A Story

On Sunday morning I was working on the couch and Natasha offered to read me a book. She launched into the following story that I transcirbed as she talked. I sometimes interjected an encouraging "uh-huh" but she basically said all of the below in one sitting. Just FYI the book she was "reading" to me was a history of Nineteenth Century Christianity in the U.S. No pictures, just print. Also two notes on vocabulary "Free dance book" refers to a book of photographs of famous dancers that we own and sometimes look at. A caracal is a wild cat that lives in central Asia and Africa.

Do you want me to read you one of your books from your desk? ......There are lots of beautiful pictures. It's a free dance book. It's really amazing. (Natasha opens up the book) I learned about this in South America. See this, it's so incredible, you maybe might see some. It's incredibele at the end because there's a dog that is running through different kind of tubes and then it flies through outer space....Here's something you really like. It's a free dance book and it's called my first word phonics book. You might really like it. Some things are happening with the book. I'm fixing the book and making it into a different book. I'm making it into a a book about caracals. I've got caracal books that I already made today.