Daddy, do -- do Aunt Sheridan have a back yard?

Claire: Daddy, do -- do Aunt Sheridan have a back yard?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Where is it?
Daddy: It's behind her house.
Claire: Behind her house?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Beside her house?
Daddy: No, behind her house.

Daddy, watch me! Daddy, watch me!

Claire: Daddy, you wanna watch me catch my ball?
Daddy: Yeah!
(Claire shows Daddy how she can throw her soccer ball up in the air and catch it, then they play ball for a while.)
Alex: Daddy! I'm good at running fast with my space shuttle, do you wanna see it?
Daddy: Yeah!
(Alex runs with his space shuttle.)
Daddy: Wow!
Claire: Daddy, watch me! Daddy, watch me!
(Claire falls down on the sofa.)

Claire: Watch this, Daddy.
(Claire makes her car roll across the floor.)
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Watch this again.
(Claire does it again.)
Daddy: Neat!
Alex: Watch this, Daddy.
(Alex makes his space shuttle roll across the floor.)



(dinner)
Claire: Daddy, I'm eating my carrots, so my carrots gonna get me healthy and strong.

Oh, in this house?

(Alex wakes up early, and is trying to wake up Daddy. He traces his finger on Daddy's forehead.)
Alex: I wrote my name on your brain.



Claire: I like to pet… I like to pet, um… I like to pet stuff animals.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Not stuff animals. Stuff real animals.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: I like to pet stuff real animals. Stuff real animals at the farm.
Alex: Well, stuff animals at the farm are not really stuff animals, they're real animals.
Claire: Yeah, real stuffed animals.




(The kids come home from school.)

Alex: Daddy! We went to the car wash!

Claire: Daddy, we go to the car wash!
Daddy:Yeah?
Claire: And we la -- we -- we -- we -- and it washed our car, and put soap on it, and, and, and we laughed at it!



Claire: Daddy, on Dinosaur Day? Um, on Dinosaur Day? On Dinosaur Day? Um --
Alex (teasing): On Dinosaur Day? On Dinosaur Day?
(Claire smiles.)
Mommy: Alex. That's not nice.
Alex: But Claire smiled at me.
Mommy: Okay.
Claire: On Dinosaur Day? Um, on Dinosaur Day? On Dinosaur Day, um, my friend said, "Let's watch Dinosaur Bones."
Daddy: Oh!



(Mommy is dressed up to go to a wedding.)
Claire: Why'd you get those new shoes?
Mommy: I just pulled them out of my closet, they were in my closet.
Claire: And why'd you get that new dress? Where'd that, new dress, came from?
Mommy: It was in my closet.

Claire: Where did that, where did that bracelet be?
Mommy: It was in my closet.
Claire: Where is it in your closet?
Mommy: What?
Claire: Where is it in your closet?
Mommy: It was in there, honey.
Claire: But where did it be, in your closet?
Mommy: It was in there, in my jewelry box.
Claire: Oh, where was your jewelry box?
Mommy: In my closet.
Claire: But where was your jewelry box?
Mommy: On the floor, in my closet.

(A little later.)
Claire: What did that butterfly come from?
Mommy: I had it in my bathroom.
Claire: U -- upstairs?!
Mommy: Upstairs, yeah.
Claire: Upstairs in our house?
Mommy: Yeah.
Claire: Oh, in this house?
Mommy: Yeah.
Claire: Where we are?
Mommy: What?
Claire: Where we are?
Mommy: For real!
Claire: Oh!
Claire: Where Daddy is?

(A little later, Mommy has already said goodbye to both kids, and is heading out the door.)
Claire: Where did you get that bag from?
Mommy: It was in the playroom, I got it from the playroom.
Claire: But where did it be?
Mommy: It was in the playroom.
Claire: But where did it be in it?
Mommy: What?
Claire: Where did it be in it?
Mommy: Where was it?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: It was in the dress-up clothes.
Claire: Oh.



(dinner)

Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes?
Claire: How do -- how do grown-ups put their shirts on? By theirselves?

(Alex suddenly remembers that Mommy used to give Claire a bottle during songs, when Claire was "sort of a baby".)
Daddy: What made you think of that?
Alex: I just keep remembering.
Alex (smiling): I'll write it down in my brain.

Here's my plan: After the show's over, breakfast's over so we're not so late. Okay?

Claire: One day, can we have apple pie for snack?


(breakfast)

Alex: The show's over, and that means breakfast's over. Here's my plan: After the show's over, breakfast's over so we're not so late. Okay?

Daddy: Okay.

That's not nice to laugh. At people, when something's on their head that they don't want on their head.

(At Alex's request, Daddy checks the preschool calendar to see what today's activity is.)
Daddy: It's Cooking Day.
Alex: Cooking Day?
Claire: I love to cook!
Alex: I wanna see what we're gonna make, it might be something tasty!
Claire: Yeah, and yummy!



Alex: Mommy, I need some help, making a camper. I could make another camper, it could be somebody's uncle or something. Actually I need help making a car. A bathroom or something that you can push around.



Claire: Tomatoes make you healthy and strong!



Alex: That's not nice to laugh. At people, when something's on their head that they don't want on their head.



Alex (whining): It's not fair to not let people take bath the right way, 'cause then they won't get clean the right way.

Ding ding! Everybody stop what you're doing! There's some very exciting news.

Claire: Daddy, I'm gonna tell you a joke.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Why did the doggie cross the road?
Daddy: I don't know. Why?
Claire: Because the train… um… ... because the train and the car… came… and… bumped him on the head!
(Claire and Daddy laugh.)

Alex: Why did I eat oatmeal and then the cow came to fetch the dog?
Daddy: I don't know. Why?
Alex: Because the dog wanted to get to the other slide, to get on the train!



Alex (upset with Claire): People don’t have to tell people how they feel about them. They have to be nice. We're not toys.



Claire: I like playing with Remy.

Alex (about Callum): He's my best friend.
Daddy: Yeah? Good.
Claire: And Remy's my best friend.




(Claire says she lost her band-aid at swim lessons.)
Alex: What swim lessons?
Claire: At swim lessons yesterday.
Alex: I don't think that was yesterday.
Claire: No after this day, and after that day… and after the other day, and after the other day, and after the other day, and after the other day, and after the other day, we had swim lessons.

Mommy: That's about right.




Claire: Why did the monster go on the road?
Daddy: I don't know.
Claire: Because the train and the car squished him.
Daddy: Oh!
Claire: So no people came and squished him too!
Daddy: Oh!
(Claire and Daddy laugh.)



Alex (playing trains): Ding ding! Everybody stop what you're doing! There's some very exciting news.

Monkeys don't have cell phones!

Claire (with her shirt on her head): I'm a clown!



(Alex and Claire are coloring.)
Alex: Claire, I can help you spell A!

Alex: Now go up -- now go down -- now go -- no -- go across here -- now go down. Then go down. You have to go all the way down the paper.

Claire: Oh. All the way down here?
Alex: No, all the way down here.
Claire: Oh. All the way down here?
Alex: Yeah. Make it go down, now make it go across. I don't think that's a very good A. How 'bout you do the paper like this and then you can. Go up, cross, down, and then across in the middle.

Claire: 'Kay.
Alex: You did it! You made a A!
Claire: That doesn't look like a A.



Alex: Monkeys don't have cell phones!




(Mommy lets Claire pick which parent she wants to escort her to her friend Cecilia's birthday party.)
Claire: I pick Daddy. Because I love him.



Alex (playing trains): I make up good stories, don't I, Mommy?



Claire: I like pink! Pink is my favorite color!

Love your money, you can buy things all day. There's great food, hugs, and you can play things today, today, today.

(Alex and Claire are watching Dora the Explorer.)
Alex: Swiper talks just like Map.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: They both have the same voice.

Claire: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah?
Claire: Map is Super Map now!



Claire: Mommy? It's hard to build a rug.
Mommy: What?
Claire: Mommy, it's hard to build a rug.
Mommy: It's hard to build a rug?
Claire: Yeah. It's hard to build a floor.
Mommy: It's hard to build a floor.
Claire: It's hard to build a shirt.
Mommy: It's hard to build a shirt?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Is it hard to build a girl?
Claire (smiling): Yeah.
Claire (smiling): It's hard to build eyes.



(Alex built a "money machine" out of Legos.)
Alex (telling Mommy what it says on his money machine): "Love your money, you can buy things all day. There's great food, hugs, and you can play things today, today, today." That's what the money machine says.

Alex (to Daddy): It can give you food, and… great cards, for hugs on your birthday, and… it gives you, new toys, for you to play with. Only money to buy that. It only gives you three things to buy. And then puts some honey on it. Just like Pooh likes honey, doesn't it? He likes honey.



Claire: I was swimming on my back with nobody holding me in the water!
Daddy: Yeah? Wow!
Claire: And my teacher counted one two three four five and then she picked me up!

Claire (lying on her back on the floor, demonstrating): Daddy?
Daddy: Yes?
Claire: Watch me, I lied down on my back, and I swimmed by myself! In the water!
Daddy: Good! You're such a big girl.



Claire: One day can we ride a motorcycle?
Mommy: No.
(Mommy and Daddy explain that motorcycles are dangerous.)
Alex: Why do they build motorcycles around the world, then?




Claire (to Alex): Why do you always pick Bob?
Alex: I don't know. Because I like learning how to build things. If I don't watch it, I won't be a builder when I grow up.



Claire: Daddy, we swimmed, with our clothes on and our shoes on!
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Yeah!
(Daddy laughs.)
(Claire does her crazy laugh.)

A chipmunk… is that a baby monkey?

Alex: Daddy? A chipmunk… is that a baby monkey?
Daddy: No, that's a --
Alex: What's a baby monkey?
Daddy: What's a baby monkey?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Um…. I guess it's just a baby monkey, I don't know.
Alex: Maybe you can learn about it at work.

(Daddy is on a conference call, on speakerphone and mute.)
Claire: Who is that?
Daddy: That's one of my work friends.
Alex: That's one of his work friends, talkin' to him.

Claire: Where is your work?
Alex: I'm sorry you have to work all day so much.

Claire: Daddy, can I see your work? Can I see your work?
Daddy: Yeah!

Claire: Daddy, can we take some -- can we take some Legos to your work, and… um… toys to your work, and [mumble] toy, and… I can carry -- I can carry -- Mommy can carry the bunny to my work -- no, to your work -- and, um, Abby to your work and my girl to your work. One day.

(Daddy momentarily hangs up from his conference call, in order to dial into a different line.)
Claire: Are you gonna -- are you gonna stop that noise? On the phone?
Daddy: No.
Claire: Are they still gonna talk?
Daddy: Yeah.

Gavin: Okay. We're ready to rock and roll.
Alex: Rock and roll? That's what Benny says.

Alex: Daddy, one day at lunch, when we were eating lunch, at the red table, Ryan said that his food was going all the way down to his knees!
(Alex and Daddy laugh.)

Claire: At snack, Ashley said, "What are you doing up in there?! Nothing!
(Claire and Daddy laugh.)
Claire: Ashley said that. Then Ashley said "I'm not doing anything!"
(Claire and Daddy laugh.)
Claire: Then Ashley said "I didn't do that!"
(Claire and Daddy laugh.)

Alex: Do you know where Ashley's big sister's school is? It's in 4K.
Claire: It's um… I don't know her sister. Where's her -- her -- where's her -- where's Ashley's big sister, in?
Alex: 4K.
Claire: 4K, oh.
Alex: Daddy, I didn't see her when I was going outside. Today -- no, yesterday.




Claire: Daddy, after you put my pull-up on, I'm gonna play "run to the fan, and say 'That's cold!' and run away", okay?

Don't get close to a snake in the desert.

(Alex and Claire are wearing cowboy hats because it's going to be Cowboy Day at school today.)

Alex: Cowboy Alex can do magic tricks! Like standing on one foot for a very long time. Without holding anything.

Claire: When I get to school, and, my teachers say, "I love that hat!", then I can put it on!
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Yeah! At circle time!



(riding in the car to school) 

Alex: Claire, we can pretend this is our horsey. But you have to put your hat on. I will not pretend horseys if you don't put your hat on.

Alex: Claire. I need to tell you something dangerous that you shouldn't do. Don't get close to a snake in the desert. It will slither its tail behind you. And that wouldn't be good. And it might hit you. So don't -- so don't get close to a snake.

Alex: Don't get close to a snake. It will wag its tail at you.

I jumped in the pool with my clothes on!

(Claire is watching Caillou.)
Claire: Daddy, one day, when it storms and rains, can we do that?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Go in the kitchen, and get some lights and some candles?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: And get a flashlight?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: If it storms and rains.



Claire: Daddy, can you swim in the ocean?
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Can you swim to the other side?
Daddy: No, you can't swim to the other side. It's too big.
Alex: It would take a whole week.
Alex: It's a long way, and there's sharks.
Claire: No, where was the sharks going in the ocean?




Alex: Daddy, I got a idea for today!
Daddy: What?
Alex: You can -- you can go to work, you can -- you can do the thing, but don't take too long, okay? You can do the rest tomorrow.



(Claire and Alex are excited about their swim practice.)

Claire: I jumped in the pool with my clothes on!

Alex: Daddy, why didn't you push me to the bottom?




(picking a TV show)
Daddy: I think it's Claire's pick.
Alex: No, it's my turn. Claire's been pickin' all day.




Claire: I want spoon yogurt, has a joke on it.



(Alex and Claire are playing with the Lego town that they made.)
Alex: This is the money shop, Mommy. They have money here.



(Alex and Claire are running around wearing cowboy hats. And nothing else.)
Alex: Yeeha!
Claire: Yeeha!

Mommy, why do grown-ups' mouths don't get dirty?

Alex: Claire said four, after two. So, there's three in the middle.



Claire: Mommy, why do grown-ups' mouths don't get dirty?
Mommy: They do, that's why we use napkins.
Claire: But why do they don't get messy?

Orange one.

Claire (eating gummi vitamins): Daddy, pink one.
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Pink one!
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Purple one. Daddy, the purple one matches to that! To your flower!
Daddy: That's right!

Claire: Orange one.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire (to Mommy): Orange one.
Mommy: Yeah.

Claire: Red one, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Red one, Mommy.
Mommy: Uh-huh.

Claire: Yellow one, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Yellow one, Mommy.
Mommy: Mmm.

Claire: White one, rawr. Daddy, white one.
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: No school, Daddy? Is there no school?
Daddy: No school.
Claire: Oh.

Claire: Daddy, after I eat my waffle and my blueberries, I'm gonna be done.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Daddy, I -- no after I eat all of my waffle and my blueberries and my sausage, I'm gonna be done.
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Daddy, you look funny.



Claire: Mommy, one day can we go on a choo-choo train?

Just you and me, Daddy. It's gonna take a long time to build a sports stadium.

(Alex wakes Daddy up.)

Alex: I don't have Rollie, Lofty, and Dizzy. I only have Scoop, Muck, Harvey, and Big Truck. Maybe I'll call him… Packer.

Alex: Come on and wake up, Daddy. You'll have fun.

Alex: Just you and me, Daddy. It's gonna take a long time to build a sports stadium.



(Claire is playing with her toy binoculars.)
Claire: I saw a elephant! It's eating grass and drinking water. Come look!
(Mommy turns her head and looks.)
Mommy: Oh neat!
Claire: No, it's in the train room.

Claire: I couldn't find any animals, just a elephant.
Mommy: Oh.
Claire: I got a jaguar!
Mommy: Oh, a jaguar?
Claire: It's right there.
Mommy: Oh.



Daddy: What do we have to do to build a sports stadium?

Alex: There's a lot of digging, a lot of filling, a lot of, um, a lot of hammering, a lot of drilling, and a lot of… lifting.



Claire: Daddy, next time? You can put me back to bed and then wake me up. Again.
Daddy: Again? Oh I'd like that!



(Claire and Alex are coloring.)

Alex: That looks like a pretty picture, Claire.
Claire: Yeah I'm making it so pretty. So it's gonna be a big tall building. With lots of windows in it.

Claire: Daddy, look at mine!
Daddy: I love it, it's pretty!
Claire: It has lots of colors, it's a so big tall building, with lots of windows!

Claire (pulling out the new crayons from Nana): We got some of these other colors.
Daddy: Oh, those'll be fun!
Claire: Yeah. I colored yesterday with Mommy. On this table.
Daddy: Neat!

Alex: I made a tree, and some pretty colors, Daddy.
Daddy: Oh, look at that!
Alex: I mixed green, and pink together.
Daddy: I love it, that's so pretty.

Claire (offering Alex a crayon): Here, Alex.
Alex: No thank you.
Claire: You want this one?
Alex: No, thank you.
Claire: Okay.

Alex: I made a tornado around a tree!

Alex: I got all my pictures drewed.

(Alex shows his pictures to Mommy.)
Alex: Here's one. A tornado around a tree.
Alex: Here's another one. A silly face.
Alex: And here's the next one.
Mommy: What's that one?
Alex: Lots of pretty colors in a tree.



Alex: Daddy, we have a whole city now. You know what that means?
Daddy: What?
Alex: That we're ready for my celebration.

Claire: Alex, why are you playing Legos again?
Alex: I'm just getting everything together so Mr. Bentley can see.




(Daddy tucks Alex in bed at naptime.)
Alex (sadly): Daddy, I want my trucks to talk when I grow up.
Daddy: I know.
Alex: 'Cause Bob's trucks talk.
Daddy: I know.




(Alex and Claire are sitting at the little table, painting. The third chair is occupied by one of Claire's baby dolls.)

Alex (looking at the baby doll): She's sleepy.
Claire: Yeah. Maybe after she paints, I can put her to bed.
The baby: I want Claire to put me to bed!
Claire: Okay. I can put you to bed, baby.
(Claire takes her baby and gently puts it on the sofa.)
Claire: I put my baby to bed.




Claire: Daddy! I made dark gray!
Daddy: Oh! It's so pretty!
Alex: Daddy, did you know I made a bridge, with big, with big… with big... With a big storm cloud?
Daddy: Wow!
Alex: And big, big, big, big drops! Giant drops!




(Alex leaves a carrot, and a cup of water, in the yard for the bunny.)
Alex: And I made a scarecrow, so he can eat his dinner quick. And run away.




Alex: I'm all done with my hard work today.



Alex: Why do people pretend wear nighttime hats?
Daddy: Why do people pretend to wear nighttime hats?
Alex: No, why on shows do people wear nighttime hats?



Alex: Mommy, I wanna be a scientist and a builder and a daddy when I grow up.

Claire: Can I be a scientist and a Mommy and a builder?

Claire: After Twinkle Twinkle I'm gonna give Mommy a hug and a kiss and you can sing with me, Daddy.

Claire: Daddy, you're gonna put me to bed.
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Daddy, after we sleep, is it gonna be tomorrow?

Attaches. Thanks.

(Mommy, Alex, and Claire are playing with Legos.)
Alex: Hey Mommy, Claire has the hose. That detaches to the fire truck.
Mommy: Attaches.
Alex: Attaches. Thanks.



Claire: Daddy, when I went outside at school today, the slide was really hot.

Me and Uncle Ed at the Tyler Place, when we were on our sailboat, I saw a line with rings on it.

(Claire asks Alex about something he built.)
Alex: Me and Uncle Ed at the Tyler Place, when we were on our sailboat, I saw a line with rings on it. People don’t swim there. So I built one here with a rope.

I look out for my sister.

(Claire and Alex are watching Kipper.)

Claire: Daddy, can I ice skate, in the snow?
Daddy: Yes. That'll be fun.
Claire: And can you ice skate with me in the snow?
Daddy: Yes.

Claire: Daddy, I wanna get a snowflake on my tongue.

Claire: Daddy, is it gonna snow all weekend?
Claire: Daddy, does it always snow?
Alex: No it doesn't.
Claire: Daddy, does it always snow?
Daddy: No, not always.

Claire: Daddy, next time, can it snow?
Daddy: Next time?
Claire: Yeah, and can it snow with lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of snow?

Claire (proudly): Daddy, we got peaches from a store, the grocery store. Look behind you.



Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: How'd those cabinets get stuck to the wall? 'Cause they can't stay there by theirselves.



Claire: Daddy, I'm gonna run, and I know how to stop when I run. Watch.
(Claire runs three steps then stops abruptly.)
Daddy: Good!



Alex: I look out for my sister.
Daddy: Good.
Alex: And sometimes I'm mad at her but I still love her.
Daddy: Good.

Daddy, one day can I have a purple piggy bank, matches my sunglasses?

Claire: Daddy, you have a big -- you have holes in your shirt.

Alex: Daddy! I did the button all by myself!

Alex: How do I get out of this commercial?

Alex: I'm picking one of these Kipper the Dogs.
Claire: We always don't watch Kipper.

(Alex and Claire watch Kipper.)

Alex (sort of singing): Kipper the Dog! The dog with the slipper.
Claire (sort of singing): Kipper the Dog! The dog with the slipper.
(Claire laughs.)

Claire: There's his piggy bank. Daddy, can I have a piggy bank?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: It's just a toy. It squeaks.
Claire: Daddy, one day can I have a purple piggy bank, matches my sunglasses?
Daddy: Yes.

Claire: Daddy, one day can we have that box, I love it.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: It's a musical box. You turn it, and turn it, and out pops a clown!
(On the show, the clown pops out. Claire laughs.)

Claire: I wanna have that box toy. Can we buy it?

Claire: Daddy can we have that clown box toy? We don't have it.
Daddy: I'll see if we can get you one, okay?
Claire: Okay.

Alex (sadly): I don't want Happy to go.
Daddy: I know, but he's a school dog.
Alex: He likes my house, not the school.

I had a stomachache one time. Why do I have to start all over again?

Claire: Small or big! That rhymes.
Alex: Opposites.
Claire: Yeah.



(Claire and Alex are being grumpy with each other.)
Alex: Now, please, be nice!
Claire: But I am being nice. No I'm not being nice.
Claire: No I'm not being nice.
Alex: Why?!
Claire: Because. I don't want you to play by yourself.
Alex: Well then you better be -- you better be mean, and you'll see what happens.
Claire: No!
Claire: I have your eyes, so. I have your head. I have your head because you're not being nice. You're not being nice. Alex, you're not being nice.

Alex: Daddy! Claire said I'm not being nice.



Alex (to Mommy, while playing Legos): Daddy said, "Whenever you have Legos… you're good at building things."



(Alex has a stomachache.)
Alex: I had a stomachache one time. Why do I have to start all over again?



(Bed time. Daddy is reading a Dora book to Claire.)
Claire: Mommy, why is the Grumpy Old Troll grumpy?

The person who made this cup is a mean person. They said "Let's put these words on the side, so you can't read them, and then you spill your coffee."

(Daddy and Alex wake up Claire.)

Claire: I didn't be hot in these PJs.

(Claire's new shorts have pockets.)
Claire: Daddy, and I have pockets! I can put my lip stuff in here, and Alex's lip stuff in here!

Claire: These are so fun!

Claire: Mommy. I didn't be hot in the big PJs.

(Claire is eating a donut.)
Claire: Daddy, how can you cut bagels?
Daddy: With a knife.
Claire: No, how can you cut -- how can -- how can you cut -- how can you cut -- how can you cut -- these?
Daddy: With a knife.
Claire: Oh.

Claire: We had these too, when it was Fathers' Day. It was in Miss Gibson and Miss Arnold's class.



Alex: Daddy, we're building little chairs!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: Yay. Yay. We get to build something special. Very first time.
Claire: Yay, we get to do something special!



(Daddy plays the song "Donuts, Go Nuts" on his computer.)
Alex (after hearing only the first few ukelele chords, with no lyrics): Donuts!



Alex: Guess what, Daddy? I'm takin' all my little friends outta my bed, because Happy's having a party!
Daddy: Fun!
Claire: Can I come to Alex's party?



(lunch)
Claire: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah?
Claire: I tried to get the chicken nuggets out of my teeth, but it didn't come out, but now it's out now.
Mommy: Oh good.



Alex: It's a robin, Daddy! I know it's a robin, because it has a red tummy. I learned this at school, sometime. Or maybe I came up with it, and I learned it by myself.



(Daddy plays the song "On The Floor" on his computer.)
Alex: We listened to this.
Daddy: When?
Alex: Going to Chuck E. Cheese's.
Daddy: That's right!
Alex: On the floor?! Everything on the floor. You do everything on the floor.
Alex (singing): Let's sleep on the floor
Alex (singing): Let's eat breakfast on the floor
(Alex laughs.)

(Alex examines Daddy's coffee mug, which has a small copyright notice on it.)
Alex: The person who made this cup is a mean person. They said "Let's put these words on the side, so you can't read them, and then you spill your coffee."

(Alex laughs.)

(Alex, singing along to "Donuts, Go Nuts", makes up his own lyrics.)
Alex (singing): All your body likes donuts, you know I do
Alex (singing): Everybody likes donuts, you drop them on your shoe

Alex: I like the donuts song. Because we made up it.

(Alex sings along for the entire donuts song.)
Alex (singing): Really special for you
Alex (singing): Donuts are so yummy
Alex (singing): Alex and Daddy like Gatewoods
Alex (singing): Aw, they, get a chucklehead and put it in the donut
Alex (singing): That makes our one flay
Alex (singing): It makes our bait
Alex (singing): We like all the donuts
Alex (singing): We make them all the day
Alex (singing): All right
Alex (singing): All right
Alex (singing): We'll just make some more
Alex (singing): We take it all for the dinner, and they're still having more, chore
Alex (singing): I know that, I know that, we can get a donut
Alex (singing): We could sing it all day long, we know this donut is
Alex (singing): Yummy yummy, yummy yummy
Alex (singing): Yummy yummy, yummy yummy
Alex (singing): Yummy yummy, yummy yummy
Alex (singing): Yummy yummy, yummy yummy
(Alex pauses for the instrumental interlude.)
Alex (singing): That's what we eat donuts, they're really good for kids
Alex (singing): Except, except, some people could be allergic
Alex (singing): All people have a allergy
Alex (singing): They can't eat those donuts
Alex (singing): Just try one, just try one
Alex (singing): See if you'll like it
Alex (singing): There's so much to do to eat donuts
Alex (singing): There's something for you
Alex (singing): We can pick which one we want
Alex (singing): There's so many
Alex (singing): We make them so good
Alex (singing): Like, like like…
Alex (singing): Donuts are shaped like bagels
Alex (singing): They are a circle
Alex (singing): They go, I know, I know
Alex (singing): That we could eat one or two
Alex (singing): Go go, go go
Alex (singing): Go donuts, eat them up
Alex (singing): So that, is time, to find some donuts
Alex (singing): Again again, again again
Alex (singing): Agaaaaaain
Alex (singing): We'll find out which donuts we want
Alex (singing): All day
Alex (singing): Oh donuts, oh donuts
Alex (singing): Oh donuts, oh donuts
Alex (singing): Oh donuts, donuts
Alex (singing): Ohhhhhh, let's eat one or two
(instrumental fadeout)

Daddy: That was really good, Alex.
Alex: I make lotsa rhymes.
Daddy: You do.

(Daddy sings along to "So What".)
Daddy (singing): I like to eat some donuts, but that's a different song
Daddy (singing): I like to sing this song too, why don't you sing along
Alex: Good rhyming, Daddy!



(bed time)
Claire: After we do bed time, is it gonna be tomorrow?

Sorry, it didn't flip that way.

(snack time)

Alex (out of the blue): How could Virginia be so small that it's orange?
Daddy: Virginia's orange?
Alex: Yeah, its place is orange. All the other places have aaaaalll their colors.
Daddy: What plates?
Alex: No. All the places on the planet. We live on.
Daddy: They all have all their colors, but we just have orange?
Alex: Yeah. Except you can't see it. It's only on the globe.
Daddy: Well, on the globe, even big places look small, because our planet is so big.



Claire: Alex can you not play with my stuff, I have to go potty.



Claire (talking to herself): I look sooo pretty in my Dora shirt.



(Alex prepares to flip a coaster to see who gets to wash hands first.)
Alex: Claire picks yellow, I pick brown.
(Alex flips the coaster. It comes up brown.)
Alex: I go!
Claire (whining): I wanna go.
Alex: Sorry, it didn't flip that way.



Claire: Daddy, can I have more chicken nuggets? Mommy? No – can I have one of your donuts from in that box?


Claire (to Alex): When I’m sleeping, you open my door, and come in my room, and say –
(Claire whispers something to Alex.)
Alex: I’m sorry, Claire, I might be asleep.
Alex: And you always sleep and talk while you sleep. I don’t. I just lie there.


(Alex and Claire are fighting about something. Claire hits Alex in the head with Happy the Puppy.)
Alex (grabbing his head): Ow!!
(Mommy takes Claire to her room for a timeout.)
(Pause.)
Alex (to the puppy): Are you all right, Happy?

Alex: She ruins everything I build.

Alex: I’m tired of her.

American flag! It's time to go to sleep!

Claire (waving a little American flag): American flag! It's time to go to sleep!



(Alex comes in from the garden with a very big carrot.)
Alex: Daddy, look at this!!
Daddy: Whoa!
Alex: It's gigantic!
Daddy: It's huge!
Alex: We're gonna like this!

(Claire comes in from the garden with two carrots.)
Claire: Look, Daddy.
Daddy: Wow, look at those carrots!
Claire: This one is little and this one is big.
Daddy: Yeah, look at that!



Claire: Mommy? Is dinner ready now?

Um… Science Kid.

(Mommy, Alex, and Claire are looking at pictures of Baby Claire.)
Alex: Daddy made it for me.
Mommy: Made what?
Alex: Claire.

Claire: Look at her eyes. Her eyes are so tiny.

Alex: I liked Claire when she was a baby. I would always pat her, and I’d say “Mommy, Claire’s hungry or tired.” Right?


(dinner)

Claire: Alex, why do -- Alex?
Alex: What?
Claire: Why do you always, don’t like, meatballs?
Alex: I do. I just – I don’t eat them very often.
Claire: Why?
Alex: I don’t know. That’s just what I do.

Claire (pointing at her meatball): Daddy, this one looks like a TV.
Daddy: It looks like a TV? What show is on?
Claire: Um… Science Kid.


(Alex explains, sadly, that he wants to build a sport stadium with trucks.)

Alex: But I want trucks that could talk.

Alex: I want them to have eyes and a mouth.

This yummy cake is yummy.

Claire (to Daddy): Is that your mustache?
Daddy: Yeah, do you like it?
Claire: Yeah. It’s sparkly.
(Mommy laughs.)
Alex: It’s just actually pieces of hair, he needs to shave.


Claire: Daddy, can I help you play with your computer?


(During Claire’s birthday party, she paints a picture.)
Daddy: What are you drawing?
Claire:It’s a party. With Grandma and Grandpa and Mommy and Daddy and Claire and a big monster!


(Claire is eating her birthday cake.)
Claire: This yummy cake is yummy.

When we grow up, we'll be big and you'll be old.

Alex: I see our neighbor, Oakley's mommy!
(Pause.)
Alex: Daddy, Claire, Mommy, I see our neighbor, Oakley's mommy!
Mommy: Oh yeah? What's she doing?
Alex: Nothing, she's just outside.




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

Claire (to Daddy): Daddy, when I'm a mommy and Alex is a daddy, you'll be little.

Alex (to Daddy): No. When we grow up, we'll be big and you'll be old.

(Alex and Claire are wearing their wristwatches today.)
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex?
Alex: When we're at the bookstore, will it be a different kind of time?
Daddy: What do you mean "a different kind of time"?
Alex: On the watch!


(Claire is anticipating her after-dinner cupcake.)
Claire: That's so gonna be yummy.


(dinner time)

Alex: Get a napkin, Claire, you have jelly on your face.
Claire: I'm gonna lick it with my tongue!

Alex (singing slowly): A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I.
Alex (to Claire): You do it with me. Repeat after me.
Alex: J.
Claire: J.
Alex: K.
Claire: K.
Alex: L.
Claire: L.
Alex: M.
Claire: M.
Alex and Claire (together): N. O. P. Q. R. S.
Alex: T.
Claire: Y -- T!
Alex and Claire (together): U. V. Double. U. X. Y. And. Z.
Alex and Claire (together): Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me.
Alex: See? Why don't you try singing it.
Claire (singing slowly): A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. N. O. P.
Alex: Q.
Claire: Q. R. S.
Alex: T.
Claire: T. U. V.
Alex: No -- no. Not TRS.
Claire: TRS.
Alex: No that's not right.
Claire: W. X. Y and Z.
Alex (to Daddy): She said TRS.
Daddy: No she didn't.
Claire: Next time won't you sing with me.
Claire: Was that right?
Claire: Alex, was that right?
Alex: Well, you did a little bit wrong, you said TX. That wasn't right -- I'll show you later.
Claire: Okay.