Claire's Vocabulary (422)

Abby
after
again
air
Alex
all
animal
another
apple
applesauce
Ashleigh
at
ate
away
baby
back
backpack
bag
ball
balloon
banana
Band-Aid
bang
basket
bath
be
beans
bear
bed
beep
Bert
bib
big
Big Bird
bike
bird
birthday
blanket
bless you
blocks
blue
blueberries
boat
Bobo
bone
boo-boo
book
bow
bowl
box
boy
breakfast
bridge
broccoli
broke
brush
bubble
bucket
bug
bump
bumpy
bunny
burp
butter
butterfly
button
bye-bye
cabinet
cake
car
cards
carrots
carry
cat
catch
cave
cereal
chair
change
cheek
Cheerios
cheese
chick
chicken
chin
chip
chocolate
choo-choo
circle
Claire
Clifford
clip
clock
close
closet
clothes
coat
coffee
cold
color
computer
cookie
Cookie Monster
cool
cough
counter
cow
crash
crayon
cream
crust
crying
cup
cupcake
cut
Daddy
Dana
dance
dark
diaper
did
dinner
dinosaur
dog
doggie
done
Dora
down
Downtown
drawer
dress
driveway
drops
dry
duck
dump
ear
eat
egg
eight
elephone
Elly
Elmo
Elmo's World
end
engine
Ernie
eye
face
fall
fast
February
feet
find
finger
fire engine
fire truck
firefighter
fish
fit
five
flashlight
floor
flower
food
foot
fork
four
fries
frog
funny
garden
gate
George
get
giraffe
girl
give
go
goat
Gossie
got
Grandma
Grommie
Grover
hair
hand
happy
hat
have
head
heavy
hello
help
heroes
hi
him
hippo
hold
home
honey mustard
hood
horse
horsey
hot
house
hug
hungry
hurt
I
ice
in
is
it
jacket
James
Juju
jump
key
kids
kiss
kitchen
knock knock
lap
leg
let
lick
light
lion
Love Shack
machine
mailbox
make
Mallory
Mama
man
mat
me
Meg
milk
minute
monkey
moo
moon
moose
more
Morgan
mouse
mouth
move
muffin
mulch
my
name
Nana
nap
napkin
neck
nice
night-night
nine
no
nope
nose
nugget
Oakley
octopus
off
oh
on
one
open
orange
Oscar
other
ouch
out
outside
owl
paint
pants
pasta
pear
pee-pee
penguin
phone
pick
picture
pig
pigtails
pillow
pink
PJs
plane
plate
play
playground
playroom
please
pocket
poop
poopy
Pop
potty
puddle
pull-up
push
puzzle
quack
ready
red
rinse
rip
rock
rocket
room
Rosie
rug
run
sack
sad
sauce
Scruffey
second
see
see you later
seven
shade
sheep
sheet
shine
shirt
shoe
shot
shower
sink
sit
six
sleep
sleepy
sleeve
snack
snow
soap
sock
soft
special treat
spider
splash
spoon
stairs
step
sticker
Stickers
sticky
stool
strawberry
stroller
stuck
sun
swings
take
tape
ten
that
them
there
this
Thomas
those
three
throw
thumb
tickle
tiger
tight
timeout
toast
tongue
Topham Hat
tower
track
tractor
train
trash
tray
tree
truck
tummy
turn
Turner
turtle
TV
two
uh-oh
under
up
Virginia
waffle
walk
wall
want
wash
watch
water
waterfall
wet
why
wipe
with
woof
worm
wow
yay
yeah
yes
yogurt
you
your
yum
zipper
Zoe

Oh name Daddy.

(breakfast time)

(Claire is having trouble picking up a piece of banana.)
Claire (to Daddy): Help me.

(After Bob is over, Daddy turns on Pets.)
Claire: Uh watch uh breakfast.

(Daddy gives Alex and Claire some buttered toast.)
Claire: Buttered! Buttered!

(Alex is eating toast.)
Alex: I bit that hard.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: It was hard to do. It tried to hurt me.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I tried to choke on it.
Daddy: Okay, don't do that.
Alex: That hurt my tummy.
Daddy: You be more careful and drink some water.
Alex: After I eat this toast.


(driving to the Taylors’ house)

Claire: Mommy? Uh Daddy.
Daddy: Daddy’s here.
Claire: Oh. Uh Mommy.
Daddy: Mommy’s here.
Claire: Oh.

Alex: I don't see Aunt Sheridan’s house yet. Is it down the highway?
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Big truck, Mommy.
Mommy: Yeah, big truck.
Claire: Big truck, Daddy.

Alex: Is that Oakley’s car?
Daddy: No, that's not Oakley’s car.
Alex: Why is it not Oakley’s car?
Daddy: Why is it not Oakley’s car?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: I don’t know.
Mommy: Because Oakley’s car’s green.
Alex: It looks like Oakley’s car.
Mommy: Yeah it does look like Oakley’s car.

Alex: That was bumpy. This is a bump road. They have to fix it.
Daddy: Yeah, they should.
Alex: The men have to fix it.
Daddy: What men?
Alex: There's no men around here, they're not fixin’ it right now. They're not out right now.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: It’s a long time to wait for them.

Alex: We’re turnin’ around the bend, Mommy.
Mommy: Yeah. Here we go!
Alex: Whee!

Alex: I'm sleepy so I'm tryin’ to sleep in the car but I can't ‘cause my neck hurts me... if I lie down.

Claire: Big truck.
Daddy: Big truck?
Claire: Yellow truck.

Daddy: What do you see, Claire?
Claire: Truck.
Daddy: Truck, yeah. Now Alex, you tell me what you see.
Alex: A lotta things over there!
Daddy: A lotta things over there, yeah. Claire, what do you see?
Claire: Tractors.
Daddy: Tractors, yeah!
Mommy: Good!

Alex (to Mommy): Are you still going really fast? And you’re not gonna hit anybody again?

(The car passes an abandoned store; someone is inside cleaning the windows.)
Alex: What is that store? Is that the cleaning store?

Daddy: What do you see out there?
Claire: Big building.
Daddy: Big buildings?
Claire: Yeah, Mommy.
Daddy: My name’s Daddy.
Claire: Oh name Daddy.

Alex (referring to the Taylors’ house): How can I play a lot there?
Daddy: How can you play a lot there?
Alex: Yeah. I like that house. It's a fun place to play on.


Alex: That’s amazing.
Mommy: You’re amazing.
Alex: You’re amazing.
Mommy: You’re amazing.
Alex: I’m not amazing.
Mommy: You’re amazing.
Alex: I’m not amazing.
Mommy: I’m amazing.
Alex: You’re not amazing.
Mommy: Yes I am.
Alex: No you’re not.
Mommy: Yes I am.
Alex: Okay.
(Mommy laughs.)
Alex: You’re my grandfather!

I don’t know. Good night.

Alex: I mean I'm talking about that toy too, but I don't know what I'm talkin’ about today.

(Daddy comes home from work.)
Claire: Daddy’s home!
Mommy: Is Daddy home?
(Claire crawls on the floor.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh dog.


(Alex and Claire put on a fashion show with Mommy’s running stuff.)

Claire: Me! Me!

Alex: Look at me, now I'm cute again!


(Alex and Claire play Kitchen.)

Alex: The cookies are burning!

Alex: Ka-chow!
Claire: Ka-chow.
Alex: That's what Lightning says.
Claire: Lightning says.
Alex: Ka-chow!

Alex: Claire, do we have any cheese here?
Claire: Yeah. Uh cheese here.
Alex: We don’t have any – we didn’t make any candy!

(Claire stops playing Kitchen, and starts playing trains.)
Alex: Are you playing trains?
Claire: Yeah.
(Alex starts playing trains too.)
Alex: Then there was trouble!
Alex: What happened, Daisy?
Daisy: I don’t know, nothing happened.
(Pause.)
Claire: Uh-oh.
Alex: Uh-oh.

Alex (to Claire): Are you not playing with this coach now?
(Claire says something inaudible.)
Alex: You look like –
Claire: Uh play with it.
Alex: But you look like you’re not playing with it.

Alex (to Claire): You can’t have all o’ dem, Claire, because then, you have to share.


(Daddy is playing Lips: Party Classics.)

Alex: Can Claire pick first? She didn’t pick in a long time.

Alex: I need something to hold my feet up. I’m using the table to hold my feet up. Okay, Mommy?
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: Because I need something to hold my feet up.


(dinner time)

(A siren can be heard in the distance.)
Claire: Fire engine.
Alex: Fire engine.
Claire: Uh oranges.
Mommy: You want some oranges?
Claire: Uh chi – more chicken please.

Alex: I ate some chicken with barbecue sauce. I dipped it.
Daddy: Excellent work, Alex. I’m so proud.
Alex: That was yummy.

Alex: I’m filling up my mouth, with, um, orange cheese.
Alex: That’s why I’m getting a lot in my mouth. Because I’m really hungry.
Alex: I like to eat.

Alex: Can I have more chicken and barbecue sauce?
(Daddy looks at Alex and says nothing.)
Alex: May I please?
(Daddy looks at Alex and says nothing.)
Alex: May I have chicken and barbecue sauce please?
Daddy: Okay!

Alex: There’s the barbecue sauce, right over there, by the bananas. In the morning, for breakfast. They might be still brown.

Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: If we – can we look at pictures and do movies? We didn’t do that in a long time.
Daddy: No, we’re not gonna do that tonight, it’s too late. We’re gonna hafta go upstairs right after dinner.
Alex: But, we didn’t do that in a long time. For a little bit, okay? For just a minute. Okay?
Daddy: No.
Alex (whining): I want to!

Alex: And can we do the silly thing? That I saw yesterday?
Daddy: What silly thing?
Alex: It gets all over your face.

Alex: Just for a minute. For one minute.
Alex: Okay?
Daddy: No I don’t want it all over my face.
Alex (angrily): One time! I mean, for a minute!
Daddy: Don’t yell at me.
Alex: I have to.
Daddy: Why?
Alex: Because you’re not being nice.
Daddy: I’m just saying that I don’t wanna get water all over my face. I’m sorry.
Alex: I wanna go potty.


(Alex wants to say hi to the boys.)
Alex: I could say one time… or two times.
(Pause.)
Alex: Or, if I could say three times.


Mommy: How many days until your party?
Alex: Um, I think on Sunday.
Mommy: It is on Sunday, yeah!

(Mommy turns the page on the calendar, and Claire sees a picture of Grandma.)
Claire: Oh! Grandma!

Daddy: Alex, what are we gonna do at your party?
Alex: I don’t know. Good night.


Alex: Can we say – can we say – uh – can we say quiet time, and say Claire’s sleeping? Let’s say quiet time. Can we do that a lot this time? Can we do that again?
Daddy: Yeah, we can do that.
Alex: Can – can you say it to me?


Alex: Yay, clean-up time!


Daddy: Shall we go upstairs?
Alex (in a monotone): Yeeeeeesss, noooooo, not yeeeeeet

He doesn’t have a name. Birds are not name.

(Callum has come over for a play date. Alex is on the slide.)
Alex: Hey Callum! Hey Callum, look at my playground. Look at this.


Daddy: What’s wrong, buddy?
Alex: Claire was being mean to me.
Daddy: She was being mean to you?
Alex: Yeah she was takin’ my Cookie Monster.


Alex (from the other room): Daddy, do you wanna play trains?
Alex (from the other room): Daddy, do you wanna play trains?
Alex (from the other room): Daddy, do you wanna play trains?
Daddy: Yes, I do!
Claire: Topham Hat!
(Daddy comes to play trains with Claire and Alex.)

Claire (to Daddy, holding a train): Uh job.

Alex: Daddy, I wanna make a new track ‘cause this track’s really old now.
Daddy: Oh. Uh, how long have we had this track?
Alex: Uh, a long time.


(Alex and Claire are playing Kitchen.)

Alex: That’s my choice, so you have to do that right now.
Daddy: What do I have to do?
Alex: You – you be to my kitchen while I’m makin’ dinner! That’s your choice.

Alex (to Daddy): You don’t have any food, because you're not hungry, right?
Daddy: Right.
Alex: This is all for Mommy.

Alex: Hey, Claire took my chips! Claire, can you please give my chips back?


(dinner time)

Claire: Uh eat uh pasta.
Daddy: You’re eating pasta?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Daddy? This is hot. This is hot. You have to wait for it to cool.

(Claire wants some of Mommy’s hamburger.)
Mommy: Honey. I already put mustard on it.
Claire: Oh mustard.
Mommy: You don’t like mustard.
Claire: I like uh mustard please.

Alex (to Daddy): You can take me a bath and Mommy can take Claire a bath, because Claire likes Mommy better.

(Mommy asks Claire to come upstairs for bath.)
Mommy: Come on, punkin.
Claire: I’m coming please.


Alex (to Daddy): Can we find someplace for me to hide so I can poop?
Daddy: Why don’t you poop in the potty?
Alex: No potty, I’m not potty trained yet.
Daddy: But you could get a piece of chocolate.
Alex: Not today. I’m almost really big.


(Alex is looking out the window at a bird.)
Alex: He doesn’t have a name. Birds are not name.


Alex: Before Callum went home, I didn’t get to say hello to the boys. And that was not… gonna happen.


(Claire has the book that Alex was planning to read at bed time – although it’s not Alex’s bedtime just yet.)
Alex: Oh Claire has it. Claire has my night time book. Claire, that's supposed to be my night time book.
Daddy: And it still can be.
Alex (excitedly): Do you have candy? Up here? For me?
Daddy (carefully enunciating the last two words): No, I said it still can be.
Alex: Candy?

That would be fun. Everyone would want a job like that.

(Alex is talking about playing trains.)
Alex: Can they have different jobs today?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Like going to the docks to pick up the children?
Daddy: Yeah, that would be different.
Alex: And taking hay to the farm?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: That would be fun. Everyone would want a job like that.


(On TV, a girl is painting.)
Claire: Paint!
Daddy: Yeah. Claire paints at school, doesn’t she?
(Claire holds out her hand.)
Claire: Uh paint with fingers.


(Mommy is trying to take Claire up for nap, but Claire collapses on the stairs, crying.)
Claire (upset): Uh make dinner! Uh make dinner!


Alex: Daddy!
Daddy: Yes, Alex?
Alex: I’m makin’ dinner, you have to come in here, I’m still makin' dinner.
Alex: Do you wanna eat dinner?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: But, you have to come in here first.


Alex: My trains are cute, Mommy. Some are green and some are red, and some are… are… more red (this one), and some are green (this one).


(Alex and Claire are playing Kitchen, quietly. All of a sudden Alex starts shouting.)
Alex (shouting): The cookies are burning! The cookies are burning, Claire! The cookies are burning!
Claire (shouting): Cookies! Burning!


(Daddy walks downstairs to find Claire and Alex playing trains.)
Claire: Daddy! Uh playing trains!


Alex: Claire? Do you know where my car is?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Where?
Claire: Right there!
(Claire runs into the other room, and Alex follows.)
Alex: Where?
(Claire looks around and sees Alex’s car.)
Claire (pointing): There!
Alex: Oh, you found it!


(Claire takes her baby out of the small chair, puts the baby on the floor, and sits in the chair herself.)
Claire: My chair.
Claire: My chair.
Claire: My chair, baby, my chair.
Claire: My chair, baby.
Claire: My chair, baby.
Claire: Ah my chair.
(Claire gets up and puts the baby in the chair.)
Claire: Uh sit there.
(Pause.)
Claire: My chair, baby, my chair, baby, uh sit there, baby.
(Claire sits in the chair with the baby.)
Claire: Me. Sit there, baby, sit there.
Claire: Uh there.


Alex: Why are you takin’ a picture?
Mommy: I wanna get a picture of my cute kids.
Alex: Uh, at the little table tryin’ to eat?
Mommy: Yes.
Alex: Tryin’ to get set up?
Mommy: Yeah.


(Claire drops some food.)
Claire: Grommie! Grommie, eat it! Grommie!


(Daddy mentions the grocery store.)
Alex: And Ukrop’s is changing a different store that we can get.
Daddy: Ukrop’s is changing a different store?
Alex: Yeah. Mommy told me that.


(A few minutes ago, a solicitor came to the front door. Now, Alex and Daddy are playing House.)
Alex (indicating Cookie Monster): Can he be the stranger to knock on our door?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Just like we had on our door?
Daddy: Yeah.
(Cookie Monster knocks on the door.)
Alex: Woof woof woof woof!
Alex (to Daddy): That’s what dogs do.


(Claire is going to bed.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh hug and kiss.

Go!

(Alex and Claire are playing trains.)
Sir Topham Hatt: I have some jobs for the trains to do.
Claire: Uh Scruffey.
Sir Topham Hatt: Scruffey, you must drive all around the island and pick up the children.
Claire (smiling): 'Kay.

(Alex is playing with the toy telephone.)
Alex: Bye Tyrone. That was Tyrone on the phone.
Daddy: Oh, what did he want?
Alex: He wanted… I want… I wanted a hambugger, so he was gonna get me a hambugger.

(Alex and Claire are pushing cars.)
Alex: See you later!
Claire: See you later, Dada!

Alex: Are we all set, Claire? Are we all set?
Claire: Yeah, go!
Alex: No, are we all set?
Claire: Go!
Alex: No, not go, Claire. All set.
Claire: Go!

(Alex and Claire are playing Kitchen.)
Alex: Our cookies are burning, Daddy!
Daddy: Your cookies are burining?
Alex: Yeah and they’re gonna blow away and I have to call Pablo really fast!

Alex: The cookies are burning again!

Alex: My diaper's trying to fall off, Daddy.
Daddy: Ok, let me fix it. Thanks for telling me.
(Daddy fixes Alex's diaper.)
Alex: I need to see Pablo right away, Daddy.
Daddy: Right away?
Alex: Yeah, I need to see Pablo right away, to fix my kitchen, because the cookies are burning.
Daddy: Okay.


Alex (laughing): Claire's gonna eat me, Daddy!

Claire (to Alex): Eat you! Eat you!
Alex: I'm gonna eat you!
(Claire is covering her eye with her hand, but Alex takes her eyeball anyway and eats it.)
(Claire laughs.)
Claire: Uh guh eat you!


(Mommy serves chicken nuggets for dinner.)
Claire: Chih! Kin! Nuh! Gits!

Alex: Oh no, Claire! The AC is dripping!
Alex (to Daddy): I told Claire that.

Claire: Chicken nuggets. Oh hot.
Daddy: Yeah theyr'e hot.
Claire: Cool off.


(Alex explains Bobo’s role in life.)
Alex: He's to lie on.


(Mommy is brushing Claire’s teeth.)
Mommy: You have junk stuck in your teeth from dinner.
Claire: Nuggets.
Mommy: Nuggets, yeah. Does that feel better?
Claire: Yeah. Pear.
Mommy: Pear, yeah.


Alex (to Daddy): You can play a little bit with me, okay, and then you can have a rest. I need you to play House with me right now, or else it’ll be too late.
Daddy: Okay.

HI BIRRRRRRRRRRRRD!

(Daddy wakes up Claire.)
Claire: Uh Mommy?

(Alex is still in bed.)
Alex (calling out): Daddy?
Daddy (from Claire’s room): Yes Alex?
Alex: Are you wakin’ up Claire?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I wanna wake up Claire up too.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex gets out of bed and runs into Claire’s room, where the light is on.)
Alex: I can’t see because it’s too shiny in here. It’s really shiny in here.


(downstairs)
Alex: I wanna watch Cars.
Daddy: What do you wanna watch, Claire?
Claire: Pets.


(breakfast)
Alex: Hey Daddy, can you get me some more window Life cereal? My special treat!


(Claire and Alex are pushing cars. Alex stops when he gets to Daddy.)
Alex: When I race, Daddy, steam comes outta this thing, when it turns into things.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
(Alex pushes his car away.)
(Claire stops when she gets to Daddy, mumbles something to him, and runs off.)

(Daddy opens the window, at Alex’s request, so Alex and Claire can say hi to Oakley.)
Alex: Hi Oakley!
Claire: Hi Oagey!
Alex: He looked at me, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah, he must have heard you.
Alex: He must love me too.
Claire: Hi Oagey, hi Oagey, hi Oagey, hi Oagey.

Alex: Claire, can you come play with me?!
Claire: Buuuuuug!
Alex: Where’s there a bug?
Claire: There!

(Alex comes into the bathroom to see Daddy.)
Alex: I needed to tell you something while I was running.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: Ah-keesta, dah-berdots!
Daddy: Okay.


(Alex is shouting out the window.)
Alex: Hi bird! Hi bird!! HI BIRD!! HI BIRD!
Alex (shouting at the top of his lungs): HI BIRRRRRRRRRRRRD!
Daddy: Who are you talking to, Alex?
Alex: I’m talkin’ to that little bird out there.
Daddy: Oh okay.
Alex: I’m not tryin’ to scare him away.
Daddy: Okay.


(Mommy and Claire are working the Thomas jigsaw puzzle. Claire picks up a puzzle piece.)
Mommy: Where should that one go, Claire?
Claire: Oh, that’s Topham, Hatt! It fits, there!
(Claire attempts to put the piece into the puzzle, unsuccessfully.)


Alex: Buh, buh, B starts with bookstore.
Daddy: That’s right.

Alex (to Daddy): Your car looks like Doc.


Mommy (to Claire): Are you smart?
Mommy (to Claire): Are you smart?
Daddy: Claire, are you smart?
Claire: No. I’m Claire.


(Claire hiccups.)
Claire: Burp.


(Mommy has gone to the store.)
Alex: Did Mommy go get things?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: That we don’t have?
Daddy: Yeah.


(snack time)

(Mommy is washing strawberries.)
Alex: If you didn’t have a sink, you wouldn’t wash food! That’d be silly.

Alex: Can I have four strawberries?
Alex (holding up four fingers): This is four, Daddy.
Daddy: That’s right! Show Mommy!
(Alex shows Mommy.)
Mommy: Good job, Alex. How old are you?
Alex: Three.

Said Alex.

(during nap)
Alex: Mommy!
(Pause.)
Alex: Mommy!
(Pause.)
Alex: Mommy!
(Pause.)
Alex: Wake me up!


(dinner time)

(Claire is having trouble drinking through her straw.)
Alex: Can I show you how I drink, Claire?
Claire: Yeah.
(Alex demonstrates how he drinks through a straw.)
Alex: That’s how I drink.

Mommy: Who’s ready to get down?
Alex: Me!
Alex: Said Alex.


Claire (getting out of the bath): Uh cold.

Claire (while being dried off by Mommy): Uh see bunny.

Mommy two head.

(Alex and Daddy are talking about the recycling truck.)
Alex: That’s what I did yesterday, with Miss Woody.
Daddy: You recycled stuff?
Alex: Yeah, I threw away paper and plastic.


Alex (surveying the train table): There’s no trains that have faces on them.

Alex: Hey Daddy, can you get some trains that have faces on them to pull these coaches?


Alex: Hey Grandma! Graaandma.
Grandma: Yes darlin’.
Alex: Dinner’s ready, can you eat with me?


(Daddy is lying on the sofa with his eyes closed.)
Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Hi Claire.
Claire: Open your eyes please.


Daddy: Where’s your chin?
Claire: There.
Daddy: Where’s your forehead?
Claire: There.
Claire: Mommy two head.
Daddy: Mommy has two heads?
Claire: Yeah.

Daddy: Where’s your cheek?
Claire: Right there.


Claire: Uh shade up.


(Grommie – having rolled in his own poop – is banished to the deck, and Claire is inside. Claire holds her hand up to Grommie through the glass in the back door.)
Claire (to Grommie): Uh lick. Uh lick. Uh lick.
Claire (to Daddy): Uh doggie lick me.
Claire: Uh let him in please.
Claire: Uh let him in please.
Claire: Uh, let, him, in, please.
(Pause.)
Claire: Uh let him in please, Daddy.
Daddy: I can’t let him in, because he’s all dirty.

Claire: Hey! Uh eh lick me. Hi doggie.
(Grommie runs off into the yard.)
Claire: Uh Grommie, is.
(Claire runs to the kitchen window to find Grommie.)
Claire (seeing Grandma): Grandma! There.
Claire: Grandma. Grandma. Uh play. Now. Uh Grandma is.

Claire (looking out the back door again): Dat!
Mommy: Water table.
Claire: Oh, water table. Uh play ‘f it. Uh play ‘f it. Uh play wif it, Mommy.


(dinner time)

Alex: Oh no!
Mommy: What?
Alex: My fork fell in my water and then it got all wet!
Mommy: Oh no.


Alex: Grommie licked me a little bit on my tummy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: He must love me.


(Alex and Claire are looking out Claire’s window.)
Alex: There’s – there’s Oakley’s cat!

Uh bump my head! Uh bump my head!

(Daddy is getting Alex ready to go downstairs for breakfast.)
Alex: What’s Mommy doing?
Daddy: She’s probably eating breakfast.
Alex: Maybe she’s working on her paper. ‘Cause she has a lot of work to do.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I think she’s working in her garden box again. Because it’s nice outside.


Alex: I have to scratch me because I have a itch.


(Alex notices his raincoat on the coat rack.)
Alex (to Claire): When you’re bigger, you can wear that. But you’re not bigger yet.
Alex (to Daddy): She’s not bigger, right?
Daddy: Right.


Claire: Uh bump my head! Uh bump my head!
Daddy: Did you bump your head?
Claire: No.
Claire: Uh bump my head!
Daddy: Did you bump your head?
Claire: Yeah.


Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: You know why I didn’t wanna get down, when I was chewing it up?
Daddy: Why?
Alex: Because I didn’t wanna get crumbs everywhere, you forgot a wipe.


(Grommie accidentally kicks a toy van that’s lying on the floor.)
Alex: Oops, that was a car. Or a truck. One time it lived in my bed and his name was Doc.

Daddy: Did you have fun at school, kiddo?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What did you do?
Alex: I… don’t know!


Alex: Hey a bug in here, Daddy.
Daddy: Neat.
Alex: What?
Daddy: Neat.
Alex: That’s not neat.
Daddy: Oh, it’s not?
Alex: Yeah that’s not funny because the bug is gonna have to go outside and fly away back to his home. This is not his home. This is our home. And he has to go out.

(Daddy takes the bug outside.)
Daddy: Go away, bug.
Alex: Is he outside, Daddy?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Oh. I want him to go away from our house. Did he fly away?
Daddy: Yes, he did.
Alex: There is he again! He’s on our window. Neat!

Alex: He’s going all the way up high.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.

If I'm sad, can I watch TV?

(Alex hurt himself a few minutes ago, but now is over it, and is playing happily. Suddenly, his mood shifts.)
Alex (sadly): I’m a little bit still sad.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex (sadly): If I’m sad, can I watch TV?

Mommy: Hey boys, I have a question for you.
Alex (confused): Where are the boys?
Mommy: You and Daddy!


(During dinner.)
Alex: Can you make it be dinner?
Daddy: Yeah.
(Daddy turns the light on.)
Alex: Mommy said dinner was ready.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: You forgot, and then you turned it on.


Alex’s car (talking quietly to himself): I’m gonna get in there. Okay, blackberry? I’m gonna get…


(Alex, Daddy, and Claire are climbing the stairs.)
Daddy: I'm gonna get there first!
Alex: No I got there!
Claire: Uh get there second!

I'm gonna let that ant outside.

(Dinner has just ended.)
Alex: Is this dinner?
Mommy: Yeah, this is dinner.
Alex: I want the light on.
Mommy (with mock distress): Oh no, the light wasn't on! Do-over!

(Alex turns the light on.)
Claire: Dinner!


Alex: I'm gonna let that ant outside.

Uh second.

Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Mommy called me "silly goose"!
(Alex and Daddy laugh and laugh.)


Daddy (to Alex): Are you a child?
(Alex shakes his head no.)
Daddy: Are you children?
(Alex shakes his head no.)
Daddy: Are you a kid?
(Alex smiles and nods.)


(Daddy has a hamburger.)
Alex: I wish that I could eat that sandwich. A little bit of bread.


Alex: Is that a CD? Or a DVD?
Mommy: This?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: This is plant tape.
Alex: Oh.
Claire: Eat it.
Mommy: No, we don't eat it.


Alex: Daddy, you wanna play with me?


Alex: What do you wanna do with me, Daddy, that's fun?


(Alex is riding in the car with Daddy.)

Alex: I think you're going too fast. I like it when you go too fast. It’s fun.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: One day I told you not to go fast. But now I like it.

Alex: Someone colored on this road!
Daddy: Yeah? What color did they use?
Alex: Black!

Alex: Why is there just trash in your car?

(Daddy passes Alex’s school.)
Alex: My old friends are on the playground!
Daddy: Oh! Who are your old friends?
Alex: I don’t know, it’s a lotta names.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: I don't know a lotta names, I don’t know Tyler. That's a hard word for me.


Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: On the way home from the barber shop, I saw my old friends out!


(Claire, and Daddy are going upstairs.)
Daddy: I'm gonna get there first!
Claire: Uh first!
Daddy: I’m gonna get there first!
Alex (from the top of the stairs): I already got there first.
Daddy: I’m gonna get there first!
Claire: Uh second.


(Claire is reading a Pooh book.)
Claire: No go in there.
Claire: No go in there.
Claire: The end, yay
Claire: I read it, the book.

(Claire reads “Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree”, which no one has ever read to her.)
Claire: No uh monkey jump on bed.
Claire: No uh monkey jump on bed.
Claire: Uh jump on bed.
Claire: Uh jump on bed.
Claire: Uh jump on bed.
Claire: Eh end, yay.

(Claire reads the book again.)
Claire: Uh jump on bed.
Claire: Uh jump on a tree.
Claire: Uh jump on bed.
Claire: Uh jump on eh eh bed.
Claire: Eh end.

Rusted!

(Alex puts on Mommy’s crocs. Then he bends down and holds his ankle.)
Alex: My foot hurts.


Alex: One day we played with Oakley in his back yard.

Alex: His mommy came to the window and said “Why are you talkin’ to him?” And he was probly talkin’ to me.
Daddy: Yeah.


(Daddy is driving Alex and Claire to the mall, to play in the little houses.)
Alex: I might want to go in the toy store.


(Alex is playing in the General Store.)
Daddy: What do you wanna buy?
Alex: Can I buy some money, and chicken.


Claire (pointing at the mall fountain): That. That.
Daddy: Fountain.
Claire: Oh, fountain.
Claire: Uh touch it.


Alex: Um-toe-puh. Um-toe-puh.
Alex: I’m being silly, Daddy, I’m doing a silly word.
Daddy: What’s your word?
Alex: Um-toe-puh. That one’s silly, I didn’t hear that one in a long time.


Alex: What did you say?
Alex: What did you say?
Alex: What did you say, Claire?
Alex: Claire, I’m asking you a question, what did you say?
Alex: He – she – won’t – answer.


(Daddy is doing karaoke, and singing Love Shack.)
Daddy: Tin…. roof!
Claire (along with Daddy): Rusted!

I’m the Mommy, Daddy, and the baby is the baby. And her name is Claire.

Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: What?
Alex: Can you close the door so bugs don’t come in?


Alex: Claire, can we – can we – feed our babies?
Claire: Yah.


(Alex is feeding his baby.)
Alex: Eat. Cookies. Soup. More soup.
Alex: Pizza.
Alex: Chip. French fries. Lemon.
Alex: Eat.

Alex: I’m the Mommy, Daddy, and the baby is the baby. And her name is Claire.


Alex: And I got sick yesterday, and yesterday when I got sick I watched Gromit and Wallace, but I wanted a different one.


(dinner time)

Daddy: You guys want green beans?
Alex: Yes.
Claire: Uh toast. Uh waffles.

No doc said no bah uh no jump on bed!

(playing in the playroom)

(Claire stands on the mattress and shakes her finger at the room.)
Claire: No jumpin’ on bed!
Claire: No uh jump on bed!
(Claire steps off the bed and runs across the room.)

(Claire stands on the mattress and shakes her finger at the room.)
Claire: No doc said no bah uh no jump on bed!!
(Claire steps off the bed and runs across the room.)
Claire: No jump on bed.
(Claire gets back on the bed.)
(Alex intentionally falls on the floor.)
Alex: Whoa! I fell off and bumped my head.
Claire (shaking her finger): No jump on no on jump on no ju –
Alex (interrupting): And then the doctor said, no more silly monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!
Claire: No, uh said, no more jumpin’ on, uhh beeed!!


Alex: Claire, do you wanna make dinner?
Claire (from the other room): No.
Alex (to Daddy): She said no.
Mommy: Aw, Alex is sad, he doesn’t have anyone to make dinner with him.
Claire (coming to see Alex): Alex sad. Have dinner.


(Alex and Claire are playing Dinner.)

Claire (handing Daddy some food): Cookies.

Claire (handing Daddy some food): Hot.

Alex: This is for us, Daddy, sorry. This has peanuts. We’re pretending this has peanuts.

Claire (handing Daddy some food): Hot. Hot.

(Claire puts some food in the microwave, then immediately picks up the phone.)
Claire: Heh-wo! Uh Nah, uh Ma Daddy.

Alex (on the phone): When Daddy went to Elmo’s, and I said, “Daddy I'm pooping.” But, I didn't understand.

Alex: May you get it dissis today, sir?

Alex: It’s yummy if you be careful, gib.

Alex: Because that was what happened the other jot. And it ran down the shair. I didn't know what happened to the bushes.

Claire (to Daddy): Mommy, plate.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire takes the plate to Mommy.)

Mommy: All right, guys, its time to get ready for dinner.
Claire: Oh! Dinner! Dinner!


(dinner time)

Daddy: You know, Alex, our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn’t eat pizza. They didn’t hunt pizza. And they didn’t gather pizza.
(Pause.)
Alex: I don’t understand that.

Alex: Can you get the applesau — May I have more applesauce, please?

You're a sandwich!

Daddy (to Claire): I'm gonna eat your ear.
(Daddy pretends to eat Claire’s ear.)
Claire: Uh have it back.


Alex: What are you doing, Mommy?
Mommy: I'm getting you some water.
Alex: Okay. But I'm not really thirsty anymore because I got the germ out.


Claire: Uh Grandma?
Alex: Grandma’s outside still, gardening.


(Alex is having a snack on the front porch.)
Alex: I have to ring the bell so I can get more cheese and blueberries, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I wanna ring the bell.
(Alex rings the doorbell.)
(After a moment, Mommy answers the door.)
Mommy: Yeah, honey? Did you wanna come in?
Alex: I wanted to have more cheese and more blueberries.
Mommy: Okay, I’ll bring some out.


(dinner time)

Alex: I’m gonna eat this pasta now.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire (holding a handful of shredded cheese): Big.
Alex: Grommie licked me.
Daddy: Oh he did?
Alex: Yeah. On my foots, on the bottom.

(Grandma comes inside.)
Claire: Oh, Grandma’s back!

Alex: Daddy! Daddy I’m tryin’ to tell you something.
Daddy: Oh, what are you trying to tell me?
Alex: I drinked my cup with one hand so it couldn’t fall out.
Daddy: Oh, good!
Alex: It didn’t fall out cause I drinked it like this. And it didn’t fall out.
Daddy: That’s good!

Alex: I really like this pasta.
Daddy: Yeah? Good.

(Alex gets down from the table.)
Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: Yes, honey?
Alex: I thought you were lookin’ at pictures.
Mommy: No, I was checking my email, and now I’m gonna eat my dinner.

Claire: Uh more water, peeze. Uh more water.
Mommy: Do you need more water?
Claire: Nope. Have more water, cup. Uh more.

(No idea what prompted this remark.)
Alex: I’m just being silly, Daddy, don’t be that way.

Alex: Claire and Daddy and Mommy – and Grommie – are not gonna play with me.
Alex: Why are you gonna play with me, guys?

Alex: Was that hambooger, Claire?
Claire: Mm, yeah.
Alex: She said “yeah” to me. I think she said “yeah”.

Daddy: Grandma’s a taco shell, did you know that?
Alex: No she’s not. She’s a person.

Daddy: Alex, you’re a sandwich.
Alex: No, I’m not a sandwich. I’m a boy.
Daddy: Claire, you’re a sandwich.
Claire: No sandwich.
Claire (pointing at Daddy): Ah sandwich.
Daddy: You’re a sandwich?
Claire: Daddy sandwich.
(Daddy laughs.)
Claire: No sandwich, ah! Mommy sandwich!

Mommy (to Claire): You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sandwich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sandwich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sandwich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sandwich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sammich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sam. Wich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sam. Wich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
Claire: You’re a sandwich.
Mommy: You’re a sandwich.
(Claire points and shrieks.)
(Mommy points and shrieks.)
Claire (shrieking): You’re a sandwich!

Two! Fin! Gers!

(dinner time)

Claire: Uh more strawberries.

Alex: Are there chicken nuggets cooled off now?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: I wanna have them. Please?
Claire: Uh have them.

(Claire holds her fingers up in front of her face.)
Claire: Two! Fingers.
Alex: Two fingers?
(Claire looks at her fingers again.)
Claire: Two! Fin! Gers!

Grommie? Grommie! I mulch, you.

Alex: I think the roof’s leaking, Daddy. I think the roofers need to come and fix it. I hear the roof leaking.


Alex: I think you have to clean up Grommie’s poop. So we don’t step in it. ‘Cause it’s yucky.
Daddy: Yeah, we don’t want to step in it.
Alex: In dog poop, or cat poop.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Or in boys’ and daddies’, or mommies’ and girls’ poop.


Alex: I wish I could go to preschool. Or high school. But I’m not bigger yet.


(Mommy is putting Claire’s shoes on her.)
Mommy: Okay, let's put that shoe on this foot.
Claire: That. Shoe. On. This. Foot.


(Playing with Grommie in the backyard. Grommie eats everything the kids give him.)

Alex: Can I give Grommie a stick?
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Is this a stick, Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, that's a stick.

(Claire gives Grommie a stick.)
Claire: I gih, a stih!
Alex: That's nice, Claire. Is he happy?

Alex: Here, Grommie.
Alex: I gave him another stick. He's happy.

Alex: Don't give him another stick, Claire, he's still biting on the one I gave him.

Claire: Big stick.

Alex: Is this a stick, Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, that's a stick.

Alex: Is this a stick, Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, that's a stick.

Alex: Can he have a pine needle? Can he have a pine needle, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah, he can have a pine needle.

Alex: Grommie likes to eat pine needles too!

Alex: I can't eat mulch, ‘cause I'm not a dog. I eat foods that Mommy makes for me.
Daddy: Yeah, and Mommy doesn't make mulch.

Alex: Can I give Grommie another piece of mulch?
Daddy: Yeah.

Claire: Uh throw, uh Grommie, mulch.

Alex: I got two, two treats for Grommie. Maybe he would like that.
Claire: Grommie?! Grommie?!
(Claire gives Grommie a stick.)
Claire: Uh one! Stick!

Alex: Grommie, I have another treat for you!

Claire: Grommie? Grommie! I mulch, you.

Alex (to Daddy): Can you get my hands not cold any more?


(back inside the house)
Alex: Why did you bring mulch inside, Claire?


Alex: I saw a ladybug at school today.

No cheese, Gromit!

(Alex and Claire are playing Kitchen.)
Alex (looking in the refrigerator): No cheese, Gromit! No cheese!
Claire (shouting): No cheese, Gromit!


(snack time)
Claire: Uh chocolate bunnies.

We’re talkin about Life. Because we don't have any Life!

Alex: That's a little bit loud outside, I like it loud outside, a little bit.


Alex (to Claire): I peed down my pants and in my shoe.


Alex (to Claire): We’re talkin about Life. Because we don't have any Life!


Alex: Oh no, there's a bug in here! Can someone help me get the bug out?

It’s for grown-ups, Claire. When you’re ten you can drink coffee.

(Claire looks out her bedroom window.)
Claire: Uh bunny is?


Claire: Uh-oh. I droppa – my Juju.


(Alex is watching Cars, and the cars drive past a waterfall.)
Claire: Waterfall!


(Claire is leaving for the doctor with Mommy.)
Claire: Bye Daddy!
Daddy: Bye Claire.
Claire: Uh hug kiss.


(Snack time. Alex and Claire have their first taste of Multi-Grain Cheerios.)

Alex (running back and forth): I’m not chokin’ on my Cheerio.
Mommy: Good.
Alex (running back and forth): I’m just runnin’ backwards and forwards.

Alex (running back and forth): I like it! I like my new Cheerios.
Alex (running back and forth): They’re yummy. I’m excited!

Alex: Grommie ate one o’ my Cheerios, ‘cause I dropped one chocolate Cheerio on the floor. So he ate it.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: That’s what dogs do when boys and girls do that.

(Claire is examining Daddy’s coffee.)
Alex: It’s for grown-ups, Claire. When you’re ten you can drink coffee.

Daddy: Do you wanna listen to music? I could play music on my computer.
Alex: No, not today.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I wanna do a different game.
Daddy: Okay, let’s do a different game.
Alex: We’re not doing that today.
Daddy: No, we’re not doing that today.
Alex: That’s not my choice.


(Alex and Claire just finished finding Easter eggs in the back yard, and are sitting on the deck opening the eggs.)

Daddy: Tell Mommy "thank you".
Alex: Thank you.
Claire: Thank you, Mommy, uh bucket, (mumble) eh -- eggs.

Alex: I’m just sitting here, eating things, and opening things. And I had a lot of fun out there, in the backyard.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I had a lot of fun finding eggs.

Alex: I want some more toys, but I didn’t know how to get some. There might be some more inside. I’m gonna go look.
(Claire and Alex go inside to get some toys.)
Alex (to Claire): It might be heavy if you get something heavy.


(Alex sees the cookie box, with a picture of Cookie Monster on it.)
Alex: Cookie Monster’s makin’ some cookies, that’s silly. He loves cookies!
Daddy: Yeah, he does.
Alex: He’s pretending to be shuff. He’s shuff.
Daddy: Chef, yeah!


(In the car, Daddy’s DS beeps.)
Mommy (to Daddy): Is that your game?
Alex: What game did you say?
Mommy: You don’t miss a thing, do you?
(Pause.)
Alex: What?


(riding in the car)
Alex: We forgot the Life cereal!


(Alex is playing Dinner.)
Alex: I forgot to buy the green beans and carrots, with chocolate chips, too!

Is the balloon still singing at Meg's house?

(waking up from nap)
Claire: I’m poopy. Again.
Mommy: You’re poopy?
Claire: Yeah. Again.
Claire: Again.
Claire: Again.
Mommy: You’re poopy again?
Claire: Yeah.


(snack time)

Mommy: I’m gonna go see if the cat wants to go outside.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Oakley’s cat?
Mommy: Yeah, Oakley’s cat.

(Daddy closes one of the three window blinds beside the kitchen table.)
Alex: I want the other windows closed. I don’t like having any sun in the house.


Alex: Can we take our shoes off at Meg's party?


Claire: Hi Daddy!
Daddy: Hi Claire!
Claire: Hi Daddy!
Daddy: Hi Claire!
Claire: Hi Mommy!
Mommy: Hi Claire!


(Daddy puts his watch on.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh watch on.


(In the garage, Claire sees the garden owl.)
Claire: Hi owl! Hi owl!


(Claire, Alex, Mommy, and Daddy are in the car on the way to Meg’s birthday party.)

Alex: That's the high school.
Claire: Hi, school.
Alex: No, you don't say hi. High school.
Claire: High school.

Claire: Dog.
Alex: No, Claire, I don't see a dog. Out my window. Nowhere.
Claire: House.

Alex: Is Meg’s par – is Meg’s house this way?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Is this the high road?
Mommy: The highway, yeah.
Alex: Just like we went to see Doctor Din yesterday.

Alex: Are we going on this road now?
Mommy: Yep.
Alex: There's a whole field with things in there.

(Daddy gives Mommy a pop quiz.)
Daddy (to Mommy): What's Bert’s pigeon’s name?
(Pause.)
Daddy: Mommy?
Mommy: Um... Gertrude?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Bernice!
Daddy: That’s right!
Mommy: Good job, Alex!

Claire: Boo car! Boo car!
Daddy: It’s a orange truck.
Alex: Orange truck.
Claire: Orange truck.

Daddy: How many cars do you see, Claire?
Claire: Boo.
Alex: I see a lotta cars.
Claire: Lotta cars, yeah.

Alex: I saw a orange truck goin’ in there. That was crazy.

Alex: Oh, more bridges on this road! That was a long bridge.

(Mommy drives over some pot holes.)
Claire: Bumpy!

Alex: We’re in the shade right here.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Why are we in the shade, in our car?
Mommy: Because there's lots of tall trees beside us.
(Pause.)
Alex: Now it’s sunny.
Claire: Dampuns.
Alex: That's a big wall, that's silly, like we have at home, that's a different part.

Alex: Look at that big tower over there! By that building.

Claire: Buh building! Big building!

Claire: Big building. Big building.

Claire: Big - uh tower!

Claire: Big tower.
Claire: Big tower.
Claire: Big tower. Big tower.

Alex: I think there's more people to play with at Meg’s house.
Daddy: Like who? Who's gonna be there?
Alex: I think – I don’t know. I think there's more people, so we should go there to see more people there.

Claire: Big house.
Alex: Claire sees a big house there.
Mommy: Oh yeah?
Claire: Big house there.
Alex: It’s huge.


(Claire, Alex, Mommy and Daddy are driving home from Meg’s birthday party.)

Alex: Is the balloon still singing?
Mommy: What?
Alex: Is the balloon still singing at Meg’s house?
Daddy: Yeah, it probably is.
Mommy: Is what singing?
Daddy: The balloon.
Alex: I can't hear it.

Alex: Mommy, I saw a truck and how am I gonna eat two dinners?


(going up the stairs)
Alex: I’m the bigger one. And Claire’s little.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Because I can hold hands. And I can go upstairs and downstairs.


Alex: Grommie licked me!
Daddy: He must love you.
Alex: Just like Maddie licked me a lot at Meg’s house.
Daddy: Oh, she did? She must like you too.
Alex: And my friend Grommie.


(in bed)
Alex: Is there breakfast and no school after this nap?
Daddy: Yes. There's breakfast and no school.
Alex: Okay.
Alex: I will have to play with my running stuff. ‘Cause I saw a movie with Alex playing with the running stuff yesterday.

No more monkey jump on bed...! Doctor said...! No more uh jump on bed...!

Alex: That's the deal.

(Alex is playing with trains on the coffee table.)
Alex: Daddy, I don't know how, I'm gonna take long to do this. Um, play trains on the table, because the other cars, and that train is not driving. So, these two little trains and Ernie and Bert are staying here, and, these two little trains are driving but those ones are not trying to do anything, they’re just standing there and (mumble). He got some money to (mumble) James to remind the mud because he still has mud on him. (Mumble.) I can't get muddy because my feet are just walkin’, but this is (mumble). There's mud a little bit of mud so, that's what (inaudible).


(Daddy, Claire, and Alex are entering the garage.)
Claire: Bird is?
Daddy: Oh, there's no bird in here anymore, Claire.
Alex: Daddy showed him how to get out.

Alex: I'm gonna be happy at school today.

Alex: There's mulch in my shoe.


(Daddy and Alex are driving to the store.)

Alex: If we go far away, how are we gonna get home, Daddy?

(Alex sees a convertible.)
Alex: He doesn't have any roof, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah? Yeah!
Alex: It’s just a race car.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: It’s just like I have, Kevin at home. It’s just like Kevin.

Alex: I saw a motorcycle. And that pile of dirt. And that dumper and the other dumper. They're all diggers and dumpers. They dig up all the dirt.

Alex: Pink trees that way, just like the pink windows.

Alex: That's a big tree I saw.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. And more pink trees.


(In the playroom, Claire and Alex are jumping off the mattress.)

(Claire stands on the mattress and shakes her finger scoldingly.)
Claire: No more monkey jump on bed...! Doctor said...! No more uh jump on bed...!

Claire: Doctor said... No more monk jump on bed... !

(This goes on for quite a while.)

(Alex walks into the hallway.)
Alex (calling out to no one in particular): Does no one know when Luigi’s open?


(Alex puts on a new pair of PJs with stars on the pants and a turtle on the shirt.)

Alex: Stars!
Daddy: Yeah, you have a LOT of stars!
(Alex freezes.)
Alex: I'm standing like a star!

(Alex puts on the PJ shirt.)
Alex (crawling on the floor): I'm a turtle!


(Alex is playing with his trains.)
Alex: I can't believe this.
Daddy: What can't you believe?
Alex: No, they're just talkin’. The trains.

Like dress!

Mommy (to Alex): You know whose birthday it is in two days?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Who?
Alex: Meg.
Mommy: Yeah! How'd you know?


Daddy (to Alex): I like your shirt!
Claire (showing her dress): Like dress!

Claire (pointing out her new purple crocs): Shoes! Boo, on it!


(Claire is looking out the front window.)
Daddy: What do you see, Claire?
Claire: Bird.
Daddy: Bird?
Claire: Uh grass.
Daddy: In the grass? Oh you're right.

(Claire's ball rolls under the train table.)
Claire: Under, uh table!

Daddy: Claire, did you wanna throw it to Daddy?
Claire: Yah.
(Claire throws the ball to Daddy.)
Claire: Uh give throw Mommy!
(Daddy gives the ball back to Claire, and Claire throws it to Mommy.)

Claire: Uh book. Uh book.
Daddy: Uh book is?
Claire: Upstairs.
Daddy: Upstairs.
Claire: Yeah. Playroom.

Claire: Up.
Daddy: There's no room, Claire. Maybe we should all sit on the couch in the other room. You wanna do that?
Claire: Yeah. Uh couch, room, couch.

Claire: Uh sit on Daddy leg.

Mommy: Are you guys hungry?
Claire: Uh hungry. Uh hungry, dinner.


Alex: Stop.
Claire: You stop.
Alex: You stop. I'm not being nice. No I'm being nice.
Claire: Be nice!
Alex: I'm being nice.
Claire: Be nice!

No neek.

Alex: I want Grommie to lick me.
Daddy: Well you can offer your hand, and see if he wants to lick you. Be nice.
Alex: He licked mine!
Claire: He licked mine! Fingers!

Alex: He licked the other hand, Daddy!
Claire: Other hand, Daddy!


(Alex and Claire are playing Dinner.)

Alex: Daddy, I got a doughnut for you! I made it in the microwave.
Daddy: Thank you!
Alex: We’re still makin’ dinner. Don’t say it’s time for school yet, ‘cause we’re still makin’ dinner.

Claire (giving Daddy some toy food): Hot. Hot. Hot.

Alex: Claire, let's go make some more.
Claire (giving Daddy some toy food): Daddy plate. Hot.
Daddy: Oh is this for me?
Claire: Yeah. Hot.


(Instead of getting into the car for school, Alex is distracted by birdwatching.)

Alex: Daddy, I saw a bird walkin’ on the street!

Alex: Another bird went in our tree!

Alex: Let’s look at birds for a little bit.


Alex: I'm gonna be happy at school today.
Daddy: Oh good!


(Daddy comes home from work, where Alex and Claire are playing with Mr. Potato Head.)

Alex: Daddy! We were playing potato head!
Claire: Tato. Head.

Claire (pointing to a potato head): Daddy? Ay-yah.
Daddy: Is that Ay-yah?
Claire: Yeah.

Alex: I wanted that one, with the red nose.
Claire: ‘Kay.
(Claire gives Alex the piece with the red nose.)

Alex: I gave my family a timeout.
Mommy: You did? What did they do?
Alex: They're doing mean things.


(dinner time)

Alex: I want -- I want some more pizza.
Daddy: I want -- I want a million dollars.
(Alex laughs. )
Daddy: May I have a million dollars please?
Mommy: Sure.
Alex: Are you gonna eat all of it?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: No I'm gonna eat all of it.
(Alex pretends to grab something from Daddy and eat it.)
Alex (smiling): I ate all of it.

Daddy: Claire, what do you say when someone sneezes?
Claire: (Gomma?) sneeze.
(Daddy pretends to sneeze. )
Claire: Bless you.

Claire: Again. Again.
Daddy: What do you want me to do?
Claire: Eyes.
Daddy: Alex?
Claire: Eyes.
Daddy: Do you want me to sneeze again?
Claire: Eyes.
Daddy: You want me to talk to Alex?
Claire: Eyes.
Daddy: Oh, eyes.
(Daddy does the funny thing with his eyes that Claire likes.)
(Claire laughs. )
Claire: Eyes. Again.

Claire: Uh more pizza. Please.

Alex: Sit over dey-yer! Over day-yer!
Mommy: Alex, you sound like you're from Alabama.
Alex: No.
Daddy: Are you from Mississippi?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Arkansas?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Tennessee?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Kentucky?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Georgia?
Alex: No.
Daddy: South Carolina?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Virginia?
Alex: No.
Daddy: You are from Virginia.
Alex: No.
Daddy: You're from Richmond, Virginia.
Alex: No.
Daddy: Claire, what does Alex say?
Claire: No.

(Daddy’s being silly.)
Daddy: Neek.
Daddy: Neek.
Daddy: Neek.
Claire: No neek.


(Alex and Daddy are playing Going to Pablo’s House.)
Daddy: Where's Pablo's house?
Alex: It's right here.
Daddy: Well where's Pablo?
Alex: He's still sleeping.
Daddy: Well maybe he should wake up.
Alex: He wants to stay in his bed cause he has, his arm hurts.

This is, Alex, on, T, V. That's. Right.

(Alex coughs.)
Alex: I sneezed.
Daddy: You coughed.
Alex: When I cough, it looks like sneezing.

Mommy: You wanna try it?
(Claire tries some of Mommy’s food.)
Claire: Ah yock it.
Mommy: You like it?
Claire: Yeah.

Alex: May I have more toast please?
Claire (through a mouthful of toast): Ah more toast, please. Ah more toast, please.
Alex: Chew that up, Claire.


(Alex and Claire are having fun playing with the karaoke microphone.)

Alex (into the mike): This is, Alex, on, T, V. That's. Right.
(Alex laughs.)

Claire (into the mike): Claire, Alex, Daddy. Mommy. Claire Alex.

(After a while, Mommy finds it necessary to say…)
Mommy: Okay, no whining into the microphone.

It’s called a ‘stake. If you make a ‘stake it’s called a ‘stake.

(playing in the back yard)

Alex: Grommie!
Daddy: What's he doing?
Alex: He's eating up her garden!

(Claire picks up the beach ball.)
Claire: Uh throw it at Daddy.
(Claire tries to throw it at Daddy.)


Alex: I was gonna poop a little bit, so I could watch in a minute.
Daddy: You can poop a little bit.
Alex: Yeah that's why I was tryin' to hide.


(Daddy is singing karaoke.)
Alex: I want the one with the boy now.
Daddy: You really like the one with the boy, don't you?
Alex: And then Love Shack after that one.

Claire: Mommy, Gamma house in a minute, hungry.

Alex: … that's what you do if you have water on your leg, or your pants.
Daddy: What do you do?
Alex: You can get your shoe to wipe it off.


(In the car, Alex is telling Daddy about a bee that got into the house.)
Daddy: How did the bee get in the house?
Alex: Because Mommy left the door open. She made a ‘stake.
Daddy: She made a ‘stake?
Alex: Yeah. It’s called a ‘stake. If you make a ‘stake it’s called a ‘stake.


Daddy: Grandma and Grandpa really like to see you.
Alex: The bird likes to see me too. He talks to me.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. Grandpa tell me what he says.


(Claire plays with the toy phone.)

Claire: Minute, phone.

Claire: Hello, Mommy.

Claire: Hello, Mommy.

Claire: Hello, Pop.

Claire: Hello, Nana.

Claire: Hello, Ginna.