Hello! Uh Grommie. Ball.

Alex: Now I'm gonna be Clifford. Woof woof woof woof woof woof.
Alex: That's how dogs walk.
Alex: Woof woof...
Mommy: Now Claire has to do it.
Alex and Claire (together): Woof woof...


Alex: Daddy, I’m snuggling with Mommy with some food because I’m gonna pretend I’m eating.


Alex: Claire, you wanna go on the crying rug? And cry about it?


Alex (watching the patterns on Windows Media Player): Look at those circles. They’re huge.


(Claire is playing with her cards.)
Alex: Can I have a card, Claire?
Claire (handing Alex a card): Yeah.
Alex: Thanks.
Claire: Thanks.
(Alex laughs.)


Daddy: Did you have fun in the snow?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Claire, did you have fun?
Claire: Yah.


(lunch time)

Alex: My mouth has eyes.
Daddy: Your mouth has eyes?
Alex: Yeah.

Daddy: Claire, do you want more blueberries?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Are you gonna ask me for them?
Claire: Please.

Alex: Mommy got a kind of cheese I like!
Daddy: Oh, good. Good for Mommy.
Claire: Uh cheese. Uh cheese.
Alex: I like it.
Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Claire?
Claire: Uh cheese.
Daddy: Oh, you like it too?

Claire: Mama? Mama!
(Mama looks at Claire.)
Claire: Daddy? Daddy.
(Daddy looks at Claire.)
Claire: Aw more – blueberries.

(Daddy is watching a basketball game.)
Alex: I like foot – I like foot – is this football?
Daddy: This is basketball.
Alex: Basketball. I like football.

Claire: Daddy? Daddy? I want more, blueberries – Daddy! I want more – blueberries.
Alex (mocking): I want more blueberries, Daddy, Daddy, I want more blueberries.
Claire: Daddy!! I want more blueberries.
Daddy: Okay, well you haven’t asked me nicely.
Claire: Please.

Alex (watching the game): There’s goes the man. He’s gonna throw that – the basketball.
(The man throws that basketball.)
Alex: There we go! Yay. There we go.

Claire: Aw grapes.
Mommy: Did you ask nicely, Claire?
Claire: Please.
Mommy: Okay.
(Mommy gives Claire some grapes.)
Alex: “Please” is just a word, and if you say “May I”, you get more, Claire.


(Alex holds the toy phone to his ear.)
Alex: Mommy’s not picking up.


(Daddy pretends to talk to Grommie on the phone.)
Daddy: Claire, do you wanna talk to Grommie?
(Claire nods. Daddy hands her the phone.)
Claire (talking on the phone): Hello! Uh Grommie. Ball.
(Pause.)
Claire: Mommy. Uh dog.
(Pause.)
Claire: Hello! Uh dog.


(Mommy is baking.)
Alex: What are those?
Mommy: Something you’re gonna have after dinner. Blueberry muffins.
Alex: Blueberry muffins!!

Alex: I’m gonna tell Daddy.
Alex (running into the other room, where Daddy is): Daddy! Daddy! We’re gonna have blueberry muffins after dinner!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: I’m excited!
Mommy: You’re funny.


(Alex talks on the toy phone.)
Alex: Hello?
(Pause.)
Alex: Hi, who’s there?
(Pause.)
Alex: Hi Ernie.
(Pause.)
Alex: I just went there yesterday.


Alex (singing): Daughter, daughter, daughter
Alex (singing): I like to play with her
Alex (singing): Daughter, daughter, daughter
Alex (singing): I like to get (gibberish) her


Daddy: Alex, if you were Lord of the Underworld, and you had a three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades, what would you call it?
Alex: Grommie!


(dinner time)

Alex: Is that steak?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: When I’m bigger and I’m a daddy, I can eat steak.
Alex: When I was a little boy, um, and Nana give me um, um, uh, steak, I liked it!
Daddy: Oh good!
Alex: When I’m a little boy, she can give me steak. That’s my Mommy.
Alex: You know who my Daddy is? That’s my Daddy. That’s my Daddy. And Nana’s my Mommy.
Mommy: What?
Alex: Nana’s my Mommy.
Mommy: Nana’s your Mommy?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: I’m your Mommy.
Alex (grinning): No. You’re my Daddy.

Alex: We’re getting muffin! We’re getting muffin, Daddy!
Daddy: We’re getting muffin?
Alex: Yeah!

(Mommy serves blueberry muffins to Claire and Alex.)
Claire: Cake!
Mommy: Muffin, blueberry muffin.
Alex: Muffin.
Claire: Uh spoon.
Alex: I’m eating muffin, Daddy!
Claire: Muffin.

Claire: I cake. I cake.
Alex: They’re muffins, Claire.
Claire: Muffins.

Claire: Cake. Cake. Cake.
Mommy: Muffin.
Claire: Muffin.
Daddy: Muffin.
Claire: Cake. Cake.


(bed time)

Alex: We had fun today.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Can you talk about it?

Alex: Why was the snowman sad?
Mommy: Was the snowman sad?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: I don’t know. Why was he sad?
Alex (laughing): He was sad because he didn’t have his head on his body.
Mommy: Oh.
Alex (laughing): And he was holding it.