Can you say again?

Alex: That’s Pooh, Claire. Can you say “Pooh”?


Alex: Can you talk to Big Tummy?


Alex: Mommy, come in here. Come in here. I miss you.


(Alex gives Duck to Daddy.)
Alex: There you go, Daddy. Claire took it from you. She’s sorry.


Alex: Look at me, Daddy. Look at me.


Alex: I have another runny nose can I have another tissue Daddy?


Alex (to Mommy and Daddy): Music! Music! I wanna dance together with you, okay?


Alex (to Mommy, who's reading her email): I wanna dance with you, are you done?


Daddy: Why were you sad?
Alex: I want to tell Mommy.
Daddy: Okay, you tell Mommy.
Mommy: Tell me why you were sad.
Alex: I was crying ‘cause I wanted to play trains, and then Daddy’s watch beeped, and then I came upstairs, and I wanted to go in Claire’s room, and then Claire was sleeping, and I wanted to read stories, and then I wanted to play house, and you came in.


(playing house)

Polar Bear: I wanna eat pizza.
Alex: Well - we just had pizza yesterday.

Alex: The driver’s gonna go potty, and the man will stay right here so the driver can be done, and the girl has to stay here with the man, and the baby will sit here with the driver, and the mommy will sit here in the chair, and the driver has to go potty again, he can go potty, and the chair can go here so the mommy has to sit here, and the daddy will sit right here.

Alex: Look at all the people!


(snack time)
Alex: Claire, you have to eat all of them. Eat your cookies too.
(Claire eats a cookie.)
(Mommy sneezes.)
Alex: Bless you Mommy.
Alex (to Claire): Eat the other cookies too. And eat your plum. It’s right there.
Alex: Can you eat your cookies too?
(Claire drinks some water.)
Alex: Eat your cookies, Claire.


Alex: Mommy’s gonna carry me, and you’re gonna carry Claire.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Mommy’s gonna carry me up the escalator. And I'm carried, and I'm gonna get down, and then I'm gonna play trains.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: That's what I'm gonna do.


(in the car)

Alex: I will share with the boys and girls.
Daddy: What did you say, Alex?
Alex: I will play with Thomas... and James. Not Bertie the Bus.

Mommy: Today he was back there talking and I said “What?” and he said "I'm talking -–"
Alex: I'm talking to Claire, Mommy.


(at Barnes & Noble)
Alex: Can I see the cake with peanuts?


Alex: I wanna put it in my pocket.
Daddy: Okay, put that rock in your pocket.
Alex: Can you open it?


Alex: Next time I fight with Claire, I want the car back.


(dinner time)

(Daddy provides Alex with a lengthy description of who will be at the beach and what beach activities are likely to occur.)
Alex: Can you say again?
(Daddy repeats the whole thing.)
Alex: Can you say again?
(Daddy repeats the whole thing.)
Alex: Can you say again?
(Daddy repeats most of it.)
Alex: Daddy's gonna bring me a kite and it will be big. And I will fly it and it will go up in the sky.
Daddy: That's right.
Alex: And I won't drop it in the sand.
(Alex pauses to eat.)
Alex: Can you say again, Daddy? Can you say again?
(Daddy repeats some of it.)
Alex: Can you say what – who’s at the beach? Can you say again?
(Daddy repeats who will be at the beach.)
Alex: Can you say again?
(Daddy quickly recites the names of the beach attendees.)
Alex: We're gonna get messy at the beach?
Daddy: Yep.
Alex: And we're gonna get our heads in the sand?
Daddy: Yep.
Alex: And sand castles?
Daddy: Yep. And what else?
Alex: I don’t know.
Alex: And then we're gonna go home.
Daddy: That’s right, we'll go home at the end of the week.

Alex: Where’s the beach?
Daddy: It's very far away.
Alex: Where is it?
Daddy: Um, it's… it's really near the ocean.
Alex: Is the sand in the ocean?
Daddy: Well, there is some sand in the ocean.
(Pause.)
Daddy: Alex, do you know why no one ever gets hungry at the beach?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Why?
Alex: Can you say it?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Say (mumble) (mumble) hungry beach.
Daddy: Why does no one ever get hungry at the beach?
Alex: Can you say it?
Daddy: What do you want me to say?
Alex: After the beach. (mumble) after the beach. (mumble) (mumble) and we won't have any food left.
Daddy: We won't have any food left?
Alex: Yeah.

(a short while later)
Alex: Daddy can – um who’s gonna be at the beach?
Daddy: Meg, Virginia, Aunt Sheridan, Uncle Jimmy, Uncle Ed, Uncle Kirk, and Grandma and Grandpa.
Alex: Can you say again?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Say again.


Alex: Scoot over to the wall too. Scoot really really fast. Scoot scoot scoot.
Daddy: You want me to scoot?
Alex: Scoot and scoot and scoot.


Mommy: I'm sorry, Claire wants to say night-night.
Claire: Nigh-nigh.


The Mommy (to The Baby): I will go to work, and I won't do anything.