I'm trying to lie on the floor.

Alex: What’s Grommie doing?
Daddy: He’s being crazy.
Alex: What’s he doing?
Daddy: He’s running.
Alex: I’m gonna run. Look how fast I can run, Daddy!
(Alex runs.)


(Daddy comes home from work.)
Claire: Dada!

Daddy: Who’s here?
Claire (pointing at Daddy): Dada!
Daddy: Who else is here?
Claire: Dada!

(Daddy and Claire look out the back door.)
Daddy: Who’s out there?
Claire: Dog!
Daddy: Who else?
Claire: Dog!

(Daddy points to Grandma.)
Daddy: Who’s that?
Claire: Ah-wah.
Daddy: Who’s that?
Claire: Ah-wah.


Daddy: Alex, what did you do today?
(Alex doesn’t respond.)
Daddy: Can you tell me about your day?
(Alex doesn’t respond.)
Daddy: Okay, never mind.
(Daddy waits, but Alex doesn’t respond.)
Daddy: You don’t want to tell me, that’s okay. I think I’ll ask Claire about her day.
Alex: Enhh! Ennnhh! I – I – I wanna tell you!
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I played at school, and I saw Grandma, and I saw her car, and then Grandma came to our house, and after the other nap Grandma was still here, and I played with flowers with her, and gave Grommie a bath, and I saw Daddy, and I came inside, and Grandma came inside to get a towel, and I came inside, and I saw Daddy.
Daddy: Thank you Alex! I really liked that. Thank you for telling me about your day!


(dinner time)

Alex: I – I want the lid off, and I can put my pencil in it.

Alex: I drinked up the straw. I drinked up it.

(Grandma can be heard coming down the stairs.)
Alex: Who’s that?
Daddy: I don’t know, who is it?
Alex: That’s Grandma.
Daddy (to Claire): Who do you hear?
Claire: Bah-ma.
Daddy: That’s right!

(Grandma comes into the kitchen.)
Daddy: Who’s that?
Claire: Ah-wah.


Alex: Mommy, will you check your email?


Alex: Can I play with Claire in the family room?


Claire: Awnh Dada! Awnh Dada!


Alex: Do you wanna play trains?


(Alex is lying on the floor beside the train table.)
Daddy: Why are you lying on the floor?
Alex: I’m trying to lie on the floor.
Daddy: Well you’re succeeding. But why are you lying on the floor?
Alex: I need to lie on the floor for a few minutes.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I’m gonna play trains for a few minutes.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex continues to lie on the floor.)


Alex: Where’s Grandma’s car? Where’s Grandma’s car?


Alex: What do you wanna do after the other nap?
Daddy: I don’t know. What do you wanna do after the other nap?
Alex: What do you wanna do after the other nap? I don’t what we’re gonna do after the other nap.


(playing trains)

Alex: This is Harold. Where’s Annie the Airplane?
Daddy: Where’s who?
Alex: The airplane.

Alex: Helicopter, you’re getting a timeout! I gave helicopter a timeout, Daddy.

Alex: I’m tired of playing, Daddy.


Claire: Awnh Mama. Awnh Mama.

Claire's vocabulary

Alex ("ah-wah")
baby ("dah-dah")
ball ("baw")
balloon ("buh")
banana ("nana")
book
bubble ("buh-buh")
bye bye ("dah-doh")
chair ("ch")
Dada
dog ("dawg")
duck
Elmo ("ah-mah")
fish ("ish")
giraffe ("jaff")
Grandma ("bah-mah")
hat ("ha-")
hippo ("oppo")
Juju
Mama
Nana
Night-night ("nye-nye")
no
outside ("ow-sye")
Pop ("bop")
rock
shoe ("sh")
trash can ("trash")
uh-oh
up
waffle ("wah-wuh")
water ("wah-wah")
wow

Can you say "Do you wanna play animals?"

Alex: Ohhhhh. I was looking at that's Pooh on your shirt. Oh, wow. That's neat, Claire.


Alex: This house doesn’t have any books downstairs.


Alex (to Grommie): Oh you – you shake the hair off you! You don’t have the hair anymore. You shaked it all off!


Alex: What's this one?
Daddy: This is your jacket.
Alex: And where are we gonna go in a jacket?
Daddy: We’re going to school.
Alex: And they’re gonna say “There’s a coat in here.” And they will say “A coat is on a boy.”
Daddy: Yeah.


Mommy: Alex, tell Daddy what you got at the doctor.
Alex: Um a sticker.

Mommy: Did you get a flu shot?
Alex: Yeah, I got a flu shot.
Daddy: Did you like it?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Was it fun?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Do you wanna get another flu shot?
Alex: Next time I will get a swee shot.


Claire: Dog!
Mommy: That’s right. What does a dog say?
Claire: Ah ah!
Mommy: That’s a monkey!
Alex: Woof woof.


Alex: Look what I have.
Daddy: What do you have?
Alex: I have my Blackberry.

Alex: Can you go to work without your Blackberry? I need to work on it.

Alex: I’m going to work.
Daddy: Okay, bye.
(Alex goes in the kitchen with Daddy’s Blackberry, then returns.)
Alex: I’m home from work!
Daddy: Yay! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex!
(Daddy gives Alex a hug.)
Daddy: What did you do at work?
Alex: I played with my friends and I worked on my computer.

Daddy: If you’re gonna go to work, will you take me to school?
Alex: Okay. I need to put this in here. I’ll go to work, I’ll drop you at school, and then I’ll go to work.
Alex: Do you like your new class?
Daddy: Yes I do.
(Alex and Daddy leave for school and work.)
Alex: I’m gonna take you to school.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You can cry at school. You can cry there. They have a crying rug.


(Alex is pretending to use Daddy’s Blackberry.)
Alex: I’m gonna check work, Daddy. I’m gonna check work.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Can you say "Do you wanna play animals?"
Daddy: Do you wanna play animals?
Alex: I need to check work for a few minutes.


Alex: What's that applesauce called?


(Alex is playing with his clock.)
Alex: This is, um, a camera.
(Alex puts the camera to his eye.)
Alex: Smile!


Mommy: I wanna see a movie.
Alex: We’re done with movies. Say if you wanna do another movie.
Mommy: I wanna do another movie.
Alex: But we’re done with movies.

MAH!

(Daddy comes home from work.)
Alex: Oh - who's that? Oh it’s Daddy. Daddy’s home!


(Mommy sneezes.)
Alex: Bless you.
(Mommy sneezes.)
Alex: Bless you.
Mommy: Thank you.
Alex: You’re welcome.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: You’re funny, Mommy.


Alex: Daddy will you play outside with me while Mommy – um – plays with Claire in the bathtub?


Alex: Can you talk about ping pong?


Alex: Can you talk about my day?
(Daddy tells Alex about Alex’s day.)
Daddy: Can you talk about my day?
Alex: What – what a – what you did at your work?
Daddy: You tell me.
Alex: I – but I’m busy. I’m busy, Daddy. I’m busy. I’m busy.
Daddy: I get it, Alex. You’re busy.

Alex: Talk about my day, Daddy – I don’t know it.
Daddy: Talk about my day, Alex.
Alex: But I don’t know about my day. You know about your day. Can you talk about my day?


(Daddy drains the bath water slowly so the pipes whine.)
Alex: I think that's a whale.
Daddy: No.
Alex: It’s a dolphin.
Daddy: No.
Alex: It’s a boy slipping.
Daddy: No.
Alex: How ‘bout teeth.
Daddy: What?
Alex: How ‘bout teeth?
Daddy: No.
Alex: It's a eye cacacaca.
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a octopus?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a worm?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a fish?
Daddy: No.
(Daddy pulls the drain all the way open.)
Alex: It’s water!


Mommy (to Claire): Can you say “mwah” to Daddy?
Claire: MAH!


Alex: Ewwwww… You have a nose runny.


The Daddy: I’m gonna go to work.
The Mommy: What am I gonna do?
The Daddy: You’re gonne go to work while Alex be’s at school.

The Daddy: Where’s my Alex? Oh there’s my Alex. There’s my Alex. I’m gonna take him to school. I found my Alex.

Thank you for telling me.

Alex: What's wrong, Mommy?
Mommy: I'm sleepy.
Alex: But Daddy will put you down for nap.


Alex: I need some scissors. Ill be right back.


Alex: Mommy, will you make me green beans and grapes and pasta please?


Alex: You wanna buy something?
Daddy: Where do I buy something?
Alex: How ‘bout this new vitamin for your house?


Alex: I made you cookies, Claire. I say that. They will say “Thank you Alex!”


Alex: Do you want a special cookie, Daddy? I made you a special cookie.


Alex: I want another cookie first. And then I will feed the ducks.


Alex: Thank you for my cookie, Mommy.
Mommy: Thank you for my cookie, Alex.
Alex (to Daddy): Can you say thank you for your cookie?
Daddy: Thank you for your cookie, Alex.
Alex: You’re welcome.
Alex (to Claire): Can you say thank you for your cookie?


Mommy: Alex, you’re cute.
Alex: Thank you for telling me.


(in the car)

Alex: Red stop! Green (mumble), green count! One, two, three, four!

Alex: That's a big truck! On the way to the ducks! With blue on it. That's a woman.

Claire: Doooooog!


(at the park)

Alex: I see a police car, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: Mommy, I see a police car!
Mommy: Oh yeah!
Alex: Grommie, do you like police cars?

Claire: Dawg! Dawg! Dawg!

(Alex comes up to Daddy.)
Alex: Can we throw a rock in the water?
Daddy: No.
Alex (calling to Mommy across the field): He said no.
Alex (to Daddy): But I wanna do it, can you say yes?


(in the car, going home)

Alex: I don’t wanna feed the ducks. I just wanna go to the playground. I don’t wanna feed the ducks.

Alex (whining): But I was trying to go to the playground. I just feed the ducks. I don't wanna feed the ducks. I just wanna go to the playground.
(Pause.)
Alex: I said that word. That’s what I wanna go to. I don’t wanna feed the ducks. I don’t wanna feed the ducks. I just wanna go to the playground.


(Alex is reading Tumble Bumble to himself.)
Alex: Tumble bumble down the street, look for something neat.
Alex: Where are you, bears?


Alex: But – but you don’t understand me.

The train room.

Alex: I'm gonna show you what all the pictures are called, Claire. When I'm done with breakfast.


Alex: I wanna see Thomas with Sir Topham Hat’s car in the water.


Alex: I took this in this room. The train room.


Alex (to Claire): Mommy’s in the garage. I was talking to her what she was doing.


Alex: It’s okay if you wanna sit in my lap, Mommy, I think it’s okay.


(Daddy is on the phone with Ernie.)
Alex: Is Bert there?

Can you say "There's a firefighter in my car!"?

(Alex is wearing his new firefighter raincoat for the first time.)
Alex (excitedly): I'm a firefighter! I’m a firefighter!!

Alex (running around the house): Firefighter! Firefighter! Firefighter! Firefighter! I ride on a fire truck!

(Daddy is putting Alex in his car seat.)
Alex: I'm in the car. Can you say “There's a firefighter in my car!"?


Alex (to Claire, in a scolding tone): Claire! Claire Sofia.


Daddy: Alex, what's your middle name?
Alex: Um, no thank you. I’m not gonna talk about it any more.


(Alex and Daddy are playing with Dora cards.)
Alex: I like playing cards with you, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I like playing cards with you.
Daddy: Aw, thank you! I like playing cards with you too.
Alex: What?
Daddy: I like playing cards with you.
Alex: No thank you.


Mommy (to Daddy): Oh, it’s bath night, isn't it?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: For me.
Mommy: For both of you.
Alex: For both of me.


(dinner time)

Alex: What's that? Is that butter?
Mommy: That’s butter.
Alex: We don't have bread for the butter?

Alex: I need some more bread.
Daddy: I need some more million dollars.
Alex (pretending to hand over a million dollars): Here’s million dollars.
Daddy (pretending to hand over bread): Here’s more bread.
Alex: Thank you.
(Pause.)
Alex: Um, this not some real bread.

Alex: I want a million dollars, Daddy.
Daddy (pretending to hand over a million dollars): Okay, here you go.
Alex: Thank you.
(Alex eats the million dollars.)
Alex: I ate it!

(Alex drops his straw.)
Alex: I dropped my pencil.

Alex: Can you say “Do you need some more, Alex?”
Daddy: Do you need some more, Alex?
Alex: Um, no thank you. Because I need to get down.


(Alex is looking at pictures on the calendar and refrigerator.)

Alex: That's at the pumpkin patch, and that's my birthday. And this is a new thing, and Claire’s jumping, in the Jumperoo, and Alex (mumble).

Alex: And he's eating now, and he's playing with Mommy, and, I think that's all.

Alex: Oh, we have a picture of Alex with Isabelle and Angelina and Wyatt. I think that’s Alex.
Daddy: I think so too.
Alex: And he has the dog shirt and I think that’s all.

Alex: Oh we have that picture, and I made my family. Oh…. Look at that one.


Alex: I turned the monitor on. Is it loud?
Daddy: Yeah, it’s loud.
Alex: That’s Claire’s room. My room is the other way.


Alex: I need a bath.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I'm really dirty!


Alex: I need my clothes off so my clothes don't get wet!


Alex: You put my shirt on: I don't how.
Daddy: You don't how?
Alex: Yeah. I put my pants on ‘cause I know how to put my pants on.


(playing house)
The Girl (to The Mommy): (extended gibberish) forty-six and number nine. That’s what I want.

Okay. I play with the cat and the boy. And you play with the Mommy.

(getting in the car to go to school)

Alex: This is Thomas. From yesterday, when your car was not working?

Alex: Is it not working now? Let's see if it’s not working.

Alex: Is it gonna work?
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Is it working now?
Daddy: Yes.


Alex: Dogs need to be at home, because they need to go to the doggie 'tel. The – the doggie hotel.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Where there're people there.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: And play with other dogs.


(Daddy walks in carrying bags of groceries)
Alex (jumping up excitedly): Oh! Can I help you Daddy?


Alex: These go in the ‘frigerator.
Mommy: That’s right.
Alex (to Daddy): I'm gonna make cookies with Mommy. While you’re at work.
Daddy: While I'm at work?
Alex: While you’re playing with Claire.


(Alex drapes a pair of tied-together shoes around his neck.)
Alex: I'm a backpack. I’m a backpack.
Mommy: You’re a backpack?
Alex: Look at me.


Alex: Look. I'm having a hard (day?) playing with my helicopter.
Daddy: You're having a hard time? Why is that?
Alex: Because I need to eat dinner so my tummy feels better.


(Alex and Daddy are reading Bubble Hunt.)
Alex: What's that one?
Daddy: I guess that's Baby Nemo or something.
Alex: I think Nemo’s in trouble.
Daddy: He is? What happened?
Alex: The bubble’s trying to get to all the people. And Nemo doesn’t want to do that game.


(Alex reads Bubble Hunt to himself.)

Alex: Nemo had something he did. There was something he had to do.

Alex: And they found it, and they tried to pick it up, and he went back to the school with his bubble. The end.


Alex: I see the clouds.
Daddy: Oh yeah, I see them too. Look at all the clouds.
Alex: It might storm.
Daddy: It might.
Alex: It might storm. It might storm. We don't get to play outside when it storms.


Alex: I put fall up. Today at school.
Daddy: What did you do?
Alex: I put fall up.
Daddy: You did? Good for you! What does fall look like?
Alex: Um, fall d—doesn’t look like something.
Alex: I talked about families, and I talked about the circle too.
Daddy: Wow, that sounds like fun! What did you say?
Alex: Um, I was quiet. I was quiet at school, Daddy.


Alex: What are you doing?
Daddy: I’m just doing something.
Alex: You trying to see what you did at work on your telephone?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: On your Blackberry?
Daddy: Yeah.


Alex: Miss Woody was bigger to put fall up. And cloudy up.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. And it’s too far, um, it’s too up high and everyone can’t reach.


Alex: And there's a car. We don't wanna drive in the night.
Daddy: No. What do we wanna do in the night?
Alex: We need to nap.
Daddy: That’s right. So we’re well rested. And then what do we do tomorrow?
Alex: I'm opening your pocket, and see if you have – and see if you have rocks in there.
Daddy: Oh, okay. Did I have rocks in there?
Alex: No, you don’t have rocks in there.
Alex: I don’t have pockets in these PJs.
Daddy: Yeah.


Alex: I think that was coming from outside.
Daddy: Was that outside?
Alex: Um how ‘bout... I think Claire said it.
Daddy: But Claire’s not outside.

Daddy: Do you hear it?
Alex: Um. Yeah.
Daddy: What does it sound like?
Alex: Okay, you’re done, Daddy.
Daddy: Done with what?
Alex: You’re done with your telephone.
Daddy: All right. Let’s play house.
Alex: Okay.


Alex: Okay. I play with the cat and the boy. And you play with the Mommy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And the Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And the girl.
Daddy: All right.
The Boy: Hi Mommy and Daddy and the girl.
The Mommy and the Daddy and the Girl: Hi.
The Boy: Do you wanna go to Target? They have two sheets for you.
The Mommy and the Daddy and the Girl: Sheets?
The Boy: They have two sheets for you.
The Mommy and the Daddy and the Girl: Okay.
The Boy: I'm gonna go to Target and get some food, and - some other stuff. And then I'm gonna come home. Okay?
The Mommy and the Daddy and the Girl: Okay.
(The boy drives off.)
The Boy: Cat, you can’t go to Target. Can’t go to Wal-Mart. I’m going to Wal-Mart.
Cat: I’m going to Wal-Mart too.
(There is silence for a while.)
The Mommy: When is the boy gonna come home? I miss the boy. I’m hungry.
The Boy: Oh I’m getting some food. From the Wal-Mart.
The Mommy: Oh, good.
(Daddy’s leg is Wal-Mart.)
The Boy: From the pants. And that shirts and more pants. Now I'm going home. Oh, I forgot bread.
(The boy and the cat get back in the car.)
The Boy: Let's go, um, cat.
Boy (or cat?): Watch out, Mommy!
The Mommy: Yay, you’re home!

Alex: Ding dong.
The Boy: Is someone there?
The Mommy: I'm here, come in boy.
The Boy: ‘Kay.
(The Boy comes in.)
The Boy: Hi.
The Mommy: Hi, boy.
The Boy: I'm gonna get something to eat.
The Mommy: We don't have anything to eat.
The Boy: Need something to eat.
The Mommy: We need to go to the store.
The Boy: Um, I got some other food and I got more food. From the refrigerator.
The Boy: And I'm gonna paint the house and I'm gonna paint the railing. And I'm gonna paint the roof and it broked. And I'm gonna paint the white. And I'm gonna paint it some yellow and the blue’s broken.

Alex: Oh! The sun is going away now. The moon’s coming out. Oh! The moon is out. There's the moon. When the sun comes out we can play outside. Oh the sun is out, Mommy!

Daddy: Beep - beep - beep - beep - beep – beep.
Alex: Oh go back in the house. Let's get in the house. Come get in the house, driver.


(in bed)
Alex: I wanna play in the backyard.
Daddy: You wanna play in the backyard.
Alex: And play trains, and (mumble) playroom (mumble)
Daddy: Play backyard (mumble) trains (mumble)
Alex: I’ll wake up Claire and come and close my door. Can you say that?
Daddy: Wake up Claire and come and close your door. Okay?
Alex: I’ll wake up Claire and come and close my door. Can you say that?
Daddy: Wake up Claire and come and close your door. Okay?
Alex: Now give me a kiss.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Alex: Now go, because I need to sleep.
Daddy: Ok. I love you. Night-night.

I'm not the king anymore. I'm Alex.

Alex: We don't blow houses down.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. They don't blow down.


Alex: Grandma went home.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: I like Grandma.


Alex: Is your car fixed?


Alex: Be a monster and come tickle me.


Alex: Be a red monster.
Daddy: A red monster?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What does a red monster do?
(Alex demonstrates, and Daddy complies.)
Alex: Be a blue monster.

Alex: I want the green monster.

Alex: Do the purple monster.


Alex: Is that Grandma’s car?
Mommy: No, Grandma went home.
Alex: Is that Grandma’s car?
Mommy: No.
Alex: Is that her car?
Mommy: No.
Alex: Is that someone else’s grandma?


Alex: I wanna see the boy, please.


(Alex takes off his paper crown.)
Alex (talking to himself): I’m not the king anymore. I’m Alex.


Alex: Where's the new helicopter?


Alex (playing with the new helicopter): This is nice of Grandma.


(in bed, heard over the monitor)
Alex: I'm having a hard time sleeping.

Is the car not working?

Alex: Is the car not working?
Daddy: Yeah, the car’s not working.
Alex: Is it on batteries?


Alex: Is the car not working?


Alex: Is the car not working?


Alex: Is the car not working?


Alex: Is the car not working?


Alex: Is the car not working?


Alex: The car’s not working. How ‘bout the stroller’s gonna work.


Alex: I’m gonna um go and take these books to the man, okay?


Alex: I wanna do oh-way-yah with Claire. I wanna do oh-way-yah with Claire. Okay?
Daddy: You want to do oh-way-yah?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: How do you do that?
Alex (marching): Oh-way-yah! Oh-way-yah!

(Later, Alex is following Claire.)
Alex: Oh-way-yah! Oh-way-yah!
(Claire hurries away, laughing.)

Alex (to Daddy): Do oh-way-yah with me.

Chicken.

(breakfast)

Claire (seeing a banana): ‘Nana.

Claire (holding her waffle): That’s waffle.


Claire: Awnh rock.


Daddy: Where did you go?
Alex: To Target.
Daddy: Oh, Target. That sounds fun.
Alex: I got some bananas. You wanna see?



Alex: I listened to classical music, Daddy.



Alex: I said all the animals.



(Daddy and Alex are looking at a book.)
Daddy: Can you name all these foods?
Alex (pointing at broccoli): Broccoli.
Alex (pointing at carrots): Carrots.
Alex (pointing at a strawberry): Strawberry.
Alex (pointing at bananas): Chicken.
Alex (pointing at a partially-sliced loaf of bread): What’s that?
Daddy: What does it look like?
Daddy (pointing at the slices) : What’s that right there?
Alex: Um bread.
Daddy: That’s right.
Daddy (pointing at the bananas): And what’s that?
Alex: Chicken.
Daddy: Do you see any bananas anywhere? Or no?
Alex: No.
Daddy: You don't see any bananas?
Alex: No.
Daddy (pointing at the bananas): What's that?
Alex: Chicken.




(dinner time)


Alex: Eat that pea, Grommie. Eat that pea. Eat that pea!
Alex (To Daddy): Will you tell him to eat that pea?
Daddy: Eat that pea, Grommie.
Alex: He didn’t eat it. He’s not gonna eat it.
Daddy: I guess he doesn’t want it.


Alex: I want some grapes. I just ate some few a pea.
Daddy: Oh you did? I ate some pea.
(Pause.)
Alex: It’s peas.


Grape: Hi. I want a friend.
Daddy’s water: Hi.
Grape: I’m not your friend.
Daddy’s water: Why not?
Grape: I need to look for the other water. What Mommy’s gonna bring when she’s done, ah!
(Alex eats the grape.)

Alex: I want some bread with no butter on it.
Daddy: I want a million dollars with no butter on it.
Alex: We (mumble mumble mumble).
Daddy: What?
Alex: We’ll get some more dinosaurs later.

Alex: I want some bread with no butter on it please.
Daddy: Okay.
Daddy (getting the bread): May I have some bread with no butter on it please?
Alex: Okay.
Daddy: No, you say it.
Alex: I want a million dollars.
Daddy: No, you say “May I have…”
Alex: Okay, here’s a million dollars.
(Alex pretends to hand a million dollars to Daddy.)
Daddy: Alex, may I…
Alex: May I.
Daddy: Have…
Alex: Have some more bread, please?
Daddy: Okay.



Alex: What's this? What's this, Daddy?
Daddy: That's a, um, vent.
Alex: Is this a part of the house?
Daddy: Yes, it’s a part of the house.

It sounds like, um, a monkey far away that Grommie hears. That’s what he hears.

Alex: Do you make your name at work?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Do you make your name at work?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Is it “Daddy”?


(Grommie hears something outside.)
Daddy: What does Grommie hear?
Alex: I don’t know.
Alex: It sounds like, um, a monkey far away that Grommie hears. That’s what he hears.


Alex: I'm knocking on the table see if Grandma’s there.


Alex: You're licking me, Grommie.


Alex (to Iguana): Okay, don't scare me, okay? Please.


(Alex is laying on the floor by the train table.)
Daddy: What are you doing, Alex?
Alex: I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying to lay down and play trains. When I'm done – um, when I'm done laying down I can sit up and play with you.


Mommy: Are you poopy?
Alex: Can we blow these bubbles?
Mommy: Yeah. Are you poopy?
Alex: Um yes. It’s okay if I be poopy.


Alex: I want some milk.
Daddy: I want a million dollars.
Alex: You don't need a million dollars.
Daddy: You don't need milk.
(Pause.)
Alex: Can you say "I want some milk"?
Daddy: I want some milk.
Alex (smiling): I want a million dollars.


(Daddy is scaring Alex with the Iguana hand puppet.)
Alex: Turn it off. Take your hand out. Put it away.


Ernie (singing): Bert’s not nice... Bert’s, um, mean to me... I'm gonna wake him up in the morning.


(Mommy gives Alex his snack cup.)
Alex: What do we have? Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Alex: Cookies?
Mommy: Cookies.
Alex: Okay.


Daddy: Are you going to Nana and Pop’s?
Alex: Pop is at work.
Daddy: What are you gonna do at Nana and Pop’s?
Alex: Um, Pop is at work.
Daddy: What are you gonna do at Nana’s?
Alex: Pop is gonna be there.
Daddy: What are you gonna do there?
Alex: I will play.

I'm two!

Alex: I saw the triceratops on TV.


(Alex and Claire are both crawling.)
Alex: We're a baby, Claire. We're a baby, Daddy.


Alex: I wanna look for corn.
Daddy: Corn?
Alex: Yeah, for corn, in the car.

Mommy: Did you open the door all by yourself?
Alex: Yeah. I pulled and pulled!


Alex: Oh! Do you have a yellow hat on?
Mommy: Yeah I do. Do you have a yellow hat on?
Alex: No, I don't have a hat.


Alex: I have a little cut. I have a little cut. It hurts me.


Alex: Oh my goodness, Grommie. You need to poop outside, not on the rug.


(Alex and Claire are helping to put away groceries.)

Alex: Here, Daddy.

Alex: This is sauce. Can I put this in the ‘frigerator?

Alex: Here's some applesauce.

Alex: Here's cheese. I like cheese.

Alex: Here's something for broccoli cheese. It’s broccoli cheese.

Alex: I brought all the bags there.


(before nap time)
Alex: After nap we’re gonna go to Isabelle’s birthday. You're not gonna go.
Daddy: Oh, can I go too?
Alex: How ‘bout just Mommy. You stay here.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: It’s too hot for you to ride.


(after nap time)
Alex: Are you gonna go?
Daddy: Yeah I’m going.
Alex: But I told you before nap time that you were not gonna go.


(at Isabelle’s party)
Max: I'm three!
Kylie: I'm three!
Alex: I'm two!


Alex: I broke it so I can eat it.

Um, guys? A monster took my bed.

(Daddy gets off the phone with Ernie.)
Alex: I wanna talk to Bert.


Alex: I want more Goldfish.
Alex (in staccato bursts): May – I – have – more – Goldfish – please? I asked nicely.


Alex: I moved all the chairs so I can dust the table.


Alex: May I see the boy, if he wants a toy, please?


Alex: Hi! What are you doing?


(Alex is on the potty.)
Alex: I don’t have poop, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay, just goss?
Alex: The goss went out my bottom said "booped!" in the potty.


(Alex is looking out of his window.)
Alex: I want Unkley’s car to drive in. I like Unkley’s car.


Alex: Let's make the house – a new one, this house is broken.


(Alex is talking to himself while playing house.)

Alex: Is nobody there?! Is nobody there?! Is nobody there?! Is nobody there?! Is nobody there?! Is nobody in my house? I can’t find them. I just went out the door to see if someone’s out there.
Alex: It’s night time, Boy. It’s night time.
Alex: Oh the sun is out. The sun is out, Boy. Oh. But it’s nap time for me. It’s nap time. Night night, guys. I didn’t find your (mumble).
Alex: What’s that one? What’s that one?
Daddy: What’s what one?
Alex: What was that music coming from?

Alex: Hi! Night time’s over! Where are you guys?

Alex: I need to jump down from the roof. Jump! Is nobody there? Maybe someone is outside. Oh my house is falling over! Oh my house is falling over! Oh my bedroom is fall (mumble) off.

Alex: And my bed is still off and it – flew in the sky! Guys, it flew in the sky! And some monsters (mumble) "rowr!".
Alex: Now I have no bed. Now I have no bed. Now I have no bed. Um, guys? A monster took my bed. A monster took my bed, guys. A monster took my bed. A monster took my bed.

Alex: And then the - and the bed flew off into the bulldozer.
Alex: And the bulldozer crashed into the bed and the bed was still off.
Alex: And the bed flew off with the bed, with the bed to the side of the bed, the bed off.

Alex: Now I have no bed! And the bus took and the monster put it in the truck. And the bed took it away! Now the bed is not nice, and the bed took it away! Tooking it away. And now my bed is gone!

Alex: And the bed is falled in the dirt, and now it came on there, and then (extended gibberish).


(in bed)
Alex: I don't what you said. Now I'm gonna talk to Mommy.

I'm tired. Of doing this.

Alex: I wanna see the boy.
Daddy: You wanna see the boy?
Alex: Yeah if he needs a toy. How ‘bout a ball?


Alex: After I wash my hands can I eat a grape, please?


Alex: I wanna turn the water on, Daddy.
Daddy: I’m sorry I should have realized.
Alex: I need the soap, Mommy.
Alex: I think I got the soap off, Mommy.


Alex: I want the light on.
Daddy: Can you ask nicely?
Alex: Please. Please?
Daddy: Could you turn the light on please?
Alex: May I – May you turn the light on please?
Daddy: Yes I may.


Daddy: You wanna know what I did today? You can ask me about my day if you want.
Alex: Daddy, what did you do after your day?
Daddy: I went to work.
Alex: And what did you do?
(Daddy tells Alex about his day.)
Alex: Tell me about my day.


Alex: I will go check on them.


Alex: I know how to open the door, Daddy.


Alex: My pants are down.


Alex: I’m gonna check the weather.
Daddy: What are you doing, Alex?
Alex: I’m trying to check the weather.


Alex (banging his toy hammer): I’m making a building.

Alex: I'm done making a building. I'm tired. Of doing this.


(playing house)

The Mommy: I'm going to work.
The other Mommy: Bye.
The Mommy: See you later.
(The Mommy drives to the middle of Alex’s room and gets out.)
Alex (to Daddy): Work's over there (pointing at the corner of the room); that's where the store is (pointing to the middle of the room). The store's over there – the store's over here and that's work over there.

Alex: Mommy, you’re stepping on the bunny.
Alex: Mommy, don’t step on the bunny and don’t drive on (mumble).

The Mommy: I’m going to the store. I’m going to the grocery store.
The Mommy (to the Baby): Should we get some waffles?
Alex: We ate all the waffles. They’re beside the toys.
The Mommy: Oh okay, let’s go see the toys.
(The Mommy drives over to the middle of Alex’s room.)
Alex: That’s not the store, the store’s way over there.
The Mommy: I thought this was the store. I’m going to this store.
Alex: That’s not the store.
The Mommy: What is it?
Alex: That’s Wal-Mart.
The Mommy: Oh.
Alex: That’s Wal-Mart. Now go to the grocery store. Waffles are behind the toys at the grocery store.


(Alex is looking at the books pictured on the back cover of Curious George and the Puppies.)
Alex: What's he doing?
Daddy: He's going camping.
Alex: I wanna go camping.
Daddy: Okay, we'll have to go camping. That will be fun.
Alex: Can we go to a pond and see the dump truck?

What's George doing?

Alex: Are you a pah-pah or a kah-kah?
Daddy: Um… I’m a pah-pah.
Alex (smiling): No, you’re a fah-see-kah.


(Claire is wearing new PJs.)
Alex: I bought those.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I’m talking to Claire.
Alex (to Claire): Claire, I bought those. I bought those for you.


(bath time)

Alex: No - no bath time today, Claire, you just took your bath.
Alex (to himself): It’s my bath time now.

Alex: He got it all wet over the place.

Alex: When the water drains, he will say “I wanna swim in it”. He will say that.

(Daddy drains the water from the tub.)
Alex: What's that?
Daddy: What's that?
Alex: A whale?
Daddy: No.
Alex: A dolphin?
Daddy: No.
Alex: How ‘bout a boy slipping?
Daddy: No.


Alex: Does your back hurt?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Okay.


(playing house)
The Mommy: I’m going to work.
The other Mommy: I’m going to work too.
The Mommy: You can’t go to work, you have to stay here.
The other Mommy: I want to go somewhere.
The Mommy: You can’t go anywhere.
The other Mommy: Can I go to the store?
The Mommy: Not anywhere.
The other Mommy: Can I go for a run?
The Mommy: No, you can’t go for a run.
The other Mommy: What can I do?
The Mommy: You can go in the house and eat, and you can’t go somewhere, okay?
The other Mommy: Okay.
The Mommy: Now go eat, okay?
The other Mommy: Okay.


Alex: I wanna put the bunny away. And the stroller.


(Before reading Curious George and the Puppies, Alex takes a look at all of the books pictured on the back cover.)
Alex (pointing): What's George doing?
Daddy: Curious George Goes to the Aquarium.
Alex (pointing): And what’s that George doing?
Daddy: Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon.
Alex (pointing): And what’s he doing?
Daddy: Curious George Goes to the Beach.
Alex (pointing at Curious George in the Snow): What's that – oh it's snowing!
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (pointing): What's he doing?
Daddy: Curious George Feeds the Animals.
Alex: What – I don’t know what that is.
Daddy: Curious George Feeds the Animals.
Alex: No he doesn’t feed the animals.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex (pointing at Curious George Goes Camping): He goes camping.
Alex (pointing at Curious George Goes to a Movie): And George takes a movie.
Alex (pointing at Curious George’s Dream): George’s bedtime.
Alex (pointing at Curious George Makes Pancakes): What’s he doing now?
Daddy: He’s making pancakes.
Alex (pointing): And what’s he doing?
Daddy: Curious George and the Dump Truck.
Alex (pointing at Curious George and the Puppies): And what’s he doing – oh that’s the puppies.
Alex (pointing): Now what’s he doing?
Daddy: Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory.
Alex (pointing): What’s that one?
Daddy: Curious George at the Parade.
Alex (pointing): What’s this one?
Daddy: Curious George Visits a Toy Store.
Alex: Yeah I know that one.
Alex (pointing): And what’s this one, Daddy?
Daddy: Curious George Goes to a Costume Party.
Alex: Yeah.
Alex (pointing at Curious George and the Firefighters): And what’s this one? The firefighters.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex (pointing at Curious George Visits the Library): And this is the library.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex (pointing at Curious George and the Birthday Surprise): And this is the balloons.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex (pointing at Curious George Takes a Train): And this the train thing.
Alex (pointing): And what’s this thing?
Daddy: Curious George in the Big City.
Alex: Yeah the big city. Now let’s read the book.

Tha -- that's boddersome.

(Mommy gives Alex lots of kisses.)
Mommy (to Alex): Do you like Mommy’s kisses? Or are they bothersome?
Alex: Tha – that’s boddersome.


(playing house)

Driver: We’re gonna run errands, okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Driver: We’ll be right back, okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Driver: Okay.

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Um Daddy – little Daddy.
The Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Daddy, we can’t go this way if the noise is coming.
The Daddy: Oh, okay.


Alex: After nap you do that again.


Alex: Daddy I wanna give you a hug, for nap.

Mama. Mama.

Alex: Let's go in the garage door.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: The garage door’s open. I just went in the front door after school.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Did you have a good day?
Alex: Yeah. I went to Wal-Mart and then I came home to see you.

Daddy: What did you do at school today?
Alex: I don’t know.
(Pause.)
Alex: After school… At school I played outside… I ate lunch… I wrote a book. And… All my friends were sleeping and then I came home!

Claire: Mama. Mama.
Daddy: Mama went to get something.
Claire: Mama.
Alex: Claire, don't fuss, okay? You’re gonna take a nap in a few minutes.

Alex: I need a napkin.
Alex: I need a napkin.
Daddy: I need a million dollars.
Alex: You don’t need a million dollars.
Alex (in staccato bursts): May – I – have – a – napkin – please?
Daddy: Yes you may.
(Daddy gives Alex a napkin.)
Daddy: Hey Alex. (in staccato bursts) May – I – have – a – million – dollars – please?
Alex: No.

(Daddy leaves the kitchen.)
Alex: Daddy!! Daddy!!
Daddy: Yes Alex. What is it that you need?
Alex: I need you to come in here and - don't walk away from me, stay with me.

I wanna do (mumble) with the football and then eat carrots.

((Alex is looking out his window.)
Alex: There's a little bit of sun on the yard.
Alex: There’s a little bit of son on the road.


Alex: I wanna do (mumble) with football.
Daddy: What do you want to do?
Alex: I wanna do (mumble) with the football and then eat carrots.
Daddy: Carrots?
Alex: Yeah.
(Pause.)
Daddy: Okay.


Claire (pointing at Alex): Alex.
Claire (pointing at Grommie): Dada.


(riding in the car)

Alex: No school today!
Daddy: That’s right, no school today.
Alex: We’ll go to school next time.
Daddy: We’ll go to your new class.
Alex: I like my new class.
Daddy: Good! What friends are in your new class?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: Is Ian in your new class?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Oh good. I like Ian.
Alex: I like Everett.
Daddy: I like Everett too.
Alex: No you don’t go to school with me, you go to work, to play with your new friends. Your big friends.

Alex: Oh there’s a tractor. You don’t drive a tractor on the building, that’s silly.

Alex: Oh I see a wagon.
Daddy: You see a wagon? A big one.
Alex: That’s not even a wagon. It’s just a truck, or a car.


Alex: Will you pick me up? I don’t wanna walk.
Daddy: No, you’re a big boy, you have to walk.
Alex: I can’t walk (mumble). My legs are hurting. My feet.


(Daddy is playing Xbox.)
Alex: Don’t play with the TV, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: Don’t play with the TV, please.
Daddy: Okay.


Daddy: What’d you do at Nana and Pop’s house?
Alex: Nothing.
Daddy: Did you see Nana? Was Pop there?
Alex: Yeah, he didn’t wanna work.


Alex: We don’t have toast today, Tummy, we have pizza.


Alex: Do it again.
Daddy: No, Daddy will get dizzy. Do you know what “dizzy” means?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Can you tell me what “dizzy” means?
Alex (to Mommy): Dizzy – means – truck.


(in the bath)

Alex: I need little toys and the big boat, and Dragon and Elmo and Cookie Monster.

Alex: Elmo’s going underwater.
Daddy: Oh, is that fun?
Alex: Yeah. But the water’s going over his head and in his tummy. I need to squeeze him so he can dry out. So he can go inside and eat dinner. And go to bed.


(in bed)
Alex: I don’t wanna go to my new class.
Daddy: I know.

Alex: Now give me a kiss.
(Daddy does.)
Alex: Cover me up.
(Daddy does.)
Alex: And now go please.

Does she have a hat on to play in the shower?

Alex: It’s the ‘cycling truck Mommy! I saw it!


Alex: Wait just a second.


(Alex is marching around with some tubes made of heavy cardboard.)
Alex: Exercise. Exercise. I got exercise. I got exercise. I got exercise. I. Got. Exercise. I got exercise. I got exercise. I got exercise. I got exercise. I got exercise.


Alex: Da da da. I got exercise from Mommy. I got exercise.


(getting in the car)
Alex: I had too many ammets, Daddy. I had too many ammets.
Daddy: What are ammets?
Alex (pointing at a mosquito bite): Right here.
Daddy: Oh okay.
Alex: It’s okay to scratch.


(riding in the car)

Alex: Can you talk to Mommy on the phone?
Daddy: We can't talk to Mommy right now, she's in the shower.
(Pause.)
Alex: Does she have a hat on to play in the shower?

Daddy: You wanna see a house being built?
Alex: Yeah. I wanna see the men building the house. I think they’re done sleeping.

Alex: I see that house. It doesn’t have any doors.

Alex: Oh look Daddy, I see swans!

Alex: I see the men building the house. I see a bulldozer! I wanna see the men building the house. I wanna see the men building the house. Is the men done sleeping?

Alex: I saw a bagel on the truck. I saw a bagel.
Daddy: A bagel?
Alex: A bagel on the truck. It’s the bagel truck. I can’t see it. The bagel truck’s behind the trees.

Alex: I see one - I saw one with a red door. And a red cars. And a red plant.

Alex: Do you see that one under the trees? Way far under the trees. And that one’s way far under the trees. And that one’s not having a lot of trees up on the roof. That one’s not covered with trees.


(on the swings at the playground)

Alex: Daddy can you push me higher? I'm slowing down.

Alex: Can you do it again?

Alex: That's too high.

Alex: I need dinosaur past for dinner, okay?

Alex: Can you get the orange one?


Alex: The ‘cycling truck bring a new green… um… basket.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Like Mommy wanted.


(dinner time)
Alex: I’m full. I’m really full, Daddy.
Daddy: You’re full?
Alex: Yeah.
(Pause.)
Alex: My tummy’s coming out with my food in it! You see my tummy coming out? It’s coming fast.
(Pause.)
Alex: Are you full, Claire?
Claire: Ugh.
Alex: You’re not full. You just had a little bit.


(Alex and Daddy are working a jigsaw puzzle.)
Daddy: Do you see a piece with a little bit of green on it?
Alex: I see white with a little bit of sheep on it.


Alex: How we gonna get this working?

For me?

(dinner time)

Mommy (to Daddy): It was hilarious.
Alex (to Daddy): It was iwarious, Daddy!

Alex: Can you say – you say about the laundry again?

Alex: Talk about the laundry.

Alex: Talk about the laundry.

Alex: Talk about the laundry.

Alex: That’s enough, Mommy!

Daddy: Alex, do you know what a gift is?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What is it?
Alex: I don’t know.
Mommy: A gift is a present.
(Pause.)
Alex: For me?

Alex: I don't like my pasta, Mommy.
Mommy: Did you try it?
Alex: No.



Alex: You’re not a monster, you’re Daddy.

(Alex and Daddy are watching the neighbors across the street.)
Daddy: That’s the boy’s daddy.
Alex: No that’s the neighbor.

I pee-peed, Daddy. I pee-peed on the carpet.

(Daddy drains the water from the bathtub.)
Alex: Is it a whale?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a dolphin?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a shoes?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a slippers?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Is it a Elmo and a camel?
Daddy: No.
Alex: I think it’s a boy slipping.


(Daddy is giving Claire her bottle prior to bed. Alex walks into the room.)
Alex: I pee-peed, Daddy. I pee-peed on the carpet. Over there.
Daddy: Okay. It’s okay. I’ll clean it up after I put Claire to bed. You go play in your room, okay?
Alex: Okay.
Daddy: Don’t touch the pee-pee, okay?
Daddy: Okay, Alex?
Alex: Okay.
(Alex leaves.)

(After putting Claire to bed, Daddy comes out of Claire’s room.)
Alex: Daddy, can you clean up the pee-pee? I’ll show you where it is.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex leads Daddy to the spot.)
Alex: It’s over here. It’s right over here.


Alex: Can you put the toy back in the playroom? It’s still on the rug.


(Alex has new PJs with rockets on them.)
Alex (pointing at a rocket): I watch that at school. I watch this one at school.
Alex (pointing at another rocket): And this one’s called… um I don’t know what this one’s called.
Alex: Can you say what that airplane’s called, the rocket?
Daddy: It’s called a rocket.
Alex: They’re all rockets.
Daddy: That’s right.

(Daddy is typing on his Blackberry.)
Alex (tugging on the Blackberry): You’re done. You’re done, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay, just a minute.
Alex: No, you’re done. This is ridiculous.
(Alex takes the Blackberry.)
Daddy: This is what?
Alex: This is ridiculous.

Alex (pointing to another rocket): And what's his name called?
Daddy: I think he's just another rocket.
Alex: No, it’s not Rocket.

(Alex is looking at his PJ top, which has a dinosaur riding in a rocket.)
Alex: What’s he doing?
Daddy: I don’t know. What do you think he’s doing? Where do you think he’s going?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: Maybe he’s going to see Alex.
Alex: No.
Daddy: Maybe he’s going to see Elmo.
Alex: No.
Daddy: Maybe he’s going to the bookstore to play trains.
Alex: No. He doesn’t have any hands to play trains.
Daddy: Oh, okay.

Alex: Can Big Tummy talk to the baby?
Daddy: No, Big Tummy doesn’t talk to babies.
Alex: Please. Will you do it please? I asked nicely.
Daddy: Okay.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

(dinner time)
Alex: I drinked up it!

Alex (pointing at Daddy’s bread): I want that bread.
Daddy: Well Daddy will get you some more bread after he cleans up.
Alex: That’s the bread I want.

Alex: Hi monkey. Go away.

Alex: Can you talk to Big Tummy say “Eat your toast” and Daddy say "We don’t have any toast, we have bread." Can you say that?

Alex: I want bread toast.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I want bread toast.
Daddy: What’s bread toast?
Alex: Bread toast is under the stuff.
Daddy: Under what stuff?
Alex (gesturing toward the counter): Under the stuff that Mommy put there.
Daddy (picking up the loaf of bread from the counter): Is this bread toast?
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: Do your funny face and make your thumb go in there and then do this – boop! – do that!

(Daddy's getting the bath ready for Alex.)
Alex: I want Mommy to take me a bath.
Daddy: What about Daddy? Don’t we have fun? Alex and Daddy.
Alex: I ready to give you a hug I – I love you Daddy.


(playing trains)
Alex: Daddy’s going to the office to go to work. And Bertie’s gonna stay there while he goes to work. And there in the airport where he does his work.

Alex: The bus walked up to the track and then Daddy went to work and Bertie went to the grocery store.


(Alex is looking at a big sheet of animal pictures.)
Alex (saying each animal as he points to it): Penguin. Quail. Roh-nirus. What’s that?
Mommy: Koala.
Alex: Koala. Lion. Monkey.
Claire (jabbing her finger at the sheet, mimicking Alex): Ah!
Alex: No stop saying those!
Claire (jabbing her finger again): Uh!
Alex: Stop saying those!
Mommy: She can say it too.
Alex: Giraffe. Hippo.
Claire (jabbing repeatedly): Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Alex: Iguana. Tiger.
Claire (jabbing repeatedly): Ah! Ah! Ah!
Alex: Stop saying those!
Alex: Camel. Dolphin. Elephant. Flamingo. Polar bear and, um, alligator.


Claire: Muh buh muh sh ewoh dijoh! Dijoh!


Alex: Sing Lullaby.


(Alex is wearing a necklace.)
Alex: I have a list.


Alex: (to cow and deer): Guys, stop doing that. I need you to listen, and I want you to wear this list. Okay I will wear it. I will wear it.


Daddy: Alex, tell Mommy what you did.
Alex: I opened the door!

I ate lunch, worked on my computer, looked at my computer, ate lunch, and worked on my computer again.

(Mommy is putting away Alex’s clean laundry.)
Alex (pointing at a shirt): I have this one! I have this one at home.
Mommy: That's yours, Alex.
Alex (pointing at some pants): I have these! I have these!


(Alex is holding the cord for the window shade.)
Alex: I'm flying a kite!


(playing house)
The Mommy: What did you do at work, Daddy?
The Daddy: I ate lunch, worked on my computer, looked at my computer, ate lunch, and worked on my computer again.


(in bed)
Alex: Give me a kiss and then go.
(Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Alex: Now go. Bye bye!

Lullaby, and good night, go to sleep little Daddy

(In the playroom, Alex begins singing.)
Alex (singing): Lullaby, and good night, go to sleep little Daddy
Alex (singing): Claire loves you, Daddy – Mommy too
Alex (singing): Claire loves you so much
Alex (singing): Grandma loves you, aunts and uncles
Alex (singing): Ellly and Bobo, Nana and Pop, Grandma and Grandpa, Curious George, and Twinkle Twinkle lullaby
Alex: It’s time for nap time, Daddy, I singed!


(in the car, on the way home from Nana and Pop’s)
Alex: We went to Nana and Pop’s, and Pop looked at pictures, and then he was done, and then he sat on the sofa and took his shoes off. I wanna go back to Nana's house.


(dinner time)
Daddy: Alex, tell Mommy what happened outside.
Alex: When I was on the stepping stones, and running in the street, and in the driveway, I cried.
Mommy: What happened?
Alex: And I wanted to go in the garage door, not the other garage door, and the garage door was closed, and I was crying, and then Daddy came out the other door, not the garage door, the front door, and I said... uh...
(Alex gets distracted.)
Daddy: Alex, what happened after Daddy came out?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: What happened when Daddy came outside?
Alex: Um, the ball rolled down the driveway and on the street and in the neighbor's yard, and it didn't fall in the hole, and we almost lost it.


Daddy (singing): If I can make it there, I’ll make it --
Alex: Anywhere!


Mommy (singing): Bop bop bop bop, banana
Alex (singing) Bop bop bop bop, Nana
Alex (singing): Bop bop bop bop, Daddy
Alex (singing): Bop bop bop bop, Grandma
Alex (singing): Bop bop bop bop, baby Claire, Grandma, Grandma Grandma Grandpa, Nana, Pop, Grommie!


Alex: Maria’s up in the tree. And she's looking for birds to be there. And see birds and see cars and see (mumble).


Alex (singing): Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria


Alex: Bo! Bo! Go see what that is.


(Looking out Alex’s window, Alex and Daddy see the neighbor drive away.)
Alex: The neighbor’s in his car going to the grocery store.
Daddy: He’s going to the grocery store?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: I guess he wants something to eat. So he's going to the grocery store to get some food.
Alex (irritated): I just said it!


Alex: I cleaned up.
Daddy: Yes you did.
Alex: I cleaned my room.
Daddy: It looks nice. It feels good to have it all clean, doesn't it?
Alex: I'm gonna get my vacuum cleaner.

You have a phone hand.

Alex: Wait wait wait wait.


Alex: Can we play trains? And then I will poop?
Daddy: You wanna poop on the potty?
Alex: I’m gonna poop over here.


(Alex comes home from a birthday party.)
Daddy: Where did you go?
Alex: I'm gonna go find my orange bag, and then I will talk to you. And then I will say I went to Tasha’s house (mumble) party.

Daddy: Buddy, what did you do at Tasha’s house?
Alex: Played outside, got a present, a present for me, I got a new bag, a blue ball, and...


(Mommy is going through some clothes, and pulls out a pink and green striped jacket for Claire.)
Alex: Is that for Christmas?


Alex (to Daddy): Mommy’s gonna take me a bath. You’re gonna put Claire down for nap and Mommy’s gonna take me a bath.
Mommy: Well we’re gonna eat dinner in a little bit.
Daddy: Mommy’s gonna take you a bath and then we'll eat dinner.
Alex (to Mommy): I'm talking to Daddy, Mommy.


Alex: Beep… beep… beep… beep… beep… It must be dinner time! Beep… beep… beep… beep.


Alex: I wanna cry on the crying rug. Can you cry with me?


Alex: I need – can you go get your other toy?
Daddy: What other toy?
Alex: I don’t what you’re talking about.
Daddy: Okay, I don’t know what you’re talking about either.
Alex: I don’t what you’re talking about!


(dinner time)

Grape: Hi.
Mommy: Hi grape.
Alex: Can you get your water to talk to the grape?
Mommy: Okay.
Mommy’s water: Hi grape.
Grape: I wanna go to the animal store. You wanna come with me?

(Alex drinks milk.)
Alex: It went the right way.
Daddy: Oh good.
Alex: That’s where it goes. It make your nose runny.

(Alex puts his hand to his ear.)
Alex: Hello? Yeah. I’m eating with Claire. (mumble) Have a nice day (mumble) you can talk with Daddy.
(Alex holds his hand out toward Daddy.)
Alex: Hi Daddy!
Daddy: Hi! Who is it?
Alex: It’s Nana.
Daddy: Hi Nana!
(Alex puts his hand back to his ear.)
Alex: We’re eating dinner and then we’re (mumble) get water or milk. Or (mumble) or rice or toast. Okay. Bye! Okay. Bye.
(Alex puts hand on table.)

Alex: You talk on the phone.
Daddy: I don’t have a phone.
Alex: You have a phone hand.
Alex (putting his hand to his ear): Can you talk like this?

Alex (talking on the phone hand): Oh hello? Oh. Yeah. Grandma. Nana. (mumble) guys. Sure, Grandpa. We’re eating lunch or toast. Rice… milk or water. Oh bye!

The gas went in your bottom and then it went in your bottom and it say “boop!”

(Alex is pretending to be at work.)
Alex: Hi Claire. Oh Claire, I didn’t say you could go to work! Go see Daddy, I’m at work!


Alex: The gas went in your bottom and then it went in your bottom and it say “boop!”


Alex: We’re going to get a white horse and a yellow truck, Daddy.


(in the car)

Alex: I wanna see a house with no roof on it.

Alex: There's a house without a roof.
Daddy: What do you think?
Alex: And it doesn’t have a bedroom.
Daddy: No bedroom.
Alex: And no dinners.
Daddy: No dinners.
Alex: And no doors.
Daddy: No doors.

(Alex sees some people sitting on a bench with balloons.)
Alex: There's womans and a man sitting looking at the moon – balloons.

Alex: Can we see the big tractor on the building again?


(Mommy reads a book to Alex.)
Mommy: The end.
Alex: I wanna look at these pictures and then you can say “the end”.


Alex: Open them.
Daddy: Open what?
Alex: Open your toes so the cat can go in there.

You can't go to work. You're an elephant.

Alex: Daddy, can you rub my hair again, because it still hurts.


(Alex sees dust motes floating in a sunbeam.)
Alex: Straw! Dusty!
(Alex tries to eat one.)


(Alex pinches Daddy.)
Alex: Does it feel bad?
Daddy: Yes.
(Alex touches Daddy.)
Alex: Does this feel bad?
Daddy: No.
(Alex pinches a blanket.)
Alex: Does this?
Daddy: Nope.
(Alex pinches a pillow.)
Alex: Does this?
Daddy: Nope.
(Alex pinches another spot on the pillow.)
Alex: Does this?
Daddy: Nope.
(Alex pinches another pillow.)
Alex: Does this?
Daddy: Nope.
Alex: Does megob’ja?


Claire: Duck.


Claire: Chick.


(The Girl is in the bus, going to work.)
Elephant: I wanna go.
The Girl: You can't go to work. You’re an elephant.


Mommy: Time for stories.
Alex: No stories.
Mommy: Okay, no stories.
Alex (upset): Uh! I want stories! I want stories!


(The following remarks were made during Mommy’s reading of Corduroy. Mommy’s replies are omitted.)

Alex: What happened to her?
Alex: What happened to - what happened?
Alex: Where's his - where's his friends?
Alex: What hap - what's he ge - picking up?
Alex: What i - what is that?
Alex: And wha - what's he picking up?
Alex: And is it - not his?
Alex: What's that?
Alex: What's - what's the night watchman taking down?
Alex: What's she - what's she picking up?
Alex: What's she gonna buy that?
Alex: That?
Alex: That?
Alex: That?
Alex: This?
Alex: Where is – where’d all the toys go?
Alex: What happened - what happened to his face?

Mommy: The end.
Alex: Who - what's he picking up?
Mommy: He's picking up the button off the mattress.
Alex: And is it not his?
Mommy: It’s not his.
Alex: What's - what's he picking up Daddy?
Daddy: He’s picking up the button off the mattress.
Alex: Oh. Okay.
Alex: And what's this says?
Daddy: It says Corduroy.


(after songs)
Alex: Good singing, guys!
Mommy and Daddy: Stop it.