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!