I rode on a horsey.

Alex: We're going downstairs Claire, we're not taking the bus.


(in the school parking lot)
Alex: Watch out Daddy, there's a car coming by you.
Daddy: Oh okay, thank you.
Alex: You have to watch out.
Daddy: Okay, I will.


Alex: I crashed into Daddy and Mommy took the toy away and I wanted it back.


(playing trains)

Alex: Toby was there. And he went to the other side of the road. He was on the other side of the road. And he (crash?) into a (purry?) camel. And he didn't saw Toby. And he was on the other side of the road.


(dinner time)

Mommy: Tell Daddy what you did today.
Alex: I went to gook.
Daddy: You went to gook?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Tell Daddy what you did at school today.
Alex: I played with gook.
Daddy: You played with gook?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Tell Daddy what you rode on.
Alex: I rode on a horsey.

Alex: She's sad, you made her sad.
Daddy: I made her sad?
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: Miss Kim put my rock container in my cubby.

Alex: I want the toy back.
Daddy: After dinner.
Alex: I'm done. Now I can get the toy back.


Daddy: Alex, what's your favorite letter?
Alex: A!
Daddy: Good choice! What's my favorite letter?
Alex: B!
Daddy: What's Claire’s favorite letter?
Alex: I.
Daddy: What's Mommy’s favorite letter?
Alex: Um, N.
Daddy: What's Grommie’s favorite letter?
Alex: Um…
Alex: Um…
Alex: Um…
Alex: Um…
Alex: Um…
Alex: Um um um...
Alex: Aaaaaaaaaah!


Alex: We're done with cake.
Daddy: Okay, we’re done with cake.
Alex: Now we can play with something else.

His mouth is broken.

Alex: Mommy, my hair can't be brushed.
Mommy: It can’t be? It has to be. Why can't it be?
Alex: ‘Cause you have to reach those on the counter.


(snack time)

Alex: Claire's gonna growl at me. She's gonna growl at me in my chair.

Alex (eating a Goldfish): His mouth is broken.

Claire: Dada. Dada.
Alex: Are you saying Dada? He's looking at pictures.


(playing trains)

Alex: She was pushing my train backwards.

Daddy: Alex, you tell me if you need me to help you with Claire.
Alex: Help me with Claire.


(Alex and Daddy are looking at a picture.)
Daddy: Who’s that?
Alex: Mommy, Daddy, Grommie, and Alex.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Where’s Claire?
Daddy: She wasn't born yet.
Alex: Where was she?
Daddy: She was -- in Mommy’s tummy.


(dinner time)

Alex: I was drinking and then I have a cough and then I have a runny nose.

Alex: What you did today, Daddy?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What you did today, Daddy?
Daddy: I went to work and then I came home and played with Alex.
Alex: What you did yesterday?
Daddy: I went to work.
Alex: Where did you go with me?
Daddy: I played with you at home.
Alex: And where did you went? With me?
Daddy: Um, I don't think we went anywhere.

Alex: What am I gonna take to school?
Daddy: Um, what would you like to take?
Alex: Um my container full of rocks.
Daddy: Oh! That's a good idea. Would you like to do that?
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: You dip chicken nuggets in the sauce.
Daddy: Yes you do.

(Claire bangs her cup on the table.)
Alex: Claire’s banging.
Mommy: I don't like it.
Alex: Can you fix it?
Mommy: Claire, no banging. I'm gonna push you back. No bang.
(Claire bangs her cup on the table, so Mommy pushes her chair away from the table.)
Claire (upset): Ah! Ah-hah!
Alex: Mommy, can you push her back up to the table? She's sad.


(Daddy and Alex are eating imaginary cake on the couch.)
Alex: Put your neck up here. ‘Cause I have to eat with you up here.


Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex (falling backwards onto the couch): Whoa!


Alex: Be careful Claire! Be careful of the monster’s gonna come!


Alex: What's Claire doing?


Alex: I think there's James’s coach.


Alex (whining): No, I don't wanna whine!

Is it a pig? It’s a cow?! A horse?! A CAMEL?!!

Alex: Can I turn off it?


(dinner time)

Alex: Daddy, I called you on the phone.
Daddy: What did you do?
Alex: I called you on the phone.
Daddy: You called me on the phone?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What did you say?
Alex: Nuffing.
Daddy: What did Daddy say?
Alex: You would come home.

Daddy (pointing at Alex): Who's that?
Claire: Alex.
Daddy (pointing at Mommy): Who’s that?
Claire: Alex.

Daddy: Where's your big brother?
(Claire points at Alex.)

Alex: Can you say “roar” to me and get up? Say “roar” to me and get up.
Daddy (without enthusiasm): Roar.
Alex: No, say it louder.
Daddy (slightly louder): Roar.
Alex: No, say it louder and louder.
Daddy: Roar!
Alex: Now say it to Claire.
Daddy: Roar!
Alex: Can you say it to Mommy over there?

Alex: I'm the power to read and you’re the power to help!


(bath time)

Cookie Monster (singsong): I'm gonna go down the slide... It will be fun... Whee…! I went down the side of the tub.

Alex: I wanna see a bubble. Bubble, where are you?

Alex: I need a towel.

Cookie Monster (being held under the running water): I'm gonna get all wet! Aaah! Aaaaah! Whoa!! AAAH! AAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Pig (being held under the running water): Whoaaa!
Sheep (being held under the running water): Whoaaa!
Dragon (being held under the running water): Whoaaaaaaa! What is going on?

Cookie Monster: Pig, I have to take a shower, can you stay here?
Pig: Okay.

Alex: Look at my hair.

Cookie Monster: I go on the escalator.
(Cookie Monster stands on a washcloth.)
Alex: Mmmmm.
(Cookie Monster moves to another washcloth.)
Alex: Mmmmm.
Cookie Monster (sliding down the side of the bath): Wheeee!

(Alex wants a different comb.)
Alex: I want that one.
Daddy: Is there another one?
Alex: The white one on the counter. (Pause.) That I saw yesterday. When I was playing with Mommy. Then I went in the bathroom, and saw the white thing.

Dragon: Oh no, my tail! My tail! Whooooa! Oh no! (mumble) help! Oh no! I can't!
Sheep: I’ll help. Dragon, you’re too big. Maybe the pig’s gonna help you. Climb down!
Dragon: Oh no, I'm falling! I'm falling on the pig! Whoa!

(The pipes whine as the water drains from the tub.)
Alex: What's that?
Daddy: What is that?
Alex: Is it…. a whale?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a dolphin?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a pig? It’s a cow?! A horse?! A CAMEL?!!

Alex: That's Claire’s duck, it’s not mine. Can we make him a sound?


Alex: And Mommy take Claire a bath. And then I do something else. ‘Cause I – I – I – I – I – um – I did – I play with the parking – I – I play with the car puzzle, and then I went to see what Claire and Mommy were doing. I did that.


Alex: Daddy can you say – can you say Mr. Hand?


Alex: Daddy can you say – can you say Alex – can you say I wanna do Mr. Hand.


Alex: No, say it to me.
Daddy: Okay. Mr. Hand…
Alex: No I wanna say it.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Mr. Hand, I gonna tickle you!


Alex: I went to Pop’s work, and I played with the toy when Mommy went to the bathroom, and then I went to the big store.
Daddy: Wow! What did you see at the big store?
Alex: A waterfall, and fish... and geese.


Alex: We pull pants into the morning, Daddy, we don't pull pants for night time.


Alex: Mommy, you’re not scratchy. Daddy, what happened to your – what happened to you? What happened there? What happened there? And there? What happened to your cheeks? What happened to your nose? What happened to your cheeks? What happened to your cheeks?
Daddy: I didn't shave today.
Alex: What happened to your cheeks?

Grandpa went to the bathroom. I’m waiting for him to come back.

Daddy: Who’s at your house?
Alex: Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle… and Aunt DeAn. And Grandpa.


Alex: Can I play in the playroom with Grandpa?


Alex: Grandpa went to the bathroom. I’m waiting for him to come back.


Alex: I want to go to Grandma and Grandpa’s house again.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: After Friday.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: On Friday.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: It’s Friday. No school today!


Alex: Where’s Grandpa?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: Let’s go find him.


Alex: Grandpa.
Grandpa: What?
Alex: I'm gonna get it.


Alex: Here you go, Grandpa.


Alex: Grandma! I wanna hide in the pillows with you.
Grandma: Okay, let's hide!


Grandma: Okay Alex, I'm gonna hide.
Alex: Okay.
Grandma: You count to 10.
Grandma: You can’t watch while I hide.
Alex: 1, 2, 3 here I come!
Alex: I got you Grandma!
Alex (looking): Grandma! Grandma! Grandma! Grandma! Grandma! Grandma! Grandma!
Grandma: You found me!


Alex: There was a ‘squito, and he bit me!


Alex: You do it.
Daddy: What do you want me to do?
Alex: You be a really big lion.


Alex: This is not a toy, Daddy.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: This is not a toy.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: No toy. No toy. No toy.


Alex: Night-night, Daddy.

Sh. Alex.

(Mommy is wearing Daddy’s shirt.)
Alex: That’s Daddy's shirt. That’s not your shirt.


Alex: Can you carry me downstairs?
Daddy: You want me to carry you?
Alex: No thank you. Can you carry Claire?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Daddies don't carry boys. Daddies carry babies to go downstairs.


Alex: Nana will come in, Claire, do you wanna see her? And she will pick you up?


Alex: I'm gonna sit on the couch and wait for Nana, okay?


(Alex thinks he hears Daddy coming home from work.)
Alex (running to the door): Daddy Daddy Daddy!
Claire (walking after him): Dada Dada Dada Dada!


Daddy: Alex, what do cowboys wear?
Alex: Boots.
Daddy: Oh yeah? And what else?
Alex: Cowboy hats.


Alex: I got water myself.
Daddy: You did what?
Alex: I got water and I did it and I pushed the thing and then water came in my cup.


(dinner time)

Mommy: No banging, Claire.
Alex: No banging, Claire. I said to you, no banging.

Alex: I have too much in my mouth, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I have too much in my mouth.
Daddy: Oh, well maybe you should chew it up. Or you could drink some water; that might help.
Alex: I will chew it up.
Alex: There, I just chewed it up.
Daddy: Oh okay.

(Claire babbles.)
Alex: No, stop it.
(Claire babbles.)
Alex: Stop it.
(Claire babbles.)
Alex: Stop it, you’re hurting my ears.
(Claire babbles.)
Alex: Stop it, that hurts my ears, Claire.
(Claire babbles.)
Alex: No stop it, that hurts my ears.

Daddy: What did you do today, Alex?
Alex: Um play with Nana.
Daddy: Oh fun! What else did you do?
Alex: Nana went home and then I went to school.
Daddy: What did you do at school?
Alex: Um I don’t know what I did.
Daddy: What did you do after school?
Alex: Come home.

Alex: I wanna do water play.

Alex: Daddy, chicken nuggets go outside (mumble) (mumble) (mumble), okay? And (mumble) my car!

Daddy: Alex, I understood that chicken nuggets go outside. But what happens after that? What do the chicken nuggets do after they go outside?
Alex: We bring them inside.
Daddy: We bring them inside?
Alex: Yeah and we eat them.

Claire: Ahhh doh dee dah dah!

Claire: Tss.
Daddy: Tss.
Claire: Tss. Tss.

Alex: You – you’re big and I’m little. You – you’re big and I’m little. You’re little and I’m big. I wanna do bed. I wanna do bed.
Daddy: You wanna do bed?
Alex: No cah-koo.
(Alex flops over.)


Claire (looking at Alex’s shoe): Sh. Sh.
Mommy: Alex’s shoe, can you say “shoe”?
Claire: Sh. Alex.


(Alex gives Daddy a pretend cake.)
Daddy: Ah! This is for me?
Alex: Yes, it’s for you.
Daddy: Thank you! Do you want some too?
Alex: Yes I do.
Daddy: Here's a piece.
Alex: Thank you.


Alex: That's what Thomas did.
Daddy: What?
Alex: He did that at school yesterday.
Daddy: What did Thomas do?
Alex: He said something.
Daddy: What did he say?
Alex: I don't know what he said.


Alex: Isabelle is for Max and I’m for Kylie.
Daddy: You're for crying?
Alex: I'm for Kylie and Isabelle is for Max and I'm for Kylie.

Daddy: Alex, do you have a girlfriend?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Do you want one?
Alex: No.

Daddy: Is Max your friend?
Alex: He’s Isabelle’s friend.
Daddy: Who's your friend?
Alex: Kylie.

Can Claire be happy?

Alex: We don't hit dogs, or babies, or mommies, and/or daddies, or boys.
Mommy: That's right.


(nap time)
Daddy: Tell me what you want to say to me.
Alex: I wanna say backyard playroom play trains, backyard, play trains, I don't cry, (mumble) crying rug timeout mat. I wanna say those things.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I wanna play in the backyard play in the playroom play trains. ‘Cause I cry on the crying rug and the timeout mat. I want the door open.


Alex: I wanna go to Grandma and Grandpa’s house.


Alex: You don't have cheese for snack. You have cookies, graham bunnies, and - and - what else?


(snack time)

Alex: You scared me yesterday, Daddy.
Daddy: Who scared you?
Alex: You did.
Daddy: Aw, how did I scare you?
Alex: You found your hand and then it has mulch on it and I was scared.
Daddy: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.

Alex: I'm done, Daddy. I just ate more food. I ate my cracker, and my cheese, and my plum!
Daddy: Good!
Alex: Now I'm gonna go see what Mommy's doing.


Alex: I was behind the shelf.


Alex: Claire said something to me, Daddy.
Daddy: What did she say?
Alex: She said “ohhh”. She talked to me like that.
Daddy: Oh. Did that make you sad?
Alex: Yeah. It made me sad. I didn't like it.


(dinner time)

Alex: Claire wanted her applesauce cup. And Mommy took it away. And Claire cried really hard.

Alex: Look, my fork has spots on it.

(Claire is crying in the other room.)
Alex: Can Claire be happy?
Daddy: I hope so.
Alex: Can we count to three?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Okay.
Daddy: Let's count.
Alex: ‘Kay.
Alex: One.
Daddy: Two.
Alex: Three, one, two, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen.
Daddy: Good!
Alex: She's happy!
Daddy: Did you make her feel better?
Alex: Yeah. She’s – she’s happy.


Dinosaur: What? What? What is going on here? What? What? I wanna get -- I wanna get down. Not like that on my foot. Oh no. Who did it? I don't know.


Mommy (singing to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle): Boo boo boo boo boo boo boo
Alex (continuing the tune): I wanna get a turkey too


Daddy: You wanna flush?
Alex: Yeah, I will flush, and wash hands, and brush teeth, with my new toothbrush.


Alex: I wanna go see Claire first. And then go back in my room.


(The monkey tries to get on the bus.)
Dog: That's not your door, that's somebody else’s door.
Monkey: Where’s my door?
Dog: I don’t know it flew away.


Alex: You put mulch around the tree and your hand got all dirty and then you washed it.


Dinosaur (to Puffin): You can't be loud, I was saying that.

Mommy, you crashed into a reflector?

Alex: Grandma has a lot of toys at her house.
Daddy: What?
Alex: She has a red car.
Alex (to Claire): She has a red car. You wanna play with the red car and I will play with the truck.


Alex: You're trying to walk, Claire? No, you have to crawl.


(stopping at the gas station on the way to Grandma and Grandpa’s house)
Alex: This isn't Grandma and Grandpa’s house. It’s too far away. We have to find it.


(leaving Grandma and Grandpa’s house)

Alex: Mommy, you crashed into a reflector?

Alex: What happened, Daddy?
Daddy: Mommy crashed into the reflector.
Alex: And then you picked it up?
Daddy: Yeah I picked it up and Grandma’s gonna fix it.
Alex: And it was red?
Daddy: Yeah it was red.
Alex: And then you put it in the grass, and then the cars won't crash into it.


(playing trains)
Thomas: To the office!

Can I go in there?

(picking Alex up from school)

Alex: What do we have in the stroller?

Alex: What are we gonna take to school next time?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What are we gonna take to school next time?
Daddy: I don't know, we'll have to ask Mommy.
Alex: I think she's -- I think she's awake.

Alex: Maybe take my dinosaur back. Maybe a different dinosaur.


(Alex sees a curved stick on the garage floor.)
Alex: Where are the eyes?


(playing with toys)

Alex: The tiger’s on the swing, Daddy.
Daddy: What's that?
Alex: The tiger’s on the swing. He’s swinging so high.

Alex: What's wrong, tiger?
Tiger: I'm stuck in the door. Giraffe closed it and now I'm stuck again.
Tiger: Can you tell the giraffe no no no?
Alex: Okay.
Claire: No no no no.


Alex: I hurt my bottom. I want some ice.


Alex: My stool won't fall. I won't fall down.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And I won't cry too.
Alex: I won't run into Claire.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I'll go by her. Okay?
Daddy: Okay.


(Alex is in his bed for nap and talking to himself about what he can see in the hallway.)
Alex: I see Daddy. He went in Mommy and Daddy's room.
Alex: No he's out. There's Daddy.
Alex: Ohp! He went downstairs.


(going to the pool)

Alex: Can Claire swim in the pool?

Alex: Mommy’s gonna open the gate. Mommy’s gonna open the gate at the pool.

Alex: We don't cough at the pool.

Alex: I don't wanna take ice to the pool Daddy.

Alex: We’re gonna drive this car and bump into the trash can.


(in the baby pool)

Alex (standing in the pool, pointing down at the water): Can I go in there?

Alex (to Mommy): Can I pour water on you?


Daddy: Alex, imagine if you could travel to different worlds… without ever leaving Earth. Where would you go?
Alex (pointing): That way!


(dinner time)

Alex: Are you saying “more”, Claire? Good job, Claire.

(Claire chokes a little on her food.)
Daddy (to Claire): You okay, sweetheart?
Alex (to Claire): You okay, sweetheart?

Alex: What did you do today, Mommy?
Mommy: I went to physical therapy.
Alex: And where’d you went somewhere else?
Alex: Pool?
Mommy: Hm?
Alex: The pool?
Mommy: Yeah I went to the pool today with Alex and Claire and Daddy.
Alex: And Grommie. Grommie came to the pool? Where he went?
Mommy: No dogs. No dogs at the pool.
Alex: No dogs at the pool.

(Claire's spoon fell on the floor and she is fussing about it.)
Alex: Claire, can you say "May I have my spoon please"?
Mommy: Good job, Alex.
(Claire signals “more”.)
Mommy: Good job, Claire.

This is me. This is Alex.

Alex: Can you turn off the TV, Daddy? The TV’s on, can you turn it off?
Daddy: Yeah.
(Daddy turns off the TV.)
Alex: Thank you.


(playing trains)

Alex: We have to go back to the store and get some more food. And we're aaaall out of food.

Alex: I think it's… I think it's... I don't know where it's. I think it's on Thomas.

Alex: He gonna find his house... and she gonna find her house… and they gonna be in their houses.


Alex: Mommy has to stay at my house, ‘cause she has to go b'work for a minute.


(lunch time)

Alex: I will eat that pizza ‘cause I will get all messy with pizza when I eat it and you will wipe me off, okay?

Daddy: You want another chip, Claire?
Alex: I like chips. They make me hurt. They make my mouth hurt. ‘Cause I don't like chips.

Alex: Yeah, the tree was falling on the tiger. It didn’t make a sound, Daddy.

Alex: There’s a fly in here, Daddy.
Daddy: Oh no, do you see it?
Alex: Yeah, it's on the window.
Daddy: What should we do about it?
Alex: You have to get the blue toy and get it off… the window.

Alex: ‘Cause I can play with – Claire can play with… Claire can play with… mmmmmm… the tiger. Claire can play with the tiger.


(playing with toys)

Man: Do you wanna ride in my car?
Flamingo: Yeah.
Man or Flamingo: NO it your turn.
Man: I gonna go to the store and get some more bananas.

Man: And we're out of food ‘cause food -- and -- I have to go get some more food.
Flamingo: Can I come?
Man: You can’t.

Alex: A tree’s gonna fall in the forest. A tree’s gonna fall in the forest. A tree’s gonna -- ah! It fell. A tree fell in the forest.


Alex: I - I don't wanna take a nap.


(waking up Claire)
Alex: Wake up, Claire. Wake up, Claire. Wake up, Claire. Wake up, Claire.


Daddy: Who wants snack?
Alex: I do! Claire doesn't want snack. She has to play with Daddy on the floor.
Daddy: Okay, well I'll get her a snack.
Alex: She doesn't want snack. She has to play on the floor with you.


Daddy: Alex, what do you want for snack?
Alex: I want cheese, cookies… Graham Bunnies, and goldfish.


(snack time)

Alex: I want some milk.
Daddy: You want milk?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay. I'd be happy to get you some milk.
Alex: Milk is gonna get in my nose.
Daddy: No it won't.

Alex: I want some more snack.
Daddy: I can get you some more Goldfish.
Alex: And more cheese.
Daddy: I can get you a little Goldfish and a little cheese.
Alex: It's too heavy.

Alex: Daddy, the milk is not all -- the milk is not getting in my nose!
Daddy: Good!

Alex: I will go to Grandma and Grandpa's house, later, okay?
Daddy: Where will you go?
Alex: I will go to… Grandma… and Grandpa's house for… um… um… um… um… um… um… um… on Friday, okay? And I will go on the playground and go down the slide!

Alex: If a tree fell in the forest, there's no one here, does it make a sound?
Alex: Does it make a SOUND, DADDY?!

Alex: What happened to the sun?
Daddy: What happened to it?
Alex: What happened to it? I think it's behind a cloud. It's behind a cloud. It's behind a cloud, Daddy.
Daddy: I think you're right.


(Alex and Daddy are watching a very old Sesame Street on YouTube, and the characters look a little different.)
Alex: What happened to Bert’s hair?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: What -- what happened to Bert’s hair? What happened to it? What happened to Bert’s hair? What happened to Bert’s hair?


Alex: I put my lettuce on the table, Daddy. ‘Cause I don't wanna eat it.


Alex: You sing Lullaby?
Alex: Sing it to me and not to Claire.
Daddy (singing while facing Claire): Lullaby, and good night, go to sleep little Alex
Alex: That's not Alex, that's Claire.
Alex (pointing to himself): This is me. This is Alex.

Alex: You make a funny face. You make a funny face. Make a funny face!

Alex: No banging, Claire. Look at the table, Claire. You banged on it. Look at the table, Claire. Look at the table.


Alex: I wanna do BED!
Mommy: You wanna do bed?
Alex: No (gibberish followed by uncontrolled laughter and flopping on floor).
(Repeat several times.)

Stop pushing the buttons, and say it.

Alex: Can I play with you, Mommy?


Alex: Daddy, Mommy was gonna wake up me.


Alex: Can you put my friends back?


Alex: We're gonna do doctor and then Grandma.


Alex: I gonna have my water in the car and my snack in the car. She has Goldfish.


Alex: Can I turn this off?


Alex: That - that's not Mommy’s car.
Alex (pointing): That's Mommy’s car.
Alex (pointing): That's Daddy’s car.


(Grandma and Grandpa visit.)

Alex: I wanna play trains.

Alex: Where - where's Grandpa went?

Alex: I wanna play animals.
Daddy: Okay, let's play animals.
Alex: With Grandma.

Alex (to Daddy): Can you ask Grandma will you play animals with me?

Alex: Where's Grandma going, Mommy?
Mommy: What?
Alex: Where's they going?

Alex (to Grandpa): Do you wanna play with cars?
Alex: And people?

Alex (to Grandpa): I have a police car.

Alex: Can I go with Grandma and Grandpa?

Alex: Where's Grandma going?
Daddy: Well they had to leave.
Alex: Where are they going?
Daddy: Well they're gonna go back to their house soon.
Alex: And where are they gonna go?


Alex: Do it!
Mommy: Do what?
Alex: Do your shirt over my head.


Daddy: You know, Grandpa had fun playing with you.
Alex: Grandpa wants to come back to my house.


Alex: Grandpa has lots of toys. He has cars, and trucks! He has a red truck.
Daddy: A red truck?
Alex: He has a house. He has babies.
Daddy: He has what?
Alex: He has mommies and Daddy and Alex and Claire.


Daddy: Can you wash the back of your hand? Can you wash right there?
Alex: Meg said. Meg said that to me.


(dinner time)

(Alex drinks some water and has a coughing fit.)
Daddy: Did it go down the wrong way?

Alex: My mouth went the other way.

Alex: I want some cold water cause the hot water made me cough. (mumble) gave me a runny nose and I don't want some water. I wanna leave this water on my tray. I went to the doctor, daddy.

Alex: Now it's feeling better, Daddy.
Daddy: It's feeling better? Good.
Alex: Yeah it went the right way.

Alex: Get it by your plate, Daddy.

(Daddy wipes off Alex’s face.)
Alex: These are dirty too. This hand, and this hand. Can I get a napkin?

Alex: I have coffee, Daddy.
Daddy: Coffee?
Alex: Yeah. I have some coffee.

Alex: (in a very scary voice, jaw jutting forward): I want some more grapes please. May I have some more grapes please?
Daddy: What do you want?
Alex (same scary voice): May I have some more grapes please?

Alex: Can you say where to me?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Can you say where are your hands?
Daddy: Where are your hands?
(Alex shows Daddy his hands.)

Alex: You can say “roar”, and you can say “roar”, and you can say “roar” to Claire and “roar” to Mommy. ‘Kay? Do that.
Daddy: Why doesn’t Alex say “roar”?
Alex: You say “roar”.
Daddy: You want me to say “roar”?
Alex: Yeah.
Alex: Say “roar” to me, and say “roar” to Claire, and say “roar” to Mommy, okay?
Alex: Okay Daddy?
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy pauses while he types up this conversation.)
Alex: Stop pushing the buttons, and say it.

(Daddy roars to Alex, Claire, and Mommy.)
Claire: Roar.

Alex: Can I say “roar” to Mommy, and say “roar” to Daddy, and say “roar” to Claire, and say “roar” to Grommie?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I gonna get down and say “roar” to Grommie, “roar” to Claire, “roar” to Mommy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex (to Grommie): Roar Grommie.
Alex (to Claire): Roar Claire.
Alex (to Mommy): Roar Mommy.


Alex: I wanna play with that, Mommy.
Daddy: Just because Claire touched it?
Alex: Yeah.


Alex: We just washed hands in the other bathroom and then we're not gonna wash hands in this bathroom.


Alex: Let's sleep on this pillow.
Alex: Sleep with Bobo and I will sleep with Elly. Sleep with me Daddy?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Let's close our feet.
Daddy: Okay.

Alex: I think it’s gone. I can't hear it ‘cause it’s gone. It can't come in my house, and the other house. And I can't go in their house.


Daddy: Do you want your nose squirted?
Alex: Yes, I don't want my nose squirted. Said no, ‘cause I said yes.


Dog: Can I ride?
Cat: No you can't ride ‘cause you have to stay here and eat lunch.

And the man can drink the grapes water and it will be delicious.

Alex: I got the doctor, Daddy.
Daddy: Yay! You got the doctor!
Alex: I gonna check the doggies. I gonna check the red dog.


Alex: I wanna take it in the car and to Romp ‘N’ Roll.
Daddy: You can't take it to Romp ‘N’ Roll.
Alex: Can I leave it on the ceiling?


Alex: You have to go back inside. Your foot’s getting all dirty.


(getting in the car)
Alex: I want some ay-yer.
Daddy: Some ay-yer?
Alex (pointing at the dashboard): I think the air’s in thay-yer.


Daddy: Where did you go, Alex?
Alex: I went to Romp ‘N’ Roll.
Daddy: Did you have fun?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Who did you see there?
Alex: I saw Dana, Camden, and Aunt Renee.


(Claire bangs her cup on the table.)
Alex: No banging, Claire.
(Claire bangs her cup on the table.)
Alex: No. Don't bang.
(Claire bangs her cup on the table.)
Alex: No.
(Claire bangs her cup on the table.)
Alex: No!
Mommy: Claire. No banging.


Daddy: What did you do today Alex?
Alex: Nuffing.
Daddy: Okay.
(Pause.)
Alex: I wanna tell you.
Daddy: You wanna tell me? Okay, tell me.
(Alex mumbles through a mouth full of food.)
Daddy: I don't understand you, 'cause you have food in your mouth.
(Pause.)
Alex: I wanna talk to you.
Daddy: Okay. What did you do today, Alex?
Alex: I went to Romp 'N' Roll.


Alex: Thunder went bye-bye, Daddy.
Daddy: Who went bye-bye?
Alex: Thunder went bye-bye outside.


Alex: Grommie was loud! He was loud.


Daddy: Is that a whale?
Alex: No. That's a copenomenomenomen.


Alex: Can I take a ball outside?


Alex: I gonna throw this in my car.
(Alex throws the ball near the car.)
Alex: I didn't -- almost!


Alex: Will you get some water for the water table, so the people can swim? And the man can drink the grapes water and it will be delicious.


Alex: You get some water for the water table? And the man can drink the grapes water and he can't find any grapes.
Daddy: Grapes?
Alex: Yes.


Alex: Play doggies and the doctor, okay?


Alex: Maybe we have to play with blocks. Can we pay with blocks?


Alex: Make a base.

I was gonna sleep on the pillow and I will not wake you up ‘cause I will close my feet and you will go in the CAVE!

Alex: You get a haircut, Daddy?


Alex: After school we will play trains and go to bed, and after bed we will go to the playground and then go to the beach.


Alex: Ben's at my school. And we have Ben at Brady's party.


Daddy: Alex, what did you do at school today?
Alex: Nothing.
Daddy: Oh yeah? Was that fun?
Alex: Nope!


Alex: Sleep on your new pillow that you got from school.


(Grommie is lying in the family room.)
Alex: I think you’re in the kitchen, Grommie. I didn’t look for you. You’re not in your crate. I think you’re in the kitchen.


(playing with toys)

Alex: Wulture. Wulture.
Daddy: Vulture.
Alex: This is a wulture.

Vulture: Can I go in there?
Alex: Yes you can. You’re not gonna get through there, ‘cause the thing, the wall's in the way.

Vulture: I can't look for something. I can’t look for something, goat. I can’t look for something, ‘cause the monkey’s on the tree.

Alex: Wulture’s at his house.
Daddy: Vulture’s at his house?
Alex: Yes. He can’t go to the tree and fly in it, ‘cause he has to sit in it.


(washing hands)
Mommy: Put your hand all the way in.
Alex: Meg told me that.


(dinner time)

Alex: Wipe this penguin. He got all dirty.

Alex: Mommy, it’s quiet.
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex (laughing): Stop it.

Alex: Don't say that. I'm gonna say it. Guh dubba dubba gai-ah!

Daddy: Alex, tell me a question.
Alex: If a tree’s in the forest, no one is there to hear it, what does it make a sound?

Daddy: What did you do at school today?
Alex: I played with Kylie.
Daddy: Oh yeah?
Alex: And Isabelle. ‘Cause she was sad.
Daddy: Why was she sad?
Alex: ‘Cause she missed her Mommy and then she came back in the door.


Alex: I pushed you Claire, I'm sorry I didn't mean to.


Alex: I was gonna sleep on the pillow and I will not wake you up ‘cause I will close my feet and you will go in the CAVE!

Green stop, red go.

(waking up)
Alex: I wanna sleep some more and I will wake up and then I will go downstairs and eat breakfast. My diaper’s okay.


(Spongebob Squarepants appears briefly on TV.)
Alex: I wanna watch cheese.


(coloring in the playroom)

Alex: Look Daddy! Another long - a long, long snake.

Alex: That's a C.
Mommy: Yeah!
Alex: A cookie for C.

Alex: Cookie can't get it ‘cause he's scared.

Alex: There's a W.
Mommy: Yeah, good job! What's that?
Alex: Um, a snake.
Alex: There's a circle.
Mommy: Good job, can you do a triangle?
Alex: I can't do a triangle.
Mommy: You can't? Can you do this? Triangle. You try.

Alex: Up down right.
Mommy: You did it! You did it! You did it!
Daddy: That's a triangle!

Alex: Claire can't make a triangle.

Alex: There's a B.
Mommy and Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: There's a circle.


(Alex rolls his foot on the Play-Doh can.)
Alex: Making my foot feel better.

Alex: I roll my foot.
Mommy: What?
Alex: I'm making my foot feel better, Mommy.
Mommy: Does it feel good?
Alex: Yes, I'm rolling it.


Daddy: Alexander Thomas.
Alex: I'm not Thomas.
Daddy: Alexander Thomas.
Alex: No! I'm not Thomas.
Daddy: Who are you?
Alex: I'm Alex. I not Thomas.


Alex: There's the tower, Elmo. See it? It’s really tall.
Baby doll (in scary voice): I'm gonna knock it down.
(Baby doll knocks down the tower.)


Alex: That's a bird.
Daddy: A bird? Oh yeah, a pretty little yellow bird.
Alex: That's a green bird. Oh! He flew away to get some food.

(nap time)
Alex: Claire’s crying ‘cause I was crying.


Alex: We’re not gonna see the animals ‘cause the animals is closed today. ‘Cause we have to go to the beach.


(preparing to leave for Maymont)
Alex: You're not going, Grommie.
Mommy: I'm sorry Grommie, you can't go.
Alex: You can't go, Grommie. I'm sorry. I’m sorry. It’s too hot for you. You have to stay in the house.

Alex: And Mommy closed the door ‘cause she's gonna close my door ‘cause I can't close my door.


(in the car)

Alex: Can I go to Nana and Pop’s house, Mommy?
Mommy: No, we’re not going to Nana and Pop’s house, honey. We’re going somewhere else.
Alex: I wanna go to Nana and Pop’s house.

Alex: That's a blue bus. It’s white and it’s… purple. There's a telephone truck by the bus.
Mommy: That's right.
Mommy (to Daddy): How does he know that's a telephone truck?

Alex: I can't find the animals.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I'm looking for the animals. They're very far away.

Claire: Whoa. Whoa. Wow. Wow. Whoa.

Alex: We passed the telephone truck.
Daddy: We sure did.
Alex: It’s not going to the animals. The telephone truck doesn’t go to the animals.

Alex: Mommy, you’re not Claire.

Alex: You see that big tower, Daddy?
Mommy: I saw that big tower.
Daddy: That is big.

Alex: There's green.
Mommy: That’s right, what does green mean?
Alex: Green stop, red go.
Mommy: Close!

Alex: It turned green, and there's yellow too.
Mommy: And what does green mean?
Alex: Stop.
Mommy: Green means go. Go go go.
Alex: Go go go.
Alex: There's more green. There's another green.
Mommy: There's a red light. What does that mean?
Alex: Stop.
Mommy: That's right! Stop!

Alex: Bumpy.

Alex: Maybe they're sleeping. Maybe they're in the barn. Maybe they’re in the barn. Maybe they’re in the barn.

Alex: Oh I see a white house. I see a white house, Mommy.
Mommy: That’s the carillon.
Alex: It’s a white house.

Alex: I see trashcans over there. And I see a gate.
Mommy: Yeah.
Daddy: I see a car.
Alex: I see a red car over there. See that red car?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: It’s really red.
Alex: And I see a orange one and a blue one and more red ones. And another blue one and a green one.


Alex: Grommie’s downstairs, shaking.


(playing House)

Alex: I think that's Ernie on the telephone.

Alex: Who's that on the phone?
Alex: Hello Mommy. (mumble) See you later.

Alex: Hello Ernie. Ernie on the telephone again ‘cause it’s...
(Alex trails off.)
Daddy: What's Ernie saying?
Alex: Nothing.

Monkey: What are you doing now, lion?
Lion: I'm washing hands... and put PJs on and go to bed.
Monkey: Oh. What about me, lion, can I go to sleep?
Monkey: No, you have to eat, ‘cause you're hungry.


(song time)
Alex: Say all the people.

It could be, but not.

(waking up)
Alex: I can't wake up when I'm playing with my trains.


Alex: Run with me, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay, let's run.
Alex: Set go!
(Alex and Daddy run into the family room.)
Alex (laughing): Let's do it again!


Alex: I'm gonna go listen to story time with Mommy.


Daddy: Who wants to play trains?
Alex: Not Claire. She has to stay in the kitchen, and play, okay?


Alex: I’m tired ‘cause night time’s over, no school today. It’s not night time.


(Alex hears a noise outside.)
Alex: What's that?
Daddy: It’s a lawnmower.
Alex: No it’s a airplane.
Daddy: Oh. Well it could be a lawnmower.
Alex: It could be, but not. It is a airplane.


Alex: The pigs are laughing at him and that's not nice ‘cause he has mud on his bottom.


Alex: Bugs up there?
Daddy: Where?
Alex: Bugs crawl up on the ceiling?
Daddy: I guess they could.
Alex: Where are they?
Daddy: Where are they?
Alex: I guess they're outside.

(nap time)
Alex: I wanna play with Meg play in the playroom and play trains... and... cry on the crying rug and on the timeout mat.


(playing in the backyard)

Alex: I wanna make a toe pop, Meg.

Alex: I wanna go down the slide – I wanna go play basketball and then go down the slide.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Okay. That will be fun.


Daddy: How about we play trains?
Alex: I wanna play trains with Meg.
Daddy: That’s up to Meg, but I’ll play trains with you.
Alex: How ‘bout Meg?


(dinner time)

Alex: May I have some more bread, please?
Daddy: Will you eat two green beans?
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Three green beans, okay?
Daddy: Okay.

Alex (looking at Claire): She has food in her hair.

Meg (requesting a piece of bread): Can I have this without eating a green bean?

Daddy: Alex, who's my son?
Alex: Um a baby.

Daddy: What's my son’s name?
Alex: A doggie.

Daddy: Alex, what did Grommie and Maddie do today?
Alex: They played in the backyard. And they got hot in the sun. And then the sun went away on them.

Claire: Dah dah dah dah!

Alex: I wanna push stools. And not run into Claire.


Alex: Can I sing something to Claire?
Mommy: What do you want to do?
Alex: Can I sing something to Claire?
Mommy: Okay.
Alex (singing): Lullaby, and good night, go to sleep little Claire


(song time)
Daddy (singing): Lullaby, and good night, go to sleep Claire and Alex
Alex: No, sing it to me.
Daddy: I’m singing it to both of you.
Alex: No, don’t sing it to Claire! Sing it to Alex!

I wanna get a balloon.

(at Saxon Shoes)

Claire: Sh.
Claire: Sh.
Claire: Sh.

Daddy: What are you doing at this store, Alex? Why are you at the store?
Alex: I'm at the mall, Daddy. I’m not at the store, I'm at the mall.

Alex: I want a balloon.

Alex: I want a balloon, Daddy.
Daddy: I know you do.
Alex: I want a balloon, Mommy. Can I have a balloon?

(Alex tries on some shoes.)
Mommy: Do you like those shoes, Alex? Do they feel good?
Alex: I wanna get a balloon.


Alex: I wanna go in the house with Daddy. I wanna go in the house with Daddy.
Alex: I think it’s late. It’s late.
Daddy: It’s what?
Alex: It’s late.
Alex: It’s a sunny day. It’s a (mumble) day. It’s a beautiful night, Daddy.
Daddy: It sure is.


Alex: What you did, Mommy. What did you do today?


Alex: Find my hands.


Alex: I wanna sing “la la la”.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: In my room.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You're not gonna sing “la la la la”.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Silly Daddy.


Alex (singing): Wo wo wo. Wo wo wo.
Daddy: What are you singing, Alex?
Alex (singing): Wo wo wo.
Alex: Nothing I not singing anything. Nothing.


Alex: There are no green balls and there are no blue balls and there are no red… balls I see a red ball over here!


(playing House and Bus)

Monkey: I have to go somewhere. Let's go to work.
Uriel: Okay.
Monkey: Bye.
Uriel: Bye.
Monkey: You wanna come?
Uriel: Will you give me a ride to school?
Monkey: You have to go somewhere else. You have to go to the playground.
Uriel: Oh, okay.
(Uriel gets on the bus.)
Monkey: You can't get in here, you have to walk.

That's not a question.

(Alex is watching TV.)
Click, the Camera: Is this pinata shaped like a star?
Alex: No, circle.
Click: What is it?
Alex: Circle.
Click: Is this pinata shaped like a star?
Alex: No, triangle.
Click: No, what is it?
Alex: Triangle.
Click: Is this pinata shaped like a star?
Alex: Yes.
Click: Yes!


Daddy: Did you have fun at school today?
Alex: Nope!
Daddy: What did you do at school today?
Alex: Nothing!


Rosie: And I'm going home. I gonna -- 'cause I can't find James where he went.


(Mommy comes home.)
Alex: Mama! Mama! Mama. Mama.


Mommy: Did you take a nap for Daddy?
Alex: Yeah. He waked me up and I ate.
Mommy: What did you have for snack?
Alex: Um cookies, grapes, and cheese.
Mommy: Was it good?
Alex: Um yeah.


(looking at pictures)
Mommy: Who’s that?
Alex: Grandma.
Mommy: Who’s that?
Alex: I don’t know.
Mommy: It’s Virginia, she had long hair.
Mommy: Who’s that?
Alex: Meg.
Mommy: Who’s that?
Alex: Claire and Mommy. Alex, Daddy.
Mommy: Yeah. Who’s that?
Alex: Uncle Jimmy.
Mommy: Right. Who’s that?
Alex: Uncle Kirk.
Mommy: Right. Who’s that?
Alex: Alex.
Mommy: That’s right. Alex was a baby.
Mommy: Where’s Claire?
Alex: I don’t know, where’s Claire?
Mommy: She wasn’t there, she wasn’t born yet.
Alex (pointing at Claire): There’s Claire.
Mommy: There’s Claire.


(Alex remarks upon the solicitor who came to our door.)

Alex: He went to our house. And he ringed the bell and said “Ding dong!” And Grommie heard the bell ringing, and then I was scared.

Alex: He’s going home and eat dinner.
Mommy: He is?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Is he gonna make dinner?
Alex: Yeah, he’s gotta do something else first.


(playing in the backyard)

Alex: I wanna cut the grass. I wanna cut the grass. I don't need my shoes on to cut the grass, okay?

Alex: I'm cutting the grass, Daddy.

Alex: I'm not done yet.

Alex: I'm cutting the grass.

Alex: I'm done, Daddy. I just cut the grass, now it’s cut!

Alex: Maybe the grass is cut.

Alex: The grass feels better. ‘Cause Alex cut it.

Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-oh.
Claire: Uh-ah.

Alex: It’s my turn, Claire. It’s my turn. Uh-oh.


Alex: I wanna brush teeth at home, not at school.
Daddy: That's right.
Alex: I brush teeth at home.


(dinner time)

(Daddy is teaching Alex alternatives to saying “Um yeah”.)
Daddy: You can also say “Indubitably.”
Alex: Indubitably.
Daddy: I'm gonna ask you a question, and you say “indubitably”, okay?
Alex: Okay.
Daddy: Is your name Alex?
Alex: Yes.

Alex: Million dollars are all gone. You need a square.

Daddy: Alex, ask me a question.
Alex: Would you have a train or a ball?
Daddy: I would have a train.
Alex: And a ball.
Daddy: Yeah, I would have a train and a ball.
Alex: You have balls at work?

Daddy: Alex, if you could have a ball… or… a train, which would you choose?
Alex: A train.
Mommy: Alex, what if you could have two balls or one train, which would you choose?
Alex: Two balls.
Daddy: Alex, if you could have two balls or two trains, which would you choose?
Alex: Two trains.
Daddy: Okay, what if you could have three balls or two trains, which would you choose?
Alex: Three two trains.
Daddy: You can have three balls or two trains, which would you choose?
Alex: Two trains.

Alex: I want some more -- May I have some more pizza?

Alex: You have three trains… two trains, or three balls? Which one you have, Daddy?
Daddy: I think… I would have… three balls.
Alex: Okay.

Alex: I want tomato.
Daddy: I want tomah-to.
Alex (handing over an imaginary tomah-to): Okay. Here's tomah-to.

Mommy: Nana and Pop grew that tomato. You really want some of it?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: There's some tomato in the refrigerator. You want some of that tomato?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Okay, it's gonna be cold. And refrigerating it changes the taste, okay?

Mommy: You want some tomato?
Alex: Um yeah.
Alex (to Daddy): I'm getting the kuh-mato. I'm getting the cold tomato.
Daddy: Yeah, it's cold.
Alex: It's cold, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I'm getting some cold… wah… mato.

Alex: It felled in her pizza.

(Claire drops her water cup on the flolor.)
Alex: You're not getting it. It's gone. All -- All gone, water.
Mommy: Bye bye, water.
Alex: Bye bye, water.
(Claire fusses.)
Alex: No! We're not getting it! All gone, water.

Claire: Da-tay. Da-tay. Da-tay.

Alex: I want some more tomato, Mommy.
(Pause.)
Alex: May I have some more tomato please?

Alex: I want a napkin for my hands.
Daddy: Well, what do you say?
Alex: May I have some more, I want a napkin please?


(after dinner)

Daddy: Alex, do you wanna sing a song?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, go ahead.
Alex (singing): Twinkle twinkle little star
Alex (singing): How I wonder what you are
Alex (singing): Up above the world so high
Alex (singing): Like a triangle in the sky
Alex (singing): Twinkle twinkle little star
Alex (singing): How I wonder what you are
Daddy: Yay! That was so good!
Alex: Stop it.

Alex: All gone.
Mommy: What was in your mouth?
Alex: There was some pizza.

Alex: Tell me a question, Daddy.
Daddy: Um, what's eight divided by three?
Alex: That's not a question.

Alex: Can I talk to Grandpa on the phone, and he will say something to me. Okay?

(Alex talks on the phone.)
Alex: Hi… Hi Grandpa. I'm just sitting in my room, getting my diaper change. Then I go to bed. ‘Cause I'm tired. Bye Grandpa. See you later.

Alex: Maybe Pop’s on the phone.
Daddy: Maybe.
(Alex talks on the phone.)
Alex: Hi Pop, I'm gonna change my diaper and go to bed. Bye bye, Pop. See you later.

What Claire did.

(waking up)
Alex: Where's Nana?

Alex: You have to stand up, 'cause you have to pick me up. 'Cause you have to stand up way up in the sky.

Alex: The window's cold. The window's cold. The window's cold, Daddy. The wind blowed and maked it cold.

Alex: We have to sit on the couch and on the sofa and wait for Nana to come back.

Alex: We're not playing bus and house, Claire. We have to go downstairs and get dressed and go downstairs.

Alex: Are you gonna come downstairs with me, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: You're not taking a shower?
Daddy: Not yet.
Alex: 'Kay.


(watching Sesame Street)
Alex: Telly got his triangle, and Big Bird have his dinosaur book.


(leaving for school)
Daddy: You're not going, Grommie.
Alex: Dogs don't go to school. Silly.


(in the car on the way to school)

Alex: There's a cloud. The clouds are back.
Daddy: What's back?
Alex: The clouds are back. They're up in the sky.
Daddy: That's right.
Alex: I see trees, um clouds, skies and cars. And signs. And gates, and houses.

Alex (chuckling to himself): What Claire did.

Alex: Look, Daddy. You see the puppies?

Alex: My friend in the other class. My other class friend.


(playing in the backyard)

Alex: Ernie’s eating something, Daddy.

Alex: I'm gonna show Ernie what happened to my feet.

Alex: Look Mommy, my feet are covered.

Alex: I want the big truck out. I want the big truck out. I want the big truck.

Alex: Claire got all sand in her hair.


Alex: We don't talk like that.
Daddy: That's right, we don’t talk like that.
Alex: Claire's talking like that.


Alex: Ernie and Mommy will come in my room.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: And Ernie have to sit on the floor. He have to play with his toys. He wants to take his bag out of the bathroom.


Alex: What would you take on the Island of Sodor, Daddy?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What would you take on the Island of Sodor?
Daddy: Um, I would take Alex.
Alex: A shoe?
Daddy: Yeah, I would take a shoe.


Daddy: Alex, what would you take on the Island of Sodor?
Alex: I take… toothbrush. Toothpaste and a toothbrush.


Alex: What do you want to do after nap?
(Pause.)
Alex: Ernie’s going home.
Daddy: Who's going home?
Alex: Ernie.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: He wants to stay with us.
Daddy: Do you want him to stay with us?
Alex: Um yeah.
Daddy: Me too.

Who took my other hangers?

Alex: I wanna say “Daddy Daddy Daddy!”


Alex: Say is big, Daddy’s big, Mommy’s big, Grommie’s big, Claire’s… um… small. Say that one.


Daddy: You want me to tell you a question?
Alex: I have to get some medicine first and then you tell me a question.


Alex: Oh no! I got a shoe! I got a shoe! I got a shoe!


Alex: Who took my other hangers?


Alex: I want more hangers. I want that one and that one and that one. I want some more hangers.


(bath time)

Seal: My hat, I have to wear all my hats, okay? I have to wear this yellow one.

Alex: ‘Cause it got a egg on his face.

Seal: Oh no I lost my hat aaah I'm getting all wet!

Alex: He's done eating water. He wants some fresh water to eat.

Alex: He – he’s drinking water ‘cause he’s gonna go to the playground and then, he’s gonna fall down in the water.
Daddy: Oh yeah?
Alex: Yeah, ‘cause he can’t walk. ‘Cause he’s a dragon.

Alex: I'm -- I'm putting it over here ‘cause you can (mumble) it for... for… for... for Monday, okay?

Alex: He hears a noise coming from the bathtub.


Alex: What do you wanna do after nap?
Daddy: Don’t we usually do that after we’re in bed?
Alex: Yeah. Nana’s gonna come to my house.
Daddy: Oh yeah?
Alex: And get me a snack and make my food.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And Claire’s gonna sleep.


Alex: What do you wanna do after nap?
Daddy: Well, what do you want to do?
Alex: Nana’s gonna come. She’s gonna come today. She’s gonna come today, Mommy. She’s gonna come today, Daddy.


(Alex is watching a gathering of neighbors.)
Alex: And everybody’s have to go there to that house. ‘Cause that’s not they house. That’s not the other boy’s house, and that’s not the other boy’s house too. They’re other way.

Alex: What they gonna do? What the girl gonna do? (mumble) she’s leaving, Daddy. I think. She has to, get on her street.

Thank you, Grommie. Thank you for licking my feet.

Alex: The girl was scaring me.


Alex: I wanna show my frog to you.


(dinner time)

Mommy: I think those mashed potatoes are still hot.
Alex: Can I cool on them, Daddy?

Alex: Gimme more strawberries Mommy.

Alex: Grommie (mumble) ‘cause he didn't like it.
Daddy: What?
Alex: He didn't like his haircut.
Daddy: Who didn't?
Daddy: Who didn't like his haircut?
Alex: Grommie.
Daddy: Does Alex like his haircut?
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: What was that?
Daddy: What was that?
Alex: Was that a googah?
Daddy: Was it a googah?
Alex: Put it on your water.
Alex: And you do it.
Alex: Please!

Alex: Put your spoon, and your fork in there.
Daddy: In where?
Alex: In the water.

Alex: Can I play trains with you?
Daddy: You wanna play trains with me?
Alex: Yeah. For a few minutes, okay?

Alex (to Daddy): I wanna play trains with you, okay?
Alex (to Claire): Okay, Claire? We’re not pushing chairs with you.


(after dinner, playing trains)

Alex: There’s mashed potatoes on my foot, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Yeah it’s yucky. It’s Claire’s spoon.

Alex: We’re not pushing stools, Claire. No. We’re not.

Alex: You can’t play trains, Claire. No! You can’t play trains. You can’t play trains! You can’t play trains!

Alex: They fell off the track. They have to get back on the track.

Alex: I wanna play in the playroom. I wanna play bubbles in the playroom. And eat one.

Alex: Thank you Grommie. Thank you for licking my feet.

Alex: Here's your book, Daddy.
Daddy: What's that book called?
Alex: I don’t know. I don’t wanna ‘member it. Let’s just say and find out.

(Alex pretends to drop the book on Daddy’s foot.)
Daddy (playfully): Ow, that hurt!
Alex (to the book): No book, don't! Don't hurt Daddy, he's sad. Look at him.

Alex: I wanna go upstairs and ride on the dog, okay? Can I ride on the dog? Can I ride on the dog?
Daddy: What dog?
Alex: The blue dog.


(getting ready for bed)

Alex: It’s a beautiful night, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Yeah. It’s not a beautiful night. It’s a coddy night.
Daddy: Coddy?
Alex: Yeah, coddy.

Daddy: Alex, do you like NPV models?
Alex: I don’t know, Daddy.
Daddy: Do you like transient analysis?
Alex: I like trains.

Alex: That's where is my dog?

Daddy: Alex, do you know who my favorite people in the world are?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Who?
Alex: Grommie.
Daddy: Who?
Alex: Grommie.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Not anybody.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Pop.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Pop.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Pop.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Pop.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Pop.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Pop.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Nana.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Dana.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Camden.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Aunt Renee.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Uncle Doug.
Daddy: Who else?
Alex: Not anybody, okay?

Alex (to Daddy): You’re getting timeout. You hit me?
Daddy: I didn’t hit you.
Alex: You hit me?
Daddy: I don’t wanna hit you.
Alex: Hit me.
Daddy: No.
Alex: Please. You’re getting timeout from hitting from Alex.

Alex: Close your eyes.
Alex: Close your feet.
Alex: Open your feet.
Alex: Now close your feet.

Alex: First I wanna check your ears.
Mommy: What?
Alex: I’m a doctor.

Alex: What’s your favorite thing? What’s your favorite thing? What’s your favorite thing, Mommy?
Mommy: My favorite thing?
Alex: What’s your favorite thing?
Mommy: My favorite thing… probably our house.
Alex: Okay.
Mommy: What’s your favorite thing?
Alex: A train.

Daddy: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Alex: A broccoli.
Mommy: A broccoli?
Daddy: Why?
Alex: ‘Cause I go to the store.
Daddy: Does that make sense, Alex?
Alex: Yeah.