And can my tummy get bigger?

Alex: My other friends, Angelina and Everett, will not play with me today. So I’m gonna play with other friends… Troy… Irmarion… and Ian. No Everett or Angelina.

Alex: This is fun!

Alex: Claire, can we go in the living room and do something? We have to work on our computer.

Alex: Where’d my Mommy go? I’m a Daddy, but where’s my Mommy? Mommy!
(Mommy looks.)
Alex: No, I’m calling Claire my Mommy.
Mommy: Oh I get it.

Alex: Sometimes my friends turn into an animal, they turn into cats and dogs, they turn into a bird, then they turn into a monkey, after the bird.


[These are Alex’s names for Sam’s Club.]
Sam’s Cloud
Santa’s Club
Sandwich Club


Alex: Daddy, you have to listen to me, sometimes. And you have to be nice to me.


Daddy: Alex? Why did the chicken cross the road?
Alex: What?
Daddy: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Alex: What chicken?
(Daddy laughs.)
Alex: What chicken, Daddy?
Daddy: Um… just, I don’t know.


(Alex sees Daddy putting on his belt.)
Alex: When I get bigger, can I wear a belt?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And can my tummy get bigger?


Alex: This tummy is named Ah-wah.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: But it’s Little Tummy, that’s his name. “Hi, I’m Little Tummy.” He’s nice. He’s nice, he’s a friend. Because he’s not mad anymore. He’s happy. “Hi. Hi, Daddy. I’m Big Tummy. Eat your toast.”


(Mommy is in the bathroom.)
Alex: Can – can I see… Mommy’s poop?
Alex (opening the bathroom door): Can I see your poop?
Mommy: Um, I don’t have poop right now.
Alex (entering the bathroom and closing the door behind him) Okay, I will see your pee-pee.

(lunch time)
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah Alex?
Alex: I made my green bean up into clips.
Daddy: Crips?
Alex: Up into scissors! That’s silly.


(nap time, heard over the monitor)
Alex: Mommy and Daddy have to be quiet, and I’m mad at them. They need to listen before I (inaudible). I don’t know what’s going on with them. Be quiet before my sister is gonna cry!


(dinner time)

(Alex notices an empty compartment on his plate.)
Alex: What goes here?
Mommy: Nothing.
Alex: Why?
Mommy: Because nothing has to go here.
Alex: Why?
Mommy: Because I didn’t fix anything else.

Alex: When we go upstairs, can we play superheroes?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: The clock says that we can?
Daddy: Yeah, it does.
Alex: Yeah, the clock says it!

Alex: Last time the clock said no, ‘cause it said: “Too late for superheroes.”
Daddy: That’s right.


(Alex gives Claire a kiss and a hug before bed.)
Alex: I love you, Claire. See you in the morning.