Maya and the Robot

While Maya waits for her mom to come home, she asks Ralph if he can “make a basket” in the small basketball hoop in her room. Ralph takes this command literally and deflates the ball so that he can then turn it into a basket. Maya is a little bit anxious about how her mom will respond to Ralph being up and running, so she does everything in her power to make a good first impression: she gets dressed up, does her hair, and uses Ralph to help to complete all her chores. Maya’s mom is not only impressed that Maya managed to get Ralph working somehow, but she’s blown away by his ability to help around the house.

Maya is incredibly pleased with her new robot friend and is happy to help her mom some more when she’s asked to take the garbage out. Because they live on the second floor of the building, this gives her a chance to test if Ralph can go down stairs or not. She is a little worried that he will be destroyed if he can't, but reasons that it is worth the risk so that he isn’t stuck in the apartment forever.