Doh!

(getting in the car to go to school)
Alex: Make it feel better.
Daddy: What did you say Alex?
Alex: It’s hot in here.
Daddy: Okay. What did you want Daddy to do?
Alex: Make it feel better. I need some windy in here.
Alex: It can make it feel better. I wanna make it feel better, Daddy.


Alex: There’s a bird in the tree. And he’s gonna go in the dirt and that bird’s gonna chase him in the dirt.
Daddy: Why is the bird gonna chase him?
Alex: He has to go hide under the gate.


Alex (to Claire): My Daddy!


(dinner time)

Daddy: What are you eating, Alex?
Alex: I’m eating corn.
Daddy: I’m eating corn too.
Alex: No. Don’t eat it.
Daddy: I’m eating it.
Alex: No.
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Nope.
Daddy: Yep.
Alex: Nope.
Daddy: Yep.
(pause)
Alex: I want some strawberries.

(Mommy and Daddy are demonstrating the polite way to ask for things.)
Daddy: May I have some strawberries please?
Mommy: Yes, here you go Daddy.
(Mommy hands Daddy a strawberry.)
Daddy: Thank you.
Mommy: You’re welcome.
Mommy: May I have a strawberry please?
Daddy: Yes, of course.
(Daddy hands Mommy a strawberry.)
Mommy: Thank you.
Daddy: You’re welcome.
Daddy: May I have a strawberry please Mommy?
Mommy: Sure, here you go.
(Mommy hands Daddy a strawberry.)
Daddy: Thank you Mommy.
Mommy: You’re welcome.
Mommy: I want some strawberries.
(Daddy doesn’t respond.)
Mommy: I want some!
(Still no response.)
Mommy: May I have some strawberries please?
Daddy: Oh, sure, here you go.
(Daddy hands Mommy a strawberry.)
Mommy: Thank you.
Daddy: You’re welcome.
Alex: Can I have some?

(Alex is finishing his dinner.)
Alex’s left hand: Hi, hand.
Alex’s right hand: Hi, hand.
Alex’s left hand: I’m all dirty.


Daddy: Claire, where’s the bird? Where’s the bird? Can you point? Can you point to the bird?
Claire (pointing at the bird): Doh!


Claire (standing up, holding onto the side of the tub, head thrown back): Eeeeeennnnnngggggghhhhhh!


(song time)

Mommy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: I wanna sing Daddy in the bathroom.

Daddy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: I wanna sing the donkey song. He scare him. And he scare Alex.

Mommy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: I wanna sing the dress song. And Elmo scare him away.