Ovah dey-yah! Ocean!

Diego: Do you see the humpback whale?
Alex: Over there! In the other ocean!
Claire: Ovah dey-yah! Ocean!

Diego: Say “ah-ooo-wah!”
Claire: Oo-wah.

Diego: Say “Splash, whales!”
Claire: Splash, whales.
Diego: Splash, whales!
Claire: Splash, whales.

Diego: Does a humpback whale live in the desert or the ocean?
Alex: Ocean.
Claire: Ocean.
Alex (to Daddy, in his “that’s silly” voice): Whales don’t live in the desert! Silly!

Diego: Does a humpback whale splash with his tail, or with wings?
Alex: With his tail.
Claire: Tail!


(Claire walks down the garage stairs, then stops on the bottom step.)
Claire: Four five six.
(Claire steps down.)


Alex: Hey, Daddy. Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: Don’t talk to Claire that way.


Alex: I gonna read one more ingredients, but I’m gonna read two more ingredients. I’m gonna hurry, so I can go to my school.

Alex: Thank you, thank you, say thank you, because your friends give you a flower too, just like Claire and Daddy love you, and your friends give your flower to you, because ingredients say right.

Alex: I’m reading my ‘gredients, don’t take my ‘gredients from me. I’m trying to read, because someone’s coming to my (cloud?), that’s what’s happenings, doing.


(dinner time)

Claire: I want more pizza.

Alex: This is delicious!

Daddy: Should Daddy go out of town again?
Alex (upset): No! I will be sad when Mommy puts Claire to bed.

(Claire raises her arms as if signaling a touchdown.)
Claire: Yay!

Daddy: Alex, if you had a hundred green beans, how many green beans would you have?
Alex (holding up two fingers): Three. Two. I did two, Daddy!

Daddy: And how many carrots would you have?
Alex: Just one because, I’m gonna get a muffin after that dinner!