Uh Mama.

(overheard over the monitor)
Alex: Mommy and Daddy have a night light and it makes a shadow and I don’t like the shadow when I go potty.


(Alex is looking out of his bedroom window.)
Alex: They have a new car! A green car, a new car! That's a old car. They hafta move it away from the old car. They have a new car!
Alex: Yay!


(in the car on the way to school)
Alex: If that one gets old they must get another one, and if the other one gets old, they must be gonna get another one.


(running around downstairs)

Alex: Daddy, will you run? We’re going to houses.

Alex: Daddy, let’s run to Cat in the Hat’s party. You wanna go to Cat in the Hat’s party today?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (running): I can’t see Cat in the Hat’s party. It’s far away!


(snack time)

Alex: Daddy, Mommy’s making juice!
Daddy: Oh!
Mommy: Special treat.
Alex: Special treat. For Alex and Claire.

Claire (holding up her juice cup): Uh treat.

Claire: Um Mama. Uh Mama. Daddy? Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Claire?
Claire: Um Mama.
Alex: Mommy went to run errands, Claire.

Alex: Lick my foot! Lick my foot!
Alex: Grommie’s not licking my foot.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Tell him.
Daddy: Grommie, lick Alex’s foot.


(Alex and Claire are pushing cars around downstairs.)
Alex: All right, let's drive.
Claire: Drive!


Claire (gesturing for Daddy to sit on the couch while Claire and Alex play trains): Daddy! Uh sit. Uh sit.


(Alex and Claire are doing jigsaw puzzles.)

Alex: Claire’s helping me, Daddy.

(Claire’s putting the Curious George puzzle away.)
Alex: Claire, good job.

(Claire puts all of the Curious George puzzle pieces in the box. She applauds her achievement.)
Claire: Away.
Daddy: Oh, good job, Claire!
Claire: Away.
Claire: Away.
Daddy: Okay, you can put it away, Claire.
Claire: Away.
Alex: I don't want to put it away.


(Claire and Alex are running around pushing cars again.)

Alex: Daddy? I hurt my foot.
Daddy: Oh, what happened?
Alex: I hurt it on the floor.
(Daddy kisses Alex’s foot.)
Alex (pointing to a different spot): Right there.
Daddy: Oh, you hurt it there too?
(Daddy kisses the other spot on Alex’s foot.)
(Pause.)
Claire (pointing to her foot): Uh foot. Uh foot.

(Alex is forming a triangle with his fingers, and holding it in front of his eyes.)
Alex: My house is changing, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: My house is changing.
Daddy: How is it changing?
Alex: Um because my eyes are making it change.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Now it’s not changing anymore.


(dinner time)

Claire (gesturing to the Life cereal): Ah chah-wo. Ah chah-wo.
Alex: I like this pasta, Daddy. I like this pasta with sauce on it.
Claire (whispering): Uh pasta.

Alex: That was my fork shadow. It was on your pants, Daddy. There was a fork shadow on your pants.
Daddy: Oh.

(Mommy can be heard entering the house.)
Alex: I think that’s Mama!
Claire: Mama.
Alex: I think that’s Mama!
Claire: Uh down! Uh down!
Alex: Ma – Mamamama! I hear Mama! It’s Mommy!
Claire: Uh down. Uh down.
Mommy: Hi!
Claire: Uh down.
Mommy: Are you all done? Eat your dinner.
Claire: Uh down. Uh down. Uh down. Uh down. Uh down. Uh down.
Mommy: No, eat your dinner.
(Claire wails.)
Mommy: Claire, I’m gonna come sit with you.
(Claire continues to bawl.)
Claire: Uh Mama.
Mommy: Aw, Claire Bear! I want you to eat your dinner, honey.
Claire (still crying): Uh Mama.
(Claire continues to cry.)
Mommy: What’s the matter?
(Claire continues to cry.)
Alex: No no. (Gibberish.) Stop. That. Fussing, Mommy wah.
(Alex laughs.)


(Mommy and Alex are running around downstairs.)

Alex: My hands are sticky, I can’t run.

Alex: Now we’re going to Cat in the Hat’s party, and we’re going to Christmas at Thomas’s house.
Mommy: Okay.

Mommy: Cat in the Hat! Where are you?
Alex: I think he’s at the store today.
Mommy: Oh.
Alex: Let’s go get him at the store and tell him it’s – um – you’re aaaallll the way all done.

Alex: Watch out!!
Mommy: Watch out!!
Alex: Watch out!!
Mommy: Watch out!!
Alex: Let’s say it louder the Cat in the Hat together.
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: (extremely loud): Watch out!!!
Mommy (loud): Watch out!!!


Alex: Look at me, I'm wearing Mommy’s's watch.
Daddy: You're wearing Mommy’s’s watch?
Alex: Beep beep. My watched beeped!