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.