We made new trees.

(dinner time)

Alex: I was talking about your paper - that magazine thing and that magazine thing.
Daddy: Oh yeah? What did you say about it?
Alex: That you have to take it to work. You can't leave it here.

Alex: Grommie stopped doing that. He stopped barking.
Daddy: I guess he realized it was just a lawnmower.
Alex: It’s just a weed whacker.

Alex: Grandma was here yesterday. She (mumbles through a mouthful of food) with me.
Daddy: What did she do?
Alex: We made new trees.
Daddy: Oh yeah? What else did she do with you?
Alex: That was all. That was all I did.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: I played in the sandbox.
(Pause.)
Alex: I cleaned my tools with Grandma, and Grandma put something in her car, and Grandma went home, and I had dinner, and I’m gonna do the puzzle and then go down for nap.


(The digital clock is flashing due to an earlier power outage.)
Alex: What’s – what’s happening, Daddy?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What’s happening on the thing. Beside the TV.
Daddy: Oh, that’s a clock.
Alex: What it has on it?
Daddy: It has numbers, it tells us what time it is.
Alex: What’s it doing?
Daddy: It’s flashing.
Alex: I don’t like it.


Alex: I hear a airplane in the night. Of the sky.

(in bed)
Daddy: Okay, do you want to tell me anything?
Alex: Um, you didn't what I said. I want to talk to Mommy.
Daddy: Okay.