Interview with My 4 Year-Old Daughter

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—TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW RECORDED JAN. 1, 2018—

Daddy: Do you want to do an interview with daddy?
Daughter: I’m just doing a ladder for the pool.

Yeah, but… can daddy interview you?
I’m just doing a slide thing.

I know, you’re making a great slide there.
I’m just making a [elongating the word as she draws it] laaaa…dder right here, so they can go like this “wheeee!”

Oh, they can slide into the pool. That sounds good.
So they can go a-bump at the end like this…

Okay. Can I interview you while you do your drawing?
Huh?

Can I interview you while you draw?
Uh-huh.

So daddy’s going to do some “Pull Quotes,” remember how I did it when you were 2? No, okay, good. Well, daddy’s going to write down things you say all year long and put them on the Internet…