Chatting

As we've reported, one can now actually chat with Joe. Here's part of the conversation we had on the way home from school yesterday. You need to know two things to get your bearings: 1. this month's theme in Joe's room is food so they have been sampling various kinds of fruit and 2. while we were waiting at a light, a school bus pulled up on our left in the left-hand turn lane immediately preceding this exchange.

Julie: "Did you try grapefruit today?"

Joe: "Yeah."

Julie: "What color was it?"

Joe: "I think it's red and yellow." [Beat.] "We don't eat the yellow part! Only the red part!"

Julie: "Was it sour?"

Joe: "Yeah."

[Later.]

Julie and Ted: "It's a school bus!"

Joe: "A school bus!"

Joe [momentarily]: "Come! Come! Come on school bus. Follow me! The light is green! [Go, Dogs, Go! reference]"

Ted and Julie [overlapping]: "The bus is turning left. It can't follow us."

Joe: "It's going to Dr. Harrington?" [because to go to Dr. Harrington, one turns left at the next light from the road we were on]

[Clara cries.]

Joe: "It's o-kay, Sweetheart. It's o-kay, Sweetheart. We be home soon. Almost there. Yeah." [verbatim what Julie will say on any given night when Clara begins to cry on the way home]

Scene.