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P081C1st: Rob reads “Pokey Little Puppy” 22mb

P081C1 Clip Notes

Notes:n:nn by Analyst, 3/15/2025
Setting,Props Cedar Hall, Family Room:
Actors,Aims Peggy and Rob; Bob on camera.
Episode A:
[00:00:03.00]
Rob: The Poky Little Puppy.
Bob: Is that your book, Rob, or is that Miriam’s?
Rob: Miriam’s.
Reading: The Poky Little Puppy.
Look at Five Puppies.
That’s a Poky little one.
Peggy: unclear utterance
Bob: What was that, she said?
Rob: “Pogy.”
Episode B:
[00:00:24.09]
As Rob reads, Peggy looks at the pictures, then up to Robby, and changes positions,
Rob: five little puppies dug a hole under the fence, went for a walk in a wide, wide world.
Through the middle they went down the road, over the bridge, crossed the green grass, up the hill, one after another.
Peggy: looks at Robby again, happy to be his reading companion.
Episode C:
[00:00:40.22]
Rob: When they got to the top of the hill, they counted themselves.
Peggy: [begins pointing to picture elements] One, two, three, four.
Rob: Puppy [Peggy utterance] Puppy.
Bob: What did you say, Peg?
Rob: Pup-py.
Bob: Is that what you said, Peggy [no response from Peggy]
Episode D:
[00:00:55.06]
Rob: One puppy wasn’t there.
Now, where in the world is that pokey little puppy? They wonder.
But he certainly wasn’t on the top of the hill
Peggy: [moves to the book and points at picture during sentence] There.
Rob: [responding to Peggy pointing] Puppy. That’s puppy.
But when they looked down to grassy place near the bottom of the hill,
there was running around and round and round and rounds.
Peggy [asks an unclear question] [next page]
Rob: What is he doing? The four little puppy’s asked one another.
They went down to see, rolly polly, pell, mell, tumble, bumble,
till they came to the green grass and then they stopped short.
Peggy: [plays with her foot] ~”kick” [as she kicks Robby]
Rob: What in the world are you doing? They ask.
Episode E:
[00:01:43.11]
Bob: Are you happy reading this to her, Rob?…
I mean, are you paying enough attention to her?
Rob: Yeah.
Bob: What I’m saying, I think you should probably pay a little more attention to her.
Rob: I smell something, said the pokey little puppy.
Episode F:
[00:01:56.16]
Peggy: [pushes the book aside, looks up] /Pup pah/
Peggy: [rises, takes book, turn and look in it]
Bob: She was doing a very interesting thing yesterday, Robby.
She was opening a book, and every page she came to, she turned the book around upside down and sideways to try to figure out which way was right side up.
Rob: [makes a “surprised!” face
Bob: That’s shocking, isn’t it?
I guess she knows which side.
Episode G:
[00:02:28.15]
Peggy: [as Bob finishes, Peggy points at a cover picture] Wawa
Rob: [while Peggy points at the picture] That is a puppy.
Peggy: [repeats] Wawa [correcting? instructing Robby?]
Rob: [correcting her] Puppy.
Bob: Is that kinda like a Wawa?
Bob: Vava?
Peggy: [smiles, opens the book] Wawa
Peggy: [closes book] Wa Wawa
Peggy: Ah Vava. Wawa.
Rob: uh Vava.
Peggy: [insisting] Wawa!
Rob: Vava!
Peggy: [adamant] Vava!
Episode H:
[00:02:53.05]
Rob: Here, let me have the book.
Peggy: Ahn! [demand refused]
Bob: Guess that shows you who’s boss, huh?
Peggy: [pointing in book] Unclear Monosyllable (UMS)
Rob: That is a puppy.
Peggy: (UMS) /pah puh/ ~=”Puppy.” [trying to imitate HIS word?]
Peggy: [turns page] Unclear PS [pointing]… That.
Rob: A quick green lizard.
Peggy: / By-el /. [falling pitch contour]
Rob: Lizard.
Peggy: [attempting repetition?] /fair -uh/ [falling pitch contour]
Bob: [to Peggy} That’s very close.
Bob: It sounded like scissors, didn’t it, Peggy? (to Rob) That’s a word she knows.
That’s interesting. That she thought lizard sounded like scissors.
Episode I:
[00:03:37.23]
Peggy: [tapping on a picture near end of the book] That. … That.
[turning pages]…. That.
Rob: That is the end of the pokey little puppies.
Peggy: /pum pah/…. That.
Rob: That is the pokey little puppy.
Bob: What’s he doing?
Rob: He’s eating rice pudding.
Bob: Not a bad way to end the story.
Episode J:
[00:04:11.15]
Peggy: That
Rob: That is a puppy.
Peggy: Bah wa, [as pronunciation begins to change]
Rob: Puppy.
Peggy: That
Rob: That is a puppy.
Peggy: /bwah wah/…. That.
Rob: Yeah, that is a puppy.
Peggy: That.
Rob: Yeah, they’re all puppies.
Peggy: /Puh pah/.
Rob: Puppy?…Puppy.
Peggy: /Puh pah/.
Rob: Puppy.
Episode K:
[00:04:37.28]
Bob: : Let’s see. I think there’s another book that might be nice for her to look at while you’re doing that. I think it’s like this. No, that’s okay.
If it’s just that she would like to look at this book, too, she can.
Bob: What do you think, Peg?
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