I'm gonna tell everyone I'm three!

Claire: I'm gonna tell everyone I'm three!

Claire: I'm not a baby anymore.

Claire: I wanna go downstairs and open my presents!


(Claire opens her birthday presents.)

Claire: Is there more presents?

Claire: I'm gonna play with all of my presents!

Claire: Thank you, Mommy.
Alex: It's not just Mommy! It's Daddy and Alex too.


(Claire chooses to watch Bob the Builder, because it's Alex's favorite show.)
Alex: That's so nice of you on your birthday.

Claire: Thank you, everybody.

Claire: I like my birthday.



(Claire comes home from school.)
Claire: Daddy, I'm three!



Claire: I like my birthday.



(Alex sees Daddy's old cereal bowl.)
Alex: Well, how was your breakfast today?
Daddy: It was very good, thank you!



Mommy (to Alex): Please stop whining.
Alex: Why?
Mommy: Because it's annoying.
Alex: It's not annoying to me.
Mommy: Well it is annoying to me.
Alex: It's not annoying to me.
Alex: It's not annoying to me.
Alex: It's not annoying to me.
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: Your choice. Don’t be annoying, or be annoying and I'll be annoying like you.
Alex: Your choice.
Alex: Your choice.
Alex: Your choice.


(dinner)

Claire: Birthday dinner.
(Mommy nods.)
Claire: I'm three!

Claire: Every day is my birthday.

Why do we always sleep?

(Mommy is straightening her hair.)
Claire: When I get bigger, when I be a mommy, I can straighten my hair.



Alex: What is that? Is that for Mommy's birthday?
Claire: No. She had a coupon so she got this.
Alex: Is that for your birthday?
Claire: I think it is.



Claire: Why do we always sleep?



Dora: What was your favorite part of the trip?
Claire: My favorite part of the trip was the… uh… school.
Dora: I liked that too!

Alex: I liked Number Mountain.
Claire: And I liked… um…



Claire: Mommy! Mommy! After bedtime, it's gonna be my birthday!



Alex: Mommy! I'm excited! I'm gonna open my birthday presents!

Claire: It has black, and brown, and green, and yellow, and red, and blue, and…
Alex: Pretty much all. And black.
Claire: Yeah and black. I said black.
Alex: Not purple.
Claire: No. Not green.
Alex: Not grey.
Claire: Not grey. There's grey, there's grey!
Alex: That's not grey, that's brown.

Claire: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah.
Claire: Is that grey?
Claire: Mommy?
Alex: That's not grey.

Mommy: Yeah that might be grey.
Alex: It's brown.
Claire: No it's grey.

Claire's gonna be a dentist when she grows up, Daddy.

(Alex and Claire are playing with Play-Doh.)
Claire: Alex, do you have big fingers?
(Mommy laughs.)
Claire: Alex, do you have big fingers?
Alex: I can do it.
Claire: Alex, do you have big fingers?
Alex: No I don't. I still have little ones.
Claire: Oh.
Claire: But I tell my friend at school… I tell my friend at school I… think my brother has big fingers, I just told my friend.



Alex: Claire's gonna be a dentist when she grows up, Daddy.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: 'Cause I feel like doing a dentist, but I don't wanna do that, I wanna be a builder, so Claire's gonna do that for me. My sister's nice.



Alex: You can be stuck on water.
Claire: Okay.
Alex: First I need to get a wipe.
(Claire runs over to the couch.)
Claire: I'm stuck on water! Help!
Alex: I'll come right away.
Claire: I'm stuck on water!
Claire: I'm stuck! I'm stuck on water! Help! Heeeeelp! Heeeelp!

(After Alex rescues her.)
Claire: Yeahhhhh! I'm off the water!

Alex: Now it's my turn.
Alex: Ah, I'm stuck on a rock!
Alex: Ah, I'm stuck on a rock!
Claire: Say "help, help".
Alex: Oh! I don't know how to swim!
Claire: Hold on! Hold on!
Alex: Ahhhhhh!
Claire: Now I have to pull you. I have to…

Claire: Hold on! I'm gonna pull you!
Alex: I'm gonna climb down. I've got to -- I better get there fast. Oh I'm on this rock. Now start pulling, please.

Claire: Now I will pull you and pull you!
Alex: Ohhhh! I'm toppling in the water! Hold on tight!
Claire: I got it. There. Now I have to pull you, pull you, pull you, pull you, pull you!
Alex: Oh! I'm stuck! I can't do it! Oh. I'm gonna slip! Wahhh! Wahhhhhh!
Claire: Oh no! (Mumble) and I have to call somebody!
(Claire runs into the dining room.)
Claire: Somebody! Come!
(Claire runs back.)

Claire: I'm ready, I'm ready! I'm ready! Alex, I'm ready!

Alex: I'm gonna slip! I'm gonna slip. Uh-oh! I can't hang on! I can't hang on!
Claire: I'm holding you.
Alex: Ahhhhhh! Oh! I'm in the deep ocean!
Alex: Oh! Oh-ohhhh! This puddle's…
Claire: Hold on! Hold on!
Alex: I can't! I can't!

Alex: I'm under the ground!
Alex: You need Scoop and Benny to save me!

But I’m putting two out, so he can pick.

Dora: Stand up! Stand up!
Alex: I can’t, I’m eating breakfast.


Claire (showing off her dress): Daddy, I have this shirt!
Daddy: Yeah, I like it!
Claire: Thank you, Daddy.


Alex: When people drop things on the ground, birds can eat it, if they’re crumbs, and, Claire, birds eat worms, and bugs, and, um… um… … what’s this next one? Birds eat bugs, worms, what else, Daddy? There were three things bird eats. … … Oh! And they eat seeds.
Claire: Yeah, they eat seeds. They do.
Alex: Uh-huh.

Claire: What does dogs eat?
Alex: Dog food.
Claire: Oh but – what does… what does… um… um…
Alex: Dogs eat, dogs eat, all the stuff in your back-a-yard.
Claire: But dogs… dogs… um dogs can’t… dogs can’t eat, um, bones.


Claire: I have pockets!
Daddy: Yeah, you have pockets!
Claire: Daddy, if I go outside, I can put my hands in my pockets!


(Claire keeps pulling out all of Grommie’s toys.)
Mommy (to Claire): Grommie doesn’t need all his bones out, sweetheart.
Claire: Why?
Mommy: He can only chew on one at a time!
Claire: But I’m putting two out, so he can pick.


Claire (running from the front window): Mommy! Grandma’s not here yet!

Can you stop talkin’ about me? I – I like to hear it, and I’m gonna go potty.

Alex: I have two big jobs today.
Daddy: Yeah?

Alex: No, I have three jobs. I need to build a good back yard to play in, I need to build a beach house, and I need to build a new house, because some people are moving.


Alex: Last night, I had a really bad cold. My nose was stuffed up, and nothing came out, except, little pieces of crusties. And it was too stuffed up to blow! Everybody has a cold, except Daddy’s cold is gone. Are you still a little sick?
Daddy: Yeah, I’m still a little sick.
Alex: I musta got part of your cold. If you’re still sick. Everybody’s sick this week. Everybody’s sick this week except Mommy.


Claire: Do you like my new Dora Band-Aid?
Claire: Alex, do you like my new Dora Band-Aid?
Alex: Yeah.
Claire: It has umbrellas on it.

Claire (now showing Daddy her Band-Aid): It has little tiny hearts. And drip-drops on them.


(Alex wants to do something fun this afternoon.)
Mommy: What do you wanna do?
Alex: I wanna go on the zip line at the, at the restaurant, at the Tyler Place. Please?


Alex (to Daddy): Can you stop talkin’ about me? I – I like to hear it, and I’m gonna go potty.


Alex: I paid twenty price for that TV, and you broke it.
Daddy: You paid twenty price?
Alex: I paid twenty prices.


Alex (talking quietly to his trucks): I’m sorry I don’t work with you guys so much. I just don’t like working. But I had fun today with you guys.

I think we need a man to do that.

(watching TV)

Alex: Spud loves cake.
Claire: Yeah. He really does.


(Claire is helping Mommy in the garden. Mommy is trying to clean out some dirt.)
Claire: I think we need a man to do that.


Alex: Daddy, we’re makin’ the best playset ever!
Daddy: Yeah? That’s awesome, that’s great!
Alex: We’re makin’ it a beanstalk, a jungle beanstalk with lots of vines and leaves!


(Alex and Claire have made a pretend boat.)
Alex: We’re in our boat, floating!



(after nap)

Alex: Claire, I can build you a farm downstairs.
(Claire is still sleepy and doesn’t respond.)
Alex: I have to build it really quick, because I need to build a beach house today.


(Mommy is reading a book.)
Claire: Mommy. Will. You. Play. Wi. Ith. Me.
Claire: Pleeeeease?
Mommy: Okay, I’ll play with you.


Claire: I found a green leaf.


(Claire and Alex are playing by themselves in the back yard. Alex runs inside.)
Alex: Daddy! Claire has a bug on her!
(Claire is standing atop the small slide, wailing.)


(Alex is trying hard to get Daddy to turn on the TV.)

Alex (to Daddy): If you do what I want, I’ll let you do what you want.
Alex: That’s my rule.

Alex: You listen to me, and I listen to you.
Daddy: Okay, I’m listening.
Alex: If you do what I want, I’ll let you do what you want. I said this, like, three times. And you didn’t listen.
Daddy: I don’t agree to your terms.
Alex: You need to work it out.
Alex: You need to work it out, Daddy.
Alex: You need to work it out.


(Claire's PJ shirt has a skirt-like ruffle on it.)
Claire: Daddy, watch me spin with these bumpy things on!
(She spins.)
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: I put my toes up, and I spin!
(She spins.)
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: And my hair moves.

Claire (to Alex): Keep your toes up, when you spin, and you have to keep your toes up.

(The kids have just had a bath.)
Claire: Daddy, do you want to smell me?
Daddy: Yes I do.
(Daddy smells.)
Daddy: Mmmm, sweet and clean.

Claire: Daddy, can you get me a purple bag? Can Mommy get me, can Mommy get me a purple bag? A little purple bag?
Daddy: Um, we'll have to see if we can find one.
Claire: ‘Kay. I have purple glasses. So we have to see if we can get a purple bag for me. At the store.


(Alex is in bed, but he can’t sleep because his stuffy nose is bothering him a lot. Daddy talks to him about it, until Alex interrupts.)
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex?
Alex: I know you’re trying to make me feel better, just my brain is too mushy to think about lots of things.

Alex: Maybe I could make a medicine store tomorrow. I could try to build one.

Daddy: Try to get some rest.
Alex: Daddy, my nose is stuffed up: I can’t rest. And my brain is still thinking about my nose.



(Claire throws up in her bed in the middle of the night. Mommy is cleaning her up.)
Claire: Can I have chocolate cake for snack?

But – I’m – Par – King – Here!!

(The kids have a really cute conversation about Alex helping Claire, which concludes with the following.)
Alex: Big brothers do all things for their sisters.



(Alex and Claire are fighting.)
Alex: Claire, I'm trying to talk to you!
Claire: I'm trying to talk to you!



Alex's train: I'll take this one today.
Alex: And he went off to catch the cones.
Alex: While the freight train was waiting for Gordon, on the other side of the track, he called, um, Molly.
Alex's train: Hey, police car, can you go get Molly for me?
Police Car: But I don't know where she is.
Alex's train: She's at the shed. Or Gordon, please. Get --
Police Car: I can -- I can go get Gordon for you.
Alex's train: I want Molly.
Police Car: I think I can get Molly.
(The police car makes a beeline for the shed -- off track.)
Alex: No -- no, you have to take the track, take the track.
Claire: What track?
Alex: The track you're on right now, I'll show you the way. Come on.
(Claire ignores this.)
Alex: Right here. Over here.
(Claire ignores this.)
Alex: Come on, let's go through the tunnel.
Police Car (in an excited, high-pitched voice): Oh, yay, let's go through the tunnel!
(Alex's train and the police car go through the tunnel.)
Alex: So, he left his load, and they went through the tunnel. Then he saw Emily. Aah! She ran (unintelligible) a different track.

Alex: They went on, and on. Soon they saw Emily on a different track and zoomed off.
Alex: Where's car? Where's car? Emily zoomed into a siding.
Police Car: I'm going faster!
Alex: Here's the shed where she is.
Claire: No -- I wanna go!
(Claire swats at Alex's train and throws it a few feet away.)
Alex: Why'd you take that?!
(Claire mumbles something whinily.)
Alex: She took my train!
Mommy: Claire why did you -- why did you throw Alex's train over here, honey?
Claire (mumbling whinily): I don't want to hear about that.
Mommy: Well honey, I was gonna let you have quiet time today, but, if you can't play nicely we're gonna have to do nap, okay?

Claire (whining): Noo!
Mommy: Okay well, are you gonna play nicely?
Claire (whining): Yeah.
Mommy: Okay. Guys, we need to go up and do our bathroom stuff and then you can come back down, okay?
Alex: Okay.
Mommy: You have to listen to me though.
Claire: Why?



Alex (to Mommy): Nana calls me "yes, dear".
(Alex laughs.)
Mommy: Is that funny?
Alex: Yeah.
Claire: And -- Nana calls me -- "sweetie pie".
Mommy: Sweetie pie?
Claire: Yeah.


(Alex and Claire are playing trains.)

Alex: I was wondering if you can fly over.
(Pause.)
Alex: Nothing can fly us over like that though.
(Pause.)
Alex: I – I can jump high. Wheeeee!
Claire; Alex, can you help me put this bridge back together?
Alex: Sorry. I’m sorry. You can do it.
Claire: I can’t.
Alex: Why?
Claire: Because… I can do –
Alex (suddenly very upset): Please, Claire, I want to see you try! I don’t feel like – I don’t like this fixing the bridge all the time! I don’t like fixing the bridge all the time! That’s not right, Claire! That’s not right!
Claire: It is right! See?
Alex: That’s why you’re not doing it right, the bridge. It goes like this! Now you can do it.
Claire: You do it!
Alex: No I don’t want to, I don’t feel like it, it’s not – I – you need to practice this!
(After a moment, Alex goes back to playing.)
Alex: You go down, you slide down. That would be fun. “Let me see,” said Gordon.
Claire (whining): I can’t do it!
Alex: What are you doing, Claire?
Claire (whining): I can’t put the track back together.
Alex: Well, you have to put it over here, then.
Claire: I can’t.
Alex: Why?
Claire: Because I don’t know how.
Alex (upset again): You can do it, I want to see you try! I, I will not do it!
Alex: No! That’s not the way! That’s not the way, Claire! That’s not the way!
Alex: I – I’m not gonna help you, it goes like that. Now you put it toge – you– no, Claire! There, you put it together!
(Alex goes back to playing.)
Alex: (Mumble) “Then you tip over! There you go down!”
Claire: Alex, I did it!!
Alex: See, Claire? When you do something, it works just fine.
Claire: I fixed the track!!
Alex: See, Claire? I told you. I know, Claire.
(Alex goes back to playing.)
Alex: “Bye, Gordon!”
Alex: “Bye, Thomas!”
Alex: “Hey, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly! Molly!”
Alex: “Uh-oh, there’s another train behind me.”
Alex: “Uh – Emily! I gotta get Emily before she gets crashed!”
Alex: Make him go in the shed!
Alex: Uh-oh. He’s gonna go over the signal. I’m afraid for him to go over.
Alex: Whoo! He fell right off! He’s not apposed to go over the signal.
Alex: “Why?”
Alex: Because he’ll get stuck. “My whistle is too big!”
Alex: Then there was trouble. (Unintelligible)’s goin too fast, didn’t see Emily, then Molly saw him.
Alex: Uh, Claire, can I have Molly, please?
Claire: Um… okay, you can have Molly.
Alex: Then Molly stopped. Then Molly was going. Tried to mess up Thomas. She said “Thomas, stop!” “No no no! I want to see Emily. But!” You messed – Molly passed! Thomas… went on. Then he [unintelligible]. He turned a different way into the city. Then… he was going somewhere to see bus. “Hi, bus! Let’s go!” “Okay!” Thomas, was going up the bridge. But he didn’t want to go up. Bus didn’t fit through right, then Thomas has to go over.
(Alex makes driving noises.)
Alex: Then, they were goin’ somewhere, where Bus couldn’t, believe! He was coupling up a bridge (mumble). Then, he wanted to see another Thomas. There was another Thomas. Up high in the mountain. That, the other train, was out in the (mumble) night. It was nighttime over there. Thomas saw him. “That’s a different world! It’s nighttime over there. I need to go find out – he, he has his light on.” “Oh! I don’t see!”
Claire: “Oh, I have to go in my shed.”
Alex: “I’m sorry, we have jobs to do tonight. Come on.”
Claire: “Is it dark outside?”
Alex: “Yeah, but, we have jobs to do tonight. You – you go back to the shed and, rest if you’re too tired, okay?”
Claire: “I think I’m too tired.”
(The next part of Thomas’s adventure is inaudible.)

(A bit later in the story.)
Alex: “Oh! I don’t remember this coach!”
Alex: She saw… she saw, um – Molly saw Emily. Emily looked sad. I want everyone, was that, they were blocked up. Each train was blocked up because they weren’t moving. Rollie saw one bump that she shouldn’t get over. “No… no, going over bumps today.” Sir Topham Hatt. “Well,” said Rosie, “I will try it. We’re goin’ up hills.” “Hey, Rosie! You’re not apposed to go up that hill.” “I’m sorry, but this is the way.” “Oh, well – well you dropped it. See, you shou – wh -- I told you to go a different way today.”
Alex: Claire, can you get outta my way?
Claire: Okay.
Mommy: Good job guys, you are getting along so nicely.
Claire (proudly): I moved out of Alex’s way!
Mommy: Yeah, you guys are being nice to each other, that’s great.
Alex: And, a big (pack?) came by.
Claire: Alex, here!
Alex: No! Leave her on the signal, please!
Mommy: Okay, let’s be nice.
Mommy: Claire Bear! Honey. Do you remember the rule about stickers?
(Claire mumbles.)
Mommy: They’re allowed to be on your shirt, on your treasure box, or in the trash, honey. Okay?
Claire: Okay.
Mommy: Okay. You want ‘em back on your shirt?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: You shouldn’t put it on any other things.
Mommy: She knows now.

Alex: “(Mumble),” said Rosie. “I can’t do it. But it’s good that, you’re here.”
Alex: “You’re really fast. I can’t catch up.” “I know.” “How ‘bout we have a nice break?”
Alex: Rosie said, “No, I – you’re too fast, I think.” “WAAAA-HAAAA.”
Alex: Emily was on her way back.
Claire: “Uh-oh! There’s a train in our way!”
Alex: “James!” Claire, I’ll move this train, so you can make him go on the side. Siding.
Alex: I don’t wanna keep fixing things! They’re always breaking.
Alex: Claire, make them go in the, um – make them go in the siding.
Claire: I can open that for you, I can open this for you.
Alex: No I wanna do it, I wanna do it.
Claire: There.
Alex: No – don’t put it down, keep it up.

Claire: Your train is in my way.
Alex: No Claire, you’re apposed to put it in the siding.
Alex: You.
Alex: Claire.
Alex: Claire’s apposed to put it in the siding.
Alex: Why aren’t you putting it in the siding?
Claire: Put what in the siding?
Alex: The train! So you can go. Your hands can do it.
Claire: No they won’t. See? They won’t.
Alex: No. Like this!
Claire: Naaaah!
Alex: No, Claire. That thing is in front. It’s not ‘posed to – put the car –
(All of a sudden Alex starts wailing.)
Alex (extremely upset): Hey, Claire!! You’re taking the train apart!! You’re taking the train apart!!
(Alex starts crying.)
Claire: No! No! No! No! No!
Mommy: Claire, don’t grab him.
Mommy: Okay, honey. Can you try to use words with her?
Alex (wailing): But, I’m telling her and she’s not listening!
(Alex sobs uncontrollably.)
Alex: Aaaaaaah! Aaaaaaah! Aaaaahaahaaa! Ohhhhhh! Aaaaahaaahaaa!

Mommy: Can you try talking to Claire?
Alex: I was! And she didn’t listen.
Claire: I was (mumble) put the train back together.
Mommy: Were you putting it back together, Claire Bear?
Alex (grumpily): There. Now you can go by. No! Not like that!
Mommy: She was trying, honey.
Alex (grumpily): There! Put it there. Put it there, no put trains there.
Claire: There.
Alex (grumpily): That’s why you get by.
(Mommy is trying to give Alex some medicine.)
Mommy: C’mere, buddy. Let me give you this medicine.
Alex: I don’t want medicine! I don’t want medicine!
Mommy: I don’t want it to get infected, honey. Need to put all the medicine on it, okay? That’s all I need to do.
Alex: I don’t want to! Wipe it off!
Mommy: Alex, please leave it on there so that it gets better.
Alex (grumpily): It’s not gonna –
Mommy: If you don’t let me put medicine on it, it’s not gonna get better and I’m gonna have to take you to the doctor.
Alex (grumpily): Why?
Mommy: Because it – it needs to get better.
Alex (grumpily): Well, what is – what is – what is the doctor gonna do?
Mommy: I don’t know.
Alex (whining): I want to know, so… so, um… so I won’t say it again. Please?
Mommy: You need to know what?
Alex (whining): Uh, I need to know it, so I, won’t say it again.
Mommy: I, I honestly am not sure what the doctor will do.
(Pause.)
Alex (whining): If you don’t know, it’s not fair, fair. It’s not fair!
Mommy: I’m sorry, Alex, I –
Alex (angrily): It’s really not fair! It’s really not fair.
Mommy: Buddy.
Alex: What?
Mommy: I don’t understand what’s wrong.
Alex: What?
Mommy: Alex, I don’t understand what’s wrong.
Alex (angrily): You do!
Mommy: Alex.
Alex (angrily): What? I already answered you, and now you should stop!
(Pause.)
Alex (angrily): Mommy. Why are you not talking to me?
Mommy: I’m talking to you.
Alex (angrily): Tell me the next word.
Mommy: What next word, honey?
Alex: I don’t really know!
Claire: Alex, your train is in the way! Your other train is in the way!
Alex (angrily): I know I know I know I know I know! Put him somewhere else then.
Claire: But I’m up here.
Alex: Well put him somewhere else so you can do it. Because I don’t feel like movin’ him.
(Pause.)
Alex (angrily): What do you think – what do you think you should put him? What do you think you should put him?
(Pause.)
Claire: Don’t.
Alex: But I have to put the train, somewhere – somewhere else, or, he won’t go away. It’s gonna tip him over. Now.
Alex (sounding happy again): You can’t go over the bridge, because there’s a train here.
(Pause.)
Alex (upset): No – no no no! There’s a train here, so you can’t go! You can’t go over because there’s a train here, see? You can’t – that’s – uh, Claire, you’re messing it up!
Mommy: Claire Bear, can you work with Alex? So that you’re both happy?
Alex: Please! Stop, Claire! Stop breaking my bridge! Stop breakin’ the bridge!
Alex: I don’t want you to go over.
Claire: But I’m parking here!
Alex: Claire, but, there’s a train here, you can’t go this way.
Claire: They’re parking here!
(Alex makes angry grunts. Claire repeats them.)
Alex: Why are you doing that?
Alex: Why’d you do that to me?
Alex: Why’d you do “Nngh! Nngh!”
(Claire grunts at him.)
Alex: It’s not funny, Claire. It’s not funny.
Mommy: Claire, can you please be nice?
Alex (whining): Ow! No, Claire! Don’t go over! There’s a train in the way!
Claire (adamantly): But – I’m – Par – King – Here!!
(Pause.)
Claire: Stop.
Claire: Stop.
Claire: Don’t! Keep it down.
Claire: Keep it down!
Claire: Alex, keep it dooooown!
Mommy: Alex, what’s goin’ on, honey?
Claire (sadly): Mommy, Alex is turning this. That green thing.
Claire: Stop!
(Claire starts crying.)
Mommy: Okay, listen. We’re gonna have to play apart… or you guys – Alex! Stop doing that, please!
(Alex makes his angry grunt.)
Mommy (calmly): Are you guys ready for some books? Do we need to do something different?
Alex (angrily): No I don’t want books!
Mommy (calmly): Okay, listen.
(Alex storms off to sit on the stairs.)
Mommy (calmly): All right. Do you wanna go do some quiet time in your room?
(Alex makes his angry grunt.)
Mommy: All right, tomorrow we’re gonna start doing naps again, ‘cause this isn’t working.
Alex: It is gonna work!
Mommy: What can – what can we do to make this work?
Alex: Nothing.
Mommy: Nothing?
Alex: Uh, um, tomorrow I – I don’t want to have nap tomorrow, and we’re not (mumble).
Mommy: Well, but I think we need it.
Alex: Why?
Mommy: Why? Because, you’re grouchy, right?
Claire (still playing trains): Mommy can, can you help me, um… can you help me… move Alex’s train off of the… um…
Alex (rushing back, upset): No, no, no! Don’t move my train! No, no, nooo! Me me me me me me me meeeee!
(Alex moves his train but makes sure it’s still blocking Claire’s train.)
Mommy: Alex. Please don’t block the track.
Alex (meanly): Look there’s a train down there, you might crash into it.
Mommy: Well that, that train needs to move into a siding, or keep going.
Alex: But there’s no siding, and, Flying Scotsman’s in the way, and I don’t wanta move him.
Mommy: Well, there’s so many trains on the track. Who’s, who’s the engineer in charge of all these trains? ‘Cause the engineer needs to get some trains off the track.
Alex :Why?
Mommy: Because they’re gonna run into each other and the other trains can’t go. Because some trains are just sitting there. Can we make a parking place for the trains? Can we make a station yard?
Claire: Mommy, I’m parking these trains here! On this.
Mommy: Well that’s fine as long as another train comes along. Right?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Well, there’s lots of work to do today, and there – these three trains can’t do it, we need more trains to do some. See?
Mommy: Okay, well if you’re gonna be down there to switch the trains when another train comes, that’s fine.

Claire (angrily): Don’t crash into my train.
Alex (upset): Hey, why are you doing that?!
Mommy: What’s wrong, Alex?
Alex (upset): Claire blocked me from going! I was tryin’ to help you go by!
(Pause.)
Alex (crying): I don’t – I don’t like this keeping – I don’t like this train to get trains back on the track! And Claire always doesn’t help me! Claire doesn’t even move trains for me! I always have to do all the trains, and Claire doesn’t help me!
Mommy: Hey Alex, then you can take some of the trains, take them off the track?
Alex: Claire, can you move your train?
Claire: Why?
Alex: Because you need to go that way, not this way. No – you need to go that way, so I can go this way.
Claire: Don’t! That’s not the way we’re apposed to go, I said! But I have to go to the shed!
Alex: Uh! You can’t!
Claire: I have to!
Alex (shouting): But I’m in the waaaaayyy!
(Pause.)
Mommy: All right. I’m gonna make a rule about how many trains we can have. Remember we used to have a rule that you can only have two trains? Do I need to make that rule again?
Alex (angrily): No.
Mommy: Then you need to figure something out, or I’m gonna make that rule.
Alex: I don’t want you to make that rule, never, never, never.
(Pause.)
Alex: Never, never, never. Never!
(Pause.)
Alex: Never!
(Pause.)
Alex: I said, never!

(The kids play quietly for a couple of minutes.)
Claire (firmly): Al… lex… you hafta… move… your other…
Alex: I know I know I know!!
(Pause.)
Alex (happily): I’m making more track.
Claire (happily): More track?! Why making a more track, and more track?!
Alex: Because I’m gonna make it go all around the house, do you wanna help me?
Claire: Uh yeah, yeah, I wanna help you.
Alex: Well Claire, we just have a couple more, uh, straight pieces. Some using the tur – the turn pieces.
Claire: Here’s some!
Alex: You need to go turn, and there.
(Claire and Alex happily build a new track together.)

Claire: Here’s some!

Claire: Here’s some!

Claire: Here’s some!

Alex: We’re gonna make all of these turn pieces!

Claire: I – I found one! I found one, I found one!

Claire: Mommy, I’m gonna put this piece in this space.


Claire (to Mommy): I’m sorry, Stephanie.
(Mommy laughs.)


(Alex and Claire are playing together.)

Alex: I’m just – I’m just a cowboy!
Alex: I wish I had a horsey!
Alex: How could I get one!

Alex: I pulled, the stool, away!
Claire: What stool?
Alex: Up here! Look, Claire. I pulled one away with my rope!

Alex: Claire, if your car falls down a cliff, I can get it, ‘cause I have my rope.

Alex: Let’s go to a horsey show, and then we can ride horseys. Because I’m a cowboy.


Claire: What do you do when a shark comes to you?
Mommy: Well, you swim calmly away from him. [Mommy explains further.]
Claire: But, well, it might bite you!
Mommy: Well usually when the shark --
Claire: Mommy, what do you do when you – when you – when, um – a dolphin comes?
Mommy: You say hi to it, cause dolphins are friendly.
Claire: What?
Mommy: You say hi to it, cause dolphins are friendly.
Claire :Oh.
(Pause.)
Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: What?
Alex: Um, some people don’t know it.
Mommy: Don’t know what?
Alex: Don’t know the – swim calmly away from the shark.
Mommy: Yeah.


(Daddy has bronchitis.)

Alex: Daddy, have some rest while we’re gone and you’ll feel better soon.


Alex: Daddy, I know you don’t have energy to play with me.


Mommy: Sweetie, we’re walking to the library.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: I’m sorry you can’t walk with us, because you’re sick. But I know you’re getting better.


(dinner)

Alex: Daddy, the crackers I ate, the Clifford cereal, it went into my bib, it turned into goo, because I had a water spill.



(Alex and Claire are playing with dinosaurs.)

Alex: No, Claire. Dinosaurs don’t say "bye-bye", they fight.

Alex: No. No. The dinosaur doesn't go bye-bye. No. In my dinosaur games, they be mean to each other in this game.

Alex's dinosaur: Well, I'll get up the zip line before you get there. I'll get there first.
Claire's dinosaur: I got there first!
Alex's dinosaur: Well. Bye bye, I'm goin' down.



Claire: Alex? Alex. I pee-peed in my underwear.
Alex: It’s okay, Claire.
Claire: I have a new pair. I just got some.



(Alex sings the following while playing trains.)
Alex (singing): Thomas and friends have so much fun
Alex (singing): They just keep going
Alex (singing): Just keep going
Alex (singing): Juuust, keeep, gooing
Alex (singing): Yeah yeah!


(Alex narrates as he plays trains.)

Alex: James called Sir Topham Hatt.
Alex: “Sir Topham Hatt! Sir Topham Hatt!”
Alex: “What is it, James?)

(The character of Sir Topham Hatt is played by Alex’s fingers.)
Claire: He's your fingers? He's not real.
Alex: I'm just pretending.



(Alex, Claire, and Mommy are taking a walk, and they get to a big hill.)

Alex: We could use a zip line to get down the hill.

Alex: Or stairs.

Alex: Or a crane.

(Alex suggests a couple more ideas, not listed here.)

Alex: Those are all my ideas.



(story time)

Claire (handing her book to Mommy): Mommy, you throw it all the way up in the sky and catch it!



Claire: Daddy, today can we give you a hug and a kiss?



(Gromit just finished licking Daddy’s leg. Alex starts to poke at the spot where Gromit licked.)
Mommy: Don't touch it.
Alex: But I'm putting his hair back up.



(While getting Alex ready for bed, Daddy starts singing Lullaby, and Alex interrupts.)
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex?
Alex: I can be any kind of character.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: I can be a builder, a doctor, a hospital, a dentist, or, uh, or any of the jobs. Aaaaany of the jobs in the city. I can be anyone.


Alex: Do buffaloes have mouths?

Give them love.

(after school)

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes Alex?
Alex: A person did something mean at school today to me.
Daddy: Oh no! What did they do?
Alex: I was doing dress-up, and then I got a water, a water tank, no, it was a fireman's suit, no, it was a fireman's tank where you breathe, with the air, and it wasn't real it was just (mumble), and I was playing with Will and he took it and he didn't give it back, and I asked the teacher but she didn't do anything about it.

Claire: Daddy, when I was gonna take my shoe -- shoe off at school, I had a booboo on my foot.



Claire: Daddy, why is I gonna still be in preschool?
Daddy: Because you're such a big girl.
Claire: All of my other friends are such a big girl and such a big boy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Do they have big -- big boy -- a big boy bed?
Daddy: Yes they do.
Claire: Do they have a big boy bed at their home?
Daddy: Yes they do.
Claire: Oh.



(dinner)
Daddy: Alex, if a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Alex: Boom, crash! Really loud, all around the forest.
Claire: Do me!
Daddy: Claire, if a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Claire: Boom, lightning!

Alex: Mommy, can you get me some more pears? I'm ready for my next pile o' pears.

Alex: I'm gonna eat a very long dinner, so I'll grow so big, I'll be a daddy for a week!



Alex: When people are sick, you really need to take care of them and help them.
Daddy: Yeah. What can you do to take care of them and help them?
Alex: Give them love.

I wish my trucks were real.

(While sitting in Mommy's lap, Claire accidentally hurts Mommy.)
Claire: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Stephanie.



Alex: Daddy, at school today, the macaroni wasn't so good. All the friends didn't like it. It was really mushy. It was like goo. So, I just had a snack down there. I'm playing quietly.



Alex: What do bad dentists do?
Mommy: What?
Alex: What do bad dentists do?
Mommy: Why do you want to know that?
Alex: I just want to know what they do, if I pretend.

Mommy: I don't know what a bad dentist means, honey. Not find cavities if you have them? Not clean your teeth well enough?

Alex: Or maybe they would do something mean to your teeth.
Alex: I think I know. Um -- one day, um just -- one day, at school, I watched a movie, in Preschool 2, and, then, the bad dentist… uh… was in, his mouth, on the (sink?), where the teeth were.



(Alex has been grouchy all afternoon.)
Alex: Mommy, if you make me a new track, that might make me happy, and I might play with Claire, and we won't fight.



Alex (to Claire): Can you please stop, um, whining? It's getting on my nerves.



(Daddy is sick.)
Alex (to Daddy): Do you need any juice, water, or medicine?



(Alex has been playing trains happily, and then Claire joins in, and acts uncooperative.)
Alex (to Claire): Claire! I was having so much fun, and then you made me be sad!



Alex: Claire said my building is cool! There's lotsa -- there's just three buildings, it's like a apartment, except, it's stores! And there's a house, in the middle!

Claire: I saw Alex's building. I love it.
Mommy: You made him happy.



Alex (watching Bob the Builder): I wish my trucks were real.



(Alex and Claire are watching Dora the Explorer, and Dora is riding in a sky car.)
Claire: Can I go on that?
Alex: When you're older, Claire.
Claire: Mommy, can I go on that?
Mommy: Yeah. You can go on one of those at Busch Gardens if you want.
Claire: Okay.

Can you not come upstairs, and give Mommy all the jobs, because I don't like your cough bugs.

(driving to school)
Claire (to Alex): I'm in Preschool 1, and you're in, um, 2 Preschool 1!
Alex: No, Claire, it's not 2 Preschool 1. They don't have a Preschool 1, 2. I'm in Preschool 2.



(Daddy tucks Alex into bed.)
Alex: Can you not come upstairs, and give Mommy all the jobs, because I don't like your cough bugs.

How do you make it make letters?

Alex (to Mommy): You know what we could do for Daddy for Fathers' Day?
Mommy: What?
Alex: Listen.
Mommy: Oh. I bet he would love that.



(in the backyard)

Alex: We have to take care of our whole yard, especially our garden. Because if we don't water it, it'll be the same, all days.

Alex: There's lots of bugs around me. They like my sweaty hair.
Claire: They like my sweaty hair too.



(Claire is playing with the toy magic wand that she got in her goody bag from a friend's birthday party.)
Claire (to Mommy): How do you make it make letters?



(dinner)

Alex: I'm excited to go to school tomorrow!

Claire (excitedly): I'm gonna be in Preschool 1, and you're gonna be in Preschool 2!



Claire: Daddy I moved the table all -- by -- my -- self!



(Daddy tucks Alex into bed.)

Alex: Daddy, will you play house with me one day, can you put that on my bucket list?

Alex: Did you have a good Fathers' Day?

One day when I'm bigger, can I go camping with you, and my children can stay at home with the mommy, and Mommy and Claire, can stay with them?

(watching Bob the Builder)

Claire: Daddy, why does Bob have big shoes and Wendy has little shoes?
Daddy: I guess Bob has big feet.
Claire: Oh. But why does Wendy have little shoes?
Daddy: I guess she has little feet.



(Claire shows Daddy that Mommy did the hair one of Claire's baby dolls.)
Claire: She has a ponytail and a braid like me!

Claire: Daddy, can you put my flower baby's jacket on?



Alex: Daddy, can I tell you something? I need to whisper it in your ear because I don't want Claire to hear.

Alex (whispering in Daddy’s ear): One day when I'm bigger, can I go camping with you, and my children can stay at home with the mommy, and Mommy and Claire, can stay with them?

(A little later.)
Daddy (to Alex): That's gonna be fun.
Mommy: What?
(Daddy and Alex look at each other.)
Alex (to Mommy): I can't tell you.



(After nap, Alex puts on his Bob the Builder hat.)
Alex: Daddy, I'm ready to go downstairs and build.

Alex: I have lots of work to do today, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah? What work do you have to do?
Alex: It's hard work, I have to do lots of work.



(Claire is excited about Mommy's new shoes.)
Claire: Ah! There's purple on the bottom of these shoes!
Mommy: Yeah!
Claire: Look Alex, there's purple on the bottom of these shoes! There's purple on the bottom!

Who was - whose belly was I in?

Alex (to Mommy): Mommy, you look pretty today.



(As Claire throws her wipe in the trash, she notices the popcorn bag from last night.)
Claire: Daddy, who had popcorn in there?



Alex (to Claire): Oh I like your pretty dress. My sweet girl.



Claire: I’m Alex’s sister.
Daddy: You are. Do you like being Alex’s sister?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Daddy? And Alex always help me what I need!



Alex (whining): But I need to play Monster Trucks! There's a competition that I have to do today.
Alex: Mayor Bentley told me. That I have to do it.
Alex: Because there's gonna be something special tomorrow. There's Dads for Donuts. Well after it.



Alex: Lightning might shock you.
Alex: Lightning might shock you, but I'll try not to shock myself.



Alex: I don't wanna stay home tomorrow. Because, I wanna go to my new class it's fun.



(Alex and Claire are playing with trucks.)
Alex: So, everybody. Today, I like that you were at school. For Dads for Donuts.
Alex: But today, we're not having Dads for Donuts, you know why?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Well, the dads -- the dads -- are really late. They're really late so we can't do it.
Alex: Oh. Well. A big truck will do something.
Alex: Where are we going?
Alex: We're going somewhere to race. It's a race track.
Alex: Yeah! We always wanted that. And I'll drive you.
Alex: All right, big truck? Ready to go?
Alex: Yes sir. We're ready.
Alex: Okay, everybody in! Everybody in!
Alex: We're going, just two cars. I think one. One get in there!
Claire: I want this car to get in there.
Alex: No, two can't.
Claire: Why?
Alex: It's not easy to get out. And you're too big to get in.
Alex: But -- that's her mama.
Alex: Well, one's coming in right now. So sorry, different day.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Alex: Beep beep -- we've already got a car.
Claire: Uh-oh, it's driving right now.
Alex: We've already got a car!
Claire: Sorry!
Alex: Why did you say sorry?
Claire: Because I was being sorry.
Alex: Well, Claire. I'll take one at a time. Because we're going to a race track.
Alex: We're gonna drive right now.
Alex: He drove away. They were going far. A car fell out. He didn't know where he went. Oh! Did I hear the car fall out? I did! Come back! Come back!

Alex: The door opened, beep beep.



(getting ready for bed)

Claire (to Alex, whining): I wanna give you a hug and a kiss!
Alex: You have to catch me first!
(Claire chases Alex, both of them giggling.)



(Claire notices a picture of Mommy and Daddy, in which Mommy is pregnant.)
Claire: Mommy and Daddy.
Mommy: Yeah. And Alex was in my belly.
Claire: Who was - whose belly was I in?

Claire: Ahh.
Alex: That's what Meg says. I say something and she says "ahh!"


(Daddy puts Alex to bed.)
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes?
Alex: I like my new class, and I like building, but sometimes I get tired of building all the time, so I stop, and do something else.

Daddy: Okay.
Alex: But I have to build.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And I don't want to forget.
Daddy: Okay.

Are they upside down?

Alex: Are there people on the bottom of the Earth?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Are they upside down?

Alex: Do they walk upside down?

It was about I was resting with my eyes open, and my door turned into a T. Rex face. And it rawred.

(Alex had a nightmare last night.)

Alex: Do you know what my dream was about, Claire?

Alex: It was about I was resting with my eyes open, and my door turned into a T. Rex face. And it rawred. I didn't like it, I tried to make it stop.



(breakfast)

Claire: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah?
Claire: Why are we not eating the other ice cream?

There was gonna be a band. And I was gonna play music.

(Alex has been working all morning on building “Elly’s school”, and preparing for its Grand Opening, when he realizes, with great disappointment, that Mommy and Claire have left to pick up the mail from the neighbor’s house.)
Alex: There was gonna be a band. And I was gonna play music. And you know what else there was gonna be?
Daddy: What?
Alex: I was gonna sing a song about my trucks.


(The kids wipe their hands and faces after snack.)
Alex (displaying his clean hands): Look, Mommy. All clean.
Mommy: Good job, buddy!
(Claire runs over.)
Claire (displaying her clean hands): Look Mommy, all clean.
Mommy: Good job, Claire!
Alex: We're good cleaners, Claire.


Mommy: Claire, did you like the Tyler Place?
Claire: No. I didn’t like the Tyler Place.
Mommy: Did you like the little house?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy (to Daddy): She thinks they’re two different things.
Daddy: I know.
Mommy: Did you like eating breakfast and lunch at the restaurant?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Did you like riding the bike?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Did you like the airplane?
Claire: Yeah?

Mommy: Did you like being at the pool with Mommy and Daddy?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Did you like the fishing trip with Daddy?
Claire: Yeah.


Alex: Daddy, one day can we camp, can you put that on my bucket list?

Bathroom in the back

(Alex wakes up Daddy.)
Alex: Is it time to wake up? I need to build the fan.

Alex: Daddy, I don't have any clothes beside my bed. He wants me to get dressed. Before I build.


(Claire comes inside from checking out the garden with Mommy.)
Claire: Daddy! Our plants are bigger! Look! They’re all big!

Alex: But Daddy? I don’t want to have lunch here. I don’t like napping here.
Daddy: You don’t like napping here?
Alex: I like napping at our Tyler Place, um, cabin.


Mommy: I like our house.
Claire: I like the little house.
(Mommy laughs.)
Mommy: Do you like group?
Claire: No.


(Alex is playing Bob the Builder.)

Alex: Here’s where we are!
Alex: After we clean up this ground, we’ll start working!
Alex: Or we’ll have to build a circle right here, so Farmer Pickles sees it. We’ll put it in the store for him.

Alex: Before we get all this stuff, and start building, we need to clean up this ground.
Alex: Now hold on tight, and lift it up onto Harvey. Now Harvey, you pull it back. Good job, everyone! Now, let’s clean this up!

Alex (to Claire, angrily): I’m not gonna share anything today, because you’re not sharing that chair.
Claire: You can pretend Harvey is a chair.
Alex (angrily): No, that’s one of my trucks!
Claire: You can pretend Muck is a chair.
Alex (angrily): No!
Claire: You can pretend Scoop is a chair.
Alex (angrily): No!
Claire: You can pretend… that bag is a chair.
Alex (shouting angrily): No! Nothing can be a chair except this!!

Alex: And I don’t need to go, because I am building something. I don’t want to make Farmer Pickles even hotter.


(lunch)

(No idea where Claire got this rhythmic chant from.)

Claire: Bathroom in the back
Claire: Bathroom in the back
Claire: Bathroom in the back
Claire: Bathroom in the back

Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back

(Claire’s fist dances on the table as she chants, so Daddy’s mimics it.)
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back

(Claire makes both fists dance on the table as she chants.)
Claire: Bathroom in the back
Claire: Bathroom in the back
Claire: Bathroom in the back
Claire: Bathroom in the back

(Daddy makes his fist dance on the table as he chants.)
Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire: No, do it with two hands!

(Daddy makes both fists dance on the table as he chants.)
Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Daddy: Bathroom in the back
(Claire laughs and then joins in, with both fists dancing.)
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy: Bathroom in the back

Claire: Now you do it loud and I’m gonna be quiet.
Claire (quietly) and Daddy (loudly): Bathroom in the back
Claire (quietly) and Daddy (loudly): Bathroom in the back

Claire: Now you do it quiet and I’m gonna be loud.
Claire (loudly) and Daddy (quietly): Bathroom in the back
Claire (loudly) and Daddy (quietly): Bathroom in the back

Claire: Now you do it loud.
Claire (quietly) and Daddy (loudly): Bathroom in the back
Claire (quietly) and Daddy (loudly): Bathroom in the back

Claire: No you do it quietly now.
Claire (loudly) and Daddy (quietly): Bathroom in the back
Claire (loudly) and Daddy (quietly): Bathroom in the back

Claire: We both say – we both say it quietly.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire and Daddy (quietly): Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy (quietly): Bathroom in the back
Claire and Daddy (loudly): Bathroom in the back!
Claire and Daddy (loudly): Bathroom in the back!

Claire: Bathroom in the backy
Claire: Bathroom in the backy
Claire (loudly): Bathroom in the back
Claire (loudly): Bathroom in the back
Claire (whispering): Bathroom in the back
Claire (whispering): Bathroom in the back
Claire (loudly): Bathroom in the backy
Claire (loudly): Bathroom in the backy
Claire (whispering): Bathroom in the back
Claire (whispering): Bathroom in the back
Claire (loudly): Bathroom in the backy
Claire (loudly): Bathroom in the backy



Claire: Mommy, one day can I go to a farm?

Claire: I love farms.

It was fun being here, but now we have to go home.

(breakfast)

Claire (talking about Claudette, the hostess): When I’m a mommy, I can have a purple flower in my hair.

Alex (to Aunt Sheridan): No group for me, ‘cause I have to go back to Virginia!



(Alex and Claire prepare to return their bikes at the Tyler Place.)

Claire: Bye, helmet. Bye, bike.
Alex: Bye, helmet. I like you.

(Alex is riding on the back of Daddy’s bike.)
Alex: It was fun being here, but now we have to go home.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: But I can see my team.
Daddy: What team?
Alex: You know. All the trucks.

Alex: But it was fun.
Daddy: What was fun?
Alex: Riding on our bikes.

Claire: I love the bikes.
Mommy: I know, you love the bikes.
Claire: Do you love the bikes?
Mommy: Yeah.

Alex: I like the pool – the squirt things – the pool – the squirt things – but it’s time to leave the – it’s time to leave the Tyler Place.

Alex: I see Midgin Mountain! There’s Midgin Mountain! That’s Midgin Mountain, right there.

Daddy: You wanna go play on the trampoline?
Claire: No, I already did that with my Tyler Place friends.

Claire (rapid-fire): There’s Meg and Alex! I’m gonna run over there! There’s a butterfly! There’s a birdy, did you see that birdy?

(Virginia does a flip on the trampoline.)
Claire: Daddy, Daddy, when I’m bigger, I can do that!

Claire: When I’m bigger, I can flip over.


(The airplane begins to taxi toward the runway.)
Alex: Ah! We’re gonna go so fast! Watch, Elly!
Claire: We’re gonna take off!
(Pause.)
Claire: We’re gonna take off!
(Pause.)
Claire: We’re gonna take off, Mommy! Here we go! We’re gonna take off now!
Alex: We’re gonna go fast!
Claire: We’re gonna go fast, Daddy!

(The plane continues to taxi.)
Alex: It doesn’t feel like we’re going fast.

Claire: Are we flying?
Daddy: Not yet.
Alex: I think we’re gonna go to a different runway first.


(In the Philadelphia airport, Claire sees a soldier wearing camouflage.)
Claire: I think those are his PJs.



(Alex and Claire, and all their relatives, are unexpectedly stuck in the Philadelphia airport for six hours.)

Claire: One day I’m gonna have, um… One day I’m gonna have, um, but… One day I’m gonna have, um, Uncle Jimmy… One day I’m gonna have, um, Aunt Sheridan and Uncle Jimmy at my house.


(Daddy carries Claire through the terminal.)

Claire (pointing at a terminal sign): F4!

Claire: F6!

Claire: I wanna go down there say “F6” – no, “F9”.

Claire: F7!


(Claire sees the soldier again.)
Claire: He's a soldier.
Daddy: That’s right.
Claire: Why is he a soldier?
Daddy: Because he wants to be a soldier.
Claire: Oh.
Claire: Is he also a man?
Daddy: Yeah, he's a man too.


(Claire sees her uncles with ice cream, and wants some too.)
Mommy: We'll get some ice cream tomorrow. At the grocery store.
Claire: Is it tomorrow now?



(Alex explains why he doesn’t want to still be at the airport on Sunday, because Farmer Pickles doesn’t have a fan.)
Alex: He wanted me to build one, so he wanted me to build one, right, um the first time in the building.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Because, he’s so hot.
Daddy: Okay.


(Alex explains his building game to one of his relatives.)
Alex: My trucks, they’re not real, but I pretend to build with them. And I get lots – I get lots of things to build.
Alex: It’s a play game.

Alex: It’s a play game, it’s on a show. And I like it.


(Alex continues to worry about Farmer Pickles.)
Alex: He said, “I turned it on, and then it stopped working, and now I can’t turn it on again, I’m so hot.”
Daddy: Oh. And so he called you on vacation?
Alex: Yeah. He didn’t wanna let me.


(Alex and Claire, and all their relatives, finally make it onto a plane. The plane taxis toward the runway.)

Claire: We’re flying!

Claire: I don’t want you to fall.
Daddy: What?
Claire: I don’t want you to fall.
Daddy: I’m not gonna fall.
Claire: Okay.
(Pause.)
Claire: I don’t wanna fall.
Daddy: You’re not gonna fall.

Claire: Daddy? Airplane is makin’ me fall.
Daddy: No, you’re sittin’ in your seat.
Claire: But it make me lean back.
Daddy: Oh, you don’t like when it makes you lean back?
Claire: No.
Daddy: It just makes you lean back, that’s not falling.

Claire: No, when it flies, it makes me lean back, it flies.
Daddy: Yeah? It has to go fast, to get up in the air.
Claire: Oh.
Claire: Why?

Claire: Are you gonna fall?
Daddy: No I’m not gonna fall.
Daddy: I might lean back though.
Claire: I don’t wanna lean back.

Claire: When are we gonna go fast, Daddy?
Daddy: When we get all the way on the runway, he’s gonna go really fast, and take off.
Claire: I don’t want – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna fall.
Daddy: Okay. I’ll be here with you, okay?
Claire: Okay.
Daddy: I’ll make sure you don’t fall.

Claire: I don’t want to fall.

Daddy: Are you tired?
Claire: No.
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire (excitedly): We’re gonna fly!
Daddy: What?
Claire: We’re gonna fly!
Daddy: We’re gonna fly!

Claire: When is he gonna go really fast?
Daddy: He will in a minute.
Claire: Look! That one’s going really fast!
Daddy: Oh!
Claire: And it got up in the air!
Claire: Now we’re up in the air like that.

Daddy: It’s our turn to go next.
Claire: What?
Daddy: It’s our turn. To take off.

Claire: We’re going fast.
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Daddy, can you put that in your pocket, think, it maybe is gonna fall.
Daddy: Yeah, look. We’re going up in the air.
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Can you see?

I’m a little wetty

(Alex tries to explain his feelings about leaving the breakfast table to go to group.)
Alex: It's mixed together. I don't want to, and I want to.


(Daddy drops off Alex at group.)
Alex (to Daddy): You have a good breakfast.


(In the cabin, Claire plays with the toy space shuttle.)
Claire: Airplane wants to fly! One, two, three, blastoff!


(Alex talks about the upcoming fishing trip with Daddy.)
Alex: We can take Elly! She'd like to see my fish.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: She's my daughter.
(Alex laughs.)


(Daddy and Alex play on the “pirate ship”.)

Alex: Arr, matey!

Alex: I get people, I’m a mean pirate.



Alex: Mommy, when we walk, um, we sing a song, um...
Alex (singing): We are the midgins... Wherev - um, everywhere we goo, the bikes wanna know…
(Mommy and Alex laugh.)

Alex (singing): Who we are
Alex (singing): Who we are
Alex (singing): So we tell them


Alex: That worm got inside. Say that.
Mommy: That worm got inside.
Alex: My soda straw.
Mommy: My soda straw.
Alex: He said take a sip.
Mommy: He said take a sip.
Alex: He went all through my pipes.
Mommy: He went all through my pipes.
Alex: He musta drowned.
Mommy: He musta drowned.
Alex: What does “drowned” mean?
Mommy: It means when you go under the water and you can't breathe. You don't wanna drown.
Alex: We don't want to die!


(Alex is riding on the back of Daddy’s bike.)
Alex: I miss my friends.
Daddy: You miss your friends?
Alex: I miss Neer and Callum and Jaap.


Claire (chanting, to another kid): I got a fish-ee, I got a fish-ee


(Juju is not yet completely dry from the “bath” that Mommy gave her. Claire runs around the cabin with Juju, singing.)

Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I’m a little wetty
Claire (singing): I'm a little Juju
Claire (singing): I'm a little Juju
Claire (singing): I'm a little Juju
Claire (singing): I'm a little dry
Claire (singing): I'm a little dry
Claire (singing): I’m all dry
Claire (singing): I’m all dry
Claire (singing): I’m all dry
Claire (singing): I’m all dry
Claire (singing): I have a waggly tail
Claire (singing): I have a waggly tail
Claire (singing): I do have a waggly tail
Claire (singing): I have a waggly tail

I’m gonna sit beside Meg, ‘cause she’s the funniest one.

Alex: You know why I wanted to go to the pool, Daddy?
Daddy: Why?
Alex: Because I thought I would sleep first, and I would have a lot of energy, and I could go to the pool. And play a lot. But I still wanna go to the pool. It’s fun.


Alex: I’m gonna sit beside Meg, ‘cause she’s the funniest one.


(Bath time. Alex goes first.)
Alex: Look Mommy, I’m handsome already!

(Claire is getting ready for her turn.)
Claire (dancing around, singing): I’m gonna be handsome! I’m gonna be handsome!
Mommy: You’re gonna be pretty.
Claire: No. I’m gonna be handsome.


(at “family party”)

Alex: I wanna go to group, Daddy. I wanna go to group. I’m bored.

Claire (whining): Daddy, I don’t wanna go to group! I’m tired!

Alex: Claire, you’re pulling me! If you stop pulling me, I’ll let you give me a kiss.

Claire (whining): I don’t wanna go to group.
Alex: It’s fun, Claire. You wouldn’t even notice that you’re crying. You’ll say, “I’m having fun, anyway.”

Claire (whining): I don’t wanna go to group.

Claire (crying): I don’t wanna go to grooouuuup!


(Daddy picks up Alex from evening group.)
Alex (to Daddy): How was dinner?


Mommy (to Alex): How was dinner?
Alex: Good. I had apple juice and then grape juice!
Mommy: That was your whole dinner?
Alex: No! I had popcorn.

Alex (surveying the cabin): I - I want somebody to clean this house. It’s messy on the table and messy on the counter.

(Daddy tucks Alex into bed.)
Alex: Daddy, guess what Ryan did on the trampoline. He's my counselor. The counselors are like teachers: they teach you things. He, um, did a flip.