Ah-poo.

(playing in the playroom)

(Alex falls down and hurts his knee.)
Daddy: What happened to your knee?
Alex: I hurt it on the crayon box.
Daddy: Oh, I’m sorry.
Alex: No, I did it myself. You didn’t do it.
Daddy: Okay.

Alex: My knee feels better.
Daddy: Oh good.
Alex: My knee feels better. Now I can dance.

Alex: The sun’s out. Can you close it so the sun’s not inside, shining?


Alex: But I’m having a long day to go to Dana’s party.


(in the car)
Alex: Is Dana’s party this way?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: That’s right.
Alex: That’s right. I found right.
Daddy: Did you find right?
Alex: No this is left.
Mommy: I’ve been trying to teach him that.
Alex: There’s right on the way to Nana’s house.

Alex: I saw the store, the animal store. That’s where the animal store lives.


(Mommy and Daddy are talking.)
Daddy: I need an iron and ironing board. Do you know where they are?
Mommy: I think they’re on the third floor ‘cause we never use them.
Daddy: I also need to go through my closet and give away some clothes.
Alex: I need a million dollars!


Alex: He didn’t snore at me. He didn’t snore at me. He waked up!


(getting in the car)
Alex: Are you going?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Is Grommie going?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Is he gonna be crazy?


(in the car)
Alex: I want the orange one. I – is this the pink one? I want the pink one.


(at the Walgreen’s drive-through window)

Alex: Where’s some girls? Are they gonna talk to you?

Alex: Did she talk to you?
Daddy: Yes she did.

Alex: Oh look that’s the drugstore, I saw the drugstore too.
Daddy: Oh yeah?
Alex: Yeah. The drugstore’s right by Walgreen’s.


(dinner time)
Claire: Ah-poo.
Alex: Ah-pull-sauce.
Claire: Ah-poo.
Alex: Ah-pull-sauce.
Claire: Ah-ah-poo.
Alex: Ah-pull-sauce.
Claire: Ah-ah-poo.
Alex: Ah-pull-sauce.
Claire: Ah-ah-poo.
Alex: Ah-pull-sauce.
Claire: Ah-poo.
Alex (frustrated): It’s not apple.


(Alex and Claire are pushing stools.)
Daddy: Who wants to go upstairs for bath?
Alex: No one. We’re going to the cowee to get goss. With Claire.
Daddy: You’re going where?
Alex: To the cowee to get goss. Come on, Claire.


Alex: Where are you, Daddy?
Daddy: I’m right here.
Alex: Oh there you are. Just in time!


Daddy: May I ask you a question, please? If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Alex: Um, it sounded like a bird.
Daddy: Like a bird?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Can you make the sound?
(Pause.)
Alex (high-pitched): Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Alex: Okay I’m gonna play basketball with no (mumble) because I need to play basketball first.


(Claire enters Alex’s room.)
Alex: Claire! I’m so glad you’re here!