Timeout. Mat.

Alex: Daddy held me up like a cloud!


Daddy: Claire, what’s your brother’s name?
Claire: Ay-yah!


(Alex and Claire are getting into the car to go to the library. Grommie also gets in, uninvited.)

Alex: Grommie, get outta the car!
Mommy: Grommie!
Alex: Grommie goes inside.
Claire: Out. Car. Now. 'Side.


(Alex, Claire, and Daddy are at the library. A voice on the loudspeaker announces that the library will be closing in fifteen minutes.)

Alex (anxious): The library’s closing, we have to get outta here before we get stuck.
Daddy: It’s okay, we can still play for a little bit.
Alex (still anxious): Let's get out of here fast.


(Claire is playing by herself in her room.)

(Claire puts her baby doll on her pillow. She puts a Thomas book on the baby.)
Claire: Train. Train. Baby.
(Claire pushes the baby’s head into the book.)
Claire: Train. Train.

(Claire puts her baby on the shelf.)
Claire: Nap. Time.

Claire: Uh change. Pillow.
(Claire puts the baby on the pillow, then she gets a diaper and starts putting it on the baby.)
Claire: Change. Diaper.
Claire: Poop. Diaper.
(Claire carries her baby to the other side of the room and sets it down on the floor.)
Claire: Bath.
Claire: Sit.
Claire: Bath.
(Claire brings her baby back.)
Claire: Diaper. Pillow.
(Claire puts her baby on the pillow.)
Claire: Night.
(Claire diapers the baby again.)
Claire: Change. Diaper.
Claire: Change. Diaper.
Claire: Poop.
Claire: Poop.
(Claire picks up the baby.)
Claire: Uh wet.
Claire: Dry.
(Claire runs into the hall, and sets her baby down.)
Claire: Sit.
Claire: Dry.
Claire: Sit.
Claire: Diaper.
(Claire returns to her room without the baby.)
Claire: Back.
Claire: Diaper.
(Claire takes a diaper and goes back into the hall.)
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
(Claire puts her baby in the timeout area.)
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
Claire: Timeout.
(Claire returns to her room without the baby.)
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
(Claire runs back into the hall.)
Claire: Timeout.
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
Claire: Timeout.
(Claire returns to her room without the baby.)
Claire: Daddy. Timeout.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Pillow.
(Claire lies on her pillow for a moment, then gets up.)
Claire (as she runs out of the room): Timeout.
Claire: Timeout. Timeout.
(Claire returns with her baby.)
Claire: Timeout.
Claire: Bed. (Mumble.) Bed.
(Claire puts the baby in Claire’s bed.)
Claire: Sleep.
Claire: Nigh night. Baby.
Claire (as she runs out of the room): No - no!
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
(Claire returns, and tries to get her baby out of the bed.)
Daddy: Do you need some help? Here you go.
(Daddy gets the baby out of the bed for Claire.)
Claire: Timeout. Timeout. Mat.
(Claire goes in the hall again, and puts the baby in the timeout area.)
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
Claire: Timeout.
(Claire returns to her room without the baby.)
Claire: Timeout.
(Claire lies on her pillow.)
Claire: Cahg.
Claire: Timeout. Mat. Cuddit. Hug!
(Claire runs out of the room.)
Claire: Timeout. Mat.
Claire (putting the baby in a basket): Sit. Basket.
Claire: Sit.
Claire: Right.
Claire: Basket.
(Claire returns with her baby.)
Claire: Daddy. Hug. Sit.
(Claire drops the baby and leaves the room.)
(Claire comes back, picks up the baby, leaves, and sets the baby down in the hallway.)
Claire: Sit.
(Claire runs into Alex’s room to read with him.)