Guess what Elmo’s thinking about today!

(Daddy helps Alex and Claire put on Mommy’s running gear.)
Alex: Why did you put my running stuff on me? I’m not a runner, I’m a firefighter.


Alex: Claire, you wanna go under the table with me?


(Alex wants to know where Mommy is.)
Daddy: Mommy’s running, she’s getting some exercise.
Alex: Can I go with her?
Daddy: No, Mommy likes to exercise by herself.
Alex: But I have to study, because my back hurts.


Alex: I know Sunday. Daddy knows Sunday. Mommy knows Sunday. But dogs don’t talk.


Alex: Slowly, gently.
(Alex and Daddy laugh.)
Alex: That’s what Victor says.
Claire: Victor. Says.
(Alex laughs.)
Claire: Victor. Says. Victor. Says.


Alex: Go away, Claire. ‘Sappear! Can Claire ‘sappear, Daddy?
Daddy: No, she can’t.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: She just can’t.


(Mommy comes down from the third floor.)
Alex: I point to you up there.
Mommy: You what?
Alex: I point to where you was up – up – up on the third floor, up there on the ceiling.


(Daddy turns on Puppy Bowl VI.)
Claire: Dog!


Alex: When I was starting taking nap, I tried to get you to be quiet, ‘cause my sister was sleeping, and I was sleeping too, and I didn’t want to wake up.


(Alex is watching Puppy Bowl VI.)

Alex: Sometimes doggies are pups.
Daddy: That’s right.

Alex: Sometimes they run with a friend.

Alex: He doesn’t know where to go. There’s too many dogs.


(dinner time)

Alex: That banana is yellow, and those bananas are green.
Mommy: That’s right.
Alex: They will change yellow in a minute.

Alex (smiling): Afraid of a disaster, Miss Clavel ran faster, and faster, and fasterrr!

Daddy: Why did she go faster and faster?
Alex: Because the girls were crying.
Daddy: Oh, she had to go faster because the girls were crying?
Daddy: And when they got to the South Pole, where was Santa?
Alex (smiling): Um, he lives at the North Pole, and that was the South Pole.

(Daddy whistles Elmo’s world. Alex joins in for the last four notes.)
Alex (singing): That’s… Elmo’s World!
Alex: Welcome to Elmo’s World! It’s me, Elmo.
Daddy: Say hello, Dorothy.
Alex: Guess what Elmo’s thinking about today!
(Mommy laughs.)
Alex (mimicking Elmo): Doo doo doo doo!
(Mommy laughs again.)
Alex: Yeah, why, um, cups! And magazines!

Daddy: Elmo wants to learn more about cups and magazines! How can Elmo find out more?
Alex: How ‘bout you talk to a cup? And a magazine!

(A little later, Daddy is whistling Elmo’s World again.)
Alex: Hey, welcome to Elmo’s World! Elmo’s so happy to see you, and so is Dorothy. Say hello, Dorothy!
(Pause.)
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Guess what Elmo’s thihking about today?
Alex: Doo doo doo doo!
Alex: Yeah, cups and magazines.


Alex: Oops, there’s a pear on the road!


Alex: Come on, it’s time to go see Grover, it’s his party.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You wanna go?
Daddy: Yes.


(bath time)

(Daddy is drying Alex’s hair.)
Alex: Enough, Daddy.

(Daddy is combing Alex’s hair.)
Alex: Enough combing, Daddy.


Alex: I got my dinosaur pants back and my – my – T-Rex shirt!


(Alex inspects his pull-up prior to donning it.)
Alex: There's Emily Elizabeth, Cleo, T-Bone, and Clifford. That's all I need.


(bed time)

Mommy: Mommy has work…
Alex: No!
Mommy: …and Daddy has work…
Alex: No!
Mommy: …and Alex and Claire have school…
Alex: No! Were not having any of those things!

Alex: I don't wanna go to school!
Mommy: I know you don't.
Alex: No thank you!