I first started capturing her storytelling using the video mode on our digital camera, around about April, but she soon refused to let me film her. So I tried writing her stories while she told them, using pen and paper. That lasted for only a few stories too, before she caught on. Since then, I've been recording her using a mini MP3 recorder, which is pretty unobtrusive, and transcribing the audio later. She then objected strongly to this as well... Nowadays I use a combo of MP3 and video to record her before transcribing. I only manage to record a fraction of the stories she tells. I always have a backlog of stories on the recorder that still need transcribing, as it's impossible for me to keep up with her. To help new readers, I've marked my favourite stories with a star (*), so at least you have somewhere to start if you don't know where to begin. Don't forget to check the older archives too - there are some gems in there as well!

Monday 11 June 2007

The house, 2007-06-08

The story backlog is pretty big at the moment... I haven't yet had the time to transcribe them all. She was pretending to read this one to her cousin, still using Charlotte's Web as a prop.

And they found a doll house
One made out of wood
Actually, they haven’t and they found out this also made of something that is (whispers)
Mean, mean, mean, mean, get on this
And they talked to a this house made of something else
And something came and stepped and said “this isn’t your house, this is MY house!”
And then they went inside and they heard a noise
And they saw a fat hog made out of wood and branch
And they got it, didn’t got the wood
Made of wood and (indecipherable)
Go inside, and said “Mouse, ah! (squeaky voice)
Hmph. Hmph! What you doing?” asked something hidden there on the wall
Something…something…something….
Doing by your edges, crack, back, ack, back…
Action, action! Action…
Names, names, names…
Means and they found something there was made of...
Bear got xxx and
You already something, do it by your edges,
Crack, back, action! Means, means
AAAH! Asked little pet stretching out, that is good!
They put on some clothes and they bring him down
To you be out
They heard a noise
“That…something… doing..,”
Do what he does
Asked something else, stretching out below, and heard another noise
That! Have it!
And a picture came and said “THIS is fun!”
And smiled at someone
“Who I have to playyyyy…” (creaky voice)

They got a something like a Crack! Back!
And they heard a noise and said “this is fun! Let’s go inside the house”
And they get inside the house
And took everything and kept getting it at the edges
They seen by the crack, back, action
That is a fun, it given by the house,
It by the house, it is by the house, of something
They living on… this
And something, something, something, something, was here!
And they getting it away… also!
Important… (indecipherable)
Fear not, something is poking you
It not will be anything, toy…
Not any toy pressing out, pressing out into of you
It’s not pressing all of you
And she got a little hook and a bench have baby filled
And they, theyyyy got back once
And went upstairs and downstairs
And they got it and numbered it here, and they sat here in the house by the bench
And she got a light
Oh she, oh she, oh she GOT them at last!
Baby didn’t buy anything (indecipherable)
End! Yaaay! That is a story! Asked, asked something sitting by the door
Fun! Fun!
Munchy, munchy. munchy, munch (singsong)
Munchy, munchy. munchy, munch (singsong still)
This is fun!...
And they SAW a little party! But didn’t (indecipherable)
One little hook by the bench
And they saw someone cooking it (indecipherable)
And have lot of fun in such a hurry
And they search for something and
They have to make a present
They like it! Fun.
And she doing it by a little girl, something by she is anything by bringing it
Bring it! Bring it, asked baby, in such a hurry
Said the man by the bench from that girl
Take it! Take it! Take it!
Asked the bench and me, has told them, the other carnivores
Would you just settle down please
Or, when there NOTHING to do
He asked what you doing? I want something by your teapot!
Asked something by your edges
Crack, back, action!
And they heard a noise and laughed
They heard a flying dino
They heard a final…
And said WHAT IS THAT?
And she wake up and put a noise all on, all on (indecipherable)
And he heard a noise (indecipherable)
Finding which way to go
And he find it, GOT it at last
Find it and got it at last!
Got it! Got it! Got it! (gleefully)

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