I guess at her year mark. and all we had was fake food. and a doll. she just sat. and kinda threw the fake food around a little bit. at that point. she kept going after the fake peas.
cause that was like her favorite food. that week was fake peas. or the jars of peas or whatever. um. but now. like we've even noticed it the last couple of weeks. she doesn't really need us as much. she likes to just do her own thing. she's tired! she's. is it nap time? like she'll just kinda do her thing. and then she'll come to us. if she wants us to read the book. or like take the shoes off. but she's very much like. on her own. yeah. what is it? I guess she wants to take her outside. if you're okay with it. we're fine with it. you know. let's go on a field trip. [laughs]. and then you mentioned. that you have some of the similar toys at home. yeah. like she has fake food. she's got a shopping cart.
that's just full of. I don't even know. kraft foods. like canned soup. and ice cream. and fruits and vegetables. she has that at her school also. cause her lunch box. recently came home with four or five pieces of fake food. but some of the other things. like the kiwi. and the sushi. and like the mash potatoes. those aren't in her kit. so she kind of picked those up a little bit. and the oatmeal that looks like throw up. yeah. that thing is disgusting. but she does eat oatmeal. occasionly at home. so I think that. she kinda looked at it. for a second. well um. great. [static]. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/4452CM.cha = = = [material prior to the interview, not transcribed.] so what kinds of things did he like playing with today?
um well Good Night Moon. that's his favorite book. yeah. we read it every day for nap time and bed time. so I'm not surprised he grabbed it. lots of times he'll sit and read it to try to go to sleep himself but... and he has favorite things in it? um, it depends on the day. it seems like some days he really likes the Good night room page and other days he likes the Good night nobody, Good night mush. ah. today I think he was a little I do(n't)_know tired. [laughs]. and xxx xxx him being a little spazzy. it's a long day for them, huh? yeah. yeah, um were there any toys that um, he's had experience before being here? the kitchen. we have a play kitchen at home. uh so he really likes... it's not exactly like this. it's a big one. but um, he likes to make things in the kitchen. mostly he makes coffee. oh, yeah? yeah. what does he like to do? was he stirring or... he's mixing. ah. he likes to mix.
he makes cookies. oh that's neat. we have uh a lot of animals here. were there any that h he liked to play with? he didn't really seem into those. were there any that you tried to show him that he just... I tried to show him the pig and the sheep and some of the ocean animals. how cute. um is there anything about how he usually plays that we didn't really see today 'cause of... um, well, he's not usually like crazy with the book. he usually will sit and actually read it. um, but that may have just been today. as you notice when he's tired he does get a little more um unfocused. um, well, I asked him to do a lot of things, and some were easy, and some were not. yeah. so that... yeah he used up a lot of brain power. yeah. [CDS ] xxx had you seen this one before? no that was a new one. this is also by the Good Night Moon fame person... uhuh yeah. which is interesting. yeah and here again another version of corn. yeah. so do you think that that popped out... was that... do you think he got corn, or no? uh he knows corn. we have fake corn at home but it's just yellow. I wonder if the green...
mm. kinda threw him off a little bit. well that could be easy, huh? so he knows if it's corn on the cob. [mic noise and child overtalking mother. ] xxx xxx. Good Night Moon? [CDS] 't's your favorite book right? yes. [CDS. exchange between mother, child, and clinician.] no. does he usually take a nap? yeah he does... fishie! [laughs]. [CDS.] and you got fishies! [CDS] usually by twelve thirty. but he was up early this morning. aw, poor bunny. I'm thinking 'cause... [camera person interacting with child.] I noticed that he um is really interested in letters. um, his current obsession is numbers. but previously it was letters. everywhere we went he would just shout letters. everywhere that he saw them. so yeah he kinda switched from letters to numbers.
and he seems to um identify them. all of them yeah. wow. yeah [laughs] it surprised me. is his sister also interested? I wonder if it's a joint... yeah they play together all the time so... an' she knows all her letters s... so he's just gonna do it too. yeah, I guess whatever she does he does. that's great. oh that's really neat. what does he like to play with at home that we didn't have here? um he loves to climb stuff. so we have like a little play climber that he can climb on. and he loves that. um he kinda likes to do whatever she's doing. he really likes to draw... mm. an' color. um he likes to throw everything [laughs]. um he'll play with balls for hours. mm. he likes to draw with chalk outside. we do that a lot. um and sometimes he'll do puzzles. 't depends on if he's in the mood for it. well he was really ready to do ours. they're pretty straightforward but... yeah.
yeah. that was neat. well we basically are done. okay. [remainder of interview is consent form signing.] = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/5111CG.cha = = = oh. she wants her lunch? xxx wants her lunch? [grunt]. you know what I bet Chelsea's hungry too. you wanna be hungry Chelsea? I'm hungry. she hungry. yeah. everybody's hungry! Connor can I have some of your food? [heavy breathing]. oh thank you [barely audible]. that's it. we are pretty much done except for that I ask you a few questions about what he played with. okay sure! and um. [small whine]. as long as he's happy then. we might as well just stay and. mhm okay. where we are and xxx the toys! sure!
mhm. xxx juice. [laughter]. xxx want it. oh does the baby want it? do you wanna ask Connor? would you wanna look at my drinking fountain? gimme. you push a button and the. water comes out. it's like magic. would you wanna go and let Chelsea show you that button? we can take the cheese with us. do you wanna come? huh? yeah? you wanna go see it? come on Connor! come with me! [deep breath]. take my cheese with that? yeah you can take your cheese. yeah? [laughs]. we can take those toys with us. can you stand up? come on lets go! can I have the cheese? it's hard to stand up with too much cheese. [laughter].
[begins to whine]. [whine]. you got it alright. [whispered] come on. come on xxx with me. you can... yeah. [laughs]. I thought oh he's going to talk! yeah [laughs]. when... and I really wanna hear um from you which kinds of things he played w... what did you play with first? um. the animals I think he was interested in first. mhm. yeah. does he have any favorite animals? um. does he play with especially? here? yeah. um no he seemed to just be kind of exploring and seeing what there was. uhuh. were there any um that you also have at home? uh he has farm animals at home and I think that's about it. he has um um... as far as manipulatives go he has farm animal... so he's he's got a pig and a... he's got a pig.
he's got a horse. a donkey. cow. sheep. um I think that's it. he has those five animals at home. um and the other animals he just has in like picture books. yeah. and things like that. mhm. but he recognized! which one was it... there was one that he um. um. was it the shh... I know he said the sheep he said the pig. um he called something an eagle but it wasn't an eagle. ah. um. you found it! yeah there it I... yeah. I knew there was one somewhere. but um. yeah he's very into animals. he does like ta look at pictures of animals and name animals and play with animals. he's a good age for the zoo. yeah yes and he loves um he's been to a lot of petting farms and things like that and he's ridden a horse so he likes to do those things. [laughs]. were there any that you named for him today that you thought were new.
new? um the peacock was new for him I know he hasn't seen that... um. trying to think what else was new. that he hadn't seen. I think it was just the peacock maybe that he hadn't seen before. ah. and he has just beautiful ya know pretend play with the animals. yeah he likes the... xxx they have very rich lives. right [laughs]. yeah [laughs]. he can he can sit with his animals probably ya know like for twenty minutes and just walk them around and have them talk... well they eat and they sleep and they have relationships! they yup. yes [laughs]. they have full lives [laughs]. [laughs]. that's really neat to see. and then after that you played more with the cooking toys? the cooking toys. now he doesn't have this kind of stuff at home. um I think he has it at his uh it's at the babysitters but um he doesn't have it at home. mhm. um so that's kinda new for him ta... does he go in the kitchen with you? yeah he'll go in the kitchen and he'll take out pots and pans and things th... cause he's got he also knows what to do with them. yes yeah. cause he does watch in the kitchen he likes to watch...
and he likes to help ya know if I'm making something he likes to pour... put stuff in and he does like to do that. yeah. mhm. were there any foods that h um were foods that he eats at home? um he eats peas but he calls them balls. oh! [chuckles]. and he'll eat pizza he won't eat greenbeans. he's never seen beets before. that I know o... oh no he has I thi he's seen them but uh I know he hasn't eaten them. um icecream. he loves ice cream so that's a food that um he's familiar with. cupcakes at birthdays and things like that he's seen those. mhm. mhm. and he knows um to cook them. yeah. he's knows to s you know... and that things get hot and. [laughs]. and what to do. what to do if they're too hot yes. [laughs]. yeah blowing is a fun thing at this age too. uhhuh. thing at this age too. xxx there candles... right.
he's not had his second birthday yet. no not yet. so... few weeks yeah yup. that will be another exciting week. yes. an opportunity to blow stuff. [laughs]. that sounds good. um was there anything that he really loves to play with you didn't see hear? um he has a um dolls at home. and he does love to play with dolls he likes to feed them and change their diapers and give them bottles and... mhm. um. now what kind of doll does he have? he has um a doll. just a regular baby doll I guess similar to this. mhm yeah. he has a and he has a name for it he calls it D and he likes to undress him and [laughs]. feed him and he'll change his diaper. and he'll do that with um bears too. he'll try to change their diapers and things like that. mhm. yeah. so. that's something that he usually likes to play with that he didn't seem that interested in. well he was a sweetie he just hung in there for me. [laughs]. and xxx I know it's hard! it's long!
[laughs]. I know I. and especially since he has a lot of language! = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/6337NK.cha = = = I just wanted to ask you um a few questions do you think we should leave him to play with Devon or do you think maybe we should take him out to get a break or something or... oh you needta take me out to... no I can sit with you and ask you but I don't know you think he'll be good here? oh no yeah I think he's fine. he's still good. so. alright so I'll just sit over here with you. okay. we don't have kitchen stuff at home so he'll play with the kitchen stuff all day. so he's excited? aw. 'kay. so can you tell me about what you guys played with today? uh mostly with the kitchen stuff. he will... he also played a little bit with the um screwdriver. and the screws. mostly with the kitchen. you said he has something like that home like some kind of... lots of tools. he loves tools yes. so he plays with tools a lot at home um. and he loves putting things together and taking 'em apart and... um. and he likes to help in the kitchen.
so. I think he likes to play with the kitchen stuff so much he really likes pretend play like that his big thing lately is playing kitchen or tools or whatever. and he he's very imaginative that like he'll you know pick up things and pretend that they're something else and... yeah what what he did with the banana. yeah yeah. like that. that's good. especially as a phone. everything can be a phone [laughs]. what kind of things did he do like when plays in the kitchen? well he'll help me make pancakes or muffins or something and he'll dump things into the bowl and um he'll mix. and make a mess [laughs] all at the same time. but he loves to just he likes to be with grownups watching what they're doing and helping and then mimicking so often times we're like why do we bother buying toys... because like he loves to help my husband vacuum. so. like if he's vacuuming and um... and Nathan wants to help and you know he wants to get the vacuuming done first. um Nathan gets really frustrated and upset because he wants to vacuum and so one of his favorite toys that he like really played with consistently was our Swiffer. [laughs]. that's really funny. so so we shortened the handle you're able to shorten the handle and it was his like if tried to actually use it for cleaning... watch out. but yeah he uh. loves to do grownup stuff I mean Dad's got his tools out he wants to play with Dad's tools. so I'm trying to think of what else he really gets into. he likes to push his little lawnmower around so he likes to um do like with walking around toys like push the lawnmower like ride on he's got you know a little ride on thing that he likes to play on that. um and he loves his little cash register he got a little cash register for christmas and... I just got it 'cause I had one as a kid and it ended up being like his favorite toy for like a month. and he still pulls it out and plays with it. but...
you do pretend to like give you guys pretend money or... yeah and then you can put it into the cash register and make it either go under the drawer or come out the cash slot and... so yeah he loves that. loves that. tryin' to think and he loves his cars he likes to roll his cars around and... he actually um I was kind of laughing when you were doing the thing with the blocks because he didn't have a train for the longest time he's always he's loved always loved trains but like my mom and my sister had like Thomas sets and I was like I'm not gonna go out and buy another train set you know when he plays with them in other places. and he would take his cars and line them up. and choo choo them around the table. and so um. I mean he just... he does he enjoys his cars and he makes them into whatever he wants them to be. so lately we um my mom just got him a marble run for his birthday. I don't know if you've ever seen those but you like build it up and then you put a marble in the top and it like goes down through the whole thing and he loves doin' that. so. those are fun. but yeah like and he's got a few little like car track kinda things that he can put the car at the top and it like goes down to the bottom and he gets excited when it goes whew! so. and he got excited when like the blocks would fall and xxx xxx he liked it a lot. yes. my si my nephew gave him his old crash and go cars I don't know if you've ever seen them but they're these cars that when you crash them the doors pop open an the hood pops up. mm mm [no]. hm. like the whole idea is that you crash that's like the whole point of them. and so he would just crash 'em into each other and crash xxx I mean like I actually hadta hide 'em for awhile 'cause I was like I can't take the crashing anymore [laughs]. yeah. but definitely likes to build things up and knock 'em down and and actually we'll like play with like Legos or whatever he likes to um pull 'em apart like I'll s I'll be building with him... and he just likes to take things apart. sometimes. so definitely has that male destructive streak in him [chuckles]. [laughs] or likes to see how things work.
yeah. he absolutely loves to see how things work. he really gets into that. we went to The childrens museum in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and we could not get him out of the area where you build your own fountain you like put pieces together and um it was like p v c piping or whatever we couldn't get him out of there. and there was a whole area and another section that was like an Erector set basically. and we couldn't get him out of there either. like he just wanted to stay and build all day. that's really cute. put stuff together and take it apart. so. and you said he doesn't have play food at home? that's maybe... no. no he plays with our pots and pans like he'll go under the cabinet and pull pots out and we'll give him a spoon and he'll walk around and like play with the pots and pans and stuff. but he doesn't have play food at home. he's played with it at friends' houses and at daycare and at my parent's house and... um other places but he doesn't have like that was one of the things we were gonna get him for his birthday and we just... I don't know didn't happen. but um... but he enjoys playing with kitchen stuff. I mean as we saw with the blocks earlier he put 'em on the spoon to put them back in the [chuckles]. I know that was really funny. so he really I mean he definitely... enjoys that part. he's always been fascinated in the kitchen. do you think he um would've recognized some of these foods? I mean it sounded like he recognized some of them. he did yeah like the cupcakes he picked up immediately and said cakes cakes! [mimick] and the icecream he recognized definitely.
there was only once piece of pizza but I know in the past he's picked up the pizza and said pizza! he loves pizza. I was surprised because he loves hotdogs. and he picked up the hotdog and called it a banana and I was like... [laughs]. I think it was just another case of you know it doesn't look like the real thing and so... and he doesn't eat them on buns either so. mm. that might have been it too it was on a bun. true yeah. but um yeah he definitely recognized and he you know and and... big round fruit that he doesn't know what it is is an apple 'cause... it's all apples. 'cause we love apples. so. a lot of kids make that mistake they're like oh yeah apple ah! yeah. well I don't know honestly like we've had peaches but it's usually been like the fruit cup of peaches you know like I don't know that we've had a fresh peach. mhm. since last summer and so... he has no memory of peaches. exactly. although he was eating nectarines like crazy the other day apparently when they went to the farmer's market with the daycare. but. and then how 'bout these animals did he seem to be interested in these? he didn't look at 'em at all although he does like animals I mean when we go to the zoo or read a book or... um at daycare they've got dinosaurs the same kind of material but you know like the big dinosaurs. he totally gets into 'em. but this was more interesting to him today and so... and he will he'll sit and play with the same thing for a long time like way longer than I would expect a two year old to.
but um and I think some of these animals are not as familiar to him like if it was more I mean there's some in there like some of the farm animals he would recognize but if it was like... he doesn't play with stuff that he doesn't recognize especially when it's in a big jumble. like all he has a pile of toys at home that um... you know are downstairs pile of toys it's just a mess and he doesn't play with 'em because they're kind of like in a big pile like in a big mess together. he will play with his bucket of tools 'cause they're all in a bucket and like you know that's his tools. and he'll play like if there's something he can easily pull out like he'll do it but if it's a mess like he won't play with it it's almost like I don't know if it's too overwhelming to 'im or if he's... he doesn't wanna dig through it or whatever but he doesn't typically play with stuff unless it's like. sorted I guess is the best way to put it [chuckles]. well I remember you said like he wouldn't have liked to leave the crayons like a mess so. right. yeah. so he kinda just likes organiz' which you know this is all kind of just thrown on the floor so maybe... right. and especially when it's not something he's really excited about like I mean he's looking at the food and he's like oh I'm excited about this and I can play with this because it's something he recognizes. but like these animals he didn't recognize a lot of 'em and they were all kind of mixed together and so I think it was just like too much to deal with. mhm. and the dolls too and he just has never had an interest really in dolls or stuffed animals or anything like that. I mean once in awhile he'll pick up a doll and you know hold it like a baby or something like that but... I mean never with stuffed animals. oh thank you. [CDS] so he doesn't try to like feed like feed stuffed animals or anything like that he might like carry it around but... I mean once in like once in a while he'll... mom. xxx mommy have some! um okay sorry [eating noises]. [CDS] um but like I mean if he'll do that once in awhile but it's very very rare. mhm. he's more into like doing things and being like hands-on.
yeah. heck yeah. [laughs]. yep. he also play still it's so funny like even like infant toys that we were about to put away... um he plays with them in a different way. hm. now I'm tryin' to think of what he was just doing the other day. but it was a toy that we were like ready to put away and he did something with it and I'm like I so wouldn't have expected that! um but he still pulls you know like the you know the stacking rings or whatever and like he'll do stuff with that kind of stuff and those pop beads I don't know if you've ever seen them but they're basically these big plastic beads and they pop together. they have like a hole in one and and then like something sticking out of the other and he still loves playin' with those so I mean sometimes it's just simple stuff like that. oh. well if you said he's really imaginative like he probably just makes something up you know for what it is and just kinda goes with it. mhm. right. yeah. what on earth I'm trying to think of what that was the other day 'cause were literally like goin' through his toys like gettin' ready to put stuff away and then he started playing with something that he hadn't played with in ages. but completely differently than he'd played with it before. mhm. so you just never know. so in the past play sessions did he tend to gravitate towards the food or... mama have some. oh thank you. [CDS] yeah it was definitely the kitchen stuff because I think I'm tryin' to remember it was books... food... oh thank you. [CDS] thank you. [CDS]
and um stuffed animals. and the stuffed animals he had zero interest in we read a couple books here and there. can you go play with Devon please? [CDS] do you wanna go to the water fountain again? [CDS] yeah okay. [CDS] do you guys do a lot of reading at home? oh my gosh he loves to read. I mean like this morning I hadta like cut him off 'cause we hadta get ready to leave. but my sister gave us this um it's a Sesame Street alphabet collection. and so there's one book for every letter and then there's like four other books that have like sections of the alphabet so like a through f. and then um... so but anyway so each one has a different story some of them are rhymy some are just stories some are just you know they're all very different but they've all got Sesame Street characters which he recognizes. we don't watch Sesame Street frequently he does a daycare once in awhile but like he always recognizes all the characters. and he's starting to recognize the letters I mean just like everything's green everything's g lately. um but like I'll tell 'im I'll say this is s and he'll say s and then we'll read the book and um... you know and there's like the k book it says which one of these things starts with k and he very frequently picks out which thing starts with k and he wants to read 'em all the time. and they're board books so you know they're really easy for him to turn the pages and everything. I mean there was one time we sat and read twenty books in one sitting. like I just sat on the floor he sat in my lap and he would go and get another one and we would read it and then he would go and get another one we I mean it was amazing and like it's not unlikely for us to read five books at a time. he has a really long attention span then [laughs]. yeah! and it's funny 'cause like I'll pull out how about we read this today and he like doesn't have interest in reading other books as often. um there's other ones that he does like to read but the little Golden books there's been a couple of those like there's a train one. a fire engine one and a truck one. that he really gets into like all the vehicles he really gets into. um he there's a book about planes that we have and he likes that. um but otherwise like he you know he really gets into the board books there's a prayer b a book of prayers like your first prayers book of prayers or something that he has gotten into lately I don't know why 'cause it's not a story it's just like page after page of like these short little like three or four line prayers and I'm like okay!
[chuckles]. will he sit by himself and try to read or he'll kinda... um. when we're home not usually but like he wanted to there was a book he wanted to read this morning we read two. and I said why don't you bring that one downstairs with us while we get ready and you can look at it and he had it and then he brought it in the car and he he'll sit in the car and he'll look through it own his own... and then he'll try to read it out loud on his own. and there were other toys in the car but he played with the books. he read the books. and there were other toys in the car but he played with the books. he read the books so. he does really enjoy reading books and I mean when I've especially over the last like month and a half like watching his vocabulary grow. it's like tripled in like six weeks probably. and um... mama. oh. [CDS] did you get a cup? [CDS] yes. [laughs]. oh you got more goldfish didn't you? [CDS] um but I mean I feel so much better about how much time we've spent reading 'cause I know that that's a big part of where he's getting it. yeah. and especially he's learning his alphabet and... so... I know he like he with the like I was saying with the um... visual stuff and the fine motor like he was you know he kept on doing well so we kept going going you know? yeah yeah. it's good he really...
well and he really likes to count he for whatever reason doesn't like the numbers five seven and nine. he'll count... he'll skip them? he'll count to four. and then he'll go six eight ten. and [laughs] and he'll like if we'll if we'll count with 'im my husband and I always end up doing five seven and nine. like he won't do five seven and nine. but he gets real excited when we get to ten. so... I don't and my sister was tellin' me that you know that at his age to him it's just a sequence. mhm. so like for whatever reason like he never picked up those other three numbers [laughs]. maybe he just doesn't like the way they sound xxx... I don't know! [laughs] that's right. so... but yeah he's um. he plays independently a lot. I work from home on Thursdays and so you know I'll be sitting and working and he'll be just playin' and he's totally fine like he doesn't you know need anybody to... mhm. and sometimes I'll sit down and try to play with him and he he's like I'm doin' this Mom like get away! [laughs]. quit buggin' me! yep that's good yeah he was pretty like just kinda doin' his own thing with the food and cooking things. yeah. right. and he'll like bring stuff over to me I mean just like he did he like brings stuff over to me once in awhile and be like Mom look or... he's got a like a fake wood at home like this and he'll bring it over and he'll hand me a screwdriver and he'll screw one of the screws and I'll screw the other one and so I mean he definitely has an interest in like being in contact with other people but he doesn't need attention all the time. yeah. like he definitely is very happy like doin' stuff on his own.
um you know but you know he definitely appreciates having a conversation you know every so often just... like hey we're still here! we love you we care about you [laughs] you know? [laughs]. but I mean and sometimes he doesn't want anyone else to play with him. and he knows that he has a new sibling coming? well we've been talking about it I don't know how much he realizes but [laughs]. that'll be exciting [laughs]. yeah we'll see. we'll see how the sharing goes. there's another boy at daycare and ugh it's been a headache lately they're both two and... yeah. well luckily at first... lots of hitting and pushing and snatching toys. well. maybe since the baby you know will be a little more... right. you know by himself or... is it a girl? girl. yeah. oh oh cute. congratulations [laughs]. thank you. yeah I mean there's been a baby at daycare and he's got a cousin who's a baby and so we've talked a lot about the baby and like when we're around his cousin we'll be like look there's a baby in Mommy's belly too we're gonna have a baby sister just like Natalie you know we'll try to... talk about it and that way and um... and and he's very gentle with babies too like he's very good about like you know touching gently and he helps feed the bottles like he loves to do that so I mean... there's definitely like there's definitely a nurturing side of him. he's very nurturing. I don't know how he's gonna respond when he realizes that the baby gets some of the attention that he normally does the good news is that since he does play so independently you know I'm hoping that that's...
a little bit easier transition. yeah I mean he'll still hafta get useta it but I feel like it sounds like he's pretty good about doing his own thing you know... mhm. makin' his own food and just kinda... yeah. yep. you know playin' himself so. he is. do you think I should try to finish it up we're basically done with it's just. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/4825GG.cha = = = um if he'll play... you wanna play with some animals? [CDS.] a little bit um that's fine. xxx he can play. he can play with them but we cannot over talk each other. [child vocalizes over the clinician talking. ] show Sabrina that food. [CDS. ] cool. [CDS. ] what's that? what toys did he seem most interested in? um I mean the kitchen and the food probably. [child is talking in the background.] does he have that kind of toy at home? that is a familiar toy for him. so that he has at home mhm. and um I noticed he's got a lot of food playing routines.
xxx do you start cooking? mm yeah he has a kitchen at home so he knows... he starts with the food. mhm. and the xxx. mhm. what kinds of things do you do? I mean I mean when we play with the kitchen usually it's him making food for me. so he'll put stuff in the pot and then give it to me to eat. and then put something else in the pot and give it to me to eat so... what's that? and he knows about the utensils too? what's that? mhm mhm. I mean he has forks and knives and spoons in his kitchen at home so... what's that? what's that? he'll put it on a plate and give it to me. usually he doesn't give me utensils to eat with but... ah well [laughs]. um are there any foods here that are things that he actually eats at home? things he likes? I mean he eats peas. he definitely picked up things he's familiar with. he picked up the cupcake. he picked up cheese. um he wouldn't necessarily know what this was. [laughing]. oh and he called this melon. which he eats more than kiwi.
so he wouldn't recognize a kiwi in it's whole state. yeah. uh. were there any other ones that you named that you um gave hm the name for? um. that were new. that were new? yeah. beets were pro'ly new for him. but he wasn't that interested in them. mushroom he didn't know. ah. yeah I don't think he's seen whole mushrooms either. so... I don't know if he's ever eaten mushrooms. I don't know if we've given that to him. and he doesn't have a play mushroom or a play kiwi or... he has play peas. ah. but a lot of those things aren't necessarily in his food set at home. ah. he has a lot of fruits and vegetables spaghetti pizza. that kind of stuff. does he have any dolls to play with at home? he does not have dolls at home. uhuh. cause he seemed interested in this one. mhm mhm. and what did you decide it was? was it a baby or a...?
well I was calling it a boy. so he started calling it a boy. he was definitely following my lead on that one. ah. I always kinda wondered 'cause they work really hard to androgynous dolls. uhhuh. when you put the tutu on all bets are off. yeah. I should probably not start her out that way. what's that? it's a tutu you wanna put it on her? [IDS. ] but he'll say like a little girl or a little boy. but for this one I think I named it before he did. so. and he was really interested in that mechanism. mhm how the eyes opened and closed. yeah. that is cool. though when I layed him down and the eyes were closed he didn't say he was sleeping. no he didn't want him to be sleeping. unhunh didn't want him to be sleeping. take it you know xxx. well and he doesn't wanna be sleeping so... but like when we leave daycare. and if he's playing with something we'll very often put whatever it is to sleep to say good night to it. okay so he knows that one too. so he knows about putting things to sleep for pretend. ah. so...
he was just a champ about handing over those bubbles to the new kid. he's pretty good. like yesterday was his birthday. so we had um balloons. and the balloons he was running around with them before the party and they started popping so I took them away from him and. he was not okay with that. when it's very highly preferred um he has a hard time letting go. but he was okay with the bubbles. saying goodbye to them so... it also seems like he's pretty interested in animals. he's interested in animals we have a lot of books with animals in them. yeah so we do a lot of you know animal sounds. he has all those like brown bear books and... you know that have different animals sounds. we definitely do animals a lot. yeah it seemed like owl was familiar. um outside his daycare lady's house is like a little owl statue so that is familiar. oh okay. um and the he definitely knew the elephant very quickly. I think he just kinda learned giraffe. he was wearing a shirt with a giraffe on it the other day. oh neat. um and monkey he knows but he didn't label it when I showed it to him. yeah. were there any of our other animals that you played with? I was pulling them up but he wasn't... you know we put a coup... like the zebra and he said [zebra sound effect] for the zebra cause that what it happens in the book. aw. and the panda bear.
but besides that he wasn't really into the animals. Sabrina can you pass me the eel? [addressed to other clinician.] I was looking for a fish cause he pulled this guy out. yeah. and that was the first one that I found. I think that it's just behind xxx. no it's empty. there's just the one dolphin. and then we have the giant... the giant lobster crab thing. xxx um is there anything that he really likes to play with at home that we didn't really have a good representative of here? I mean at home he plays with the kitchen a lot. he's into like big play things right now. like ride on toys and trucks and things like that. what's this? what's this? what is that? [IDS.] tree. it's a tree you're right. or we're playing outside a lot now that the weather's nice. so balls and... tree. wow it's so pretty. [IDS and clinician, child and mom are all overlapping.] at home he goes toward the like larger gross motor things. though I think at daycare he does a lot more like letter puzzles and things like that. oh he really likes um that little stove. the stove.
he's very into clocks. so he likes you know turning clocks around and making like them ding or something like that. like he pointed at the clock when we... oo sorry. when we came in. are the eyes opening and closing? [IDS.] that's neat how they work huh? [IDS.] what else does he do at home? the big trucks. blocks. a lot of the like big interlocking block type things. that makes perfect sense. and he plays. like he likes to sweep and vacu... like he likes to do the things that I'm doing at home so... ah. if I'm sweeping he has a little sweeper that he uses. he likes to vacuum. are you cutting that tree? [IDS.] wow. [IDS.] that is cool. [IDS.] = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/NewmanRatner/Interviews/24/4273WC.cha = = = [micrphone noise]. so we have cooler toys than the.
than the prior visits? yeah oh I like these little... my daughter would like this. animal thing. she likes dollhouses and... [moving toys around]. [vocalization]. so which um...? kitchen. which of our foods did he seem particularly interested in? uh. well the fuzzy peach and the fuzzy kiwi. kitchen. and he liked the corn... all done the chicken. the chicken. [addressed to the child.] yeah. [addressed to the child.] and he seemed to like the sort of. formed rubbery. [vocalization]. food. which. [vocalization]. I hafta say it does a fun. kind of interesting texture to it. [moving toys around]. are any of these things that you have um? [child makes some noise and some toy noise.]
in toy form at home? you know we. we bought a house. since we were last here. and because we have no playhou'. playroom in our house we don't have a toy kitchen up. so he doesn't play with toy food at home. he only plays with it when he goes to friend's houses or. [silence]. when he's out and about. how about in real life are any of these yyy. oh yeah in real haha. [bad line.] in real... [bad line.] yeah. [bad line.] I mean he eats a banana almost everyday. he. yeah he loves green beans. he likes cookies. though he doesn't eat that many of them. he certainly. they're certainly memorable when he does I guess. I want cookie. I want cookie. I know. [mom's speech addressed to the child.] cookies are something. you like them.
[clinician's speech addressed to the child.] they're a bit more memorable than green beans aren't they? huh? [clinician's speech addressed to the child.] yeah I mean a lot of these pizza obviously. he has cheeseburgers when we go out. corn on the cob he has. um. not too many beets. not too much pie. yeah were there any that you figured were unfamiliar foods for him? yeah like this would probably mean nothing to him. and. [child making noise.] actually this would probably mean nothing to him. [child making noise.] hm. uh. [toy noise at the end.] wow that's really smart. [addressed to the child until line 111.] it fits. heehee. that's neat. look at this. [moving toys around]. this is a book with a bunch of animals in it. here you go. [moving toys around]. oh!
[bad line. background noise.] [moing toys around]. well gentle with mommy. [kissing]. [moving toys around]. uhoh. and he sees me use the pizza knife. [toy noise towards the end.] on quesadillas. [possible microphone noise.] all the time. mm. [noise on line.] so that's why he's. very found of that. [toy noise.] ah! [toy noise.] [moving toys around]. [vocalization]. how 'bout the animals? [child making noise. toy noise on "animals"] [moving toys around]. um. [vocalization]. well you know he has a good. [vocalization]. well let's see which ones did he like. I dunno he liked the penguin. I think because.
we like penguins in our house. [child making noise in the middle.] for some reason. and he liked the panda. [microphone noise]. oh the duck. [microphone noise.] he liked the duck. he really likes ducks. ducks were the first animal he really sort of took a thing. a liking to. really ah. [vocalization]. saying quack and. all that kind of stuff. and he still likes ducks. he loves to see them in person in real life. [child making noise.] he absolutely loves ducks. oh that's nice. were there any that were new? [background noise.] for him? [background noise.] that you tr'...? [odd noise.] I mean I didn't even go into them too much. but I would say that like a beaver would be new to him. [babbles]. and.
you know ostriches. they're in books. but again because he doesn't really sit and look at books that much. [child might be making noise.] that one. uh yeah the ostrich. probably this anteater. that's what that is right? he probably wouldn't be familiar with that. the eel. so some of them have a cheat. I'd like to... no this one is just says made in China. yeah hah. [mom might be snorting as she talks.] I think that's an anteater. right yeah I think so. yeah I think so. it looks like yeah. but that would be new. we just saw a peacock at the zoo last week. although he did not ever fan out quite like that. but we enjoyed the peacock when we saw him at the zoo. does he play or help you in the kitchen? mhm. [clinician still talking.] well he's usually more of hindrance. [clinician still talking.] but he loves being in the kitchen. and he likes to.
I mean to his own detriment. we have an island and he tries to get up and. cook and he. felt heat one time and so now he's truly understands hot. um he didn't hurt himself or anything but he. he's very. he's very self sufficient in going and getting a chair. I mean he's chronically. in the last week and a half up on the kitchen counter. you know rummaging through the snack cabinets and. [clinician mumbling towards the end.] you know he's really not to be trusted very much and so. he does like to be in the kitchen. and he does like to cook. he seemed to have good play routines that involve um. [odd sound in the middle.] well I didn't see chopping but. cooking... yeah yeah he likes. routines. he likes to watch... op op. [clinician's speech addressed to the child.] woop careful bud. [addressed to the child.] that moves huh? [addressed to the child. slight toy noise.] he likes to. I think he should come out. [clinician's speech is addressed to the child.]

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