"Child:" indicates where the child has spoken. The parent’s speech has been removed so that you are only reading the child's side of the conversation. Please read the conversation while thinking about the age of the child.
Parent:
Child: and I’ll use black for the leaning tower of Pisa.
Parent:
Child: what about the windows?
Parent:
Child: what color ...
Parent:
Child: they’re white.
Parent:
Child: yeah maybe those clear whites we can see through?
Parent:
Child: of the beads?
Parent:
Child: yeah.
Parent:
Child: um yes.
Parent:
Child: yes we do.
Parent:
Child: blue for the windows.
Child: okay.
Parent:
Child: I don't know.
Child: um I don't know.
Parent:
Child: because it’s leaning over.
Parent:
Child: what?
Parent:
Child: and this is the leaning tower of Pisa.
Parent:
Child: Mom?
Parent:
Child: did you and Daddy once go to Italy without me and Alex?
Parent:
Child: oh.
Child: and Mama?
Parent:
Child: did you see the_ leaning tower of Pisa?
Parent:
Child: oh.
Parent:
Child: you weren't in the Pisa town?
Parent:
Child: oh.
Parent:
Child: mom?
Parent:
Child: can you um color in two of the windows too.
Parent:
Child: because we’re each gonna be coloring in two windows.
Parent:
Child: yeah.
Parent:
Child: where did you buy all those Italy books?
Parent:
Child: mm hm.
Parent:
Child: mm hm.
Parent:
Child: oh.
Child: when were …
Parent:
Child: oh.
Child: I did two.
Parent:
Child: yeah.
Parent:
Child: and then you do ...
Parent:
Child: um … three too.
Parent:
Child: you do three on that one too.
Parent:
Child: mm hm.
Parent:
Child: yellow.
Parent:
Child: mm hm.
Parent:
Child: um ...
Parent:
Child: orange.
Parent:
Child: do you know why?
Parent:
Child: ‘cause the song that um teacher teaches us that goes orange is an orange yellow is the sun.
Child: um red is an apple and purple is a plum.
Child: black um no … brown is … a bear.
Child: black is a witch's hat.
Child: I can lead the thing to meet.
Child: that’s how the song goes.
Parent:
Child: I think we’re gonna be singing that … for that Noah's Ark play …. that we’re gonna be doing.
Parent:
Child: okay.
Parent:
Child: okay.
Parent:
Child: um … two more rows.
Parent:
Child: and then we’re at the top and we have to color those windows.
Parent:
Child: ooh diamond windows!
Parent:
Child: five.
Parent:
Child: okay now you do a row in blue.
Child: mama?
Parent:
Child: what colors should we make the diamond windows and those windows up top?
Parent:
Child: should we color them yellow or red or pink or green?
Parent:
Child: like what?
Child: yellow?
Parent:
Child: for the windows?
Parent:
Child: so you could see the sun?
Parent:
Child: right!
Child: and now the tower of leaning Pisa!
Parent:
Child: mom?
Parent:
Child: I think there’s gonna be an episode of the backyard agains called the leaning tower of Pisa.
Parent:
Child: yeah.
Parent:
Child: I don't know.
Child: they just like to discover things.
Parent:
Child: yeah.
Parent:
Child: I don't know.
Parent:
Child: no.
Child: I think they would just sneak in there and see what’s inside.
Parent:
Child: I don't know.
Child: pizza?
Parent: