Here we see Viki, at age 3 1/2, clumsily pouring coffee out of an electric percolator. Note that she does not lift the percolator off the table. Instead she leans it over. Also note her grasp on the cup: she does not twist her short thumb back around the cup or grab it by the handle. But she uses a different grasp where her thumb wraps over the rim of the cup to oppose her fingers.

The electric percolator, by the way, was quite popular at the time. It has two parts that could be separated: you can see the seam in the middle of the unit. Cold water was poured into the bottom half, then the top half was added. It included a basket that held the coffee grounds. A heating coil in the bottom of the percolator warmed the water, which traveled through a small tube at the center up to the basket of grounds. The water would travel through the coffee grounds and drip back into the bottom, where it would be heated again until the coffee was brewed.