Claire's Vocabulary (662)

a
Abby
after
again
air
airplane
Alex
all
animal
another
apple
applesauce
are
arm
Ashleigh
at
ate
away
baby
back
backpack
backwards
bag
ball
balloon
banana
Band-Aid
bang
barbecue sauce
basket
bath
bathroom
be
beans
bear
bed
beep
Bert
Bertie
beside
bib
big
Big Bird
bike
bin
bird
birthday
blanket
bless you
blocks
blue
blueberries
boat
Bob
Bobo
boing
bone
boo-boo
book
bookstore
bother
bottle
bow
bowl
box
boy
bracelet
breakfast
bridge
bring
broccoli
broke
broken
brush
bubble
bubble
bubble gum
bucket
bug
bump
bumpy
bunny
burp
bushes
butter
butterfly
button
by
bye-bye
cabinet
cage
cake
Callum
Camden
came
Campbell
can
car
cards
carrots
carry
cart
cat
catch
cave
Cecilia
ceiling
cereal
chair
change
cheek
Cheerios
cheese
chew
chick
chicken
chin
chip
chocolate
choo-choo
circle
Claire
class
clean
Clifford
climb
clip
clock
close
closet
clothes
cloud
c'mon
coach
coat
coffee
cold
color
come
computer
cookie
Cookie Monster
cool
cough
counter
cousin
cow
cracker
crash
crawl
crayon
cream
crew
crocodile
crocs
crust
crusty
crying
cup
cupcake
curtains
cut
Daddy
Daisy
Dana
dance
dark
deck
deer
diamond
diaper
did
Diego
different
digger
dinner
dinosaur
dirt
dirty
do
Doc
doesn't
dog
doggie
doggie hotel
dolphin
done
Dora
dot
Doug
down
downstairs
Downtown
dragon
drawer
dress
drink
drive
driveway
drop
drops
dry
duck
dump
Dylan
ear
eat
egg
eight
elephant
Elly
Elmo
Elmo's World
Emily
end
engine
Ernie
everybody
excuse me
exercise
eye
face
fall
family room
fan
fast
feet
find
finger
fire engine
fire truck
firefighter
fish
fit
five
flag
flashlight
flew
floor
flower
fly
food
foot
forest
fork
four
Friday
friend
fries
frog
froggy
funny
garage
garden
gate
George
Gerald
get
giraffe
girl
give
go
goat
gone
good morning
Gossie
got
graham bunnies
Grandma
Grandpa
green
Grommie
Grover
hair
haircut
hand
hang
happy
hat
have
he
head
heavy
hello
help
her
here
heroes
hi
high
hill
him
hippo
hippo
hold
home
honey mustard
hood
hooray
horse
horsey
hot
house
hug
hungry
hurt
I
ice
Iha
in
is
it
jacket
James
job
juice
Juju
jump
keep
key
kids
kiss
kitchen
knock knock
lap
last time
laugh
lawnmower
leg
let
Liam
library
lick
lid
lie
life cereal
light
like
lion
lizard
look
loud
Love Shack
Luigi
Lullaby
lunch
machine
mad
mailbox
Maisy
make
Mallory
Mama
man
mat
Mater
me
medicine
Meg
Megan
Mick
milk
mine
minute
monkey
monster
moo
moon
moose
more
Morgan
motorbike
motorcycle
mountain
mouse
mouth
move
Muck
mud
muffin
mulch
music
my
name
Nana
nap
napkin
neck
need
Neer
new
nice
night
night-night
nine
no
nope
nose
not
nugget
Oakley
octopus
of
off
oh
okay
old
on
one
onion
open
orange
Oscar
other
ouch
out
outside
over
owl
package
paint
pan
pants
paper towel
party
pasta
Peanut
pear
pee
peek-a-boo
pee-pee
penguin
people
Percy
pet
Pets
Peypey
phone
pick
picture
piece
pig
pigtail
pigtails
pillow
pink
pizza
PJs
plane
plate
play
Play-Doh
playground
playroom
please
pocket
poop
poopy
Pop
potty
present
Preston
Pucka
puddle
pull
pull-up
push
put
puzzle
quack
raccoon
race
railing
rain
read
ready
red
ride
right
rinse
rip
rock
Rock-A-Bye Baby
rocket
roll
room
Rosie
rug
run
sack
sad
sandwich
sauce
sausage
say
school
school bus
Science Kid
Scruffey
second
see
see you later
seven
shade
shed
sheep
sheet
shine
shirt
shoe
shopping cart
shot
show
shower
Sid
sidewalk
silly
sink
sit
six
sky
sleep
sleepy
sleeve
slide
snack
snail
snake
snow
snowman
soap
sock
soda
sofa
soft
special treat
Spencer
spider
spin
spit
splash
spoon
squirrel
stack
stairs
stand
stay
stem
stem
step
sticker
Stickers
sticky
stool
stop
store
strawberry
string
stroller
stuck
stuff
sun
sunny
sunny
swings
table
tail
take
tape
teeth
telephone
ten
thank you
that
the
them
there
these
these
this
Thomas
those
three
throw
thumb
thunder
tickle
tiger
tight
time
timeout
to
toast
toaster
Toby
toes
tomorrow
tongue
too
Topham Hat
towel
tower
toy
track
tractor
trade
train
trash
tray
tree
triangle
truck
tummy
tunnel
turn
Turner
turtle
TV
Twinkle Twinkle
two
uh-oh
umbrella
uncle
under
underwear
up
upside down
upstairs
Virginia
waffle
walk
wall
want
wash
watch
water
waterfall
way
wet
where
whoa
why
window
wipe
with
woof
worm
wow
wrap
yard
yea
yeah
yellow
yes
yogurt
you
your
yucky
yum
yummy
zipper
Zoe

Ummm... birthday!

Claire (crying repeatedly on the way to school): Uh play at home!


Alex: I see the flag blowing in the breeze!


Alex: They're driving in the trees. They're driving in the woods. That's silly, a car can't drive in the woods!


(Claire leads everyone into the house.)
Claire: C'mon Mommy. C'mon Daddy Ay-yah. C'mon Grommie. C'mon Grommie.


(Alex and Claire are playing trains. Alex starts singing.)
Alex: Shunting trucks and hauling freight
Alex: Red and green and brown and blue
Alex: They're a useful useful crew
Alex: All with (mumble) roles to play
Alex: What else, Daddy?
Daddy: Round Tidmouth Sheds...
Alex: Round the Tidmouth Shed, far away
Alex: Down the hills and round the bends
Alex: Thomas and his friends
Daddy: Good job, Alex!


(Alex pooped on the potty. Claire heads into the kitchen for her chocolate.)
Claire: Uh get my chocolate, Daddy.
Daddy: Alex'll get it for you. Or I will, if he can't reach it.
Alex: I can scoot it over to myself. I'm big as a giant. So I can do it.


Daddy, may I have Mommy's doll that her Grandma gave her?


(nap time)

Alex: Play head, and play eye, and play nose, and I will be really mad, and don't turn off your light, and don't close your door, and, and… and don't close your door, I mean -- mess with books, and play door, and play house… and look at pictures, and now go to sleep. And play on the floor and play on the ceiling.
Daddy: Okay, night-night, I love you.
Alex: I love you too.
Alex: And play light.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Claire, do you know what today is?
Claire: Ummm… birthday!
Daddy: That's right! Whose birthday is it?
Claire: Juju!

Mommy: What's today, Claire?
Claire: Friday!

Mommy: What's today?
Claire: Tomorrow.

Mommy: What's today?
Claire: Claire.
Mommy: Claire?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Is it your birthday?
Claire: Yeah.

(Alex spontaneously starts singing, showing the right number of fingers each time.)
Alex (singing): Four little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Alex (singing): Three little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Alex: And -- what else?
Mommy: Two.
Alex (singing): Two little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Alex (singing): One little monkey jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said…
(Claire and Alex sing the last line together.)
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Claire (singing): “No more jumpin' on the bed!”

Claire: Campbell eating.
Mommy: Campbell was eating?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Ashleigh eating.
Mommy: Ashleigh was eating?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire: Dylan eating.
Mommy: Dylan was eating?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire: Iha eating.
Mommy: Iha was eating?
Claire: Yeah.

Daddy (to Alex): Alex, don't tell her, cause I wanna see if Claire knows how old she is.
Daddy (to Claire): Claire, how old are you?
Claire: Three!
Daddy: Three? And how old is Alex?
Claire: Four.
Daddy: How old is Daddy?
Claire: Nine.
Daddy: How old is Mommy?
Claire: Four.
Daddy: How old is Grommie?
Claire: Night.
Daddy: What?
Claire: One!

(Mommy points the camera at Claire.)
Claire: Uh say cheese.

Claire: Uh get picture uh birthday.
Mommy: You want me to get a picture of you eating your birthday cake?
Claire: Cheese!
Claire: Uh see it.

Alex: I like the icing.
Mommy: I do too.
Claire: I like uh icing.
Alex (to Mommy): I like you because you're icing.

Claire: Uh see Claire eating.

You go to one, you go to two, and you go to three. Isn't that funny?

Claire (crying repeatedly on the way to school): Uh play at home!

Alex: Elly's cold. I like it when she's cold. It feels nice.

Alex: The window's so you don't fall out the window.
Alex: The screen's so you don't fall out the window if someone opens it.

Claire: Pee come out!
Alex: On the TV?
Claire: No -- on the diaper. See? See?

Alex (to Claire): I'm gonna show you how to go to two.
Alex (counting on his fingers): You go to one, you go to two, and you go to three. Isn't that funny?

Alex: Can you – can you – can you make dinner for Grommie now?

Uh Ay-yah be happy.

(Claire, Mommy, and Daddy are downstairs. Alex is upstairs by himself, screaming and crying.)
Claire: Uh Ay-yah come down.
Daddy: Alex will come down when he's ready.
Claire: Uh Ay-yah be happy.
Daddy: Aw, that's sweet.
Claire: Ay-yah be happy.
Mommy: Awww.


(Claire is pretending to eat dinner at the little table.)
Claire (looking down on the floor): Strawberry down there.
Claire: Uh get it.
(Claire picks up an imaginary strawberry with her foot.)


Claire: Uh get you, Daddy!
Daddy: Oh no, you're gonna get me!
Claire: Bird get you!
(Claire grabs Daddy with "bird hands".)


Claire: Rain, Daddy! Rain coming!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: The rain’s already raining! The weather got all wet.

Claire: Uh thunder come, boom!
(Claire laughs.)


(Alex is holding a yoga block in front of him, saying nothing.)
Daddy: What's that, Alex?
Alex: I'm getting, this is the part o' pea. I'm getting peas in my garden.


(Alex and Claire are looking out the window at the rain.)
Alex: Pitter pot, pitter pot, pitter drop.
Claire: Pitter pop, pitter pop.


Alex: I said that Daddy, when you were in the playroom. Where the trains are.
Daddy: Yeah, what's that room called?
Alex: The second playroom.


Alex (pointing to dots on the back of his pizza): Daddy? If there's one here and one here and one here, that makes a face on your face.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: There's a nose and your eyes.

Cowboys and carrots.

(breakfast)

Alex (to Daddy, unprompted): Your tummy has a goose in your tummy.


(Claire goes into the pantry and closes the door behind her.)
(Pause.)
(Claire comes out of the pantry.)
Claire (grinning): Hi!
Daddy: Hi Claire!
Claire: Buh-bye.
(Claire goes back into the pantry.)
(Claire comes out of the pantry.)
Claire (grinning): Hi!
Daddy: Hi Claire!
Claire: Buh-bye.
(Claire goes back into the pantry.)

(Claire is twirling her fingers and walking around the kitchen.)
Claire: Uh flying a airplane! Daddy, uh flying a airplane!
Daddy: Are you flying a airplane?
Claire: Yeah!


Alex: Daddy? That's 2 and P.
Daddy: That’s right! Good job!
Alex: That's for remember where you park.


Alex: Daddy? Watch this cool - this cool trick.


Claire: Grommie got a bone!


(Claire is playing blocks.)

Claire: Uh knock it down. ‘Kay? Uh knock it down. ‘Kay?

(Note: Still playing blocks; not talking on the phone.)
Claire: Hello Grandma, hi! Bye Grandma.

Claire: Uh knock it down. Kay? Uh knock it.
(Claire knocks it down.)
Claire: Daddy, uh knock it down. See?
Daddy: Good job!
Claire: Uh knock it down again.

(A little later, Claire starts to put the blocks away.)
Claire: Uh put it away. Uh put it away, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay, you put it away.
Claire: All done.


(Alex is still eating snack; Claire has finished, and starts to push a stroller.)
Alex: Okay, we can play strollers. Hey Claire, I need to eat the rest of my strawberries, okay?
Claire: ‘Kay.
(Alex eats a strawberry; Claire waits.)
Claire (to Alex): Eat another one.

(Claire and Alex are pushing strollers. Claire stops to pick up the toy phone.)
Claire (on the phone): Uh go grocery store. Uh muh grocery store. (Mumble.)
Alex (overacting): Oh no! We ran out of peas!
(Alex runs off.)
Claire (still on the phone): Ran uh peas!
Claire: Bye Grandma. Bye.
(Claire hangs up the phone.)


Claire (smiling): Grommie licked my bottom, right there.


Claire (looking out the window): Grommie’s yard! Silly Grommie.
(Claire laughs.)
Claire (smiling): Uh say “silly Grommie”.


Daddy: Ring! Ring!
(Claire smiles.)
Daddy: Ring!
(Claire smiles.)
Daddy: Ring!
(Claire giggles.)
Daddy: Do you hear that ringing?
Claire: Yeah. Ring!
(Daddy laughs.)
Claire: Uh Daddy say “ring” again.
Daddy: Ring!
(Claire picks up the toy phone.)
Claire: Hello! Hi Grandma! Bye.
(Claire hangs up.)


(lunch time)

Claire: Uh say bye to water, Daddy?
Daddy: What do you wanna say?
Claire: Say bye to water.
Daddy: Say bye to the water, then.
Claire (to her water): Bye water!

Claire: Silly Mommy. Don't go upstairs.
Mommy (to Claire): How did you get so silly?
Alex: Mommy and Daddy made me.


(dinner time)

Alex: I'm a peach. Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex?
(Alex is holding his arms straight out in front of him, and has his eyes closed.)
Alex: I'm a green bean!
Daddy (laughing): Good job!
Alex: Is that how a green bean is?
Daddy: Yeah, exactly!
Claire: Uh green bean!
(Claire holds her arms out.)
Alex (to Claire): You're a green bean. Close your eyes.
(Claire closes her eyes.)
Alex: Green beans don't have eyes.
(Alex laughs.)

Claire (to Mommy): Uh do Mommy.
(Mommy becomes a green bean.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh do Daddy.
(Daddy becomes a green bean.)
Daddy: I'm a green bean!
Alex: Green beans don't talk.

Daddy: Claire, what does chicken say?
Claire: Ruff ruff.
Daddy: Silly. What does chicken say?
Claire: Talk.
Daddy: Talk?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: It says, "Bock bock, hi, I'm Daddy."
(Alex laughs.)

Alex: It starts with C.
Mommy: What starts with C?
Alex: Cowboy and carrots.
Mommy: Yeah!

(Alex is trying to twist his hand around at an impossible angle.)
Alex: Um, how can I turn my hand over?
Mommy: Well, there's only so far it can go.
Alex: Look, I can't turn my hand over.
Daddy: Yeah, I don't think you're supposed to.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: It doesn't go that way.
Alex: I wanna do a different duck. I don't like this duck.


(Alex is walking around with Daddy's Nintendo DS in its case.)
Alex: I'm going to work, Daddy.
(Claire walks around holding the remote control.)

Alex: We're going to work.
Daddy: You're going to work?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What are you gonna do there?
Alex: We're gonna work there, and, work a lot!
Daddy: Okay.

Yummy.

(Claire is eating birthday cake.)
Claire (to Daddy): Yummy.

Alex: Grommie smelled my underwear. He thinks it’s food. He thinks it’s delicious. Watch me say it: delicious.


Claire: Uh drink it.
Daddy: You wanna drink my coffee?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: No, silly. Kids don't drink coffee.
Claire: Uh put foot in it.
Daddy: You want to put your foot in it?
Claire: Yeah.


Claire: Uh go up in the sky.


Daddy: Claire, look at you! You’re taking your shoes off!
Claire: Dat one.
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Uh take off sock.
Claire (smiling proudly): Big girl.


(The following are excerpts from Claire’s reading of Curious George and the Bunnies.)

Claire: Bunny ran off uh shot.

Claire: Uh bunny go? Uh bunny go is?

Claire: Bunny go off way. Monkey George.

Claire: George and uh mommy go uh home.

Claire: Bunny, went uh (mumble) pole. Please.

Claire: Bunny, go, sleep, yeah. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.


Claire: Daddy read Elmo book. ‘Kay, Daddy?
Daddy: Okay.


(The following are excerpts from Claire’s reading of Elmo Loves You!)

Claire: Zoe, Elmo, Grover, Bert. Truck (mumble), coming. Truck coming.

Claire: Money, ride in car? Yeah.

Claire: Mommy Daddy go, uh work. Mommy, Daddy, uh work, too. Bye-bye, Grover Elmo.

Claire; Uh Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Ay-yah.

(Claire kisses Elmo in the book.)
Claire: Happy monster!

(Claire kisses the next two pages.)
Claire: Happy monster!

Claire: The end!


Claire: Uh Daddy sing songs to me.


(Alex is crying.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh feel better Ay-yah.


(Daddy explains to Alex that their house used to not be there.)
Alex: Did all these shoes and socks and toys... and blankets and pillows… and sofas and couches and toys… and food… did they stay here?


Alex: Let's eat some pork while we wait.

Look at me!

Claire: Daddy, uh run fast.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire runs across the kitchen.)
Daddy: Look at you, that's fast!
Claire: Nine, ten, three, four five!
(Claire runs across the kitchen.)
Alex (sitting at the table): Daddy, I wanna get down.
(Daddy helps Alex get down.)
Claire: Uh run fast again.
Alex: Watch me run fast.
(Claire runs across the kitchen.)
Alex: One two three four five six.
(Alex runs across the kitchen.)


(Daddy is driving Alex and Claire to school.)
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: You need to buy a TV in your car.


(snack time)
Daddy: Hey Alex, what did you do at school today?
(Pause.)
Alex: I have graham cracker in my mouth. I can't talk to you with my mouth full.
Daddy: Good for you.
Daddy: I was testing you. You passed.


Claire: Look at me!
Daddy: Look at me? I haven’t heard you say that!
Claire: Uh run, uh run again!


(Steph is watching the weather on the local news.)
Alex: That man? Is he sayin' it’s too hot? To go outside?
Mommy: Yeah! How did you know that?
Alex: ‘Cause it’s summer.


Claire: Uh watch Alex poop.


Claire: Uh talk like Elmo.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Hi Elmo. Bye Elmo.


(Mommy puts Alex to bed.)

Mommy: After nap, we’ll get up…
Alex: Is it Mothers’ Day?
Mommy: No, af--
Alex: It’s Fathers’ Day!
Mommy: No...

Alex: Hey Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: My -- my words are really hard.
Mommy: Your what?
Alex: My words are really hard.
Mommy: Well why don’t you say fewer words?
Alex: I'm tired, but I have to say all of ‘em.

Alex: Play trains and play legs and play head [...] and play doorknob and play door and... bang on the door and mess with books and I will be really mad... and don't close the door and don't tun off the light and, and [...] look at pictures [...] and... did I say play on the floor and play on the ceiling?
Mommy: No.
Alex: Play on the floor and play on the ceiling [...] and play doggie, and play chickie, and play hair [...] and play ear, and play ponytail, and play, and now go to sleep.
Mommy: Okay, I love you.
Alex: I love you too. And play toe, and play toe, and play back.
Mommy: Okay, night-night.
Alex: Night-night.

Because they say "bock bock!"

(Alex is playing with Callum. Daddy walks by.)
Alex (to Callum): That’s my daddy.


Alex: Mommy, I wanna make with you.
Mommy: What do you wanna do?
Alex: I wanna make with Mommy dinner.


Alex: We were being two boys!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Crazy!


Alex: Mommy, I thought I could make with you.


Claire: Uh make! Uh make! Uh make! Uh make! Uh make! Uh make!


Alex: Daddy, Mommy makes dinner. You don’t make dinner. Mommy makes dinner.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Claire, what did you do with Callum?
Claire: Uh play in playroom.

Daddy: Can you tell a joke, Alex?
Alex: Why do chickens sit on the hay?
Daddy: I don’t know, why do they do that?
Alex: Because they say "bock bock!"
(Daddy laughs.)
Daddy: That's a good joke!

Alex: Mommy?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: Callum asked me "Are we gonna stay here?" "No!" I said. He has to go to his house!

(Claire covers her nose and mouth with a wipe.)
Claire: Mommy, where are you, Mommy? Where are you?


(Alex, Claire, Mommy, and Daddy go upstairs.)
Alex: Mommy’s third. Watch me say it: third.


Alex: One feet... Two feet! That's how Count talks. The count.


Alex: But I get tired at school.
Daddy: Tired?
Alex: Tired and tired and tired and tired. And thirsty and thirsty and thirsty and thirsty.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: A lotta thirsty and a lotta sleepy.

I a big girl.

(Alex opens the pantry door and shouts into the pantry.)
Alex: Is there any peaches in here? The (unintelligible) peaches? I'm getting some at the quarry.
Alex: No, we don't have any peaches.
Alex: Okay. I'm going to the grocery store.


(Alex and Claire are getting into the car.)
Claire: Uh climb.
Daddy: Okay Claire, you can climb.
Alex: I'm gonna climb too. I'm a big boy.
Daddy: Yes you are.
Claire: I a big girl.
Daddy: You are a big girl, Claire.
Alex: Grommie’s a big dog.
Daddy: He sure is.


(Claire is playing in the playroom, while a kids’ song CD plays.)
Song: ABCDEF
Claire (in time with the song): G
Song: HIJKLMNOP
Claire (slightly ahead of schedule): P
Song: QRS
Claire (in time with the song): TUV
Song: WX
(Here the song pauses.)
Claire: Y and Z
Daddy: Good job, Claire!


Alex: Scream at me, Claire.
Claire (smiling): Ah!!!
(Alex laughs.)


Alex (helping Mommy cook): My hand’s getting a little bit burnt, but it’s okay.

String, string, string on my shirt

Alex: Happy Father’s Day.


Alex: Claire didn’t listen when we – when we got back to the car.


(Alex is in the bathroom by himself, using the potty, and sings a slow, melancholy tune.)
Alex: String, string, string on my shirt
Alex: String on my shirt
Alex: There’s a string on my shirt
Alex: There’s a string
Alex: A string
(The next bit is unintelligible.)
Alex: No… he doesn’t know
Alex: What you said
Alex: I can’t get the string off
Alex: Oh then
Alex: I can’t get it
Alex: Then I can’t
Alex: Tear it again
Alex: I can’t tear it
Alex: It’s just a hair (?)
Alex: Then what am I gonna do
Alex: I didn’t see
Alex: I didn’t see
Alex: I didn’t
Alex: I, I didn’t
Alex: I didn’t
Alex: I didn’t
Alex: I didn’t all day
Alex: Til tuh mo
Alex: Muh-day so-dah
Alex: They call what you need
Alex: Of you please
Alex: Around (unintelligible)
Alex: Doh kuh too
Alex: Doh buhhhhh
(Pause.)
Alex (shouting to Daddy in the other room): Daddy, if you poop, do you get a piece of chocolate?


(dinner time)
Claire (to Alex): Uh trade. Uh trade. Uh trade.
Alex: We don’t trade… forks or spoons.

It’s me bangin’ my head on the wall, Claire!

Diego: What is this a picture of?
Alex and Claire (in unison): A panda!


(Alex and Claire are playing trains.)

Alex (telling a story to himself): He thought it was Thomas, he thought it was Thomas, it was a next ‘nother Thomas. He couldn’t find him anywhere!

Alex: Spencer couldn’t find Thomas, Daddy. He – I think he lose him. I think he lost Thomas.

Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yes Alex.
Alex: This is the train’s neighborhood.
Daddy: Oh okay.

Alex: But Daddy, that part looks like aaalll a forest, look if I move back [he steps back], it looks like a country. A country. You know it’s a country? They call it a country?
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Trains don’t talk.
Claire: Trai – Thomas talk!
Daddy: Thomas talk?
Claire: Yeah.

(Alex fixes the broken track.)
Claire (clapping): Yayyy!

Daddy: This is a good track! Where did we get this nice track?
Alex: From Ernie.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: So we can all the parts to make a new track. For the trains to have.

Alex (telling a story to himself): He’s tired. There’s no way to get to Tidmouth Sheds. He said. He have to stop at the way you… you… the way to Tidmouth Sheds so he chugged…. He was tired… uh… he said… (sighing) Ah… he said. (Mumble.) He has to take a rest, Claire. My train has to take a rest. They’re tired of… trackin’ around. Oh I’m okay. I can just go away. I can stop. I can, ready go this way. Go – can you stop going – keep going straight? There, now you can go. Look at, your other train.
Claire: Uh get it.
Alex: Tractor.
Claire: Get… uh one…
Alex: Tractor.
Claire: Train.
Alex (walking circles around the table): Tractor tractor tractor tractor

Claire: Uh closing! Close.
Alex: He – he went across.
Claire: Horse! Hi, horse. Horse!
Alex: That’s a zebra.
Claire: Zebra.
Alex: A horse doesn’t have stripes on it. That animal has stripes on it. So it’s a zebra.
Claire: Closing! Opening! Close!
Alex: It’s cold outside Claire, that’s what you –
Claire: Open! Open!
Alex: Oh. I scratched you over the way. I scratch -- oh.
(Claire starts running around the table, joining Alex, who contines to walk fast around and around. Both laugh.)
Alex: Faster faster!
Claire: Faster! Faster!
Alex: Look at me, Daddy!
Claire: Look at me, Daddy!
(Claire stops.)
Claire: Yay!
(Claire claps, then starts again.)
Alex: You can’t follow me. You can’t catch me! Look at you, Claire, you can’t catch me!
(Claire mumbles something.)
Alex (stopping): Yayyy!!
Claire (stopping): Yayyy!!
Claire: Uh do it again.
(Train play resumes.)
Claire (putting Elmo on the train): Uh go ride train. ‘Kay. Wheeee!
Alex: He ran off fast as he could. His wheels wouldn’t work. He couldn’t drive right.
Claire: Uh dat! Trains!

Alex: Whoa! I can’t drive! I’m drivin’ backwards! Whoa! He was driving toward the (mumble) crossing to Thomas!

Alex: He couldn’t (mumble) down the way. He couldn’t dash anyone.
Claire: No! No no.
(Claire brandishes a train at Alex.)
Daddy: Claire. No hitting.
(Alex and Claire are at an impasse.)

Claire: Bing!
Claire: Bing!
Claire: Biiing!
Alex: Can you not say that, Claire? That’s too loud. I don’t say “Huh huh huh huh huh huh!” too much. No, I don’t say that.
(Pause.)
Claire: Bing!
Alex: Huh huh huh huh huh huh!


Claire: Uh talk Grandma again last time.
(Claire picks up the phone.)
Claire: Hi Grandma, are you there? Yes, yeah? Bye.
(Claire hangs up the phone.)
Claire: I talk to Grandma again, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire picks up the phone.)
Claire: Hi Grandma, hi. Are you there? Yes? Yeah?
Claire: Hi Grandma, hi. Are you there? No? Yeah? Hi.
(Claire hangs up.)

(Alex picks up the phone.)
Alex: What? Do you have a stove? Noooooo!
(Alex hangs up.)


Alex: F and W start with water, Mommy.
Mommy: What? Where does F come in?
Alex: Fuh, fuh, fresh!
Mommy: Oh, yeah!


(Alex pulls his pants down to sit on the potty.)
Claire: Alex pants down. Alex pants down.

(A banging sound can be heard inside the house.)
Claire: Dat?
(Pause.)
Alex (shouting from the bathroom): It’s me bangin’ my head on the wall, Claire!
Claire: Oh.


(Claire puts on Mommy’s running clothes.)
Claire: Uh run!
(Claire runs around the house.)

(Claire puts her running stuff back in the bin.)
Daddy: Good job, Claire.

(Alex puts his running stuff back in the bin.)
Claire: Good job, Ay-yah.


(lunch time)

Claire: I’m big. Daddy I’m big.


(Claire is reading books. In one, Henry crashes into a freight car.)

Claire (to Daddy, about Henry): Be nice, Daddy. Be nice.
Daddy: Yeah, be nice.
Claire (to Henry in the book): Be nice.

Claire (looking at another book): Too long.

(Claire puts a book on the floor.)
Claire: Put right there. Make mess. Book.


(Alex talks in bed during nap time.)

(Alex’s train talks, unintelligibly.)
Alex: The bus didn’t talk. He didn’t have a face. The bus didn’t listen.

Alex: On the train yesterday, I ringed the bell on the train. Choo choo! Ding ding ding ding! That’s what it said. Ding ding ding ding ding ding!


(Alex and Claire are each holding a hand over one eye.)
Alex: I’m a pirate.
Claire: Uh I’m a pirate
Alex: We’re two pirates.
(Mommy laughs.)

One… two… three… four… five… six… seven… eight… nine… ten!

Claire: I took a good nap.


Alex: I be’d really good for you.
Daddy: Oh good!
Alex: Did you bring me a present?


(Alex tells Daddy about the train at the Children’s Museum.)
Alex: You could push the buttons, and it made noises.


Alex: You’re gonna come eat a donut with me at school.


(Alex and Claire are playing with their new Matchbox cars.)

Alex: His name is… Coh-roh-tah.
Daddy: Coh-roh-tah?
Alex: Yeah.

Claire: Watch, Daddy. Watch, Daddy. Watch uh go in circle.
(She drives her car around.)
Daddy: Whoa, he went in a circle!

Claire: Watch Daddy. Watch Daddy.

Claire: Watch Daddy, watch.
Daddy: Okay.
Daddy: Whoa!

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex (referring to the cars): They are living in Montana too. That’s their house.

(Alex and Claire send their cars across the floor.)
Alex: That was really fast, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah, it was!
Claire: Really fast. Family room.


(Alex poops.)
Claire: Uh get chocolate.

(Alex is still in the bathroom. Daddy and Claire are in the kitchen.)
Daddy (to Claire): Do you know what that room is?
Alex (shouting from the bathroom): The family room!
Claire: Uh, family room.
Daddy: That’s right!
Alex (shouting from the bathroom): I helped my sister!

Claire (swinging): Uh swinging.

Claire (crawling): Uh crawl, like baby.
Mommy: You crawl like baby?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What’s your name?
Claire: Uh – Claire.
Daddy: Good job.

Claire: Uh Daddy see poop.
Daddy: You wanna see the poop? You can go see it.
Claire: Uh Daddy see poop.
Daddy: Okay, let’s go see the poop.
(Daddy and Claire go see the poop.)
Daddy: Oh, poop. Good job, buddy!
Alex: I’m a big boy.
Claire: Uh get chocolate, Daddy. Uh get chocolate. Uh get chocolate.
Daddy: Mommy will get you some.


(Daddy, Alex, and Claire are in the car, on their way to the Children’s Museum.)

Claire: Uh ride the train.
Alex: You have to wait your turn for the next train.

Alex: Hey Daddy? You have to wait your turn for the next train.
Daddy: Oh, that's sounds like the right thing to do. That sounds nice.
Alex: Hey, but the conductor’s takin’ a break.

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex?
Alex: I'm tryin’ to look for –- for -- for a really tall tree.

Alex: Daddy, don't go the wrong way, okay?
Daddy: Okay, I won't.

Alex: I saw a bridge there.
Alex: I wish I could go on that bridge.
Alex: Some other time can you take me on that bridge?


(At the Children’s Museum.)

Alex: I have a emergency. I have a runny nose.

(Alex finds a pirate doll.)
Alex: I'm a pirate! Pirate Captain Moody.

Claire (walking up the stairs): Uh hold railing.


(Daddy is driving Alex and Claire back home again.)

Daddy (upset at traffic): Oh my goodness!
Alex: What happened?
Daddy: Oh nothing, I'm just trying to get in the lane.
Alex: That car wasn’t doing it right?
Daddy: Yeah, it wasn’t doing it right. And it was frustrating.
Alex: Why was it frustrating?
Daddy: Because I got frustrated. I lost my temper.
(Pause.)
Alex: Where's your temper?
(Daddy laughs.)
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: Where is it?
Daddy: I don’t know, I lost it.
Alex: You hafta hold onto things, if you lose them, you can't find them.


(Alex shows Daddy how he can hold up different numbers of fingers.)
Alex: Look Daddy, you go to two, you go to one, you go to two, and then you go to three.
Daddy: Good job!


(Daddy is typing on his Blackberry.)
Alex: Wh – what’s that? Are you makin’ a million dollars?


(Daddy gives Claire a hug and a kiss.)
Alex: Kiss me, Daddy, and hug me.


(dinner time)

Claire: One… two… three… four… five… six… seven… eight… nine… ten!
Mommy: Good job, Claire!
Alex: One… two… three… four… five… six… seven…
Alex and Claire (in unison): …eight… nine… ten!
Mommy: Good job, Alex! Good counting!
Alex: Just like the Count!
Mommy: Like the Count?
Claire: One… two… three… four… five… six… seven… eight… nine… ten!
Mommy: Yay! Good job.
Alex: One… two…
Alex and Claire (in unison): …three… four… five… six… seven… eight… nine… ten!
Mommy: Yay! Good job!

Uh Daddy come home.

(Daddy phones home from St. Louis.)
Alex: Daddy, hi!
Daddy: Hi Alex, how are you?
Claire: Hi!
Daddy: Hi Claire, how are you?
Claire: Uh home.
Daddy: You’re home?
Claire: Uh in my room.
Daddy: You’re in your room?
Mommy: No. What did you say to him?
Claire: Play, Daddy.
Daddy: Play? You --
Alex: Daddy? Hi Daddy!
Daddy: Hi Alex!
(Pause.)
Daddy: What are you guys doing?
Alex: I’m tryin’ to wait ‘til Mommy makes my dinner.
Daddy: Oh, that sounds like fun.
Claire: (mumble) make my dinner.
Daddy: What did you say, Claire?
Claire: Uh wait uh Mommy make my dinner.
Daddy: You’re waiting for Mommy to make your dinner?
Alex: Daddy? Daddy?
Daddy: Yes?
Alex: Are you gonna be home on Friday?
Daddy: Yes I am.
(Pause.)
Daddy: Are you excited?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: I’m excited to see you!
Alex: Did you fly on a airplane?
Daddy: Yes I did. Isn’t that neat?
Alex: Yeah. Neer flied on a airplane.
Daddy: I – yeah, Neer and Daddy both flew on airplanes.
Alex: One day Mommy’s gonna fly on a plane.
Daddy: Yeah. Is that we she told you?
Alex: Yeah. Um… some other day, sometime, Mommy will take me on a plane. And maybe you, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah, I’ll take you on a plane sometime. And maybe Mommy and Claire can come too.
Alex: ‘Kay. Grommie is not gonna come. Grommie’s a dog.
Daddy: Yeah, so he’s not gonna go on the plane.
Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: I went to Nana’s house.
Daddy: That sounds like fun.
Alex: I’m under the table Daddy. You can’t see my eyes.
Alex: Where are you? I can’t see you. I can’t see you, Daddy. Are you on the phone?
Daddy: I’m on the phone.
Alex: Oh.
Daddy: Where are you?
Alex: I’m at home already. I’m at home.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Claire’s playing shopping carts.
Daddy: Do you think she wa—
Alex: Bye, Daddy.
Alex (to Mommy, in the background): I wanna – I wanna say bye to Daddy, Mommy.

Daddy: Hi Claire!
Claire: (Mumble) pear (mumble) nuggets.
Daddy: Hi Claire!
Mommy: She’s telling you what she had for dinner. Tell him again, Claire.
Claire: Uh nuggets.
Mommy: Pear. What else?
Claire: Carrots.

Claire: Uh Daddy come home. Uh Daddy come home.

Mommy: You tell Daddy what you’re eating.
Claire: A carrot.
Daddy: A carrot, yummy.

Claire: Uh honey mustard on plate.
Mommy: What?
Claire: Uh honey mustard on plate. Honey mustard on plate.
Mommy: Honey mustard on plate?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Oh, that’s interesting.
Claire: Uh honey mustard on plate.
Mommy: Oh. Perhaps you could use one of these.
Claire: Mommy? Uh nuggets.

Claire: Daddy home.
Mommy: Daddy will be home Friday.

Mommy: Okay, let’s sing Daddy a song, and then we’ll say bye-bye, okay?
(Alex and Claire sing Twinkle, Twinkle in semi-unison, with Claire getting about half of the words. Also, Alex says “diamond”, not “triangle”.)
Mommy, Alex, and Claire: Yayyy!
Claire: Uh sing Lullaby.
Mommy: You wanna sing Lullaby?
Claire: Lullaby Claire.
Mommy: You want Daddy to sing Lullaby to you?
Daddy: Okay.
Mommy: Can you sing? Are you around other people?
Daddy: No, I’m fine, I can sing.
(Daddy sings Lullaby to Alex and Claire.)
Claire: Uh sing Twinkle Little Star.
Mommy: What?
Claire: Uh sing Twinkle Little Star.
Daddy: You want me to sing Twinkle, Twinkle? Okay.
(Daddy sings Twinkle, Twinkle.)
Mommy, Alex, and Claire: Yayyy!
Claire: Uh sing, doggie song.
Daddy: You want me to sing the doggie song? Okay, last one, okay?
Daddy: Okay?
Mommy: She’s saying okay.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy sings Doggie in the Window.)
Mommy, Alex, and Claire: Yayyy!

(Claire sings Lullaby.)
Claire: Lullaby Claire
Claire: Lullaby Claire
Claire: Ay-yah, Grommie, Claire, Juju, Mallory
Claire: Yay!

I'm being really good!

(Dinner time. Daddy phones home from his trip.)

Alex: I'm being really good!

Daddy: What did you do today?
(Silence.)
Mommy: Do you wanna tell Daddy what you did today?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: I we -- I went to take the food to Callum's house, and then I went to the bookstore where Claire fell.

Claire: I don't like it. I don't like it (inaudible) big.
Mommy: Oh you don't like it when it's big?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Okay, I'll cut it for you.

Claire: Uh (inaudible) Mommy -- Daddy be home?
Mommy: Oh Daddy'll be home on Friday.
Claire: Oh.

Mommy: Do you wanna tell Daddy that you love him?
Alex: I love you!
Claire: I love you.
Daddy: Aw, I love you too!

They have wonderful things in there.

(Alex discusses what it was like to sleep in the same room as Claire.)
Alex: But she was driving me crazy.
Daddy: How was she driving you crazy?
Alex: She kept saying the same things over and over.
Daddy: What did she say?
Alex: She said my bed and my class, and where's Daddy and where's (mumble), and it was -- it -- it was -- upsetting me.
Daddy: I'm sorry.


(Alex looks into Grandma’s toy chest.)
Alex: A crane! They have wonderful things in there.


(Mommy, Daddy, Claire and Alex are in the car.)

Alex: Diggers! Did you see the diggers, Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Did you see the diggers, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Did you see the diggers, Claire?
(Pause.)
Alex: Claire?
Alex: Claire?
Alex: Claire?
Alex: Claire?
Alex: Claire?
Alex: Did you see the diggers?
Claire: Yeah. Far away.
Alex: Fly? They don't fly. They drive.

Alex: That guy’s goin’ way too fast.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: That yellow one’s goin’ way to fast andthatoneandthatoneandthatoneandthatone. All these cars are goin’ way too fast.


(Alex gives Daddy his left over cheese at snack.)
Alex: Daddy? For giving - for giving - for giving you cheese, I need more chocolate graham bunnies. Because you’re a nice daddy.

(Alex is drinking water, which Daddy just emphasized is healthy.)
Alex: It’s getting me healthy, it’s growing me big.

Claire (pushing the cooler around): I wanna get by.
Alex: You can when I move.
Alex: You can go on the other side of me, there.

(Alex finishes his snack.)
Alex: I have to put my fork in the sink.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Forks go in the sink. And spoons and knives. But scissors don't go in there.


(Claire is helping Daddy to fold laundry.)

Claire (to Mommy): Uh help Daddy! Uh folding laundry!

(Alex is now also helping Daddy to fold laundry.)

Alex: I know how to fold laundry ‘cause I'm big.
Daddy: You do!

Claire: Ay-yah PJs. Daddy -- Ay-yah PJs.
Daddy: Yeah!

Claire: Dat, Daddy. Dat.
Daddy: That, is a washcloth.
Claire: Washcloth.

Alex: I know how to do it ‘cause I'm big.
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: I can do it. I'm putting right there. I'm folding laundry!

(Mommy makes a noise upstairs.)
Claire: Dat, Daddy. Dat. Dat Mommy. Dat Mommy.
Daddy: That's Mommy.

Claire: Get you... underwear!
(Claire laughs.)
Daddy: What's so funny, Claire?
Claire: Me!


Alex: I like the tractor that Ernie got me.


Alex: I want it to be my turn to spill the water on the plants.

Gamma house!

Alex: Cookie Monster, or Oscar, or anyone else… they don't have a nose!
Daddy: They don't have a nose?
Alex: No.
(Pause.)
Alex: Or Big Bird!


(Mommy has gone upstairs to take a shower.)
Claire: Uh Mommy come back.


(Claire brings Daddy his shoes.)
Claire: Here, Daddy, here you go. Shoes.


Alex: The ceiling's bigger than a giant, Daddy! All the house is bigger than a giant!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: Because, the men built a house for us!
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Did the men build a house for us?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: They built a house for us. It's ooooour house.


Alex (after talking to them on the phone): I like Aunt Sheridan and Uncle Jimmy!


(Daddy pulls up to Grandma’s house.)
Claire (recognizing where she is): Gamma house!

(Alex comments on Grandpa’s car.)
Alex: It looks nice.


(Alex is eating dinner at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house.)
Alex: Did I drop a blueberry on the floor?
Daddy: Did you drop one?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Let me see.
(Daddy looks.)
Daddy: Yep, you dropped a blueberry.
(Daddy washes it off.)
Alex: Gram - gramma might have to buy a dog.
(Mommy and Daddy laugh.)
Alex (in his “that’s silly” voice): They don't have a dog!

(Daddy mimics the sound of Grandma’s toaster oven.)
Claire: Uh say bing again. Uh say bing again.
Daddy: You wanna say bing again?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, you say it.
Claire: Bing!

Claire: Uh Mommy say dat.
Mommy: Bing!
Claire: Uh Daddy say dat.
Daddy: Bing!
Claire: Uh Ay-yah say that.
Alex: Bing!
Alex: You want Grommie to say that?
Claire: Yeah, Grommie say that.
Alex: You say that.
Claire: Bing!
Alex: Uncle Kirk say that.
(Note: Neither Grommie nor Uncle Kirk are present for this discussion.)
Alex: Uncle Kirk say that.
Alex: Uncle Kirk.
Claire: No Uncle Kirk. Say that.


(Alex and Claire go to bed at Grandma’s house.)

Alex: I like my Thomas bed. It’s nice (mumble). It’s nice to me. I like it.

Alex: I'm tryin to go to sleep. I’m tryin’ to go to sleep.

Alex: Can I have toast for breakfast?

Alex: No words at Grandma’s house. We do that at our house.


(Claire and Alex are still awake, talking.)
Claire: Uh Mommy.
Alex: Mommy’s tryin’ to clean up with Daddy.
Claire: Oh.
Alex: So you cannot call her. You’re gonna wake me up.
(Pause.)
Alex: But look at that flag on the wall.
Claire: Oh flag.
(The conversation continues.)

Why did the cowboy sing a sad, sad song?

(playing trains)

Claire (singsong): Around the bend
Claire (singsong): Around the bend
Claire: Yay.

Claire (being silly): Uh being silly.

Claire: My trains. Rosie, Duck, a- and James. My trains.

Claire (walking backwards): Uh walk backwards.

(Daddy is singing karaoke, and just finished singing “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”.)
Alex: Why did the cowboy sing a sad, sad song?
Daddy (laughing): I don’t know.
Alex: Why did he?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: Because he was lost?
Daddy: Yeah, because he was lost.
Alex: Why was he lost?
Daddy: I don’t know!


(At school, Alex learned about "the big city again" and now Alex is telling Daddy what he learned about taxis.)
Daddy: Do they fly up in the sky?
Alex: No, they drive!
Daddy: Oh. And then do people get in them?
Alex: Yeah. You have to wave your hand and then they stop.


(Daddy hangs up the phone.)
Alex: Who’s Daddy talkin’ to?
Mommy: Uncle Ed.
Alex: Is Uncle Ed gonna be at the park?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: And Kirk?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: And Meg?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: And Meg?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: And Virginia?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: And Uncle Jimmy?
Mommy: Mm-hm.
Alex: And Aunt Sheridan?
Mommy: Mm-hm. Actually I don’t know about Uncle Jimmy. I assume he’ll be there.
Alex: And aunts and uncles?


Alex: Can I play with you, Claire?
Claire: No.
Alex: Well then I'm playing shopping carts.


Alex: I almost hit my head on the wall. That was close.


(Alex looks out the window, and sees the boys playing in the yard next door.)
Alex: Is that Mari’s house?
Mommy: No.
Alex: But he looks like Mari.
Mommy: Yeah, well he has dark skin like Mari. But he's not Mari.

I like a umbrella! It makes me in the shade.

Alex: I'm tired of playing shopping carts, I'm gonna start going to school.


Alex: Watch this cool trick, Daddy.


(Daddy is driving Alex and Claire to school.)
Alex: Does Oakley go to school?
Daddy: No, Oakley stays at home.
Alex: No, I mean the children who live there. Do they go to school?
Daddy: Yeah, they go to school.
Alex: What school do they go to? Is it middle school?
Daddy: No, they go to college. College school.

(Daddy burps.)
Claire: Dat!
Daddy: What was that?
Claire: Burp.

(Daddy, Alex, and Claire are playing “I See”.)
Alex: I see a umbrella. I like a umbrella! It makes me in the shade.

(Daddy burps again.)
Claire: Dat!
Daddy: What was that?
Claire: Burp.

You can't trust freight cars.

(Daddy wakes up Claire.)
Claire: Uh Mommy?
Daddy: I think she's downstairs.
Claire: Uh-wa go see her.

(Claire lies down beside her bed for diaper change.)
Daddy: Claire's bed.
Claire: Uh Ay-yah's bed?
Daddy: Ay-yah's bed is in Ay-yah's room.
Daddy: Where's Mommy and Daddy's bed?
Claire (smiling): Um… in the shower.


(Alex and Claire are watching Sesame Street.)
Alex: Hey, Daddy, the elephant has a long trunk and big ears!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex (laughing): Elephants can't talk!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: And… elephants don't walk. They stay in the water!
Mommy: Elephants?
Alex: Yeah some elephants. They spray water on their back.
Mommy: Yeah but they like to walk on land, too.

(Alex and Claire are watching Bob.)
Alex: What's Spud's face made out of?

Claire: Uh play shopping carts.


(Alex and Claire are having snack. Daddy comes home from work.)
Alex: Daddy! New swings.

(A little later, Mommy is pushing Claire and Alex on the swings. Daddy comes outside.)
Claire: Daddy! New swings!


(Alex and Claire are playing trains. Claire is upset because Alex’s train is following her train.)
Claire (whining): Uh go! Uh go! Uh go!
Daddy: Claire, you go at your own pace. Alex, don’t get too close. You know what they call it when you drive too close to someone? They call it tailgating.
Alex: I’m not tailgating.


(Alex is mad at Daddy.)
Alex: Little boys can ask you what the teacher’s name is, and if they don’t know what it is, you have to stop talking.

(Daddy reads a Thomas book to Alex.)
Alex (interrupting): You can’t trust freight cars.

(It’s bed time, and Alex is rambling.)
Alex: … And you have to wake me up on four days.
Daddy: I have to wake you up on four days?
Alex: Yeah, and some days I have to go on trips. And then go back to nap.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: So me brain can tell me dream stories.
Alex: Grommie’s lying there.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Is that a dream?

Juju big.

Daddy: I brought the trains down for you guys.
Alex: Trains! Let's play trains, Claire!
Claire: 'Kay! Trains down!


Daddy: Claire, is Claire big or is Claire little?
Claire: Claire little.
Daddy: Is Alex big or is Alex little?
Claire: Alex little.
Alex: I'm big now, Mo -- Daddy!
Daddy: Is Daddy big or is Daddy little?
Claire: Daddy little.
Daddy: Is Mommy big or is Mommy little?
Claire: Mommy little.
Daddy: Is Grommie big or is Grommie little?
Claire: Grommie little.
Alex: Everyone's little?
Daddy: Then who's big?
Claire (smiling): (Mumble) big.
Daddy: Who's big?
Claire (smiling): Juju big.


(dinner time)

Claire: Uh boat.
(Claire rolls her eyes back and turns her head from side to side.)

Alex: Hey, Daddy?
Daddy: Hey.
Alex: Can I get some more bread? I didn't get a bread but I want a bread with no butter on it. A big bread. A big bread. A big, big, big bread. Don’t get a square but a big bread like that. A big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, Big Bread!

Alex: Daddy.
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: T starts with Target.
Daddy: That's right!
Mommy: Good job, Alex.
Alex: Tuh, Target.


(Daddy sings a song that Alex hasn't heard in a very long time. To the tune of Frere Jacques.)

Daddy (singing): Alexander, Alexander, how are you?
Alex: Happy.
Daddy (singing): How are you?
Alex: Happy.
Daddy: You're happy?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Good.
Alex: Good.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: No, good.
Daddy: Good, okay.
Daddy (singing): Do you like to wiggle?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy (singing): Do you like to jiggle?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: I do too, I do too
Alex (laughing): Who sings that?
Daddy: Grandma does!

Uh hold my hand, Daddy.

(breakfast time)

(Alex is watching Sid the Science Kid.)
Alex: Gerald’s so silly!

Claire: Uh get down.
Daddy: You ready to get down?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire (wiggling in her chair): Uh be silly!


Alex: Daddy? Are you happy? Can you be happy?
Daddy: Yeah I’m happy.
Alex: You’re talkin’ happy now.
Daddy: Good!
Alex: Thank you.
Daddy: You’re welcome.


(Daddy, Claire, and Alex are riding in the car. Claire sees a sporty car.)
Claire (pointing): Race car, like Stickers!


(Claire is reading her book aloud.)
Alex: Claire’s so funny, Daddy!


Daddy: Tell Mommy what you saw at the animal store.
Claire: Uh animals, uh dog, woof woof!


(Alex finishes reading a book to Claire.)
Alex: I’m Claire’s daddy. I’m gonna read to her every day. Can you tell Mommy that?


(Everyone is getting ready to leave for the grocery store.)
Claire (reaching out to Daddy): Uh hold my hand, Daddy.


(Daddy is pushing the shopping cart. Alex and Claire are riding in the kiddie car attached to the front.)

Alex: Go, Daddy, Go!!

Alex: Go go go and don't stop, Daddy.

Claire: Daddyyyyyyyy!!
Alex: Daddyyyyyyyyy!!


(Alex and Daddy are walking in the road, when a car comes up from behind.)
Daddy: Let’s move to the side, Alex, so a car can get by.
(Alex looks back, sees the car, and moves to the side of the road.)
Alex: Thanks for watching, Daddy.
Daddy: You’re welcome.


(dinner time)

(Claire winds a strap from the chair around her wrist.)
Claire: My watch, Mommy, my watch.
Mommy: Is that your watch?
Claire: My watch, beep. Beeeep!

Claire: Buh. Buh. Buh. Dah Claire. Buh, buh, buh, buh. Yaaaaaay!

(Mommy finishes writing Claire’s invitations.)
Alex (unprompted): You worked hard on that.
Mommy: I did, I’m glad you noticed that! That makes Mommy feel good that you noticed.

Claire: Three, four, nine, ten… three, four, nine, ten…

Daddy: One, two, three, four…
Claire: Nine.
Daddy: Five…
Claire: Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, three!


(getting ready for bed)

Claire (running around Daddy): Uh run in circle! Uh run in circle!
Daddy: Are you running in a circle?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Uh guh run in triangle!
Daddy: You’re gonna run in a triangle?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire (running around Daddy): Uh run in triangle!

Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!!

(After the rain, Claire looks out the window.)
Claire: Garden all wet.


(dinner time)

Mommy: Who wants barbecue sauce?
Claire: Me!
Alex: Me!
Claire: Me!
Alex: Me!
Claire: Me!
Alex: Me!
Claire: Me!
Alex: Me!
Claire: Noooo, meee!
Alex: Noooo, meee!
Claire: Noooo, meee!
Alex: Noooo, meee!
Claire: Meeeeee! Meeeeee!
Daddy: Okay Claire, you can have barbecue sauce.
Mommy: You both can.
Alex: I want barbecue sauce.
Daddy: You can have some too.

Claire: I’m a boat, Mommy.
Mommy: You’re a bug?
Claire: I’m a boat.
Mommy: You’re a boat?
Claire: Yeah.
(Claire rolls her eyes up and wobbles her head around.)
Mommy: Okay.

(Alex is waiting for the toast to pop up.)
Alex (loudly): Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!! Pop!!
Mommy: Okay, okay okay okay okay okay.
Alex: It’s not gonna pop. It’s not gonna pop.
Mommy: It will pop, in just a few minutes.
Alex: Pop!
Mommy: Does anybody want some more nuggets?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: You have some, Claire.
(The toast pops.)
Alex: It popped!
(Alex claps.)


(bath time)

Daddy (singing): And so what? I’m still a rock star!
Alex (singing): I got my rock moves!
(Daddy laughs.)

(Daddy tests Alex’s knowledge of the rest of the song.)
Daddy (singing): Na na na na na na na...
Alex: I’m gonna start a fight!

I, ride, all the way home!!

(Daddy and Claire walk into Alex’s classroom, where Alex and Neer are sitting on the bench.)
Claire: Neer back!

(Daddy, Claire, and Alex walk out of the school, to find the stroller waiting for them.)
Claire: Stroller back! Stroller back!

Alex: I didn’t get a bike today.


Alex: Hey Claire, you look really pretty in that hat.
Mommy: Aw, that’s nice, Alex.
Alex: But she looks really pretty.


(Alex is playing with sticks on the picnic table at the cul-de-sac.)

Alex (showing Daddy a stick): You see this one? It has letters on it. It says, “You need to build a big seesaw, that someone’s building, if you need a big seesaw.” Okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: So you need to build it.

Alex: It takes the other sticks to make some more stickles.


(Alex rides all the way home on his tricycle! This is the first time he’s really ridden it outside.)
Daddy: Alex, did you tell Mommy what you did?
Alex (emphatically): I, ride, all the way home!!


(bed time)
Alex: But I wanna say my words.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Play eyebrow. That’s a new one.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: What was the one that I said before the other nap?
Daddy: Play toe.
Alex: And play toe… and play hair… and play head… and bang on the door… and play air… and play doggie… and play chickie… and now go to sleep – and look at pictures.

Bye-bye, Mommy! See you later, Mommy! Bye-bye!

(Mommy is at work, and Claire talks to her on the phone.)
Claire: Bye-bye, Mommy! See you later, Mommy! Bye-bye!


Mommy: All right. You’re enrolled.
Alex: Yay, I’m gonna play soccer!


(Mommy decides to teach Alex how to count in Spanish.)
Mommy: Uno…
Alex: Dos!
Mommy (surprised): Yeah!


Alex: There’s a lot of trash in your car, Daddy. You need to put it in a trash can.


Alex: What in Spanish can you say thunder?
Daddy: Thunder? I don’t know how to say thunder in --
Alex: Cuttiko!


Alex: I did everything in the bathroom.
Daddy: Okay, now go out and do something fun. Good job, thank you buddy.
Alex: You’re welcome, Daddy.