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"I can do that without one."

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"With who?"

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"My dads."

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"I guess that would work too. Do you want to play games?"

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"Okay!"

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They have a game where you place tiles and try to place more of your tiles than other people before the board fills up! They have a very elaborate marble run! They have memory games!

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She is impressed with the marble run! She wants marble-run blocks. She likes the tile placing game and is less impressed by the memory game because in real life one can just write things down if one wants to remember them.

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Her uncles can't because they can't write yet but they are happy to play marble-run and tiles.

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Poor uncles.

The marble should go over here and down a big hill and up a little hill and then thataway and -

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Uncles seem totally unbothered about not knowing how to write yet. They can make grownups drop the marbles at the start higher than any of them can reach and then the marbles can do more things!

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Yes, good.

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Eventually they get bored and dig out more toys. Small keyboard!. Small drum set! Model trains!

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The keyboard is the most interesting of these things.

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They like the trains but she is welcome to the keyboard, here is how you play a scale.

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She picks her way up and down the scale.

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Trains can be coaxed to go at unreasonable speeds around the floor and if the switches are switched responsibly won't even crash when they do. 

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They are a little more interesting once she observes the modular nature of the tracks, it's a little like a marble run, just less three dimensional. Perhaps the marble run should go over the tracks in a bridge.

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Oooooooh, yes, they should! This distracts them from switching the trains in a way which prevents collisions; trains collide and derail and hoot sadly.

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Oh no, are they broken?

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No! Apparently this happens often, and usually the trains will start up again if put back on the tracks. There is a train graveyard for the unfortunate ones, and when the box is full to the train repair purple it goes.

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Oh good.

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The train repair purple likes them and explains how he repairs the trains! It's fun! She could come if she wants!

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Maybe!

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Eventually their parents come to collect them for their nap.

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"It's the middle of the day."

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