jodi: you know it’s awfully hard to type with you on my lap.
jaycie: haha, that’s funny.
jodi: so what are we gonna do today?
jaycie: i don’t know.
jodi: what do you want to do today?
jaycie: make crafts
max: eat lunch all day, that’d be funny.
jodi: what else should we talk about?
jaycie: i’m thinking.
max (who is using the typewriter): how do you rerase it?
jodi: you can’t erase it.
jaycie: you can on a computer.
jaycie: we could make a frame today.
jaycie: look aunt jodi i have mismatched earrings
jodi: a flower and a star.
jaycie: that’s because the other one fell off this morning.
max: aunt jodi what are these slides for?
jodi: what slides?
max: these.
jodi: i dunno i haven’t figured it out yet.
jaycie: is it my turn yet aunt jodi?
max: i think i have to type my name first
jodi: let him type his name.
jaycie: it’s my turn now
max: i’m bored now. now that it’s jaycie’s turn i’m bored. sometimes i get a little grumpy when i’m hungry and i’m hungry. aunt jodi can i play with some string? string away, string away.
jodi: sure, go ahead.
max: hey look aunt jodi, i’m the king. you are a very sick aunt jodi. look i have a yarn purse, look i have a yoyo.
jaycie: you can type at the same time on the computer, you can’t on this thing.
jodi: huh?
jaycie: see how you are typing at the same time, it’s all fast at the same time. you can’t do that on this thing. what’s it called?
jodi: a typewriter.
jaycie: how do you spell dot?
jodi: d
jaycie: nonononon like dot com
jodi: you want to make a dot?
jaycie: no, i want to spell the world
max: like www dot com?
jaycie: i’ll figure it out myself.
max: look aunt jodi it’s a giant scary monster
jaycie: the computer always works, it doesn’t always run out of ink like this thing. and the computer uses the screen and not paper. and this thing, it doesn’t even have a mouse.
jaycie: where’s the number 1, there’s only a number 2
jodi: they only have an I, in the olden days that’didn’t have 1 yet.
jaycie: oh. we have 1s now. that’s why it looks so silly.
max: you are a very sick aunt jodi
jodi: why am i sick?
max: it’s funny, isn’t it?
max: you are a very sick aunt jodi.
jodi: why?
max: because someone has to be a very sick aunt jodi. do you love how i say that? someone is a very sick aunt jodi.
jaycie: do you hate when he says that? is it mean?
jodi: i don’t know if i hate it, i don’t get it.
max: aunt jodi are you ever gonna take out this yellow [he hands me a yellow skein of yarn]
jodi: no, not ever.
max: why not?
jodi: because i’m a very sick aunt jodi.
max and jaycie interviews are the best.
they make me very tired.