Last week I worked with one client that prefers to shake the maraca usually she is keeping some sort of rythm however unique it is. Today I was having trouble keeping time with or around her and so I offered her the rythm egg she took it and seemed very interested in it. I still could not figure out her rythm pattern but could at least play mine which had her grinning. Th e substitution of the egg shaker for the maraca was for my benift but the client that I gave it to decided that she prefered it.. She lives next door to where I was working and left at the end of the session. I packed up my instruments and realized that she had taken the egg with her. I went over to her house and asked her for it she just shook her head and grinned. I looked around for it and went back to my work sight no egg, so I asked her again if she had it and she laughed at me. (house staff told me that she had it hidden) I told her that I had to head to my next site and that I would be back next week but that I would really like to use the egg before then. This time she held out the toy she was holding it in and shook it . She had held it quietly for the 5 -10 minutes that I was checking around her house. Usually if she is holding something that makes music/noise she can not keep it still. This joking behavior is new for her with me I enjoyed seeing her interaction at this level. Today she took the egg for all of a minute before tossing it on the floor. She did not want the maraca either it was a listening day for her. MissMac