We're part of the family! Come back up!

(Alex looks in the mirror with Mommy.)
Alex: Look at in the mirror.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: So I can see my hair. Looks good!
(Pause.)
Alex (decisively): Yes it does. Looks a little bit good.


(Alex and Claire are playing with the toy kitchen. Claire opens the refrigerator.)
Alex: Don’t open it! No, Claire! Don’t open it!
Alex: You’re letting the cold out! The cold air out!
Alex: Don’t open my ‘frigerator!


Alex: C starts with coat.
Daddy: That’s right!
Alex: You know what fuh-fuh-food starts with?
Daddy: What?
Alex: F!
Daddy: That’s right!
Alex: Duh-duh-door starts with D!
Daddy: That’s right!


(Claire walks down the garage stairs, and stops on the bottom step.)
Claire: Four five six. Seven jump!
(Claire steps down.)


(Alex complains that Daddy turned the light off in the bathroom, while Alex was playing with the scale.)
Alex: I was tryin' to see what thirty I am.


Daddy: All right, chucklehead.
Alex (smiling): All right, man! All right, man daddy!


(Mommy and Claire went downstairs before Alex and Daddy were ready.)
Alex: They're already downstairs!
Daddy: They went down without us. Okay, we'll go down --
Alex (shouting down the stairs): We're part of the family! Come back up!
(Alex laughs.)


Alex (walking down the stairs): I'm tryin' to fall down the stairs.


Alex (to Mommy): Does my sister wanna make dinner?


Claire: Dinner. Ready.


Alex: I want Downtown, okay? Can we listen to that song?


Alex: Mommy Mommy Mommy Mommy. Mommy's my best friend.


Alex (with his eyes closed): I closed my eyes.
Mommy: Can you see me?
Alex: Yeah I have a flashlight.


(dinner time)
Daddy: Alex, what did one pear say to the other pear?
Alex: “Hi, where are you going?”
(Daddy laughs.)
Daddy: And what did the other pear say?
Alex: “Hello, what are you doing today?”


(Alex is playing with stuffed animals.)
Alex: You know what these are?
Daddy: No, what are they?
Alex (naming the animals): This one’s Grommie, and that one’s Otter, and that one’s… Trotter, and that one’s Ott – um, oh… Cla – Clairer, and this one’s Clifford!


(Daddy just finished reading “The Berenstain Bears Count Their Blessings” to Alex.)
Daddy: Okay, let’s sing songs. I like singing songs with you, that’s one of my blessings. I like it a lot.
Alex: I like reading stories with you. That’s my blessing.