Ring Ring

This morning as I was typing up my reading reflections for my field methods class, Dexter was building "machines" with his gears legos. He came over to me and handed me a little contraption - a long, skinny red lego with a gear at each end. "It's a telephone!"  I picked it up and said, "ring, ring." He looked at me and realized he had to quickly make another telephone in order to receive my call.  He didn't have any more big gears so he made an identical "telephone" with smaller gears and "answered" it.

D: Hello?

M: Hi!  Is this Dexter?

D: Yes.

M: What are you doing?

D: Do you know why it took me so long to answer the phone?

M: No. Why did it take you so long?

D: Well, I had to build a little phone.




I asked him to describe it to me (prompting for describing and comparative words) which he did.
Then he said:

Don't forget to tell Daddy where I work if he forgets.  Tell him I work at the Weekend Workbench.

I agreed to do that and we hung up our phones.  Then he called me back and said, "Do you remember what I told you?"  I said, "Yes. Tell Daddy that you work at the Weekend Workbench." "But only if he forgets," Dex corrected.