Claire's Vocabulary (533)

Abby
after
again
air
airplane
Alex
all
animal
another
apple
applesauce
arm
Ashleigh
at
ate
away
baby
back
backpack
bag
ball
balloon
banana
Band-Aid
bang
barbecue sauce
basket
bath
bathroom
be
beans
bear
bed
beep
Bert
Bertie
beside
bib
big
Big Bird
bike
bin
bird
birthday
blanket
bless you
blocks
blue
blueberries
boat
Bob
Bobo
bone
boo-boo
book
bow
bowl
box
boy
bracelet
breakfast
bridge
broccoli
broke
broken
brush
bubble
bucket
bug
bump
bumpy
bunny
burp
butter
butterfly
button
by
bye-bye
cabinet
cake
came
Campbell
car
cards
carrots
carry
cat
catch
cave
cereal
chair
change
cheek
Cheerios
cheese
chew
chick
chicken
chin
chip
chocolate
choo-choo
circle
Claire
Clifford
climb
clip
clock
close
closet
clothes
c'mon
coat
coffee
cold
color
computer
cookie
Cookie Monster
cool
cough
counter
cow
crash
crayon
cream
crust
crusty
crying
cup
cupcake
cut
Daddy
Dana
dance
dark
deer
diaper
did
different
dinner
dinosaur
dirt
dirty
Doc
dog
doggie
dolphin
done
Dora
dot
down
downstairs
Downtown
dragon
drawer
dress
drink
drive
driveway
drop
drops
dry
duck
dump
Dylan
ear
eat
egg
eight
elephone
Elly
Elmo
Elmo's World
Emily
end
engine
Ernie
eye
face
fall
fast
feet
find
finger
fire engine
fire truck
firefighter
fish
fit
five
flag
flashlight
flew
floor
flower
fly
food
foot
fork
four
fries
frog
froggy
funny
garden
gate
George
Gerald
get
giraffe
girl
give
go
goat
gone
good morning
Gossie
got
Grandma
green
Grommie
Grover
hair
hand
hang
happy
hat
have
head
heavy
hello
help
heroes
hi
high
him
hippo
hold
home
honey mustard
hood
horse
horsey
hot
house
hug
hungry
hurt
I
ice
Iha
in
is
it
jacket
James
job
juice
Juju
jump
keep
key
kids
kiss
kitchen
knock knock
lap
lawnmower
leg
let
Liam
lick
lid
lie down
life cereal
light
lion
loud
Love Shack
Luigi
machine
mailbox
Maisy
make
Mallory
Mama
man
mat
Mater
me
medicine
Meg
milk
mine
minute
monkey
moo
moon
moose
more
Morgan
motorbike
motorcycle
mountain
mouse
mouth
move
Muck
mud
muffin
mulch
my
name
Nana
nap
napkin
neck
need
Neer
nice
night-night
nine
no
nope
nose
nugget
Oakley
octopus
of
off
oh
okay
on
one
onion
open
orange
Oscar
other
ouch
out
outside
over
owl
paint
pan
pants
pasta
pear
pee-pee
penguin
Pets
phone
pick
picture
pig
pigtails
pillow
pink
pizza
PJs
plane
plate
play
Play-Doh
playground
playroom
please
pocket
poop
poopy
Pop
potty
Preston
puddle
pull-up
push
puzzle
quack
raccoon
read
ready
red
right
rinse
rip
rock
rocket
roll
room
Rosie
rug
run
sack
sad
sandwich
sauce
sausage
school
school bus
Science Kid
Scruffey
second
see
see you later
seven
shade
sheep
sheet
shine
shirt
shoe
shot
shower
Sid
sidewalk
sink
sit
six
sleep
sleepy
sleeve
slide
snack
snail
snake
snow
snowman
soap
sock
sofa
soft
special treat
spider
splash
spoon
squirrel
stairs
stand
stem
stem
step
sticker
Stickers
sticky
stool
stop
strawberry
string
stroller
stuck
sun
sunny
sunny
swings
table
tail
take
tape
teeth
ten
that
them
there
these
these
this
Thomas
those
three
throw
thumb
tickle
tiger
tight
timeout
toast
Toby
toes
tongue
Topham Hat
towel
tower
toy
track
tractor
trade
train
trash
tray
tree
truck
tummy
tunnel
turn
Turner
turtle
TV
two
uh-oh
under
up
upstairs
Virginia
waffle
walk
wall
want
wash
watch
water
waterfall
way
wet
why
window
wipe
with
woof
worm
wow
yard
yay
yeah
yellow
yes
yogurt
you
your
yum
zipper
Zoe

Uh Mommy’s head uh neck.

(playing downstairs)

Alex: Hey Daddy, do you wanna play shopping carts and make dinner?
Daddy: Well, Claire said she wanted to play trains.
Alex: But I don’t – all right, let’s play trains!

(Alex and Claire are playing with bouncy balls.)
Claire: Where my ball?
Daddy: Where’d it go?
Claire: Oh, under the table, I’ll go get it!

Claire (jumping): Boing… boing… boing… boing.

Alex (playing with his toy dog): He’s rolling in poop.

Alex: We didn’t go to Busch Gardens in a long time. That was fun. You wanna do that again?

Alex: Watch this, Daddy. Daddy, watch this. I slide down here.
(He does.)
Daddy: Yay!
Alex: And… Daddy watch this.
Daddy: Okay. Neat!

Claire: Get down!
Alex: No.
Claire: Get down, Ay-yah! Get down!!
Alex: No I can’t get down.
Claire: Why?
Alex: Because I’m stuck. In the spider web.

(Daddy is on the phone with Aunt Sheridan. Alex shouts at Daddy, or possibly at the phone.)
Alex: You have gas!
Alex: I smell it!

Alex: The sailboat is all mine!!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah because I’m a pirate!! Superpowers are not for you, ka-chow!!


(Alex, Claire, and Daddy go to the park with Aunt Sheridan, Virginia, Meg, and Maddie.)

Claire: Uh Virginia and Meg is?

Claire: Uh Maddie is?

Claire: Uh Meg is?

Claire: Uh play swings.


Alex: If you don’t have anything to wear, and no one puts anything on you, you wouldn’t wear anything.
Daddy: That’s right.


(lunch time)

(Mommy is tired, so she puts her head down on the table.)
Claire (whining): Head uh neck.
Claire (whining): Uh head uh neck.
Claire (whining): Uh head uh neck.
Claire (whining): Uh head uh neck.
Daddy: You want Mommy’s head on her neck?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire (whining): Uh head uh neck.
Claire (whining): Uh Mommy’s head uh neck.
Claire (whining): Uh Mommy’s head uh neck.
Mommy (sitting up, reluctantly): Okay, Claire.


Claire: Uh run very fast. Uh run very fast.
Mommy: Last time.
(Claire runs.)


Alex: Daddy, Mommy has a pretty yellow shirt, and I have a pretty yellow shirt, but you have a green shirt, and Claire has blue.


(Alex and Daddy are talking about school.)
Alex: And Kate might be there, I like Kate. But I don’t like Carter. But sometimes I like her when she says funny things.

That's all it didn't have.

Daddy: Hey Claire, tell Mommy what we did.
Claire (smiling): Nothing. Nothing.
Daddy: What?
Claire (smiling): Nothing.
Daddy: Nothing?
Claire (smiling): Yeah.
Mommy: Crazy kid.
Claire: Nothing.
Alex: Claire? We didn’t do anything in the car? We didn’t do anything?
Claire (smiling): No, nothing.
Alex (tickling Claire): Yes we did, do some things. Silly Claire! I wanna hold hands. And give hugs.
(Alex and Claire start playing the holding hands game.)


(The following remarks were made while washing hands before nap.)

Claire: Big bubbles, Mommy! Big bubbles!

Claire: Big bubbles, Mommy! Big bubbles!

Claire: Big bubbles, Mommy! Big bubbles!

Claire: Big bubbles, Mommy! Big bubbles!


(Snack time. Alex and Claire are eating dried banana slices, and notice that their shapes resemble other things.)

Alex: I have a circle; and a moon.
Mommy: That’s right!
Alex: The sun’s like a circle, and the moon’s like… a boat.

Claire: Sort of a moon!

Claire: Truck! Truck.
Daddy: Is that one a truck?
Claire: Yeah a truck.
Alex: These ones are cars! These ones are cars! These ones are cars!
Daddy: Are those cars?
Alex: Yeah.
Alex: Mouse! This one’s a mouse!
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Mouse! There go. There go. There go.
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Ladybug, Daddy, ladybug!
Daddy: Ladybug, neat!
Alex: A moon! What does this look like? What does this look like? What does this look like, Daddy?
Daddy: What does it look like?
Alex: It looks like a tool that you can snap with. It looks like ears now! It’s a head.
Claire: Bug – bug! Bug, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah it is a bug!
Claire: Bug.
Alex: Look this looks like a elephant with a trunk.
Claire: Bug! Bug, Daddy! Bug. Ay-yah, bug. Bug. Daddy, bug.
Daddy: Yeah, bug!
Claire: Ah.
Claire: Car! Choo-choo train.
Alex: I got a whole lot of Cheerios in my mouth!
Claire: Choo-choo train.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (referring to Claire’s dried banana slice): It looks like a plane, Daddy.
Claire: Choo-choo train! Choo-choo train. Choo-choo train.
Alex (to Claire): Go back to the choo-choo trains that we saw yesterday?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex (to Daddy): Can we go back to the choo-choo trains?
Daddy: Um, not today.
Alex: Not today, Claire. Tomorrow we can go see them. Right, Daddy?
Daddy: Not tomorrow either. But sometime soon.
Alex: Okay. Sometime, Claire.
Claire: Airplane!


Daddy: Hey Alex, tell Mommy about the car we saw today.
Alex: The funny car. It didn't have doors, it didn't have a roof, it didn't have windows, it didn't have um... It didn't have um... It didn’t have um… It didn’t have um… It didn’t have um… It didn’t have um… It didn't have... That's all it didn't have.


(dinner time)

Alex: Hey Mommy, I thought at the park yesterday we could take our lunch there, and eat it, at the picnic tables, they have picnic tables!

Mommy: That’s a good idea, Alex, we can do that one day, have a picnic.
Alex: On Wednesday.


(Grommie comes into the bathroom while Alex is getting ready for bed.)
Alex: Dogs shouldn't be in the bathroom.
Daddy: That’s right, that’s silly.
Alex: Dogs don't take baths.
Daddy: No, they don't.
Alex: They take baths when they roll in poop.

Trains need to chug, Grommie!

Daddy: What did you do with Mommy this morning?
Alex: Um, swing at the library playground, swing here, go to the park and see the big train, see the blue(?) train, go to Mommy’s friend’s house and see the train, ride my tricycle, and that was it.


(Alex and Claire are having snack at the train table.)
Alex: This is a little snack party.
Daddy: Yeah, a snack party.
Alex: That’s what I call it. That’s what some people call it.

(Grommie is blocking the kids from getting around the train table.)
Alex: Trains need to chug, Grommie!

(Alex and Claire are playing trains.)
Alex: Don’t do that.
Claire: Why?
Alex: Because it’s my engine.
Claire: Why uh Alex engine?
Alex: Because it lives in my bed.
Claire: Okay.

Alex: Daddy, you scraped me. Your toe scraped me.
Daddy: I know, I sat perfectly still and you scraped up against it.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Daddy don’t talk like that, you’re nice!

(Alex picks up the toy phone.)
Alex: Hello? You need to put the cookies in the ‘frigerator.
(Alex hangs up the phone.)

(Claire sets her bear on the floor.)
Claire: Sit down, bear!

(Claire and Alex are “eating dinner”.)
Alex: Claire, the cookies are all done in the microwave. Can you go get ‘em out of it?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: The green thing.
Alex: Yeah, that.
Claire: Eat it!
Alex: No. Get them outta that, and put them on the bear’s plate.
Alex: Put it here. Right there. Thanks.
Claire: Thanks, Ay-yah.

Alex: No. It’s my breakfast, Claire.
Claire: Why?
Alex: Because it is. Because it goes down into my tummy. Isn’t that what happens? And then, you don’t get to get them.


Daddy: It’s called a apple baker.
Alex: Apples are yummy!
Daddy: So are bakers.
Alex: No! Bakers aren’t food!
Daddy: What are they?
Alex: A cabinet!
Daddy: A cabinet?
Alex: Yeah. No, a coffee maker.


(dinner time)

Claire (holding out a piece of broccoli): Daddy, big! Big!
Daddy: Big? Oh yeah, that’s a big one!
Claire: Big, Daddy!

Is Busch Gardens over?

Alex: Yesterday when Claire was sick, she coughed REALLY, HARD.


(Riding in the car to Busch Gardens, Claire covers her face with Juju.)
Claire: Daddy! Where are you?


(The following remarks were made throughout the day at Busch Gardens.)

Alex: I wanna go see the other Sesame Street friends.

Alex: I wanna give Elmo a hug.

Alex: I gave Elmo a hug!

Claire: Bye-bye Elmo!

(While riding on the train, Alex sees the roller coaster go by.)
Alex: Wow!

Alex: And Bert tried to take your soda.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah Bert had your drink. That's someone else’s drink!

(Claire just rode her first amusement park ride.)
Claire: Uh rode a dragon!

Claire: Dinosaur!

(Claire just rode on the carousel.)
Claire: Uh ride horse!

Alex: I don't wanna go home, I wanna go on another ride.

Alex: Is Busch Gardens over?


Daddy: Hey Alex, did you have fun?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Claire, did you have fun?
Claire (smiling): No.
Alex: I gave – I be friends, because I gave Elmo a hug.
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: And I gave Ernie a hug and I gave Bert a hug.


(washing hands for dinner)

Alex: Hey Daddy? At Busch Gardens, that dog walked like a person!

Alex: Mommy, that dog walked like a person at Busch Gardens.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Claire, what did you do today?
Claire: Uh bug on table!
Daddy: Is there a bug on the table? Get off, bug!
Daddy: Alex, what did you do today?
Alex: Um… give Elmo a hug.
Daddy: Yeah? That’s right.
Alex: Give Sesame Street, friends, a hug.

Daddy: Let's see, what else did you do today?
Alex: I gave Big Bird hugs... Ernie hugs... Bert hugs... and Cookie Monster hugs.

Alex: But I didn't give Grover hugs, or Zoe hugs, or Abby hugs.
Daddy: Well maybe next time we can give them some hugs, okay?
Alex: Okay.

(Claire has finished her dinner and left the table.)
Claire: Uh go in circle!
Mommy: You're gonna go in a circle? Okay.
(Claire runs around in a circle.)
Claire: Fast!
Mommy: That was fast!
Claire: Uh run.
Mommy: You're gonna run in a circle?
Claire: Run fast.
(Claire runs off.)
Claire: Fast!

Claire: One two, one, two.
Mommy: Okay.
Claire: Uh jump.
Mommy: Okay.

Daddy: You ready to get down?
Alex: Um, yeah. But first I have to eat my strawberries. Strawberries don't go in trash.
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Uh running. Uh running, uh run.
Mommy: Ok.
(Claire runs, then stops.)
Claire: Uh running. Uh running.
Mommy: You're running.

Claire: Ru -- runner. Uh fast runner.
Mommy: You're a very fast runner.
(Claire runs around some more.)
Claire: Fast runner.
Mommy: Fast runner.
Claire: Uh ran at you. Uh run, Mommy.
(Claire runs to Mommy.)

(Now Alex and Claire are both running around downstairs. They accidentally crash into each other hard, knocking Claire down.)
Alex: Sorry, Claire.
Claire: Sorry, Ay-yah. Run into you.

Alex: Hey, Mommy? Say "whoa, Alex" when I run.
Mommy: Okay.
(Alex runs.)
Mommy: Whoa, Alex!

Claire: Uh whoa Claire.
Mommy: Okay, I'll say "Whoa Claire."
Claire (running): Whoa Claire!
Mommy: Whoa Claire!


(Alex is sitting on the potty.)
Alex: Daddy, the -- the poop may come out and [in a singsong voice] I may get a piece of chocolate!

Alex: I'm gonna poop!
(Pause.)
Alex: I'm really big, I can poop!
Mommy: Yeah!
Alex: It’s almost out.
Mommy: I guess I better go get some chocolate.
Alex: Yum.


Alex: Grommie’s tryin’ to lick me.
Daddy: He is, ‘cause he loves you so much.
(Grommie very persistently tries to lick Alex’s face.)
Alex: That’s enough, Grommie.


(bed time)
Mommy: What do you wanna do after nap?
Alex: Can we go back to Busch Gardens?

Uh, sheep. Sheep! Cow, cow. Goat. Goat. Pig. Goat. Cat. Cat. Dog. Cow. Cow, cow cow cow cow. Dog. Cat!

(Daddy comes home from work.)
Alex: Daddy!
Daddy: Hey kiddo, how you doin'?
Alex: Hi Daddy!
Alex (to Mommy): That's Daddy.


Daddy: Hey Alex, where are we going after this nap?
Alex: We're going to Busch Gardens.
Daddy: That's right!

Daddy: And Alex, what are we gonna do at Busch Gardens?
Alex: We're gonna play.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: And who are we gonna see there?
Alex: Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie.
Daddy: Are you excited?
Alex: Cookie Monster and Grover, Abby and Zoe.
Daddy: And are you excited?
Alex: Yeah.


Claire: Daddy, water!
(Claire brings Daddy an empty Gatorade bottle.)
Claire (to Alex): Uh Daddy water!
Alex: No it's a egg.
Claire: Egg water.
Alex: Egg.


(Alex and Claire are playing with shopping carts.)
Alex: Chucklehead!
Claire: Chucklehead!
Alex: Chucklehead!
Claire: Chucklehead!
Alex: We're going to Chucklehead!

(Claire is reading a book.)
Alex: Hey. Claire. Can we go to Chucklehead's?
Claire: No. I reading a book.

(Claire wants Alex to read with her.)
Claire: Ay-yah!
Claire: Ay-yah!
Claire: Ay-yah!
Claire: Ay-yah!
Alex: What, Claire?
Claire: Uh read a book.
Alex: Read what?
Claire: Book.
Alex: No.
(Alex starts looking at something else and ignores Claire.)
Claire: Uh read.
Claire: Uh read.
Claire: Uh read.
Claire: Please?
Claire: Uh read.
Claire: Uh read.
Claire: Uh read.
Alex: I can't read.
Claire: Why?
Alex: Because I'm not big, it's a too, long, story.

(Claire finishes reading a book to herself.)
Claire: The end. The eb'd. The eb'd.


(Claire is reading Big Red Barn aloud to herself. On most pages she touches each object as she names it.)
Claire: One flower, one flower, one flower, one flower, one flower, one flower. One flower. One flower.
Claire: One horse, one horse.
Claire: One cow, one cow. Dig.
Claire: One goat, one goat, one goat, one goat. Sheeps. One goat. One, uh, pig. Uh (mumble) pig.
Claire: Sheep. Goat. Duck.
Alex: Right, Claire! Claire said goat!
Daddy: Good job, Claire!
Claire: Butterflies.
Claire: Egg!
Claire: Bird.
Claire: Purple. Purple.
(Claire mumbles.)
Claire: Those. Moo. Dat! M--Mommy. Dat! Dat!
Daddy: That's a chicken.
Claire: Chickens.
Claire: Duh -- cat. Cat!
Claire: Cat. Goat.
Claire (flipping back a couple of pages): Uh goat other page.
Claire: Sheep.
Claire: Cows!
Claire: Cow, cow cow cow cow cow cow cow. Dog.
Claire: Cow, cow. Pig! Cow, cow. Pig.
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh!
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh!
(Claire whispers something.)
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh.
Claire (whispering): Moon.
Claire: The end.
Claire: Yay.
(Claire puts the book down, then picks it back up again.)
Claire: Mommy, uh reading a book!
Mommy: You're reading a book?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire: Cows. Dat! What dat, Mommy? Dat.
Mommy: Chicken!
Claire: Chicken.
Claire: Dogs. Cat! Cat.
Claire: Uh, sheep. Sheep! Cow, cow. Goat. Goat. Pig. Goat. Cat. Cat. Dog. Cow. Cow, cow cow cow cow. Dog. Cat!
Claire: Cow. Cow. Cow, cow, cow, pig. Cow. Cow. Cow. Cow, cow.
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh.
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh!
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh.
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Shhhh.
Claire: The end.

(Claire reads Blue Hat, Green Hat to herself.)
Claire: Hat! Hat. Hat. Hat.
(Pause.)
Claire (turning the page): Page!
Claire: Shirt. Shirt. Shirt.
Claire: Shirt.
Claire: Boo shirt. Pants. Boo pants. Red pants. Yellow pants. Ye -- yellow pants. Green, yellow, pants.
Claire: Coat. Coat.
Claire: One coat. Uh two coats. One coat. One, two, shoes. Feets!
Claire: Shoes. Feets. Shoes, shoes, shoes.
Claire: The… shoes, shoes. The… end.
Claire: Yay.

(Claire reads Thomas: Shapes and Sizes to herself. Page turns indicated.)
Claire: Little. Big!
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Little. Big!
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Big. Little. Bertie. Thomas.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Topham Hatt. Man. Thomas. Bye Topham Hatt.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: James. Thomas.
Claire: The end.
(Claire puts the book down.)
Claire: Uh read it again.
(Claire picks up the book again.)
Claire: Big! Little.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Li -- big. Little.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Bertie. Thomas.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Topham Hatt. Man. Bye Topham Hatt. Bye Topham Hatt. Bye Topham Hatt. Bye uh, Thomas. Bye man.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: James, Thomas.
(Claire argues with Mommy for a few minutes about something unrelated, then finally turns her attention back to the book.)
Claire: The end.

(Claire reads Blue Hat, Green Hat.)
Claire: Hat! Hat. Hat. Hat.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Shirt. Shirt. Shirt.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Pa -- red pants. Two f-- red. Red pants. Red! Yellow, pants. Yellow, yuh.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Coat! Coat!
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Shoes. Shoes.
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Shoes. Shoes. Feets! Feets! Shoes!
(Claire turns the page.)
Claire: Shoes. Shoes.
(Claire closes the book.)
Claire: The end.
Claire: Yay.

(Claire reads Big Red Barn to herself. Page turns not indicated.)
Claire: Moo-moo. Open the doors! Open the door, uh sleeping!
Claire: Bird.
Claire: Bird. Goat. Goat. Goat.
Claire: Butterfly, butterflies, butterflies.
Claire: Moo-moo, butterfly, right there.
Claire: Cat, moo-moo.
Claire: Ki -- chickens. Cows.
Claire: Cat!
Claire: Sheep.
Claire: Goat. Goat. Cow. Cow, sheep. Sheep. Cows, cows. Goat. Goat, cat, cat. Dog. Dog. Dog. Dog. Dog. Cat. Dog. Cat.
Claire: Dat!
Claire: Grass, grass. Pig.
Claire: (Mumble.) Chicken!
Claire: Cow. Goat, cow. Cow. Goat, goat, goat. Pig! Grass.
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Goat. Sh.
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire: Sh.
(Claire whispers something.)
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire (with her finger to her lips): Sh.
(Claire whispers something.)
Claire: Theeee… end there.
Daddy: Claire, you're a good reader!
Claire: No good reader! No good reader.
Daddy: Yes you are, you're a very good reader.
Claire (smiling): No good reader. No good reader.

(Claire reads Big Red Barn again.)
Claire: Open doors.
Claire: Cow, cow.
(Claire closes the book and puts it, and all the other books, into her shopping cart. Then she drives away.)
Daddy: Bye, Claire!
Claire: Bye, Daddy!
Daddy: Where you going?
Claire: Elmo's house. Go Elmo house. To Elmo house.


(Daddy is tickling Alex.)
Alex (laughing): Mommy! Mommy, save me!
Mommy: I can't save you, Alex, you'll have to save yourself.
Mommy: Maybe Claire can save you.
Alex: Claire, save me!
Claire: Uh reading books, Ay-yah.


(dinner time)

Alex: Grommie digged in the garden.
Daddy: Grommie digged in the garden?
Alex: Yeah and Mommy told him no. He's not supposed to do that.

Alex: Mommy? Mommy? Thank you for our dinner.

Alex: May I have some more milk? May I have some milk, please?
Daddy: Yes you may, Alex! I like the way you ask!
Alex: I can use my manners.
Daddy: Yes you can.

Alex: Milk makes you healthy.

Mommy (to Claire): Do you have long legs?
Claire: No! Uh have short, leg.

Alex: Expensive!
Daddy: What?
Alex: Expensive!
Daddy: What's expensive?
Alex: The trains.

(Daddy and Alex are talking about cutting Grommie's hair.)
Daddy: I don't think Grommie would like that.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: What if someone cut off all your hair? You wouldn't have any hair!
Alex: Yes you would. That's silly.
Alex: Pop doesn't have hair. He cut off, all his hair!


(at bed time, totally unprompted)
Alex: Daddy? When I'm a Daddy, I can clean up the dishes.

But you were scared because there's a bear?

Alex: And can we talk about my dream?
Mommy: One last time, okay?


(Mommy is putting Alex down for nap, and they are discussing bad dreams. Mommy tells Alex about a dream she had in which she couldn’t find Daddy.)
Mommy: And I was scared.
Alex: But you were scared because there's a bear?
Mommy: No, there was no bear.
Alex: There's a lion?
Mommy: No, there was no lion. I was scared because I lost Daddy.
Alex: But you could hear Daddy?
Mommy: No, I couldn't hear Daddy.
Alex: Did you hear a noise?
Mommy: No.
Alex: Any noise?
Mommy: No, but I finally found him.
Alex: Was he (mumble) -- behind a fence?
Mommy: He was in a building. But then I saw him --
Alex: Was he in the forest in a building?
Mommy: Yeah, he was in a building.
Alex: He was in a restaurant?


Alex (excited about a UPS delivery): I got a new thing, that the brown truck brought!


(Claire and Alex are playing trains.)

Claire (pretending not to see Rosie): Uh Rosie?
Daddy: Uh Rosie?
Claire: Right there!

Claire: Uh train, uh fast, my train, go fast!

Claire: Uh train go fast!

Alex: They raced really fast, until they got to the mighty Spencer!
Alex (to Daddy): I don't have Spencer yet.
Daddy: No.
Alex: They got to James and Rosie!
Claire: Rosie right there!

Alex: Look Daddy! They can't drive until Rocky got there.
Daddy: Yeah!

(Claire's train stops on top of the arch.)
Claire: Up on the mountain! Mommy -- Daddy. Up on the mountain!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Drive!
(Claire moves her train.)

Claire: Uh train to go uh first!

Claire (running to the window): Airplane's coming.
Alex (running to the window): Airplane! Where is it?
Claire: Where is it?

Alex: Up up, until they reach the top.
Claire: Up up.
Alex: Until they reach the top Claire, say that.
Claire: Reach top!
Alex: Right!

Alex: Hey Claire, move outta my way!

Claire (looking out the window): Coming!
Alex: What is coming?
Claire: Airplane coming. Airplane coming.
Alex: It's a lawwwwn, mowwww, wer!!

Alex: Can you get Rosie outta the way, Claire, so they can go?

Alex: So they raced away.


Alex: Watch this jump, Daddy!
Alex: Are you watching?
Daddy: Yeah.
(Alex jumps.)
Alex: Wasn't that big?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Watch jump.
Claire: Watch jump, Daddy.
(Claire jumps.)
Claire: Watch jump, Mommy -- uh Daddy.
(Claire jumps.)
Claire: Watch jump, Muh -- Daddy.
(Claire jumps.)


(Alex looks in the toy refrigerator.)
Alex: We don't have any cheese!


(Alex and Claire are playing with their new shopping carts.)
Daddy: Do you like your new toys?
Alex: Yeah.
Claire: Like new toy.
Daddy: Where'd you get that new toy?
(Claire fusses.)
Alex: From the brown truck!
Alex (more quietly): From Mommy.


(Alex is playing with Ernie and Bert.)
Alex: Ernie doesn't have any eyebrows.
Alex: Ernie doesn't have any eyebrows?
Daddy: No he doesn't.
Daddy: Does Bert have any eyebrows?
Alex: Yes he does he has one eyebrow.


Alex (to his bear): You're a good boy.
Mommy: You're a good boy too, Alex.
Alex: Yes I am!
Alex: And I'm Chucklehead. That's what Daddy calls me.


(bath time)
Alex: What's that?
Daddy: This is your shampoo.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Poo is yucky. Poo starts with yucky.

And Carter smacked Kate in the face. At circle time.

Alex: We can play trains if there’s no school. But there’s school today.
(Pause.)
Alex: What’s today?
Daddy: Today is Tuesday.
Alex: I like Tuesday!
(Pause.)
Alex: But Mondays are yucky. We don’t like Mondays.


(Claire and Alex are playing trains.)

(Claire puts Rosie in the tunnel.)
Claire (playfully pretending): Uh Rosie? Uh Rosie go?
Alex: She's in the tunnel!
Claire (still playing): Uh Rosie?
Mommy (playing along with Claire): Where's Rosie?
Alex: She's in the tunnel!

Toby: Thanks! Thanks for pulling me around the island!
Daddy: Who said that?
Alex: Toby said that. He's a tram engine.

(Toby is blocking Claire’s train.)
Claire: Uh Toby move away!


(Alex is mad at Mommy.)
Alex: You’re not nice!
Mommy: No, I'm not. I'm not always nice.
Alex (angrily): Yes you are!


Alex: Is Mommy gonna make dinner?
Daddy: Yeah.
Daddy (to Alex): Are you gonna make dinner? Are you gonna make some real dinner? ‘Cause I’m hungry.
Alex: Hahaha! That's silly.


(dinner time)

Claire (whining loudly): Mommy! Uh Mommy!
Mommy (sitting at her computer): Claire, what do you need?
Claire (whining loudly): Mommy! Uh sit! Sit with me!
Mommy (sternly): I’m not coming over there if you keep whining.
Claire (whining loudly): Please!

Zoe spoon: I’m gonna get – I’m gonna get a strawberry for you, Alex.


(Alex is telling Daddy about school today.)
Alex: And Carter smacked Kate in the face. At circle time.

Daddy! Storm coming!

(snack time)

Alex: Look, the blueberries look like thunder, Daddy. Look.
Daddy: What do they look like?
Alex: They look like thunder.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Look! Look at them. It goes up – down. That’s how thunder is.

Claire (with a big grin): Daddy! Storm coming!
Daddy: What’s coming?
Claire: Storm!
Daddy: Yeah!


(dinner time)

Daddy: Hey Alex? Claire’s already eating dinner, you wanna come?
Alex: No, I’m playing trains.
Daddy: Okay, see you at dinner.
Alex: James and Toby and Thomas. They’re tryin’ to work on their branch line.

The dentist is gonna be so proud of me.

(The neighbor’s car is parked in a different spot from usual.)
Alex: Oakley parked his car in front of that house!

(Claire jumps into the pillows.)
Claire: Big jump!

(Claire rocks in the little rocking chair.)
Claire: Rock-a-bye baby, on, tree, top
(Claire laughs.)

Claire (shaking finger): One, two, three, four, nine, ten, one, two, three! Four! Nine! Teeeen!
(Claire jumps into the pillows.)
Mommy and Daddy: Good job, Claire!
Claire: Big jump.


Alex: Does chocolate go into the potty?
Mommy: Um, it goes into your poop.
Alex: And does it go into the potty?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: And water.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: But it’s pee.
Mommy: That’s right!


Alex: But - I don't know what money is.


(dinner time)

Claire: Ah more waff – ah more toast, Daddy. Ah mo toast.
Daddy: Here’s some more toast, sweetie.
Alex: That’s why Mommy went to the bank.
Daddy: Why did she go?
Alex: Because she needs something.

Alex: We’ve forgotten the crackers!
Daddy: Oh no!
Alex: No, that’s just on the show. I was just saying part of the movie.
Daddy: I know.

Alex: Look at this long piece of cheese.
Daddy: Yeah it’s really long.
Alex: Yeah it’s huge to me. It’s huge to me, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.

(For the past several minutes, Claire and Alex have been running around making wubba wubba sounds.)
Alex: Claire, I’m done with that game. I’m done with that game.
Alex: Can we take a rest now and make dinner?
Claire: Yeah.
(Alex and Claire run off to make dinner.)


(brushing teeth)
Alex: The dentist is gonna be so proud of me.

(In the bath, Alex notices that he is casting multiple shadows on the wall.)
Alex (sort of singing): Hi, lotta Alexes! Lotta Alexes! Lotta Alexes dancing! Dancing dancing dancing!


Claire (talking in her sleep): Two trains. Two trains. Mommy.

Pop’s at Nana’s house. He has no hair.

(For some unknown reason, Alex is pretending that Pop is “Papa”.)

Alex: That’s not Pop. He looks like Pop, but – but – but – he has hair, so he’s not Pop.

Claire: Uh Mommy?
Daddy: Mommy’s still in the backyard, working with Pop.
Alex:That's Papa.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: Pop’s at Nana’s house. He has no hair.


(Alex talks about his dreams.)
Alex: But if the dog ate me? I would go into his poop.


(lunch time)

Alex: You’re a monster.
Daddy: I’m not a monster.
Alex: No we pretend you’re the monster.
Daddy: Okay, we’ll pretend I’m the monster.
Alex: No, we pretend you’re the monster.
Daddy: Okay, let’s pretend I’m the monster.
Alex: You’re the drinkin’ monster.
Daddy: I’m the drinkin’ monster?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What does the drinkin’ monster do?
Alex: Nothing. He just drinks.

(Claire sees a box of Life cereal on the counter.)
Alex: I wanna see Cheerio man.

Alex’s graham cracker: Hello, Claire. I’m a graham cracker!


(Alex and Claire are playing with beach balls in the family room.)

(Alex throws his beach ball at the TV.)
Alex: I threw it at the TV!
Mommy: Don’t throw it at the TV.
Alex: I didn’t.

(One of the beach balls lands in Mommy’s computer chair.)
Alex: It’s computer ball! Workin’ on her computer!

(Alex throws his ball at Claire.)
Mommy: Alex, don’t do that.
Alex: But I said sorry.

Alex (to Claire): Sorry!


Alex: Mommy, I’m watching you bake muffins.

Dat! Chocolate! Yay!

(Alex’s two bits of waffle are touching each other.)
Alex: Look! It’s put together that way isn’t that funny like a machine?
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex (laughing): It’s like scissors.


(Claire is reading her animal magazine.)

Claire (pointing to the number 2): A!

Claire: Dat!
Daddy: F.
Claire: F. Dat!
Daddy: A.
Claire: A. Dat!
Daddy: M.
Claire: M. Dat!
Daddy: I.
Claire: I. Dat!
Daddy: L.
Claire: L. Dat!
Daddy: Y.
Claire: Y. Dat!
Daddy: F.
Claire: F. Dat!
Daddy: U.
Claire: U. Dat!
Daddy: N.
Claire: N.


(Claire is crying for her mommy.)
Alex: Mommy went to make our feast, Claire. She’ll be back in a minute.
Claire (still sad): Okay.
Alex: We’re gonna have a fruit feast and a pizza feast.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Not a turkey feast. Mommy said that.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: We did that yesterday. All my cousins came here.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: It was a big family.


Alex: Is feast a special treat?
Daddy: Yes.
Claire: Uh chocolate too.


Alex (whining): Claire’s steppin’ on the lid.
Alex (to Claire): If you – if you do things mean you won't have a feast.


Alex: Watch this Daddy, watch what the house does when I do this!
(Alex tenses his muscles and shakes.)
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Watch this!
(Claire tenses her muscles and shakes.)


(dinner time)

(Claire sees what’s on her plate for “feast”.)
Claire: Dat! Chocolate! Yay!

(Daddy gives Claire her medicine.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh tell Mommy.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire (to Mommy, proudly): I took my medicine!

(Alex cleans his plate.)
Alex: I want more of everything!

Alex: Is the feast over?


(Claire finds a picture which she drew this morning under Daddy’s supervision. She shows it to Mommy.)
Claire: Mommy, uh color picture! Uh color picture! Daddy!

Mommy "oh shoot".

(Claire is playing trains. Grommie is lying next to the train table, in Claire’s way.)
Claire: I want play trains.
Claire: Daddy, I want play trains.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: I want Grommie to move away, please.
Daddy: Okay. Let me get my computer.
Claire: I want watch Bob first.
Daddy: No, we’re not gonna watch Bob, we’re gonna play trains.
Claire: Okay.
Claire: I want Grommie to move away.

Claire: Uh Thomas. Uh Thomas is. Daddy, uh Thomas is?
Daddy: Where is Thomas?
Claire (picking up Thomas from right in front of her): Oh right there.

Claire (pretending not to see Thomas): Uh Thomas? Uh Thomas is? Uh Thomas?
Daddy: Where is Thomas?
Claire: Uh. See.
(Claire looks around.)
Claire: There Thomas!

(An airplane can be heard in the distance.)
Claire: Dat! Dat, Daddy.
Daddy: That’s an airplane!
Claire: Uh see it.
Daddy: You can look out the window and see if you can.
Claire: Okay.
(Claire looks out the window.)
Claire: Uh see it.
Daddy: You can’t see it?
Claire: No.
Daddy: Yeah it’s probably too far away.


(Alex and Claire are eating lunch. Mommy is in the family room, doing something on the computer.)
Mommy (muttering to herself): Oh, shoot.
Claire (laughing): Mommy “oh shoot”.


(playing trains again)
Claire (setting Elmo down on the airport): Elmo stay, right there.
Claire (setting Grover down on the airport): Grover stay, right there.


(Late at night, Claire is talking in her sleep.)
Claire: Uh go up. Uh go up.
Claire: Daddy, I wanna go up!
Claire (upset): Daddy! Daddy!

There's a new one this time. It's called bangin' on the door.

(Bed time. Alex finishes saying his words, and Daddy leaves Alex’s room.)
Alex: There's a new one this time. It’s called bangin’ on the door.
Daddy: Okay, night-night.
Alex: Bangin’ on the door.
Daddy: Okay, night-night.
Alex: Bangin’ on the door!
Daddy: Bangin’ on the door. Night-night.
Alex: Did I give you a kiss on your face?
Daddy: Yes you did. Night-night.
Alex: Did I give you a hug?
Daddy: Yes you did. Night-night.
Alex: Night-night.

Daddy, his head popped.

(dinner time)

Claire: Uh Daddy?
Mommy: Daddy?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Daddy’s right there.
Claire: Oh.
(Pause.)
Claire: Uh Grommie?
Mommy: Grommie’s eating his dinner.
Claire: Oh eat dinner.


(The last vestige of Alex’s dog-shaped balloon animal unwinds itself.)
Alex (sad): Daddy, his head popped.


Alex: Do dogs live on farms?
Daddy: Yeah. Dogs can live on farms.

Alex: And do they have bunnies?
Daddy: Yeah, there are bunnies on farms.

And mess with books and I will be mad and don’t close your door and don’t turn off your light and play in the door and…

Alex (pointing at Daddy’s computer): Hey Daddy, that – that – that’s a lotta words.


Alex: Today we talked about summer.
Mommy: You did? What did you say about it?
Alex: I don’t know. It’s too much.


(dinner time)

Alex: Mommy, can you sit with me?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: That’s because I like you.

(Mommy just showed Alex how to use a knife.)
Alex: Look Daddy, I’m cutting.


(Daddy is reading “Bear’s New Friend” to Alex.)
Alex (interrupting): Did Bear shrug his shoulders?
Daddy: No, Mouse shrugged his shoulders. Bear scratched his head.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: Because sometimes people scratch their head when they’re wondering about something.
Alex: And when they have a itch.
Daddy: Yeah.


(bed time)
Alex: Did I say my words?
Daddy: No. You don’t have to say your words.
Alex: But I want to! Playinthebackyardplayplayroomplaytrains.
Daddy: Playbackyardplayplayroomplaytrains.
Alex: WakeupClaireclosemydoor.
Daddy: WakeupClaireandcloseyourdoor.
(Pause.)
Alex: And mess with books and I will be mad and don’t close your door and don’t turn off your light and play in the door and… and… and play on the ceiling and play on the floor and play hair and play chickie and play doggie and now go to sleep.
Daddy: Okay, night-night.
Alex: And play with Daddy next time. That’s a new one.
Daddy: Okay.

I'm talkin’ about the circle ones, not the square ones.

Alex: Next time it’s not gonna be Monday.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Every day’s not gonna be Monday, that time.
Daddy: That’s right.


(Daddy is pushing Alex on the swings.)

Alex: I never been in a rocket ship. Or a airplane or a helicopter. I never been in those things.

Daddy: Isn’t it nice having our own swings?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Just like Nana and Pop.
Alex: If we didn’t have a swing, I would wanna swing, and I would want a swing, to swing in.


(Claire and Alex are getting ready for nap.)
Alex (to Daddy): You’re my person to put me down for nap.
(Mommy laughs.)
(Alex laughs.)
Alex (to Daddy, in his “that’s silly” voice): You’re not a person!


(Alex is lying awake in bed during nap time.)
Alex: Beep, beep, beep, beep, time to get up!
Alex (whining): I said “beep beep beep”!


(dinner time)

(Claire has the Elmo fork.)
Alex (being silly): Can I have Zoe?! Is she a spoon?!
Daddy: She is a spoon.
Alex: But I want someone who’s a fork!
Alex (completing his thought): …that’s on Sesame Street.


(Alex is talking about cookies, and wants to clarify that he refers to Oreos.)
Alex: I'm talkin’ about the circle ones, not the square ones.


(Alex notices a hair floating in his bath.)
Alex: Hair is dirty, it has to go to the landfill.

Watch me Daddy, watch me jump high. Nine ten jump.

Alex: I like Bob. I like Wendy too, but she’s not on my underwear.


Alex: Watch me jump, Mommy!
Claire: Watch me uh jump, Mommy!


(Mommy is exercising on the third floor.)
Alex: Where Mommy is, Ay-yah?
Alex: She’s exercising.
Claire: Oh. Up there?
Alex: Yeah.


(Alex and Claire are jumping into the pillows.)
(Claire jumps.)
Alex: My turn!
Claire: Okay, I moo outta way.

Claire: Watch me Daddy, watch me jump high. Nine ten jump.
(Claire jumps.)
Alex: That’s a little jump, Claire, why do you keep doing little jumps?

Alex: One two three four five six jump. Watch this jump, Daddy.
(Alex jumps.)
Daddy: Yay!
Alex: I wanna jump higher.
Alex: One two three four five six jump.
Daddy: Yay!


(Claire is supposed to be taking a nap, but she’s just playing alone in her crib. She has a stack of books next to her, and she puts her water cup on top of it.)
Claire: Nine, ten, jump.
(The cup of water jumps off of the books and onto the bed.)


(snack time)

Claire: Uh more cheese.
Daddy: You want more cheese, Claire?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, I’ll get you more cheese.
Claire: No Daddy, Mommy more cheese.


Claire (to Daddy): Uh play with me.
Daddy: You want Mommy?
Claire: Uh play with me. Uh play with me.
Daddy: Oh, play with you. Yeah, I’ll play with you! Let’s make some dinner!


(The dog balloon animal has unwound itself, so now it’s just a long balloon.)
Alex: If dogs are like this, Daddy? They call them hot dogs. Isn’t that funny?


(Bed time. Claire comes into Alex’s room to say night-night to Daddy and Alex.)
Daddy: Hi Claire, can I have my hug and my kiss?
(Claire gives Daddy a hug and kiss.)
Alex: Can I have one?
Claire: No!
(Claire walks away.)
(Pause.)
Alex: Whatever, I’ll give Mommy a hug and kiss.
Claire: No!
(Claire comes back and Alex hugs her.)

You don’t say yeah! You’re not nice, Claire!

(breakfast time)

(Alex and Claire are watching “Pets”.)
Boy With Guinea Pig: It’s fun to watch them eat.
Alex: It’s fun to watch them eat. It’s fun to watch them – it’s fun to watch guinea pigs eat. Guinea pigs are my favorite pet.

Alex: Ukrop’s is changing to a different store and I didn’t know what she was calling it.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Ukrop’s is changing to a different store.

Alex: I can drink a lotta milk because it’s healthy.

Alex: I smell some – I smell some poop and gas.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Claire are you poopy? I smell poop.
Claire: No.
Alex: Do you know where that’s coming from?
Claire: No!
Alex: No I was talking to Daddy!
Claire: No!
Alex: Yes!
Claire: No.
Alex: Yeah! I told him that!
Claire: No.
Alex: Yeah!
Claire: No.
Alex: Yeah!
Claire (losing interest and wandering off): Yeah.
Alex (shouting after her): You don’t say yeah! You’re not nice, Claire!

Alex: I like frogs, Daddy.

Alex: And after we go down to the landfill, and put trash in it, there’s gonna be a party at school!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah I mean – that was another party!
Daddy: Neat!

(Claire sees a picture of herself on Daddy’s coffee mug.)
Claire (pointing): Claire! On there.
Daddy: Claire on there, yeah!
Claire: Hat!
Daddy: That’s right.
Claire: Oh shoes, walk!


(play time)

Alex: Are you not old anymore, Daddy?
Daddy: Am I not old anymore?
Alex: You said that yesterday!
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: I wanna make dinner please. I wanna make dinner.
Daddy: You wanna make dinner?
Alex: Yeah. Uh make dinner.
Alex: And you can make dinner with us. Right?
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex (pointing to the toy kitchen): Daddy, are you gonna make dinner over there?
Daddy (sitting on the couch): No, I’m gonna make dinner over here.
Alex: Are you still old?
Daddy: Yeah I’m still old.
Alex: I thought you were gonna make dinner over there. How are you gonna be not old?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: Because you’re tired? Because your leg is tired? Because your leg is tired every day? Why? Why is it tired every day?

Alex: Daddy c-could, why are you not gonna be old sometimes? Now why are you not gonna be old sometimes?

(Alex is standing beside the toy kitchen, holding a receipt.)
Alex: Did Santa Claus? He didn’t bring me a trash can? He didn’t bring me a trash can, Santa?
Daddy: No.
Alex: I was gonna throw this in the trash can.


(Mommy, Daddy, Alex, and Claire are driving to the landfill.)

Alex: What do they have at the landfill?
Alex (all in one breath): Just trash I never been to that playground Grommie’s excited.

Alex: Is the andfill [sic] in here?
Mommy: Yup.
Alex: Why is it in here?
Mommy: It’s just the way it is.

Alex: Grommie’s not gonna go to the party.
Alex: Grommie’s not gonna go to the party. Because he will scare my friends away.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Neer and Callum.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Maybe all of them.
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: And, I'm gonna be a Daddy but I can't drive.

Mommy: Hey, Alex, what's my name?
Alex: Um, Stavid.
Mommy (laughing): Close! Daddy’s name is David, what's my name?
Alex: Stephanie.
Mommy: That’s right!

What – what – what holds up the floor, Mommy?

(Alex and Claire are playing trains.)

Alex: Claire, can you help me fix the crane? The leg fell off.

Claire: Emily!
Claire: Emily, Ay-yah!
Claire: Emily, Ay-yah!
Alex: No. I don’t want her.
Claire: Mines.
Alex: Yes. Yours.


(Daddy is trying to hustle both kids into the car, but Alex is lagging behind.)
Claire: Ay-yah! ‘Mon! ‘Mon!


(At lunch, Daddy is sitting in Mommy’s usual chair.)
Alex: Are you Mommy?
Daddy: Yes I’m Mommy.
Alex: You’re not Mommy.
Daddy: Did you know I’m Mommy?
Alex: No you’re not. You don’t have – your hair’s not long.


(After lunch, Alex is lying on the kitchen floor.)
Alex: What – what – what holds up the floor, Mommy?
Mommy: What?
Alex: What can hold up the floor?
Mommy: Why can you hold up the floor?
Alex: No, why – [extended stammering as Alex tries to reformulate his question] – make you walk on the floor?
Mommy: What makes you walk on the floor?
Alex: Yeah. Uh – I mean – why is – what lifts up the floor?
Mommy: What keeps it up?
Alex: Yeah, keeps it up.
Mommy: The foundation of the house.
Alex: Where is it?
Mommy: Um, you can see it outside, the bricks. And then there are boards underneath the floor that hold it up.
Alex: Why can it hold it up?
Mommy: Because it’s strong, and they use nails and cement to hold it up. Okay, give Daddy a kiss, and we can go upstairs.
Alex: I like the house.
Mommy: Me too.


(Alex makes everyone go into his makeshift “house”, because “a storm is coming.” And Alex has a poopy diaper.)
Mommy (to Daddy): Our house is stinky.
Alex (looking concerned): Is it stinky?
Mommy: Yeah, a little bit.
(Alex continues playing, and wanders off.)
Daddy (to Mommy): Aw, he was self-conscious!
Mommy: I know, I felt bad.


(It’s bath night, but Daddy is on a conference call and can’t bathe Alex.)
Alex (to Daddy): Mommy’s gonna take us both a bath, because it’s a special treat.
Daddy: Oh… well I might be able to give you a bath.
Alex: I want Mommy to take me a bath, because I love her.
Daddy: Oh, and you don’t love Daddy?
Alex: I love you Daddy but I want Mommy today.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex runs off, then stops at the bottom of the stairs and turns back to Daddy.)
Alex: And when I go down for nap you can give me a kiss.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And that’s all.
Daddy: Okay.

Eat it, mouth.

(Mommy and Claire go into Alex’s classroom to pick up Alex. Neer has already been picked up.)
Claire (looking around): Uh Neer? Uh Neer?


(Alex comes home to find Daddy playing a video game.)
Alex: What are you watching?
Daddy: Uh, I'm just watchin’ a little show.
Alex (shouting to Mommy): Daddy’s watchin’ a little show!


Alex: Daddy!
Daddy: Yes Alex?
Alex: On the way home from Callum’s house, a man was smokin' in his car.
Daddy: Oh no.
Alex: Yucky. His car was stinky.


(Daddy turns off the TV.)
Claire (crying): Uh watching Elmo!
Mommy: Aw, Elmo’s over. Now it’s time to eat dinner.
Claire (sad): Uh watch uh Bob.
Mommy: No Bob.
Claire (sad): Why?
Mommy: ‘Cause TV’s over.


Alex: Books –- if books didn’t open and close, you wouldn’t be able to read them, Mommy.

(dinner time)

Daddy: Claire, are you gonna be a mommy when you grow up?
Alex: I’m gonna be a daddy!
Daddy: Are you gonna be a husband?
Alex: No, a daddy.

Mommy: Tell Daddy what kind of toys Callum had.
Alex: What toys?
Mommy: Tell him –
Alex: Why did he have a train table upstairs, that’s silly.

Mommy: What else did Callum have?
Alex: Cars and trucks.
Mommy: What, um, cars did he have from the Cars movie?
Alex: I -- don’t -- know.

(Claire gives Daddy her pizza crust.)
Claire: Uh, eat it.
Daddy: Thank you, Claire.
Claire: (to Mommy): Daddy, eat it.
Mommy: Okay.
(Daddy pretends to eat the crust.)
Claire: Eat it, mouth.
Daddy: Thank you Claire!
Claire (to Mommy): Ah Daddy, want pizza.

Alex: I like to say that question.
Daddy: What question?
Alex: What – what’s pasta? That one.

Alex (to Claire): In the morning you wanna watch Bob, Claire?
Claire: Yeah.

(Claire examines a little string of dried cheese from her pizza.)
Mommy: Is it cheese?
Claire: No cheese.
Mommy: Dried cheese?
Claire: No dried cheese.

Claire: I want uh watch pictures.
Mommy: We’re not gonna watch pictures, honey.
Claire: Why?
Mommy: Because we’re eating dinner.

(Claire got pizza sauce on her cup.)
Claire: Uh wuh wipe it off. Wipe off it!

Claire (shaking head “no”): Mommy, I like it.
Mommy: You don’t like it?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Okay.

(Grommie is in Claire’s way.)
Claire: Uh move out uh way, Grommie. Out.

Alex: Do – do – do my head but not down my body?
Mommy: What? Do your head but not outta your body?
Alex: No. Do my head but not down my body.

Alex: Tickle my head.
Mommy: Like that?
Alex: Yeah.

Mommy (to Claire): Is it fun to be little?
Claire: Yeah uh fun be little.
Daddy: Is it fun to be big?
Claire: No!!

Alex: I ate your sock, I ate it off my fork.
Mommy: I’m gonna get it back.
Alex: You can’t get it back it’s in my tummy.

Alex: It’s all gone.
Mommy: It’s all gone?
Alex: It’s in my poop.

Claire: Spoon! Uh touch it.


(Alex is sitting on the potty.)
Alex (to Mommy): Pssh!! You're swimmin' in the yucky pee.

I’m pretending to be things. I’ll pretend to be some other things next time.

(Breakfast time. One of Claire’s Cheerios falls on the floor.)
Alex: Grommie!
Claire: Grommie?
Alex: Cheerios!
Claire: Uh Cheerio on floor right there!
(Grommie comes into the kitchen and eats the stray Cheerio.)


Alex (crawling): Daddy, I’m pretending to be a baby.
Daddy: Yeah. You’re doing a good job.
Alex (crawl-hopping): Now I’m a bunny. I’m pretending to be a bunny. Look at me.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I’m pretending to be things. I’ll pretend to be some other things next time.


Mommy (singing): Bob the Builder!
Alex: Can we fix it!
Mommy (singing): Bob the Builder!
Alex: Yes we can!


Alex: My sister was sick yesterday.

Can we watch trucks and cars on the internet, Daddy?

Alex: They don't have a robot at this – the other moon. They don't have a robot. It’s just pretend. It’s not real.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
(Pause.)
Alex: But they have toys. At the toy store. They have a toy store.
Daddy: At the moon?
Alex: Yeah.


Alex: It’s cold, so I wanted to go inside.
Daddy: Yeah, it’s gotten a little cold.
Alex: Yeah it’s chilly out here.


Alex: Can we watch trucks and cars on the internet, Daddy?

Claire (to Mommy): Uh Alex pick uh Science Kid.

Claire (“jumping”): Uh high!


(Alex is playing with cars.)
Alex: That’s Ockwit, his name is Ockwit.
Daddy: Ockwit?
Alex: Yeah. Just like chocolate!


(Daddy plays Downtown.)

Alex: Claire, you wanna dance?

Alex: Look, I’m going faster, Daddy! I’m bein’ a pony! I’m tryin’ to be a pony!

(Alex runs around holding his arms straight up over his head.)
Alex: Look what I’m doin’ Daddy! Look what I’m doin’ with my arms!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: Giddyap! Giddyap! Giddyap, giddyap! This is the pony!

Alex: Downtown made me tired.


Alex (to Daddy): I got chocolate!
Daddy: You did?
Alex: Yeah!
Daddy: Special treat!
Alex (to Mommy): Was chocolate a special treat?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex (to Daddy): It was!!

Knock knock?! On the door?!

(Daddy is letting Grommie out.)
Alex: I wanna tell Grommie to go poo.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Go poo!
(Grommie runs into the yard.)
Alex: He went.


(snack time)
Claire: I want more bear, please, Mommy. I want more bear.


(Daddy and Alex are on the play set, and neighbor Anthony is talking to Alex over the fence.)
Anthony: I have a joke for you. Knock knock.
Alex: Knock knock?!
Anthony: Knock knock.
Alex (incredulous): Knock knock?! On the door?!

Anthony: Knock knock.
Alex: Why’s you say that?

Anthony: Knock knock.
Alex (now having been instructed on the proper response): Who's there?
Anthony: Who.
Alex: Who! You tell me!

Anthony: What's your dad’s name?
Alex: That's Daddy.
Anthony: What’s your dad’s name? It can't be --
Alex: David!
Anthony: David?
Alex: Yeah!
Anthony: What's your Mom’s name?
Alex: David!
Anthony: David? It can’t be.


(dinner time)

(Mommy prints something.)
Alex: Your paper’s comin’ out Mommy. Can you leave it, so I can get it for you after dinner?

(Claire coughs.)
Alex: I think you have to do mask again, Claire.

Worms.

(Claire finds Daddy’s shoe.)
Claire: Daddy. Dirty shoe.

(Daddy puts Claire’s shoes on her.)

Claire: There socks.
Daddy: What do you need Claire?
Claire: Oh there socks.

Claire: Uh sit on stool.


(Alex, Claire, and Daddy head out of the house for school.)
Alex: You're not going, Grommie.
Claire: Not going, Grommie. Stay here. Wait. Me.


(in the car)
Claire: Truck! Big truck.


(On the way home from the store, Daddy and Claire stop the car to admire a family of ducks in the grass beside the Wal-Mart parking lot.)

Claire: Flew away, flew away, baby ducks. Flew away.

Claire (referring to the baby ducks): Uh going? Uh going?

Claire: Big truck! Big. Big. Big. Big.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Uh baby truck. Uh baby. Uh baby truck. Uh baby.
Claire: Uh baby truck.

Daddy: Hi duck!
Claire: Hi duck. Uh talk to me. Uh talk to me.
Daddy: You want them to talk to you?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Uh talk to me. Daddy? Uh talk to me.
Daddy: You want them to talk to you?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Well ducks don't talk.
Claire: Why?
Daddy: They just don't. They quack.
Claire: Uh going? Uh ducks going?

Claire: Uh going?
Daddy: You wanna go see?
Claire: Yeah. Uh see. Oh there ducks.
Claire: Oh big duck. Eat. In grass.

Daddy: What's that duck doing?
Claire: Uh running around. Look at things.
Daddy: He's running around looking at things?
Claire: Yeah.

Daddy: What's he lookin’ at?
Claire: Worms.
Daddy: What do you think he's looking for?
Claire: A worm.
Daddy: Worm?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Bye, duck.
Daddy: Bye, duck.
Claire: See you later.

Daddy: Okay, let's go home and get some lunch.
Claire: No, uh bookstore.
Daddy: What?
Claire: Bookstore.
Daddy: Bookstore?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Oh we’re not going to the bookstore, sweetie.


(Lunch time. Mommy comes home.)

Claire: Mommy!
Mommy: Hi!
Claire: Uh eating uh toast.

Daddy: Tell Mommy what we saw.
Claire: Uh…duck.
Mommy: A duck?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Where'd you see a duck?
Claire: In the grass.

Mommy (to Daddy): I need to show you what Alex made me.
(Mommy walks off to get it.)
Alex: It was a tree and a butterfly.


(getting ready for nap)
Alex: Daddy, tell the dreams to be about food. In my brain.


Claire (pointing at something in the corner): Uh! Futterfly!
Mommy (unhappily): It's called a dust bunny.
Claire: Oh.
Claire (pointing at it again): Bunny!