I gonna show Grandma the airplane and Grandma's gonna say "The airplane's going to the airport."

(nap time)
Alex: Mommy you wanna play trains go in the backyard go in the playroom and play trains?
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: Where do you want to go?
Mommy: Well we’re gonna go to the grocery store later.
Alex: How ‘bout the game store?
Mommy: Well you’ll have to check with Daddy on that one.


(playing in the playroom)

Alex: Look, there's Grommie hair on me.

Alex: Hey that can’t go there. Hey that can’t go there. That can’t go there. That can’t go there.

Alex: Look, my tower break!
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: It fell.

Alex: Oh no!
Daddy: Oh no what happened?
Alex: The cat knocked the dog over.

Alex: Make angry and sad and happy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: Make sad and angry and happy.
Daddy: Make sad and angry and happy?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, bring it over.


Alex: I wanna go to Grandma and Grandpa’s house.
Daddy: Oh, we’re not going to their house. We can’t go to their house, they’re not home.
Alex: I gonna show Grandma the airplane and Grandma’s gonna say ‘The airplane’s going to the airport.’


(at the playground)

Alex: The little boy was sad.
Daddy: Yeah, he didn’t want to leave the playground.
Alex: ‘Cause he didn’t want to go home and the girl said it’s time to go home.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And the Daddy picked up him.

Alex: I gonna see a fly, Daddy.
Daddy: Where?
Alex: In my house.

Alex: Can I put it in my pocket?
Daddy: Yeah, you can put it in your pocket.
Alex: Where’s my pocket?


(riding in the car, Alex wants to hear music)


Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I need some Elmo.

Daddy: How ‘bout this?
Alex: No. How ‘bout Elmo.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I need Elmo.
Alex: I -- I need Elmo!!


Alex: The cat's going to the nature center.


Daddy: What’s your name, Alex?
Alex: Um, Alex. A-Le-Xan-Der.
Mommy: Good! That’s so good! What’s your last name?
Alex (pause): … Crisping.
Mommy: He doesn’t know.
Daddy: Crisping?
Mommy: He doesn’t remember.
Alex: Um, Dave!


(story time)

Alex: I wanna read that book.
Mommy: What's this book called?
Alex: The Bunny and the Boy.

Mommy: Here is the…
Alex: Blue sheep.
Mommy: And here is the…
Alex: Green sheep.
Mommy: What color is this?
Alex: Green sheep.
Mommy: What color is this?
Alex: Green sheep.
Mommy: Are you being silly or are you colorblind?


(song time)
Mommy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: I wanna sing you fell down and you bumped your head. (smiling) And you cried!
(Daddy sings.)
Alex: I wanna sing another song. You fell off the roof and you get in the bus.
(Daddy sings.)
Mommy: Let’s sing one more song. What do you want to sing?
Alex: I wanna sing the cow song and the door and he can’t ring the bell.
Daddy: Okay, we’ll sing the cow song and the door and he can’t ring the bell, and then we’ll do kisses, okay?
Alex: Okay. And he open the door.

(bed time)
Alex: Daddy, you wanna play trains go in the back-a-yard and play in the playroom?
Daddy: Okay. Night night Alex, I love you.
Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: Yes?
Alex: You wanna play trains go in the back-a-yard and play in the playroom?

And I will get strong and big and I will reach those buttons up there.

Alex: My diaper’s okay.
Daddy: Well let’s get you a fresh one.
Alex: My diaper’s okay. It’s geese and goss.
Daddy: It’s geese and goss?
Alex: Yeah. My diaper’s okay. There’s no poops.


(Alex is playing with Lily, a talking toy frog.)
Lily (singing): Hi! I’m Lily! Sing a counting song with me.
Alex: I don’t like counting song.
Alex: I gonna play puzzles.
(Alex goes over to the puzzles, leaving Lily behind.)
Lily: Hug me again!
Alex: I not hug you again.


(riding in the car)

Alex: And I will get strong and big and I will reach those buttons up there.

Alex: We have to go down the hill. We have to go down the street. And we have to go backwards.

Alex: Orange sign!
Daddy: Orange sign.
Alex: Two signs.
Daddy: Two signs.
Alex: Three signs.
Daddy: Three signs.
Alex: One sign.
Daddy: One sign.
Alex: Green sign.
Daddy: Green sign.
Alex: Orange sign.
Daddy: Orange sign.
Alex: I see signs.
Alex: I see a white sign.
Alex: I see more white signs.
Alex: I see white sign and more white signs and yellow sign and orange sign and more yellow signs and red and more orange and more red.

Alex: Where, where Daddy’s friends?
Mommy: We have to go to their house.
Alex: We have to go to… something else.

Alex: I gonna go see the butterflies.

Alex: And another sign. And another sign. And another sign. And another sign. And another sign. I see another graham bunny in there, Mommy.

Alex: Sorry Claire. I ate it. I ate it. I ate it all.

Alex: Where's my friend the boy?


(song time)

Alex: Sing the window song. And you look outside and it was dark.

Alex: Sing bear song.
Mommy: What?
Alex: And he ranned and he runs in the bushes.


(bed time)

Alex: Mommy, you wanna play trains go in the backyard and go in the playroom and play... trains?
Mommy: Yeah, Sweetheart, we’ll do all those things tomorrow.
Alex: Daddy!
Alex: You wanna play trains and go in the backyard and go in the playroom and play Barney?
Daddy: Yeah. Night night Alex, I love you.
Alex: And that gonna be fun!

I'm not gonna bite and push.

(entering school)
Alex: I’m not gonna bite and push.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I’m not gonna bite and push, Daddy.


Alex: You wanna hide in the pillows after dinner?


Alex: Sing the man bump his head on the bed.


Daddy: Is Claire a big girl?
Alex: No.
Daddy: What is she?
Alex: She's a boy.
Daddy: Oh. Is she big?
Alex: No she's little.


Daddy: You want to go for a walk with Mommy?
Alex (thrilled): I gonna go to the trees!
Daddy: No, you're not going to the trees.
(Alex looks confused.)
Daddy: You're going to the Spring Fling.
Alex (thrilled): Yay!!
Alex: I going to the green screen!
Daddy: Where are you going Alex?
Alex: To the bean screen!


Alex: I wanna brush teeth and go peepee on the potty and wash hands.


Daddy: What's that?
Alex: That's my box.
Mommy: What do you put in it?
Alex: Rocks in my box.


Alex: Hi Daddy.
Daddy: Hi Alex.
Alex: I'm gonna climb on you.
Alex: What do you have on your shirt?
Daddy: What do I have on my shirt?
Alex: The muffin man.


(the remaining remarks may have occurred on a different day; the archives are unclear on this point)

(song time)

Alex: The book go to the playground and bump his head on the bed.

Alex: The house bump his head on the bed -- no he bump his head on the house.

Alex: And he fall out of the bed and open the door and wake up the red book. And he fall out of the bed and open the door and wake up the red book.

Alex: And I hide and wake up Mommy and Daddy kisses and fall out of the bed and wake up Mommy and Daddy.


(bed time)
Alex: Daddy you wanna play trains and go in the backyard and go in the playroom?

And he can watch it go.

Alex: Be downstairs, Grommie.
Daddy: It’s okay, Grommie can be upstairs.
Alex: He have to be downstairs with the TV. And he can watch it go.


Alex: Take Claire outta the gate. She needs to come in.


(Daddy comes home from work.)
Alex: Daddy! Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy! The man can’t go in the helicopter.


Alex: Oh, dear.


(Daddy is hiding under the pillows.)
Alex: I'm gonna sleep here.
(Daddy gets up.)
Alex: That's not a pillow!


Alex: Hide again, Daddy.
Alex: Bye.
Daddy: Bye.
Alex: See you later! Go in the door! And get kisses!


Daddy: Tell Mommy what Daddy told you.
Alex (to Mommy): I kicked Claire.
Mommy: And what did Daddy tell you?
Alex: No kick Claire.
Mommy: And what did Daddy say will happen if you kick Claire?
Alex: You have a timeout.


(Alex is carrying a basket.)
Alex: I’m going to school Daddy, bye.
Daddy: Bye.
Alex: I’m going to school.
Mommy: Bye.
(pause)
Alex: Bye school. I gonna go to another school, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Bye.
Daddy: Bye.
(a little while later)
Alex: Bye school. I’m going to the bookstore.
Daddy: Neat.
Alex: I went to school. I went to that school over there and I went to that school over there.

Alex: Bye Daddy. You can't come upstairs.
Daddy: But I wanna come.
Alex: You can’t.
Daddy: Why not?
Alex: You have to stay there.
Daddy: Please.
Alex: No.
Daddy: Please.
Alex: You can’t.
Daddy: Please.
Alex: You can’t.
Daddy: Please.
Alex: You can’t come upstairs. Go hide under the table. Go hide. Go hide.


(Alex leave his room.)
Alex: Bye bye.
Daddy: Bye.
Alex: See you later, room.


Alex: Tower of Tower of Power! (raising toothbrush) Tower of Power! (raising toothbrush again) Power of Power!


Alex: Mommy’s in my room. Yes, Mommy’s in my room. (singsong) She’s in my roooom.


Daddy: Alex, how many chuckles are in a chucklehead?
Alex: One chucklehead.
Daddy: That’s right!


(Alex is playing house.)

Cat: Bye bye… See you later… I will go to the store. Sleep tight. Bye bye, dog.

Cat: You go inside and I will go to the store: (mumble) food. ‘Kay kangaroo. Jump in the door.

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: The cat’s gonna go upstairs. And he gonna go in the pool. And he gonna take a nap.
Daddy: Oh neat.
Alex: And he gonna go back in the pool. And he will get in his car.

Cat: I gonna take a nap. It’s my nap time. Okay, it’s not your – it’s not my nap time.


Alex: Mommy, you wanna play trains and go in the back-a-yard and we don’t step on the flowers.
Mommy: That’s right.
Alex: And Grandma will be berry, berry sad.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: And Nana and Pop will be berry, berry sad too. For we step on the flowers and the plants.

I falled out of the bed.

Alex: Look Daddy, Grandma got me that new puzzle!


Mommy: Don't you want to go outside with Daddy?
Alex: Yeah. I can tell you what I'm doing on the playground what I'm doing.


Alex: You can show me on the playground.
Daddy: I can show you?
Alex: Yeah you can show me. What I’m doing.


(playing in the backyard)

Daddy: What did Grandma do to your tree?
Alex: She cut off my leaves.

Alex: He's too nice to me.
Daddy: Who’s too nice to you?
Alex: Grandma is.

Alex: I went down the slide and I didn’t go up.

Daddy: What did you do today?
Alex: I played with Aidan at school. And I played with Nana.

Daddy: Daddy’ll kiss it and make it feel better.
Alex: I need some ice.


(brushing teeth)
Alex: I gonna go see the butterflies with Grandma.


(Alex is looking out his bedroom window.)
Alex: The neigh – my neighbor’s leaving.
Daddy: Yeah, he’s leaving.
Alex: And I gonna be sad.


Alex: You took the barn back in Claire’s room?
Daddy: Yeah, I put the barn back in Claire’s room.
Alex: And the house back in my room.
Daddy: That’s right. Everything’s back where it belongs. Yay! Hip hip hooray!
(pause)
Alex: Book Club!


(song time)
Mommy: What do you want to sing?
Alex: How ‘bout… the ceiling song.
Daddy: What happens in the ceiling song?
Alex: It dropped… and it fell in the mud… and it walked on the sidewalk… and it felled in the mud.


Alex: I falled out of the bed.
Mommy: I know, are you hurt?
Alex: Yeah I need to get back in bed.
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: I fall out of the bed and I walked and Mommy and Daddy comed in.

Come get a noise!

(Alex picks up the magic shapes book.)
Alex: Meg to got me that book.


Alex: I don't like this movie.
Daddy: Of course, because it’s Claire.
Mommy: Yeah, it’s three minutes of Claire.
Alex: How ‘bout Alex’s movie?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I don’t like Claire’s movie.


Alex: Come get a noise!
Alex: Come get a noise, Daddy!
Daddy: What?
Alex: Come get a noise!
Daddy: You want me to come get a noise?
Alex: Yeah, come get a noise.
Daddy: What does that mean?
Alex: You have to get a noise.
Mommy: What noise, honey?
Alex: The horse noise.
Mommy: The force noise?
Alex: Yeah, the horse noise.
Mommy: The horse noise.
Alex: Yeah, the horse noise.
Mommy: What is that noise?
Alex: Eeeeuuuugggghhhh.


Alex: I can’t go upstairs.
Daddy: Why not?
Alex: I have to hide under the table.


Alex: Here’s a pillow for you, Mommy. For you tummy.

(Mommy reads Alex a book.)
Alex: What he’s doing?
Mommy: Which one?
Alex: That one.
Mommy: He’s barking at the other puppy.
Alex: What he’s doing?
Mommy: He’s barking.
Alex: What he’s doing?
Mommy: He’s barking. (reading) Soon all the dogs were barking.
Alex: What he’s doing?
Mommy: He’s barking. (reading fast) The cats were meowing.
Alex: What he’s doing
Mommy: He’s barking (reading faster) and the bunnies rustled –-
Alex: What he’s doing?
Mommy: -- in the corner of the cage.
Alex: What – what he’s doing?
Mommy: Playing with the telephone cord.


Mommy: Night night, sweetheart.
Alex: Can I look at your watch?

I saw Mommy's cereal.

Alex: The horse's tail is in the tree.


(playing in the backyard)

Alex: Please.
Daddy: Please what?
Alex: Please to get the hand down the slide.

Alex: I put my head in the grass.
Daddy: You did?
Alex: I did. I put my head in the grass.

Alex: The hand didn't get me, Mommy.

Alex: I wanted to get down the slide I went faster and faster the hand and I did that.

Alex: He got me Mommy. He got me Mommy.
Mommy: He got you?
Alex: Yeah I did. The hand can't get me. The hand can’t get me.
Mommy: Good job, Alex.

Alex: Oh no I’m falling. Aaah, I’m falling Daddy.
Daddy: Oh no, don’t fall.
Alex: I will fall in the grass. And I will cry.

Alex: Hi. Hi, hand.
Hand: Hi, Alex.

Alex: I was on the playground. You didn't get me, hand.

Alex: I can’t walk up the slide.
Daddy: You can’t walk up the slide?
Alex: No, I can’t walk up the slide.
Daddy: Maybe – well you can try.
Alex (trying): C’mon, slide.
Alex: I can’t get up the slide.
Daddy: Well, you should try again.
Alex: No I can’t. I have to go up the stairs!!

(Grommie is barking at Oakley, the neighbor’s dog.)
Alex: What's he doing?
Daddy: Oh, he's just barking at Oakley.
Alex: He's barking at Unkley.
Alex: He need to settle down from the gate.
Daddy: What?
Alex: He need to settle down from the gate.
Alex: And then he open the gate and he need to see Unkley.

Alex: I will go hide and get the sticks. And I will touch the tree and get the leaves.
Daddy: Okay, don't hurt the tree, okay? Be nice to the tree. Will you be nice to the tree?
Alex: No. I don't. I don't wanna be nice to the tree.


(in the playroom)

Alex: Mommy? You need a hug?

Alex: Can I see you cereal, Mommy?

Alex: I saw Mommy’s cereal.

Alex: Can I see you cereal again?


(song time)

Daddy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: The window song. And the animals come in and it scare you.

Daddy: What do you want to sing?
Alex: The P song.
Daddy: What happens in the P song?
Alex: It fall down and it go back in the house.

And you have to get up and see what happened.

Alex: What are we gonna do now?
Daddy: We’re gonna go upstairs.
Alex: You wanna play together?
Daddy: Yeah, let’s play together.
Alex: Let’s run. You wanna run?


Alex: Where’s the wind chimes? There’s the wind chimes. It’s on the hook.


Alex: Look Daddy, I’m rolling!


Alex: Who’s that puffing down the track? Who’s that puffing down the track? Who’s that puffing down the track?
Daddy: Who do you think?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: Who’s that puffing down the track?
Alex: I don’t know.


Alex: These are my rocks.
Daddy: Yeah. Where did you get them?
Alex: This one – this one’s from the ducks.
Daddy: And where did you get this one?
Alex: From the trees.


Alex: Can I take my rocks in bed?
Daddy: Yeah, you can take your rocks in bed.


Alex: I gonna tell Mommy tuh tuh thank you for go to the trees with me.

(Alex and Daddy play with toys.)

(Alex is pushing the lion across the carpet.)
Daddy: What’s he doing?
Alex: Mowing the lawn.
Lion (still being pushed across the carpet): Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I’m all done!

Lion: Can I come in?
Cat: No you can’t cause I’m gonna mow the lawn.

Elephant: Can I come in?
Cat: Sure! We gonna eat lunch and you gonna go potty.


(Alex slips on the stairs.)
Alex: I fell down from the stairs.
Daddy: I saw. Be careful, Alex.
Alex: I fell down from the stairs, Daddy. I can’t fall down from the stairs. I can’t fall down from the stairs.
Daddy: Why can’t you fall down from the stairs?
Alex: You can’t fall down from the stairs. You have to fall down from the floor and you have to fall down from the stairs and you have to fall down from the floor. And you have to get up and see what happened.


Alex: Eat that Cheerio, Grommie. Eat those Cheerios. Eat that one and that one and that one. Eat that one and that one and that one. Eat that one, Grommie.


Alex: Daddy, you hafta... Watch me read books.


Elmo fork: Zoe, can I pop your balloons?
Zoe spoon: Sure. I will.
Elmo fork: No I will.
Zoe spoon: I will.
Elmo fork: I will.
Zoe spoon: I will.
Elmo fork: I will.
(pause)
Zoe spoon: I popped the balloons. No I didn’t.


(bedtime)

Alex: No Mommy, don’t give me a kiss, I wanna talk to Daddy.

Alex: Daddy, do you want to play trains after nap?
Daddy: Okay.
(Mommy gives Alex a kiss.)
Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: Yes?
Alex: Do you wanna go in the back-a-yard and go in the playroom and go bye-bye and play trains and go… (long pause)… do something else?

I need to go to the chair doctor.

(Alex and Daddy are playing on the slide in the backyard.)

Alex: The hand can't get me.

Alex: The hand’s gonna get me.

Alex: Look, there's ants on my playground.


Alex: Look, there’s signs! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, fifteen.


(Dinner time)

Daddy: Do you need to go to the doctor?
Alex: I need to go to the chair doctor.
Daddy: The chair doctor?
Alex: Yeah. She needs to check in my ears and in my mouth. And I coughed.
Alex: Please Daddy?

Alex: I need to go to the doctor and check in my mouth and check in my ears. Please Daddy.

Alex: There’s the doctor.
Daddy: Where’s the doctor?
Alex: There's the doctor. Right over there.
Daddy: Where? Can you touch it?
(Alex points to a deck chair.)


(Alex is looking out his bedroom window.)
Alex: It’s a beautiful night.
Daddy: It’s a beautiful night?
Alex: Yeah. It’s a beautiful night, Daddy.
Daddy: It sure is.
Alex: (mumble) snow.
Daddy: Do you see snow?
Alex: Yeah. And you go outside and you walk in it. And you make snowballs and you make a snowman.


(Mommy walks in with wet hair.)
Alex: What happened?
Mommy: What happened? To what?
Alex: What happened to your hair.


Man: I’m gonna go in the closet. I’ll be right back.
Whale: I’m sad. I’m sad.


Alex: Daddy, I wanna go round and round in the rainbow.

I saw blue man.

(Daddy is waking Alex up in the morning.)

Daddy: You and Mommy are gonna have fun.
Alex: We're not having fun yet.

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: We need to watch TV and eat breakfast.

Alex: I will get out of the bed.
Daddy: You will get out of the bed.
Alex: And I will open the door.
Daddy: And you will open the door.
Alex: And I will go see Mommy and go around and round.
Daddy: And you will go see Mommy and go around and round.
(Alex laughs.)


(Alex is watching TV.)
Diego: Is that a sloth?
Alex: No a monkey.
Diego: No. What kind of animal is that?
Alex: Monkey.


Daddy: Tell Daddy about the trains.
Alex: I saw blue man.
Daddy: You saw a blue man? What color was he?
Alex: Brown.
Mommy (laughs): There was a black woman there with a blue uniform.


Daddy: Tell Daddy about the trains.
Alex: I saw big trains on the track.
Daddy: What else?
Alex: And a little track.
Daddy: And what else?
Alex: A little track.
Daddy: What else?
Alex: And the man’s name - and the man’s name – and the man’s wa – drived.
Daddy: The man drived.
Alex: On the train, yeah.
Daddy: He was on the train.
Alex: He talked to the man.
Daddy: Who talked to the man?
Alex: The train. The little man.
Daddy: What did the train say?
Alex: Drive drive! Drive drive! Drive drive! Drive drive! Drive drive!


Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Deededeeada.
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Aaaah!
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Aaaah!
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Listen to this story. Listen to this story. Listen to this story. Listen to this story, Claire.
Alex: Claire, listen to this story. Listen to this story.
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Oh dee doh dee doh dee doh dee doh dee doh
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Stop it, Claire. One more time.
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: One more time.
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: Giga gogedigagogoos.
Claire: Aaaah!
Alex: No Claire.


Alex: I drop my bread. It got in the pasta.
Daddy: Oh it’s okay, you can still eat it.
Alex: It’s dirty. You have to dry it. You need to get a paper towel.
Daddy: It’s fine, Alex. You can eat it.
Alex: I don’t.
(Alex eats the bread.)


Alex: Look at my new track.
Daddy: Yeah. Who made the track?
Alex: Alex and Daddy.
Daddy: That's right.
Alex: Thank you Daddy.
Daddy: You're welcome.


Alex: Where are you going, Mommy?
Mommy: I’m going in the kitchen.
Alex: Play trains with you self, Daddy. I going to see Mommy in the kitchen.

That's a baby.

Alex: I wanna hide… I'm gonna go run, and you can't get me. Get me Daddy.


Mommy (sadly): I don’t have any babies anymore.
Alex (pointing to Claire): That’s a baby.


Alex: You wanna go to a costume party?
Daddy: Um, okay.
Mommy: What are you going to dress up as, Alex?
Alex: A swamp creature.


Alex: The tickle monster's coming!!!


Alex: Can we read a book, Mommy?
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: Let's read (said with emphasis) Green. Eggs. And. Ham.
(Pause)
Alex: No let's read Elmo. I wanna read Elmo. I don't like Green Eggs and Ham.
(Pause)
Mommy: I do not like them, Sam I Am.
(Alex laughs.)

Can I be gentle?

(Grommie licks Alex.)
Alex: Thank you Grommie.
Daddy: What did Grommie do?
Alex: He made me feel better.


Alex: Can I throw my fork?
Daddy: What?
Mommy: No, don’t throw your fork, Alex.
Alex: Can I be gentle?


Daddy: Alex, do you know why the sky is blue?
Alex: It’s blue.
Daddy: Mommy could tell you why the sky is blue. You should ask her.
Alex (to Mommy): Mommy?
Mommy: Yes.
Alex: The sky is blue.
Mommy: It sure is.


Alex: Can I throw the tissue to you?


Alex: Can I throw Elly to you?


Alex: Can I throw the books to you, Mommy?
Mommy: No, please don’t throw the books.
Alex: Can I throw this one?

Look Grandma, I'm flying!

Mommy: Alex, are you hungry?
Alex: No I have to change my poopy diaper.


Alex: Can I get you your toy?
Daddy: Yeah, you can get me my toy.
(Alex gives Daddy his work ID badge.)
Alex: Can I get you another toy?
Daddy: Sure.
(Alex gives Daddy his wallet.)


Daddy: What are you doing, Alex?
Alex: I’m playing with Grandma.


Daddy: What did you do with Grandma?
Alex: I picked up sticks and I step on sticks and I give Grommie a stick and he can eat it.


Alex: Look Grandma, I’m flying!


Alex: I wanna pick up sticks with Grandma.


(dinner time)
Alex: May I have some more strawberries please?

Meg, where are you Meg?

Alex: Daddy, I fell down. Help me, Daddy.


Daddy: Guess who’s coming today?
(Alex looks expectant.)
Daddy: Miss Alex is coming!
Alex: No.
Daddy: What’s wrong?
Alex: Miss Alex not coming.
Daddy: Yes she is. Do you like Miss Alex?
Alex: No. I need to play with Meg.
Daddy: Well we’ll have to get her over here some time.
Alex (calling out): Meg, where are you Meg?

(Daddy is reading Alex a book about dinosaurs.)
Alex: And there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: And there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur.
(Daddy turns the page.)
Alex: And there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur.
(Daddy turns the page.)
Alex: And there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur and there’s a dinosaur.
(Daddy turns the page.)
Alex: And there’s a dinosaur.
Daddy: The end.
Alex: Alex was brave.
Daddy: Why was Alex brave?
Alex: From the book.


Alex: I’m gonna give the ball to Claire.
Daddy: Oh, she’ll like that.
Alex: She gonna be so happy.
Alex: And Mommy will like it too.


Alex: Daddy, I made a big mess.


Daddy: Come on muffin man, let's go wash hands.
Alex: I'm not the muffin man.
Daddy: Who are you?
Alex: Alex!
(Alex gives Daddy a big hug.)


Daddy: Alex, how many chuckles are in a chucklehead?
Alex (without missing a beat): Two.
Daddy: That's right!


(Daddy coughs.)
Alex: You okay, daddy?


(Mommy reads Alex a story about Curious George.)
Mommy: This is…
Alex: George.
Mommy: He was a good little…
Alex: Monkey.
Mommy: And always very…
Alex: Curious.
Mommy: You know this story!


Mommy: What do you want to sing?
Alex: Twinkle Twinkle.
Mommy: You’re really tired. We’ll sing two songs.
Alex: And – and – and button song.
Alex: And we have to sing three songs.
Alex: And – and – and – and – and noise song.

May I!

Alex: Mommy likes the rain and Claire likes the rain and Daddy likes the rain and I like the rain and Alex likes the rain and Grommie likes the rain and Daddy likes the rain and Mommy likes the rain and Grommie likes the rain. And everybody likes the rain.


Alex: I need some more apples.
Mommy: May I have some more apples please, Mommy?
Alex: May I have some more apples please, Mommy?
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: May I!

Eat my broccoli, Grommie.

Alex: I wanna see the Michelin man again.


Alex: Daddy, the elephant went under the couch. Get it.
Daddy: Alex, I wish you wouldn't put the elephant under the couch, it’s hard to get.
Alex: Mommy can do it. (running into the other room) Mommy, the elephant went under the couch!


Alex (breathlessly): Ahh! Look Daddy, a truck!!
Daddy: Oh yeah, wow!
Alex: I find a truck on the street!
Alex: You see the truck, Grommie? That's a truck! Right there, I see it.


Alex (excitedly): Daddy, I'm gonna put on my outfit!


Alex: I need to get on the bed and watch TV.


Mommy: Alex, do you want graham bunnies or goldfish?
Alex: Graham bunnies and goldfish. All of them.


Mommy: There's a fly in here.
Daddy: I’ll get it.
Alex: There a fly in here, Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah, flies are dirty.
Alex: We like flies.
Mommy: Hm?
Alex: We like flies.
Mommy: Mommy thinks flies are dirty.
Daddy: Who likes flies, Alex?
Alex: Alex and Daddy.


Alex: Someone’s tired.
Daddy: Hm?
Alex: Someone’s tired.
Daddy: Who’s tired?
Alex: Alex and Daddy and Mommy and Grommie and Claire. And Alex.
Daddy: How do you know we’re tired?
Alex: You not tired.
Daddy: Are you tired?
Alex: No I not tired.
Daddy: Who’s tired?
Alex: Claire. And Mommy and Grommie and Daddy and Alex. And Claire.


Alex: Grommie, eat my broccoli, Grommie.

She's a genius.

Alex: I wanna climb the wall, Mommy.
Mommy: You wanna climb the wall?
Alex: Yeah, I wanna climb the wall. I wanna climb it.


Alex: There's you Blackberry Daddy, can I open it for you?


Daddy (to Alex): Hey, chucklehead. Who's a chucklehead?
(No response.)
Daddy: Who's the muffin man?
Alex: I do!
Mommy: You're a chucklehead and the muffin man.
Daddy (singing): Do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man…
Mommy: What's Claire?
Alex: She's a genius.


(Daddy and Alex are watching the neighbors’ cat.)
Daddy: Do you remember we used to have a cat?
Alex: Bradley.
Alex: I have a cat you know what is my name?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Bradley.

Like butterfly.

Alex: I saw that movie. Claire was flying in the sky. She was a bird.


(Daddy writes the word CAT.)
Daddy: That’s a C. What does a C say?
Alex: Don’t know.
Daddy: It says kuh, kuh, kuh.
Alex: Kuh.
Daddy: Like cookie.
Alex: Like Cookie Monster.
Daddy: That’s an A. It says “ah”. Like Alex.
Alex: Like Daddy and Alex.
Daddy: That’s a T.
Alex: Like butterfly.


Mommy: What would you take on a desert island?
Alex: Cookie Monster.
Mommy: What else?
Alex: Pink. The pink paper.

Will you kiss my tongue?

Alex (to tree): Tree, we’re gonna go to the other tree.


Daddy: Alex, did you bite at school?
Alex: No. I – yeah, I bite Rory and Justin and Aidan.


Alex: Will you kiss my tongue, Daddy?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Will you kiss my tongue?
Daddy: You want me to kiss your tongue?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Why?
Alex: It hurts. I bit it.
Daddy: Okay.

I'm the best boy ever.

Alex: We need to dust today, Daddy. We need to dust. There's a dust! Two dusts. And there's one! Up in the sky. And there's one!
Daddy: You're cute, Alex.
Alex: And there's one! Up in the air.


Daddy: You know what Grandma told me? She said “I love Alex.”
(Alex grins shyly.)
Daddy: She thinks you’re a good boy.
Alex: I’m the best boy ever.


Daddy: Alex, I want to ask you a question?
Alex: Maybe tree falls forest what's sound like?


Daddy: Bring me some letters and I’ll tell you what sounds they make.
(Alex brings the letter Y.)
Daddy: What's that letter?
Alex: Y. Y for boy. And butterfly.
Daddy: Y says yuh.
Alex: Yuh.
Daddy: Like yellow.
Alex: Yellow and red. And orange. And purple. And yellow. And I don't like yellow.


Mommy: Alex, ask me a question.
Alex: What would you take on a desert island?
Mommy: I'd take Alex.
(Alex giggles.)
Mommy: And Claire and Daddy and Grommie.
Daddy: Alex, what would you take on a desert island?
Alex: Daddy.
(Mommy looks sad.)
Daddy (to Mommy): It’s just because I'm the one who asked him. You ask him.
Mommy: Alex, what would you take on a desert island?
Alex: Daddy.


(song time)

Mommy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: Sing the Blackberry song.

Mommy: Let's sing Twinkle, Twinkle.
Mommy and Daddy (singing): Twinkle, twinkle, little star…
Alex: No sing Twinkle, Twinkle.
Mommy and Daddy (singing): How I wonder...
Alex: No sing that song!
Mommy and Daddy (singing): What you are….
Alex: No sing that! Alex pick song.
Daddy: Okay, Alex pick the song. What do you want to sing?
Alex: Twinkle, Twinkle.

I'm takin' my blueberries.

Daddy: Alex, I have a question for you.
Alex: Would you climb in a tree with leaves?


Daddy: Alex, if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Alex: Um, yeah.
Alex: Daddy, who comes from the bushes make a sound?
Daddy: I don't know, who comes from the bushes and makes a sound?
Alex: Er-dehhhh. Ohhhhh!


Alex: People all eat dinner. They're watch TV and do mask then watch TV. They go in the back-a-yard and play in the playroom. And there's people those things. All those things.


Alex: Can't go through my puzzle, Grommie can't go through my puzzle. He can't go through my chair. He can sit under the table. You gonna bump your head. It's too dark under there.


Daddy: Can you take your medicines?
Alex: I'm takin' my blueberries.


Daddy: Alex, what's the square root of 64?
Alex: Ta ta teh teh tree falls in the forest and it says uh it says a noise. It says a noise.


Alex: I wanna go see the tree. I wanna step on the stumps. You wanna walk today? You wanna go see the trees?
Daddy: Well it's a little late for that.
Alex: Please Daddy. I need to go see the trees. Please Daddy.
Daddy: No, it’s too late to go out.
Alex: No it's not late! I wanna go see the trees.


Alex: Will you dance with me? I can get Elmo. How ‘bout I get Elmo? And big Elmo. Yeah! Elmo friends... he he flies in the sky. He -- and little Elmo walks. Big Elmo can't walk. He's too big. He flies in the sky. Like little Elmo.


Alex (admiring the flower pot he made for Mommy): Daddy, I made this for mommy! I made it.
Daddy: You made it?!
Alex: Yeah, I painted it! I wanna look at it. Please Daddy!
Daddy: Okay, but be careful, you don't wanna break it.
Alex: And I gonna get time out.


Alex: I need a tomato, Daddy.


Daddy: Alex, what's the square root of 64?
Alex: Um, a house.
Daddy: And what's the square root of 100?
Alex: A dinosaur.


Daddy: You did it!
Alex: I did it! Mommy wants to see it.
Daddy: She does? Well go tell Mommy.
Alex (running out of the room excitedly): Mommy, I made a BIG POOP!!!

So many toys.

Daddy: Bring me some letters, Alex, and I’ll tell you what they say. I’ll tell you what sounds they make.
(Alex brings over the letter Y.)
Alex: Y!
Daddy: That’s right! Y says yuh, yuh, yuh.
Alex: Yuh, yuh, yuh.
Daddy: Like yes, and Yeti, and yucky, and yummy, and yellow.
Alex: And red!
Daddy: Okay, go get another letter.
(Alex brings over the letter B.)
Alex: P!
Daddy: No, that’s B. It says buh, buh.
Alex: Buh, buh.
Daddy: What words start with buh?
Alex: Um… circle.
Daddy: No, B starts words like boy.
Alex: Like Alex! Alex the Boy.


Mommy: I need to make a grocery list.
Alex: I need to make a grocery list too.
Mommy: What do you want from the store, Alex?
Alex: Food.
Mommy: What else? More specifically.
Alex: Waffles.
Mommy: Already on the list. What else?
Alex: Um, Cheerios.
Mommy: I think we already have plenty of Cheerios. What else?
Alex: Life cereal.
Mommy: Okay.


(Alex sings a song.)
Mommy and Daddy (clapping): Yay!
Alex (shyly): Stop it.


Alex: Would you go on a desert island? Will you take shells?
Daddy: Shells?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Yeah.

Daddy: What would you take to a desert island?
Alex: Seashells.


(Alex and Daddy are walking down the cleaning products aisle at the grocery store.)
Alex: So many toys, Daddy. So many toys.


Alex: That’s the mama bird. Those are the mama birds. And the dada bird. And the grandma bird.


Alex: I’m cooking, Daddy!


Alex: Timeout’s over, Elly. You had timeout ‘cause you hurt Claire.

Eat my bread, duck.

Alex: I’m waiting for the rain to rain. To drop down from the s— bushes, from the trees.


Alex’s cracker: I have to go to sleep.
Alex: Wake up!
Alex’s cracker: I’m awake.


Alex: Let’s play trains for a minute.
Daddy: Okay, but just for a minute ‘cause we need to upstairs and take a bath.
Alex: Yeah. And it can rain on the dog he needs a umbrella.


Alex: Eat my bread, duck. Good job, duck. Here’s some one more!


Alex: I wanna go bye-bye.
Daddy: Where do you wanna go?
Alex: Go the park and feed the ducks.
Mommy: Oh, we did that already, we're not going to the park. Where else can we go?
Alex: Go get some bread.
Mommy: And what do we need bread for?
Alex: Throw it in the water. And they eat it all. And that can be fun.

We need more weeds.

Alex: Mommy, here I come! I got my – my dinosaur shirt. And I’m wearing my dog shirt.
Alex: Look Grommie, a dinosaur shirt. Dinosaur shirt, Grommie.


Alex: And that’s a ladder. And people climb on it. And it can fall over. You can’t climb on it. It’s dangerous.


(getting into Daddy’s car)
Alex: That’s a Cheerio. There’s a penny, Daddy! And another penny.
Daddy: What else?
Alex: And tissues. I’m climbing in Daddy’s car. I need a boost. And I climb in Mommy’s car.


Daddy: Who does Mommy love?
Alex: Alex.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: And she can’t pick me up ‘cause she’s tummy and she’s medicine.


(entering Alex's classroom)
Alex: We gonna do centers today!
Alex: I wanna go do farm.
Sydney: Hi, Alex!
Alex: I have a dinosaur on my shirt.


Alex: Let’s go outside. I need to pick weeds. I need to take my feet outside.


(Alex helps Daddy pick weeds.)

Alex: I’m a good helper!

Alex: We need more weeds.

Alex: It’s a beautiful day!
Daddy: It sure is.
Alex: It’s not raining, it’s not snowing. It’s not – it’s not sunny, it’s not cloudy. It’s not windy.
Daddy: What is it?
Alex: It’s a beautiful day.

Alex: It’s lunch time. It’s dinner time. We need to go inside and eat pizza. You need to cool off.
Daddy: Who needs to cool off?
Alex: Alex and Daddy and Mommy and Claire.

Alex: Oooh oooh I’m a monster. You need to run away from here.

Alex: Look that’s a big weed. A big weed. A big weed, Daddy.
Daddy: It sure is.
Alex: We need to use a shovel. A big shovel.

Daddy: Let’s go in and eat dinner.
Alex: No I’m playing.
Daddy: Okay, I’m gonna go in and get ready for dinner.
(Daddy goes inside and closes the front door. Alex comes up to the front door.)
Alex: Ding dong I need dinner.


(Daddy burps.)
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: What’s that?
Alex: That’s a googah.
Daddy: A googah!
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Where is it?
Alex: Right there on the floor.
Daddy: What’s it doing?
Alex: It’s playing music.
(Alex cracks himself up.)


Daddy: Alex, if you could be any kind of tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Alex: I don’t know… Don’t know… A big tree. I’d be a big tree.
Daddy: Good answer!


Daddy: Alex, if you were stranded on a desert island, and you could take just one thing with you, what would you take?
Alex (smiling): Bert and Ernie.


Alex: The house is quiet. The house is warm. The house is snug.
Daddy: The house is what?
Alex: The house is warm. The house is snug.


Alex: (mumbles)… kind of tree?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What would you take on a desert island?
Daddy: What did you ask?
Alex: What would you take on a desert island?
Daddy: I would take Alex.
Alex (laughs): You silly, Daddy.


Daddy: What’s the sound of one hand clapping?
Alex: Um, a frog foot.
Daddy: A frog foot?
Alex: Yeah.
Alex: Daddy, would you climb in a tree with a frog?
Alex: Mommy, would you go on a desert island?


Alex (putting Ernie in time out): Two minutes!
(pause)
Alex: Okay, timeout’s over. You got timeout for pushing Bert and the cat and the dog. And Bert.


Alex: Ernie needs timeout for pushing.
Ernie (whimpering): Alex. Need Alex.
Alex: Timeout’s over. You got timeout for pushing dog and Mommy and dog and Bert.

I got my hair cut.

Mommy: You want to go in the backyard?
Alex: It’s too windy.
Mommy: It’s too what?
Alex: It’s too windy. It’s too windy out there.


Alex: I don’t want a haircut.
Daddy: Why not?
Alex: It’s scary.


Alex: Daddy’s not giving me a haircut. Let’s play trains for a minutes, okay Mommy?


Alex (to Daddy): Those your big feet?


Alex: Look a big pile of dirt.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And there’s rocks. Water. And trucks.


Daddy: What did you do, Alex?
Alex: I got my hair cut.
Daddy: You did! Did you like it?
Alex: And I was angry.
Daddy: Why were you angry?
Alex: In the car.
Daddy: What car?
Alex: The yellow car. Look Daddy, a mail truck!
Mommy: Why were you angry? What made Alex angry?
Alex: My haircut.


Daddy: Alex, what’s your sister’s name?
Alex: Um, Claire.
Daddy: What’s Daddy’s name?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: You don’t know Daddy’s name?
Alex: I don’t know. Um… Grommie.
Alex (smiling): You a dog, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah I’m a dog.
Mommy: Woof woof.
Alex: Woof woof.
Daddy: Ruff.
Alex: No you not a dog. You a boy.
Daddy: Yeah, I’m a boy.
Alex: What’s Claire’s name?


Alex: Thanks Daddy, thanks to get my mask.

Up on the ceiling.

(Daddy comes home from work.)
Alex: Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy!


(Daddy throws Alex up in the air.)
Alex: I’m a baby!


Alex’s fork: Hi, water.


Alex: I’m the library. I need to get some books. I need to read books.
Alex (handing out imaginary books to Mommy and Daddy): Here’s one for you. Here’s one for you.
Alex: I need to get more books.
Alex: Here you go Claire. Here you go Daddy. Here you go Mommy.


Alex: The cat can’t go in the car.
Alex: The cat can’t go in the car.
Alex: He can’t go in the car.
Alex: He can’t go in the car.
Alex: He can’t go in the car.
Alex: He can’t go in the car.
Alex: He can’t go in the car.
Alex: He can’t go in the car, Daddy.
Alex: He can’t go in the car, Daddy.
Mommy: Do you need help, Alex?
Alex: Yeah I need help.


Alex: Let’s let the water out, Daddy.
Daddy: Good idea, it’s time to let the water out. Oh, you can do it!
Alex: And I go potty and wash hands and brush teeth. And all the games. That’s all the games you can.
Daddy: What’s all the games?
Alex: Toys and take a bath and you don’t got a shirt and bath time and potties and counters… and ears… and dragons and eggs and Elmos.


(Alex is lying on the floor looking up.)
Alex: Can’t go up there.
Alex: I can’t go up there.
Alex: I can’t go up there.
Alex: I can’t go up there.
Alex: I can’t go up there, Daddy.
Daddy: You can’t go up where?
Alex: Up on the ceiling.

(Daddy and Alex are looking out Alex's window.)
Alex: The boy’s going home from school. And he got a jackpack. Like Diego.
Daddy: He has a what?
Alex: A jetpack.


Daddy: Alex, do you want to put on PJs?
Alex: No, I don’t want to put on PJs.
Daddy: I want to put on PJs. Alex, put on my PJs.
Alex: I need to change your diaper first. You poopy.

(song time)
Mommy: What do you want to sing, Alex?
Alex: Sing buh-buh, bah-bah, oh-oh, uh.
Mommy: Every night!
Daddy (sings): Buh-buh, bah-bah, oh-oh, uh.
Alex (laughing): That’s not – that’s not a song!

You car's broken, Grandma?

Alex: It’s s’posed to rain.


Mommy: Alex, you want your breakfast?
Alex: Yes. I do, Mommy.


Alex: There’s poop. There’s poop. There’s poop, Daddy.
Daddy: Where’s poop?
Alex: In the cat.


Alex: I want some music.


(dinner time)

Alex: I need more popcorn and I need one more green bean.

Alex: I ate two green beans I need more popcorn.

Alex: I need more popcorn I need one grean bean.

Alex: You car’s broken, Grandma? You car’s broken?
Alex: And the man’s gonna fix your car? The man’s gonna fix your car?

Alex (regarding Grommie): He’s cleaning up Claire’s mess.


(Alex and Grandma are at the front door, watching the AAA man fix Grandma's car in the rain.)
Alex (to Grandma): It’s raining out there? The man was talking to you? The man was coming? Alex was ringing the bell. That your umbrella? Alex was ringing the bell. It’s raining out there? It was a red car. It drove away. A piece of trash. The trees blowing the wind. Can’t come out here ‘cause it’s too windy for me. I can’t come out here, Grandma, I can’t come out here. Another piece of trash. My piece of trash fell down. There’s the flowers, the hill, the trees. It’s raining? I was ringing the bell. Daddy! The man was coming to see Grandma. Hi, Grandma.

Daddy: You gonna tell the man thank you for fixing Grandma’s car?
Alex: No he’s scary.


Alex: And Nana’s gonna bring the farmer hat back to Alex. And Nana’s gonna come. And Pop too.


Alex: Let’s read a book. ‘Kay Daddy? Let’s read a book.


(Daddy is reading Alex a book about dinosaurs.)
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A flying dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Daddy: Hm, I don’t know.
Alex: A dinosaur.


(song time)

Alex: Sing telephone song.

Alex: I wanna sing, um, the closet song.

Alex: I wanna sing basket song.
Mommy (singing): A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket…
Alex: That’s not a song. Sing buh-buh, bah-bah, ti-ti, oh-oh.

Girls can't go to school.

Alex: I need to get her she’s book. Oh, she haves it.


(watching TV)
Diego: Is that a sloth?
Alex: No a monkey.
Diego: No. What kind of animal is that?
Alex: A monkey.
Diego: A monkey, right! A howler monkey!
Diego: Is this a sloth?
Alex: No.
Diego: Yes! We found him!


Alex: There’s a bird! And trees and flowers and mailboxes… and cars and bushes and houses… and toys and signs… and streets and sidewalkses.


Alex: Who’s that?
Daddy: I don’t know. It’s a girl.
Alex: The girl’s crying in the car. She don’t want to go to school.
Daddy: Why doesn’t she want to go to school?
Alex: ‘Cause she have to go home.
Alex: Girls can’t go to school. Boys can go to school. Girls go to… houses.


Daddy: Did you do snack?
Alex: Yeah and I watch River Dolphin.
Daddy: You watched River Dolphin?
Alex: Yeah and the TV’s off. She turned it off.
Daddy: She turned it off.
Alex: And I cried.


Daddy: What did you and Miss Alex do?
Alex: I don’t know play trains.
Daddy: You played trains and what else did you do?
Alex: I had snack.
Daddy: What else did you do?
Alex: Graham bunnies. I had graham bunnies and water and juice.


Alex: I ate a green bean, Daddy.


Alex: Can I have some more grapes? ‘Cause I need it.


Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A flying dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: A dinosaur.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: Hm, I don’t know.
Alex: A dinosaur.

You crashed Mommy's car. You have to get a new one.

Alex: I runned!


Alex: It’s a beautiful day!


(With Alex in the car, Daddy pulls the minivan a little too far into the garage.)
Alex: Daddy… You crashed Mommy’s car. You have to get a new one.


Alex: We saw seashells at the beach.


(song time)

Alex: I want to sing pants song.

Alex: I want to sing apple song.

Alex: I want to sing soap song.

Mommy: Okay, one more song.
Alex: How ‘bout soap soap soap song.
Mommy: Daddy just sang the soap song. Let’s sing Twinkle Twinkle.
Alex: Okay.

I need a knife.

Alex: Play with me, Daddy!


Alex: I need a knife.


Alex: Can I cook with you Mommy?


Alex: I did it, Daddy!


Alex: It was in your bag?
Daddy: What was in my bag?
Alex: Your computer in your bag?
Daddy: Yeah, it was in my bag.
Alex: You got it out?
Daddy: Yeah I got it out.


Alex: I gonna cry in bed.
Daddy: Why?
Alex: ‘Cause Daddy’s gonna come in.
Daddy: Why are you gonna cry?
Alex: In my crib.
Mommy: Why? Why are you gonna cry in your crib?
Alex: ‘Cause Daddy comes in.
Mommy: Daddy comes in when you’re crying? Or you’re crying because Daddy comes in?
Alex: ‘Cause he reads me a book.
Daddy: Why does Alex cry in bed?
Alex: 'Cause Daddy comes in.
Daddy: Does Daddy make Alex sad?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Daddy makes Alex sad?
Alex: Yeah.


Alex (running in place): Hi, I'm a runner!


Alex: You want to go to Pop’s house and Nana’s house and Renee’s house and Camden’s house and Dana’s house and Doug’s house and they gonna be all there. And I gonna talk with them!


(riding in the car)

Daddy: Do you see the rain on the window?
Alex: Yeah, and on the sign. And on the trees and on the bushes. And the bushes and the trees.
Alex: It was raining. It was raining, Mommy.
Alex: And it’s raining on the barns.

Alex: We going down the hill.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: And ‘round the bend.

Alex: Look, it’s a heart, Mommy.
Mommy: A heart?
Alex: Yeah. And it’s a octagon.


(Dana and Alex are on the swings.)
Dana: Whee, I can do it!
Alex: Whee, I can do it!
Dana: I love to swing so high!
Alex: I like to swing so high!
Dana: Whee, I can do it!
Alex: Whee, I can do it!
Dana: I can do it!
Alex: I can do it!
(Dana shrieks.)
(Alex shrieks.)
(Dana squeals.)
(Alex squeals.)
Alex: I can swing so high!
Dana: I can swing so high!
Alex: I can swing so high!
Dana: I can swing so high!
Alex: I can swing so high!
Dana: I can swing so high!
Alex: I can swing so high!
(twenty minutes later)
Alex: I can swing so high!
Dana: Don’t you wanna stop saying that over and over?
Alex: I can swing so high!
Dana: I can swing so high!
Alex: I can swing so high!


(Alex puts a blanket on his baby doll.)
Alex (singing): Rock-a my baby, on the treetop
Alex (singing): When the wind blows the cradle will rock
Alex (singing): When the cradle break, the cradle will fall
Alex (singing): And down come my baby, cradle and all


Alex: I wanna sing a baby song.
Mommy: Do you want to sing Baby Over The Ocean?
Alex: Yeah. And the bird go in the hole. And it was really dark.

They want Daddy!

(Alex and Claire are playing together.)

Alex: No, Claire!

Alex: Stop it.

Alex: It’s not she’s turn!

Alex: My bear!


(Alex is playing with toys.)
Alex: That’s the time out mat.
Alex: And they’re have to go to time out.
Alex (putting toys in time out): And you have time out there. And you have time out there. And you have time out there.
(Alex watches the toys for a moment.)
Alex: They want Daddy.


(song time)

Alex: I want to sing about Maisy.
Mommy: Maisy? What Maisy?
Alex: Go to bed.
Mommy: Okay. (singing) Maisy wants to go to bed --
Alex: And she want to go play outside. And take a rest.
Mommy (singing): Maisy plays outside, and she has to take a rest --
Alex: In the bed.
Mommy (singing): So she goes into the bed --
Alex: And she sees a bear in the door. And she ready to go downstairs.

Alex: I want to sing Daddy in the forest.
(Mommy sings a song about Daddy in the forest.)
Alex: And I want to sing Daddy sees a bush. And he walks in the forest.