November 07th, 2018

Tommy's Shares an Heirloom

"It’s special to me."  -Tommy

"It's a Duck-billed Platypus."  -Tommy

Tommy: It’s a duck-billed platypus, Allison. It’s a duckbilled platypus.
​And the beak it has like plastic.
So I can pass it around to everybody and if they feel it, it’s like plastic.

Tommy begins to call on friends with raised hands who have questions.
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Tommy: Dagny
Dagny: Um is it breakable?

Tommy: Yes. Actually no, it’s not. Like the furry bits are breakable. And if you break the furry bits it will leave it you, the plastic like this, if you break the furry bits you can see the plastic.

Tommy: Hugh
Hugh: What else did you think of bringing in?
Tommy: What do you mean?
Hugh: What else did you think of bringing in?
Tommy: It’s special to me. 
Hugh: why did you decide to bring that?
Tommy: Because…
Hugh: Well you didn’t want to keep it at your house as a stuffy. 
Elena: Lovey.
Tommy: Well it’s a lovey that has plastic inside it from the fur. 
Hugh: That’s a not so like lovey.
Cate: Actually…
Hugh: It’s a sleeping…
Tommy: Cate.
Cate: Actually I know about platypuses  
Hugh: I’m still talking. 
Maisie: Yeah I know about platypuses too. 
Cate: What are the duck-billed platypuses?

Tommy: Maisie.
Maisie: When did you get it? Like in which year? Did you get it in fall or did you get in spring?
Tommy: Two days later. 
Maisie: Two days after what?
Tommy: Two days after this day.
Maisie: Uh…two days… Oh! Two days after um Halloween?
Tommy: Nooo. Two days before this day.

​"Why did you decide ​to bring that?"  -Hugh

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​Tommy: Will
Will: Uh like what day did you get it?
Tommy: Oh! Yesterday, yesterday.
Caleb: Two yesterdays. 
James: You got it two yesterdays ago and then you brought it in?
Tommy: Yeah
James: So you didn’t have it for that long.
Tommy: But my grampy had it for a hundred years! And my mom had it for a hundred years!
Melanie: Oh so it’s been around for a long time. It’s been in the family for a long time. 

"But my grampy had it for a hundred years! And my mom had it for a hundred years!"
​-Tommy

​"Oh I didn't buy it! My mommy gave it to me!" -Tommy

Lily: Did you find it or did you get it at a store?
Tommy: My mommy gave it to me.
Tommy: Cate.
Cate: Where did your grandpa buy it?
Tommy: Oh I didn’t buy it! My mommy gave it to me.
Cate: And where did she buy it?
Tommy: Oh her …my mommy’s daaaad gave it to my mom.

Melanie: Oh so where did your mom’s dad get it?
Maisie: From her mom?
Tommy: Her…his…my mom’s mom… My mom’s dad’s mom is dead! 
Melanie: So maybe we don’t know the story of how your grampy got it.
Maisie: Yeah but don’t say that because it’s like really not nice. 
Hugh: Well you can say “passed away.” 
Tommy: Yeah she passed away. She died from oldness. 
Tegan: Yeah, passed away. 
Tommy: Passed away means died from oldness.
Hugh: Well no…
Allison: Yeah like you could say passed away when she was very old. 

Caleb: How many miles per hour can it swim?
Tommy: Oh, a hundred billion.
James: Wow that’s super fast! It can get from one side of the world and back in two seconds!
Tommy: No this is how fast it can go. Whew, whew, whew (Tommy moves across the floor.) That’s really fast! It when there in one second.
Cate: Well actually I know how fast the platypus can swim. One hundred million thousand miles.
Tommy: That’s what I said!
Tommy: James
James: Okay, so… (laughs) I don’t know what to ask. The only thing I can think of is where did you get it, and you didn’t buy it. … So how fast can it swim backwards?
Tommy: It can do like, it can go there like one mile. It can swim backwards in one mile. 
Hugh: So, far. 
Tommy: No like one mile is like right here! (laughs) It can swim from here backwards all the way to me. all the way to me. 
Elena: Is it breakable?
Tommy: Yeah but the plastic inside it is not breakable.

​Melanie: Why is the duckbill platypus that your grampy had and then your mommy had and gave to you, why is that special.
Caleb: It’s  alive.
Tommy: Because my grampy didn’t like it when he was old, and my mommy didn’t like it when she was a grownup.
Melanie: Are you going to hold onto it until you are old? 
Maisie: Then maybe you could give it to your kids.
Tegan: Yeah!
Melanie: Wow that’s like a generational thing. Your grampy was a generation and your mommy was a generation…
Maisie: Yeah and your kids could give it to their kids and then their kids could give it to their kids and it would go on and go on until umm..
Melanie: Yeah it’s a question mark.
Tommy: It will keep going until…
Caleb: Until the sun explodes!
Tommy: No, until Doomsday!
Caleb: Doomsday is when the sun explodes.
Tommy: No Doomsday is when this portal from Heaven is in the earth… it’s in space… and the earth gets sucked into it. 
Maisie: Is it fragile?
Tommy: Elena said if it’s fragile.
Melanie: Is there anything more that you know about the duck-billed platypus, the animal?
Tommy: No, I don’t. But you know I want five more questions because I’m five. 

"Then maybe you could give it to your kids! ... And your kids could give it to their kids and then their kids could give it to their kids and it would go on and go on until umm.."
-Maisie

​"It will keep going until…"
​-Tommy