When the men built the house for us, did Mommy put the toys in?

Claire: Water, Daddy.
Daddy: You have water.
Claire: Water in my chair.
Daddy: Oh. You ready to get down?
Claire: Yeah. Grommie clean up.
(Daddy helps Claire get down from her chair.)
Claire: Grommie! Water in my chair! Grommie!

(Claire is holding birthday cupcakes.)
Claire: Uh be three, Daddy.
Daddy: What’s three?
Daddy: What?
Claire: Three.
Daddy: What’s three?
Claire: Me.


(Claire, Alex, and Daddy are at the playground. Claire and Alex are on a playset bridge, and Daddy stands down below.)
Claire (to Daddy): Go away, troll! Go away!


Claire: Look, Daddy! Uh have socks like Ah-yah.
Daddy: That’s right, Claire!
Claire: Uh have purple socks. Uh have purple socks on my feet.
Daddy: Those have grey on them, Claire.
Alex: And white. And white, Daddy.


(Alex finishes taking off his shoes.)
Alex: I’m pretty tired of takin’ off my shoes.


(dinner)
Alex: Do germs eat our food if we don’t wash our hands?


(Alex talks on the Wii remote, as if it’s a telephone.)
Alex: Troy! I was just gonna tell you that I was gonna bring you money?
Alex: Did you want money? Okay!


Alex: When the men built the house for us, did Mommy put the toys in?

Uh more chicken nuggets.

Claire: Friends at ‘chool. Play at ‘chool. Play at home.
Daddy: Yeah. Play at school, play at home, that's your life.
(Pause.)
Claire: Be happy at ‘chool. Be happy at ‘chool.
Daddy: Be happy at school?
Claire: Yeah.


Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: In the big storm, it blew pine needles onto the deck.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: That was crazy.


(Snack time. Alex holds up his hand to shield his eyes from Claire.)
Alex: I'm blockin’ Claire so she can't see me.


(Alex is building a machine.)
Alex (to Claire): You’re messing up the pipe – you messed up that querkle. The pipe doesn't want you to mess up the querkle.


Alex (to Mommy): I have to do measuring first. Measuring with my hammer.
Mommy: Okay, do your measuring.
Alex: The measuring’s not good. It’s dangerous. So I have to do it.


Alex: Claire won't play with me, someone else will have to play with me.


(Alex talks into a Lego “phone”.)

Alex: Hi. Do you have any quirks?

Alex: Hiii. I'm a new baby. Do you have a new baby at home?
(Pause.)
Alex: I just have circles for you. Bye.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Claire, do you color at school?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Good! What else do you do at school?
Claire: Play toys.

Claire: Mommy? Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah
Claire (laughing): Uh more chicken nuggets.
(Claire laughs to herself, silently.)
Claire (still laughing at her own private joke): Ha, hahaha. Ha, hahaha.

Claire (chanting): Alex Alex Alex Alex
Alex (whining): Don’t say my name! I’m trying to eat!

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: Yesterday when we were at the new bookstore and Claire hurt her lip on the stairs, I didn’t want you to walk away from me, and, you have to stay with me.

Happy birthday to my cake

(Claire pees in the potty.)
Mommy: Did you go pee-pee?!
Claire (very excited): YEAH!
Mommy: Good for you!
Claire: Uh get chocolate!


Alex: That chocolate was yummy! I like – I love chocolate.
Claire: You love chocolate!


(Alex and Claire are playing with flashlights.)
Alex: Oh. Sorry Claire, I -- I shined in your eyes, I'm sorry.


(Claire plays cupcakes.)

Claire (singing): Happy birthday to my cake
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to my cake
Claire (clapping her hands): Yay!

Claire: Happy birthday to Daddy cake.
Daddy: Aw. Happy birthday to Daddy’s cake.
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to Daddy cake
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to Claire cake
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to Claire cake
Claire:Yay!


Alex: When I go to school I’ll tell my friends that I hurt my foot at the bottom of the pool.
Mommy: Okay.


(Alex plays with a flashlight.)
Alex: When I shine it on my foot, I can see my foot shadow.


Alex: Lights, turn back on!
Mommy: What?
Alex: I was talking to the lights.
Alex: Lights, turn back on!
Mommy: I don't think the lights are a very good listener.
Alex: No. Time out!
Alex (to Mommy): I gave the lights a time out.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Lights, turn back on!


(Claire climbs into Alex’s bed and lies down.)
Claire: Uh Elly and Bobo.

Uh my Elly?

Alex: I wanted to tell you something at nap time. I wanted to tell you I want milk for breakfast.


(Claire is playing toy cupcakes.)
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to you
Claire (singing): Happy birthday my cake
Claire (singing): Happy birthday my cake
(Claire laughs.)


(Claire gets a Hershey’s kiss.)
Claire: Uh ate chocolate.
Daddy: Yeah, you ate chocolate.
Claire: Uh ate chocolate.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Daddy see? See, Daddy?
(Claire opens her mouth and points at the chewed up chocolate in there.)
Daddy: Yeah, I see it.
Claire: Oh.

Claire: Uh more chocolate.
Daddy: No, I think that’s all the chocolate.
Claire: Why?
Daddy: You ask “why” for everything.
Claire: Ah-yah poop, get more chocolate.
Daddy: You poop to get more chocolate?
Claire: No, Ah-yah poop.
Daddy: Alex poops, yeah.


Daddy (to Claire): We’re friends. You’re my friend.
Claire: Uh girl. Not friend.


(Claire gets Daddy a toy cupcake.)
Claire: Uh cupcake, Daddy? Say “yes please”.


Claire (talking to herself during nap): Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy. Mommy Daddy Claire. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy Daddy Daddy.


Daddy: Hi Alex.
Claire: Hi Ah-yah.
Daddy: Hi Ah-yah.
Claire: Hi Ah-yah. Hi brother. Hi my brother.


(The roofer can be heard hammering on the roof. Then he stops and all is silent.)
Alex: Hammer man! Hammer man! I cannot hear you!
(Pause. The hammering starts up again.)
Alex (excited): He hammered! I told him to hammer!








(Alex is teaching Claire how to chew with her mouth closed.)
Alex: That's not how you chew with your mouth closed, like this.
Claire: I'm doing it, Ah-yah, I'm doing it!
Alex: No. Like this.


Mommy: We need it to rain from the east.
Claire: Oh. Need rain for garden.
Claire (addressing the trees): Need rain! Trees?
Claire: Need rain, for garden, need rain for garden!


Alex: Bee! Bah! Bo!
Alex and Daddy: Bee! Bah! Bo!
Alex: I'm being like a giant!
Alex: I’m being like a giant!
Alex (in a rough voice): Get out of my cave!


(Claire climbs into Alex’s bed and lies down.)
Claire: Uh my Elly?


(Claire is in bed, singing quietly to herself.)
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to you
Claire (singing): Happy birthday to Mallory
Claire (singing): Happy birthday Mallory
Claire: Yay.

I have something to tell someone.

(breakfast)

Backpack: Can you find the sticky tape?
Claire (pointing): There sticky tape, right there.

Alex: I’ll tell my friends that I have Diego on my backpack ‘cause I hurt myself.
Daddy: That’s a good idea.
Alex: When I hurt it on my toy kitchen and Claire wasn’t being nice.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: When you get hurt you should go to the doctor, and when you get hurt you should get a band-aid, and when you get hurt you should take a ambulance to the hospital, and when you – when you get hurt, you have to have ice!

Claire: Waffle pop! Daddy go get it.
Claire: Yummy waffle, yummy yummy.


(Alex and Claire are making pizza with Mommy.)

Claire: Big big big ‘mato!

Alex: Could I eat some of the cheese?

Mommy: ‘Kay, put some more on, Alex.
Claire: ‘Kayyyy?? Mooooore??
Alex: She was talkin’ to me.

Mommy: Okay, little bit more.
Claire: Uh beh – little bit more.

Alex: We ate some cheese, Daddy.
Claire: Uh eat some cheese, Daddy. Uh eat some cheese. Uh eat some cheese.
Daddy: You ate some cheese?
Alex: Mommy said we could eat some.
Daddy: Oh.
Claire: Uh eat some cheese. Uh eat some cheese. Uh eat some cheese, Daddy.
Daddy: You ate some cheese?
Claire: Yeah.


Claire (counting shoes): One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN!
(Note: There are, in fact, ten shoes.)
(Pause.)
Claire: ‘Even, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, eleven, twenty, thirteen!


Daddy: Claire, what’s your last name?
Claire: Uhhhhh. Claire.
Alex: Claire bear!
Daddy: Claire bear?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: So what’s Claire’s last name?
Alex: Claire-Bear. Claire Claire-Bear.


(Claire is playing with the toy camera.)
Claire: Uh take picture you.
Daddy: You wanna take a picture of me?
Claire: Uh take picture of you little baby.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Say cheese!
Daddy: Cheese!
(Claire takes Daddy’s picture.)
Claire: Uh make ‘nother one. Say cheese!
Daddy: Cheese!
(Claire takes Daddy’s picture.)


Alex: Look at my new sippy cup!
Daddy: Wow, look at that! Where’d you get it?
Alex: From the brown truck.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: I have two for me and two for Claire.
Daddy: Oh!
Alex: I have a blue one and a green one, and Claire has a purple one and a pink one.


(It’s about 1:00 in the morning, and Alex is in bed, trying to get someone’s attention.)

Alex: I want milk for breakfast.

Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
(Alex sniffles.)
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
(Alex coughs.)
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
(Alex coughs and whimpers.)
(Alex’s voice gradually increases in volume, until he’s almost shouting.)
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone.
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
(Alex whimpers unintelligibly.)
(Alex whimpers unintelligibly.)
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
Alex: I have something to tell someone!
(Pause.)
Alex (whimpering): Please.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
(Silence.)
(Alex cries.)
(Alex whimpers.)
(Pause.)
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone.
(Alex whimpers for an extended period.)
(Silence.)
Alex (crying): I have something to tell someone please? I need to tell someone something, please? I need to tell someone something.
(Pause.)
Alex (crying): I want to tell someone something.
(Alex cries.)
(Alex says something unintelligible while crying.)
(Alex cries.)
(Alex says something unintelligible while crying.)
(Alex’s cries grow louder and louder.)
(Mommy gets out of bed, goes to Alex’s room, and says something inaudible. She then closes Alex’s bedroom door and goes back to bed.)
(Alex begins screaming and crying, saying something unintelligible.)
(Alex continues to scream and cry, saying something unintelligible.)
(Alex gets out of bed, runs to his bedroom door, and opens it.)
(Alex stands at his bedroom door and screams unintelligibly into the hall for a while.)
(Mommy gets out of bed and stomps angrily into the hall.)
(Alex runs back to his bed, still crying.)
Alex: I stopped. I stopped. I stopped, Mommy. I stopped. I stopped.
(Silence.)

It's Greenish-Blue Day?

(It's “Wear Green” Day in Alex’s class. Daddy dresses Alex in the closest-shade-to-green shirt that Alex owns.)
Alex: Is it Parents’ Day and so I’m wearing blue?
Daddy: You’re wearing blue with green. You’re wearing greenish-blue.
Alex: It’s Greenish-Blue Day?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Okay. I understand.

Alex: Do you want the parrot?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: It says “Happy Claire’s Day!”

Alex: I showed Claire how to blow her nose hard.
Daddy: Good!
Alex: And she did it!
Daddy: Good!

When I was little, I used to laugh when you would do silly things.

(Claire finishes reading her book.)
Claire: The end! No more pages!

(lunch time)
Claire’s nugget (to Alex): Hi nugget. Hi nugget. Hi nugget. Uh nugget. Hi. Uh elephant.
Alex (irritated): I’m eating my green beans right now.


Alex: I like this Barney book.
Claire: That favorite book, Ah-yah.


(Daddy opens the refrigerator. Alex sticks his arm out to hold Elly just inside the door.)
Daddy: What are you doing?
Alex: I’m getting Elly cold in the ‘frigerator so I can lie on her.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I got Elly cold in the ‘frigerator so I can lie on her. Because I like her cold.
Daddy: Okay.

Mommy: What do you want for snack?
Alex: I want blueberries and strawberries.
Mommy: We don’t have strawberries.
Daddy: I want a million dollars.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: When I was little, I used to laugh when you would do silly things.
Daddy: Yeah, when you were little, you used to laugh when I did silly things.
Alex: And I – when I was a little baby, I pooped. Little babies poop.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I pooped in my diaper.

(Mommy is going to take Alex with her to Whole Foods.)
Alex: I will get my own cart there. They have own carts for boys and girls.


(dinner time)
Alex: When I’m a daddy, I can drink soda.

After I put these connectories in? The machine will be ready, okay?

(in the car)
Alex: This is the way to Nana’s house, but this is the drugstore.
Daddy: Yeah.


(At the library, Alex sees the book “Shortcut”, the sequel to “Bigmama”.)
Alex: Is that Bigmama’s book about they were on the train tracks?


(Alex is making a giant pile of toys, books, chairs, etc.)

Alex: Hi Daddy, I’m build a new machine!

Alex: First, I need to put these deliveries in here. I need to put batteries. You see?

Alex: You see there’s a box in here? That’s, so, if the wheels to turn off. We need to do that.

Alex: Do you wanna see what it does, something? You see if it goes fast, it will go like this.

Alex: Make sure Claire doesn’t mess up the machine. Okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Because she will, knock, knock, knock, all the things down. Okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And I will be upset.

Alex: Except, Bert and… and Thomas need to go inside. Well.

Alex: Those are for all this. These are the batteries. Well this is the box.

Alex: Look at these big books. These are big books.
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: This goes up and down when you make the wheels go.

Alex: Is everything fine over there? Yeah.

Alex: Well, you see that thing’s hangin’ on it?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Well. You see this is a pantry. You see this is, this is the machine. That’s not what we’re gonna do. You see?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You see that? I can do that. Watch, Daddy. I can do something with my foot. On the machine. It has to do this.
Daddy: Be careful. Okay?

Alex: I need something to hold it up from under there.

Alex: So, these are connectories. They won’t stay up.

Alex: After I put these connectories in? The machine will be ready, okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: The machine’s ready! Watch what it does. I’m gonna turn this button on. Watch what it does.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex plays with the machine, seemingly at random, turning wheels and knocking things over.)
Alex: The wheels need more batteries. The new battery fell out. Where’d it go? Oh. It’s there.
Alex: Oh. The battery’s broke. I need a new battery. It’s not going anymore.
Alex: Well. This goes up here. Now. This button’s gonna do something.
(Alex manipulates parts of the machine, as follows. He picks up a baby stroller and shakes it around. Then he rocks a chair back and forth. (The machine pretty much falls apart in response.) Then Alex shakes a stroller while banging a book on the floor. He pushes a shopping cart around. He knocks everything over. He spins the wheels on the baby stroller. He knocks over the shopping cart.)
Alex: You see that? That’s what the machine does!
Daddy: That was great, Alex!
Alex: And watch this.
(Alex pushes a chair around some more.)
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: And one more thing.
(The game continues.)


Claire: Uh tissue.
Daddy: Okay, I’ll get you a tissue.
Claire: Dere crusty in my nose.
(Claire uses the tissue.)
Claire: Little crusty.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Uh get it out.

Clean clean clean Ah-yah.

(Daddy and Claire go into Alex’s classroom to pick him up from school. Alex is nowhere to be seen.)
Claire: Ah-yah in potty.

(Alex is washing his hands after using the potty.)
Claire: Ah-yah clean.
Daddy: Alex is getting clean.
Claire: Clean clean clean Ah-yah.

(Alex sneezes.)
Daddy: Bless you.
Alex: Thank you.
Daddy: You're welcome.
Alex: You don't say “you're welcome”.
Daddy: You don't? I thought when someone says "thank you", you say "you're welcome."
Alex: If someone gives you something, you say "thank you", and then you say "you're welcome."
Daddy: Oh.

(Claire comes home from school.)
Claire (to Mommy): I eat lunch at 'chool!

I'm gonna not play with my fork, not play with my spoon, and chew with my mouth closed every day!

(Claire is pretending to leave for work.)
Claire: Uh go to work, Mommy.
Mommy: Okay. Have fun!
Claire: Uh hugs kisses.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire gives Mommy a hug and a kiss.)
Mommy: Bye!


(Alex is pushing a stroller before dinner. He stops to make an announcement.)
Alex: I'm gonna not play with my fork, not play with my spoon, and chew with my mouth closed every day!
Mommy: Good for you, Alex.
Alex: I'm a big boy, so I'm gonna do those things.


Alex: I'm not scared of the front door anymore.

What’s wrong with your cache?

(breakfast)

Alex: I want Mommy to walk around and give us things.

(Claire has two waffles on her plate.)
Claire: Look, Daddy, look.
Claire: T -- two waffles.
Daddy: Two waffles, good!
(Claire picks one up off of her plate.)
Claire: Just one!
Daddy: That's right! Good!


(snack)

Alex: I love those grapes!
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. They're the best grapes in the whole world.


(dinner time)

Alex: Crunch crunch crunch! If you crunch a grape, it will say that. Your teeth will do that to the grape. Crunch crunch crunch!

Alex: Rice doesn’t crunch, because, it’s not a hard thing.

Mommy: I can’t get Facebook to load.
Alex: Is your battery low?
Mommy: No, I think my cache is messed up.
Alex: What’s wrong with your cache?

Alex: Mommy I want you to come over here because I want to show you something that big boys do.

(Alex plans ahead for what he’ll do after dinner.)
Alex: Claire, will you be nice?
Claire: No. I be nice!
Alex: ‘Kay. And we’ll play nice together.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Yes.

Alex: Why does Elmo have no shoes on? On my fork.
Daddy: I don’t know, why do you think Elmo has no shoes on?
Alex: No, why does Elmo have no shoes on?
Daddy: Maybe it’s because he’s a monster.
Alex: No, he’s not a monster. Cookie Monster’s a monster.
Daddy: Oh, okay. What is Elmo?
Alex: Elmo’s… a friend.

(Daddy makes a funny face at Claire.)
Claire (laughing): Silly Daddy!

I want three minutes.

(Alex is in his swim class.)

Miss Kelly: Let's do elephants.
Alex: And then – and then – and then crocodiles!

(Alex’s classmates are chatting.)
Alex (to his classmates): My baby sister, um, my sister, Claire, is not a baby anymore. She's a big girl.

Alex (to Miss Kelly): Can I go next?
Alex (to Miss Kelly): Can I go next?
Alex (to Miss Kelly): Can I go next?

(Alex laughs.)
Alex (to no one in particular): I'm standing way down! In the water!
Alex (turning to Daddy): Daddy.

(Alex’s classmates are chatting.)
Alex (to his classmates): What are you talkin’ about?
Alex (to his classmates): What are you talkin’ about?
Alex (to his classmates): What are you talkin’ about?
Alex (to his classmates): What are you talkin’ about?

(The class blows bubbles for “five monkeys”.)
Alex (to Miss Kelly): I did four!
Miss Kelly: You did? That's good.
Alex: I did four!
Alex (showing four fingers): That's four.

Alex (to Miss Kelly): Then can I go next?
Alex (to Miss Kelly): Then can I go next?

(Later.)
Alex (to Miss Kelly): Then can I go next? Then can I go next?

(The lifeguard blows his whistle.)
Alex: That was loud!


(Claire sees Nana’s tomatoes sitting on the counter.)
Claire: Uh pick ‘mato at Nana’s house!


(It looks like a storm is coming.)
Claire: Garden need rain.

(Earlier, Alex was crying and fussing a lot. Now he has finally settled down for a while.)
Claire: Ah-yah not sad. Ah-yah not sad.

Claire: I hear thunder. I hear thunder.
Mommy: You hear thunder?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Neat.
Alex: It's not a trash can, Claire.

Claire: Rain need water.
(Pause.)
Claire: Garden need water.
Daddy: That’s right.
Claire: Yeah.

(Mommy is talking to Alex, and doesn’t hear Claire.)
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet.
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet.
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet.
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet, Mommy.
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet.
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet!
Claire (to Mommy): Baby get wet.

Mommy: Baby gets wet?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Rain, really hard. Rain, re-- really hard.

Claire: Loud trash can. Loud trash can, Mommy.
Alex: I call it thunder, you call it trash can!
Claire: Loud trash can. Loud trash can.
Mommy: It's a loud trash can?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Okay.
Alex: I don't think so.


Claire: Help, Daddy.
Daddy: What do you need help with?
Claire: Puzzle.
Daddy: Oh, let's not do the puzzle right now, we're about to go upstairs. You wanna go upstairs with Daddy?
Claire: No.
(Pause.)
Claire: I want three minutes.

When we get home, could you get me a nice warm outfit?

(watching Dora)

Boots: Do you want to play drums in the big drum parade?
Claire: No.

Boots: Do you want to play with animals at the animal center?
Claire: Yeah.


(Alex is in swim class.)

Alex (to Miss Kelly): May I go now?

Alex (to Miss Kelly): What’s your name?

Alex (to a classmate): What’s your name?

Alex (later, speaking to the same classmate): What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?

Alex (later, speaking to Daddy): Daddy? Daddy! That boy’s name is Chris, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.


(in the car on the way home from swim class)
Alex: When we get home, could you get me a nice warm outfit?


(Alex is counting tomatoes – properly!)
Alex (pointing as he goes): One, two, three, four, five.
Daddy: Good! Alex can count now!
Mommy: Good!
Alex: I like to count tomatoes.


(dinner)

Mommy: What did you do at swim practice?
Alex: Um, I float on my back, I float on my tummy, and I swim like that, and (mumble), and we didn't do the board.
Mommy: Good!
Alex: And we blow bubbles!

(Alex and Claire start shaking their arms around, doing a little dance at the table. After a short while, Daddy and Mommy join in. Claire laughs. Alex laughs and passes gas. Everyone dances some more. Then Alex stops dancing.)
Alex: Let's take a break.

Big trash can!! Loud trash can.

(Daddy dresses Claire. Claire likes her dress.)
Claire: Show Mommy.
Daddy: Mommy’s still sleeping. We’ll show her later when she gets up.
Claire: Take shower.
Daddy: Mommy’s sleeping. Then she’ll take a shower.
(Pause.)
Claire: Uh go show Ah-yah my shirt.


Claire: Dat Kipper!

Dora: Is it a baby cow?
Claire: No, dinosaur.


(Claire and Alex are playing in the family room. Alex is arranging a party.)

Alex: The party’s starting, Claire!
Claire: I uh get my bear.
Alex: This is gonna be fun!
Claire: I uh get my bear, too! I uh get my bear, eat, with me!

Claire: Climb climb climb climb, on, the sofa. And, on, the chairs. And, that all.

(Claire is holding Mommy’s rolled-up yoga mat like a purse.)
Claire: Daddy, bye-bye, I go, grocery store.

Alex: It’s time to eat cake, Claire.
Claire: ‘Kay. Time. Cake.

(Alex goes to the other room to get cake, then after a few moments, comes running back.)
Alex: Claire I’m scared, so I want you to go get some, ‘kay?
Claire: ‘Kay.
Claire: Uh go with you bear. ‘Kay? Okay.
(Claire and her bear go to get cake.)
(A long time passes, and Claire doesn’t return.)
Alex: Claire? Are you getting food? What kind of food did you get?
Claire (from the other room): No.
Alex: Get some cupcakes, and…
Claire: Kinda food. Carrots.
Alex: Get carrots, (inaudible) and…
Claire: That all, Ah-yah.
Alex: …And cupcakes and muffins.
Claire: Okay.
(Time passes. Claire returns with some food. A discussion ensues about what she got, and what she still needs to get. She goes back out for more food, and returns this time with a baby bottle.)
Alex: Did you get tomatoes?
Claire: No.
Alex: Cupcakes?
Claire: No. I get cupcakes, Ah-yah.
Alex: Okay.
Claire: Cupcakes. Cupcakes, Ah-yah.
Alex: Candles. There’s a marker.
Claire: Cupcakes.
Alex: ‘Kay.
(Alex and Claire drink from baby bottles.)
Claire: That yummy!
(Claire laughs.)
Claire: That yummy!
(Claire laughs.)
Claire: That milk. In there.
(Alex laughs.)

Alex (whining): Daddy! I hurt my this. I hurt this.
Daddy: Where?
Alex: Here. See it’s red?
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Ah-yah!
Alex: What are you getting, Claire?
Claire: Um, cupcakes.
Alex: There’s a cupcake.
Claire: Okay.
Alex: There’s some cupcakes.

Alex: I need some corn, Claire.
Claire: No.
Alex: Can I get just one corn?
Claire: No.
Alex (to Daddy): Claire’s not giving me corn!

Claire: Uh get my bear, Ah-yah.
Alex: Okay.
Claire: Uh get my bear, eat, with me.

Alex: I’m all ready to go. I have drinks… and a can... and milk… and more milk… tea… coffee, tea, milk, and… teapot. If we need some more.

Alex: I need to sit with my bunny. And bear.
Claire: ‘Kay. I sit right there.

Alex: We have to sing “Happy Birthday”.
(Alex sings “Happy Birthday”. Claire joins in intermittently.)
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday dear Claire and Alex
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday to you
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday dear Claire and Alex
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday to you
Alex: Yay!
(Alex blows on his cupcake candle.)

Alex: Where am I gonna sit, Claire? Where am I gonna sit?
Claire: Right, there.
Alex: I don’t have room. Because your bear’s sitting there.

Alex: Claire. Claire I’m – I’m too tired to eat.


(after nap)
Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: I had a dream – for nap – and, it was someone at school – um, it was a dream, about… Thomas and Daddy. That – Thomas came from my class, I though he came from, from the uh, from the, from behind the chair but, I fl – I, uh, it was about, Thomas and Daddy! Thomas and Daddy. But I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the dream.
Daddy: Why didn’t you like the dream?
Alex: Because, I didn’t like it, because my brain was telling me stories. Look I’m standing on here.
Daddy: Please don’t stand on that, Alex.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: Because I don’t want you to get hurt.


Alex: Help help! I’m gonna fall in the river!
Claire: No.
Alex: I’m falling!


Alex: Do frogs poop and pee?


Alex: I’m hungry, and -- and sleepy.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Let’s run around! Let’s run around!


Daddy: What did you do at Nana’s house?
Claire: Play strollers.
Daddy: Play strollers?
Claire: No. Play… airplane.


(Claire takes off her shoes, with a slight assist from Daddy.)
Daddy: Yay! You can take off your shoes and socks.
Claire: Yeah! Pull over heel.


(Alex is rolling a beach ball.)
Alex: I need to go pee so I better roll fast!


(Alex and Claire watch a thunderstorm during dinner.)

Alex: Big thunder!
Mommy: Yeah, that was big.
Claire: Big trash can!
Mommy: Is that what it is?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Okay.

Claire: Loud trash can!
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: I call it thunder.

Claire (repeating something Mommy said several minutes earlier): There you go, honey.
(Claire smiles.)
Claire: There you go, honey.

Claire: Big trash can!! Loud trash can.
Alex: No, Claire, that was not a trash can. In storms, they’re thunder.
Claire: Big trash can!
Alex: Trash cans are not the right thing.
Claire: Loud trash can!
Alex: It’s not things that you drop that fall, that means it’s really quiet about it. It’s just a little quiet. It’s not that loud, Claire.

Alex: Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big boom!
Mommy: Yeah. That was a big boom.

Alex: Big, big, big, big boom! Daddy.
Claire: Yah yah big, big, big, big boom!
Alex: But our trees and bushes need milk and juice, I think. They need juice and not water. Water’s their favorite, right?
Daddy: That’s right.

Claire: Big, big boom, Daddy.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Claire, it’s not a trash can.
Claire: Big boom.
Alex: Yeah it’s not a trash can either.
Claire: Big, big, big, big, big, big boom!
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: Did you see that?! Did you see that big whoosh?!

(A big wind blows through the yard.)
Alex: Look, Daddy!!
Daddy: Wow.
Alex: The jingles were, ringing.
Claire: W-- Daddy, big wind.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: The wind is so strong.
Claire: Yeah. Big, big wind.
Alex: Yeah.


(Alex and Claire are playing bouncy balls.)
Alex: Trade?
Claire: Yeah, trade.
Claire (making the exchange): There you go.

We can’t ‘trol people.

(Alex gives Claire a hug.)
Alex: I hugged my Claire bear.


(Mommy comes home from the grocery store. Claire is in the other room, but wants to help put them away.)

Claire: Uh help groceries too.
Claire: Have napkins.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: And carrots... and mac and cheese.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Uh go kitchen first. Help.

(Claire and Alex are taking groceries out of the grocery bags.)

Claire (finding some English muffins): Daddy, bread!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Little pizza bread.

Alex: I'm so tired of doing groceries.

Alex: I see sausage. I got sausage!
Mommy (enthusiastically): All right!
Alex: Sausage!
Mommy: Yeah!

Claire (holding a glass jar of spaghetti sauce): Uh really careful!

(The groceries are all put away.)
Claire: That all, Ah-yah. That all, Ah-yah.
Claire: That all, Ah-yah. That all.
Alex: Yeah.


(Alex notices Mommy’s pedicure.)
Alex: Look at your red toenails, Mommy!


Daddy: Claire, can you count to three thousand?
(Claire smiles, but says nothing.)
Alex: One, two, three thousand!


Alex (to Claire): I ate you. You’re in my poop.
Claire: Give it back.
Alex: I ate you, your whole body’s in my poop.


(dinner)

(Claire notices that Mommy has eaten all of her chicken.)
Claire: Chicken.
Mommy: Yeah.
Claire (whining): Uh get more.
Mommy: I don’t want any more.
Claire (whining): Uh get more chicken.
Alex: We can’t ‘trol people.
Claire (whining): Uh Mommy.
Alex: We can’t ‘trol people.
Claire (whining): Uh Mommy. Uh Mommy.
Alex: Stop whining! Use your big – use your big girl voice.

Alex: Chew that up. Claire, chew that up. ‘Cause you have a lot of oranges in your mouth.

Alex (to Claire): Why are you putting your finger in your mouth?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Yucky, Claire!
Alex (to Daddy): Claire put her finger in her mouth.
Daddy: Yeah, I saw that.
Alex: Little babies do that. Little babies do that.
Daddy: They do sometimes.
Alex: Claire’s a li – little baby.
Daddy: No, she’s a big girl.
Alex: She is, but, girls are babies, some girls.
Daddy: Baby girls are.
Alex: And I’m her brother.

Watch me go really, really, really fast.

(breakfast)

Claire: Two more sausage, Ah-yah. Two more sausage on my plate. Two more. Two more sausage on my plate.
Alex: Yes there is.


Alex: Are you a little bit grouchy, Daddy?


(Claire stands on the bottom step into the garage.)
Claire: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jump.
(Claire steps down.)


(Alex is eating graham crackers at snack.)

Alex: This looks like me, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Look at this, Daddy. Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: This is Claire!

Alex: This is Mommy’s head.
Daddy: What is it?
Alex: This is Mommy’s head. Mommy’s head and her neck. Look, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah!


(Claire reads Gossie.)
Claire: Gossie sad.
Claire: Uh gossie find her shoes. Uh gossie find her boots!
Claire: There it is.
Claire: Gossie sad.


(dinner)

Alex (in a robotic voice): I am a robot. Beep beep beep buh buh beep beep beep. I'm a robot.

(Claire makes a weird gesture with her hands. Mommy mimics her.)
Claire (to Mommy, smiling): Do it! Do it!
Claire (to Mommy, smiling): Do it!

Mommy (giving more pizza to Alex): That's all there is. There isn't any more.
Alex: There isn’t any more.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Just like the book.
Daddy: Yeah. What book is that?
Alex: Madeline.

Alex: I'm tired of eating this pizza.
Daddy: Well then stop.
Mommy: You don't have to eat it.
Alex: ‘Kay. Well then I'm all done.


(Claire and Alex are pushing strollers.)

Claire: Watch, Mommy. Watch. Watch me go REALLY, FAST.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire runs.)

Claire: Mommy, watch me go really, really, really fast.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire runs.)
Mommy: Wow, that’s fast!

Claire: Watch me go really, really, really fast.
(Claire runs.)

Claire: Watch me go really, really, really fast.
(Claire runs.)

Alex: I'm gonna go really really fast, Mommy.
(Alex runs.)

(Both Alex and Claire do this many times.)

Claire: Watch me go fast, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Watch me go really fast.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Really really fast.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire runs.)

If I – uh, uh – if – if I would sleep – and watch TV – and watch Science Kid, and all the shows, and have some food, and go to sleep? !

(Breakfast. Claire is holding a waffle in her hand.)
Claire: Dat more waffles, Daddy. Uh have more waffle in my hand.


(Daddy is covertly eating a piece of chocolate.)
Claire: What dat?
Daddy: What?
Claire: What dat in your mouth?


Alex: Is it time to go to the pool yet?


(Alex is taking his swim lesson.)

Daddy: Hi, Alex!
Alex: I swimmed to the stairs!
Daddy: Good!

Miss Kelly (to the swimming class): What do you wanna do?
Alex: Um… dinosaurs.

(The class blows bubbles.)
Alex (to Daddy): I did it!

Alex (to Miss Kelly): Then can I go next?

Alex: Watch this, Daddy.

Alex: Watch this, Daddy.

Alex (to Miss Kelly): Can I go?


(in the car after swim practice)

Alex: What did I – what did you pass that I just saw?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: I want to show you it.
Daddy: Well why don’t you tell me about it?
Alex: What the fire truck – what the fire truck comes up to.
Daddy: Oh, a fire hydrant!
Alex: Yeah.

(Daddy parks the car.)
Alex: When you turn off the car, why does the clock go down?


(dinner time)

Daddy: So Alex, what did – what did Daddy do at the pool?
Alex: Daddy went all the way under the water.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. By hisself. And he went up! And I liked it. And I laughed.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: That Daddy.

Daddy: Go ahead, ask me a question.
Alex: If I – uh, uh – if – if I would sleep – and watch TV – and watch Science Kid, and all the shows, and have some food, and go to sleep?
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Why would I do that?

Alex (to Claire): I thought you wanted that tomato.
Claire: No, I don’t like it, Ah-yah.
Alex: Then can you give it to me.
Claire: No. My tomato.
Alex: Okay. If you want to, you can give it to me.
Claire: No. Mine, Ah-yah.

(Claire tries to get down from her stool, but Grommie, trying to get at the crumbs in her chair, is in her way.)
Claire: Excuse me, Grommie. Excuse me, Grommie.
(Grommie moves aside. Claire gets down.)
Claire: Your turn, Grommie! Eat! My chair!


(Claire falls down and cries.)
Mommy: What happened, Claire?
Claire: I bump my knee, Mommy.

I'm a hat doctor, too.

(breakfast)

Claire: No ‘chool?

(An episode of Backyardigans comes to a close.)
Claire: Backyardigans. Backyardigans, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah. Where did they go?
Claire: Eat snack.

(Alex and Claire are looking at the Kix box.)
Alex (pointing): K, I, A and X. Kix!
Claire (pointing): Another Kick, up there!

(Upon request, Daddy lets Alex and Claire look inside the Kix box.)
Daddy: Lotsa Kix.
Alex: Yeah. Just like if lots of heads fall outta your head, and then lots of heads will fall out!


(in the car on the way to school)

Alex (crying): I wanna get out. I wanna get out.

Alex (crying): I wanna go home.


(Alex is pretending that the Wii remote is some kind of medical device.)

Alex: And when somebody bleeds they have to get to the honey doctor.

Alex: I'm gonna look in your ears. This part is for look in your ears.
(Alex looks in Mommy's ears with the Wii remote.)
Alex: They look fine, Mommy.
Mommy: Good!
Alex: So… but, we just have to walk on your chest.

Alex: Those are all the numbers I know.

Alex: One circle, Claire. So I'm gonna put this around. I want your doctor, and the honey doctor. (Mumble.) I'm gonna look in your ears, Daddy.

(Alex looks in Daddy’s ears with the Wii remote.)
Alex: They look fine, Daddy.
Daddy: Good!
Alex: All -- we have to do is give you a shot.
Alex: Here's a shot.
(Alex gives Daddy a shot with the Tivo remote.)
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex grabs Daddy's leg repeatedly.): Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Alex: I'm gonna look in your eyes.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: They look fine.
Daddy: Good.

(Claire looks in Mommy's ears.)
Claire: They look fine.
Mommy: Okay good.
Claire: Uh gonna look at you, Daddy. Uh you.
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Daddy look at your ears. Daddy say, “pine”.
Daddy: Oh, fine?
Claire: Yeah.

Alex: I'm putting some cream in your ear.
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Daddy, (mumble) your ears. Daddy look fine, Daddy. Look fine. Look fine. Daddy look, fine.
Daddy: Good, thank you.

Alex: Is he 30 or 3?
Claire: 30.
Alex: 30, okay.

Alex (holding two microphones on his head): You have to wear those two hats, next time.
Mommy: Oh no, not the hats!
Alex: I'm a hat doctor, too.
Mommy: Okay.

(Claire checks Daddy’s ears again.)
Claire: Daddy, look, fine.
Daddy: Okay, thank you.

Alex (to Mommy): I'm gonna spray in your eyes.
Alex: Tsssh, tssh. Tsssh.

Claire (whining): That mine. That mine! That mine!
Alex: We're at the doctor, Claire. We're doctors. So, doctors don’t get worried.

(Claire checks Daddy’s ears again.)
Claire: Daddy look fine. There you go, look fine.
Daddy: Ok, thank you Claire.
Claire: Daddy, other ear.
(Claire checks Daddy’s other ear.)
Claire: Daddy, look fine.
Daddy: Okay, good.

Claire: Daddy, check your ear. Look fine.

Claire: Uh check your ear uh check Mommy.

Alex: I'm gonna keep your ear safe.
Claire: Uh ear, safe.

Alex: We're all done, Mommy. We're all done. The doctor's all done.

Claire (talking on the Wii nunchuk remote as if it’s a phone): Hello? Hello, man.


Claire: Daddy check, your ears.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire checks Daddy’s ears.)


Claire (whining): No talk to me. No talk to me. No talk to me.
Daddy: Don't talk to you?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, I won't talk to you.


(dinner time)

(Daddy tells Alex about a chicken nugget tree and an applesauce bush.)
Alex: Chicken nuggets don't grow anywhere.
Daddy: Well, yeah, I guess that's true. You're right.
Alex: Applesauce doesn't grow anywhere either.
Daddy: Well where does it come from?
Alex: From… from… from a bowl.
Daddy: From a bowl?
Alex: From a box. From -- from a can.

Alex: Alex is sleepy 'cause -- 'cause, he's Claire's brother.

Daddy: Applesauce comes from apples.
(Alex shakes his head and smiles.)
Alex (in his “that’s silly” voice): Not from apples!
Mommy: They're mushed up apples, honey. And apples come from apple trees.
Alex: And pears come from pear trees.

Mommy: Alex, Claire's bread is talkin' to your bread.
Claire’s bread: Hi. Hi, Ah-yah. Hi your bread.
Claire’s bread: Hi. Hi. Hi Ah-yah. Hi bread. Hi bread. Hi bread.
Claire’s bread: Hi elephant.

Alex: Mine’s is a germ.
Mommy: A germ? Is he gonna say “hi” to the elephant?
Alex's bread: Hi elephant.

Alex's bread: Hi, I'm a crab.
Claire: Okay.
Alex’s bread: Are you a ladybug?
Claire’s bread: No I a elephant.
Alex’s bread: Oh.

Alex: Mine’s is made out of -- um -- look. Animal. Hi.
Claire: Hi. Hi crab.

Alex: It's a boy.
Alex’s bread: Hi
Claire’s bread: Hi boy.

Alex: Mine’s is made out of, a ladybug.
Claire: A cat. A cat. A cat.
Alex: A head!
Claire: A cat. A cat. A cat.


Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread
Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby went to the doctor
Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby and the doctor said
Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread
Alex (singing): SHOOORT -- NIIIIN -- BREEEEEAD!

Uh went uh Callum house. Uh share.

(Daddy and Claire are coming downstairs for breakfast. The sound of the TV can be heard.)
Claire: Dora?
Daddy: Is that Dora?
Claire: Yeah. Go downstairs, watch, see Dora.
Daddy: Okay.


Diego: Does a green iguana live in the rain forest, or the snow?
Claire: Snow.
Diego: The rain forest! Correcto!

Alicia: Can a green iguana roller skate, or climb?
Claire: Climb.
Alicia: Climb, right! Green iguanas are great climbers!

Diego: To hide from scary animals, does a green iguana put its head in the sand, or camouflage?
Claire: Cah, tadge.
Diego: Correcto, camouflage!


Alex (talking about Mommy): When – when Uncle Doug grew, she didn’t have anyone to play with, and she cried.
Daddy: Ohhhh.
Alex: She wanted to – she wished she had a brother and a sister to play with. And she didn’t.


Alex: I went to Callum’s house!
Claire: Uh went uh Callum house. Uh share.


Alex (to Claire): I'm gonna teach you how to swim.


(At bed time, Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Alex: You hafta shave.

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

(Claire just got up, and Daddy is changing her diaper.)

Claire: Big poop.
(Claire holds her hands up about 3 inches apart, to illustrate.)

Claire: No ‘chool?
Daddy: Oh, we go to school today. And Mommy and Daddy go to work.
Claire: I don’t like ‘chool.


(after school)

Daddy (to Alex): What did you do at school today?
Alex: I don’t know!

Daddy (to Claire): Claire, what did you do at school today?
Claire: Eat lunch. Nuggets.


(Alex and Mommy are getting ready to go to the swimming pool for Alex’s first swimming lesson.)
Alex: Can we play in the sand, too?

Claire: Daddy uh go run.
Daddy: You’re gonna go run?
Claire: Yeah. Run fast.

(Mommy is upstairs, Alex is downstairs.)
Alex: Does the monitor get to your room, Daddy?
Daddy: No, it doesn’t go to my room, just your room and Claire’s room.
Alex: But I wanna talk to Mommy. I wanna tell Mommy something.
Alex (shouting): Hello?! Mommy!

Claire: Go, watch Daddy. Run, really fast.
(Claire starts to run, stops, and goes back to her starting position.)
Alex: Watch, Daddy. Watcha watcha watcha!
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Go, [counting on fingers] one, two, three.
(Claire runs.)


(Claire plays trains.)

Sir Topham Hatt: Uh James, uh go to tree house.
James: Okay.

Claire: Uh bus get a job. Uh bus get a job.
Sir Topham Hatt: Uh bus uh go to tree house.
Bus: Okay.


Claire: Take sock off, Daddy. Take sock off, Daddy. Take sock off, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy takes his sock off.)
Claire: Other one.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy removes his other sock.)

Claire: Uh sit on feet.
(Claire sits on Daddy’s feet.)


(Daddy’s stomach rumbles.)
Claire: Dat you, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah, that was me.
Claire: Oh.
Claire (smiling, mimics the sound): Mmmmmmmmmmm.

(Daddy shows Claire the attached picture.)
Daddy: What’s that?
Claire: Claire, eating.
Claire: Claire, eating.
Daddy: Claire eating! That’s right!
Claire: Eating birthday cake.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Sad.
Daddy: Sad?
Claire: Like this.
(Claire makes a sad face and a boo-hoo sound.)


(Grommie runs to the door.)
Claire: Dat. Dat Mommy.
Claire : Grommie bark.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Grommie bark again.
Claire: At window.
(Grommie whimpers.)
Claire: Grommie barking!
(Claire hears the sound of a car door.)
Claire: Dat Mommy.
(The door opens.)
Claire (running to the door): Ma – ma – ma – Mommy!!

(Alex comes inside.)
Alex (calling out): Daddy, I have something to tell you!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex (looking around): Yeah!
Daddy: I’m right here!
Alex: Hey, there you are. Hee hee!

Daddy: What did you wanna tell me?
Alex: I did a great job at the pool!
Daddy: You did?! Good for you!!
Alex: And there were different friends there, and they’re gonna be in my class now.


Alex (peeing in the potty while standing up): I'm peeing in the potty standing up.

Daddy: How did you pee in the potty, Alex?
Alex: Standing up!
Daddy: That’s right! Good for you!
Alex: I’m a daddy now, so I can do that.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I’m growing up!

Tree!! Daddy, came up!!

(At around 7 AM, Alex wakes up and starts singing to himself in bed.)

Alex (singing): Old MacDonald had a farm
Alex (singing): EIEIO
Alex (singing): On that farm he had a cow
(Long pause.)
Alex (singing to the tune of EIEIO): Moo moo moo moo moo
Alex (singing): On that farm he had a pig
Alex (singing to the tune of EIEIO): Oink oink oink oink oink
(The song continues.)

Alex (singing): ABCDEFG
Alex (singing): HIJKLMNOP
Alex (singing): QRS… TUV
Alex (singing): W, X, Y and Z
Alex (singing): Now I know my ABC
Alex (singing): Next time won’t you sing with me

(Alex sings the alphabet song two more times.)

Alex (singing): One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, eleventeen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!

(Alex continues to sing more numbers.)


(Daddy wakes up Claire.)
Daddy: Did you hear Alex singing?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Did you like it?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What did he sing?
Claire: Letters.


Claire (pointing at a picture of a camel): Camel.
Claire (pointing at each of its legs): Have leg. ‘Nother leg, ‘nother leg, ‘nother leg, ‘nother leg.


Claire (dropping a toy tomato): Uh dropping ‘mato.


(Claire reads The Carrot Seed to herself.)
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come – come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire (very excitedly): Tree!!
Claire (to Daddy): Tree.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What now?
(Claire does not respond.)
Daddy: What did the little boy say?
Claire: Oh.
(Pause.)
Daddy: “Just as the little boy…”
Claire: Just as the little boy…
Daddy: “…had known it would.”
Claire: …know it would.

(Claire reads The Carrot Seed to herself, again.)
Claire: Wuh uh seed. Wuh uh seed.
Claire: Wuh whoa the seed.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came – came up.
Claire: Nothing came up, nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing. Came. Up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up. Uh tree?
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire (very excitedly): Nothing came up! Tree!! Daddy, came up!!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nuh – nothing came up.
Claire: The end.
Claire: Little – little boy with seed. (Mumble) water. Yay!
Claire (handing the book to Daddy): Daddy’s turn!

(Daddy tries to read The Carrot Seed to Claire, but she keeps interrupting.)
Claire: Uh see tree, Daddy. Uh see tree.

Claire: Daddy have booboo.

Claire: Daddy. Uh have finger. Uh have finger, uh broke.
Daddy: My finger broke?
Claire: Yeah.

(Claire reads The Carrot Seed to herself.)
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing –
(Claire gets distracted for a moment.)
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Water the plant.
Claire: Waters the plant.
Claire: Water the plants. Plant.
Claire: Water the plant.
(Claire gets distracted again.)
Claire: (Mumble) water. (Mumble) plant.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Uh Ah-yah is? Uh Ah-yah. Uh Ah-yah is.
Daddy: Alex went outside.
Claire: Why?
Daddy: He wanted to play outside.
Claire: Why?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Claire: Uh play down. Play down. (Mumble) stairs.
Claire: Daddy have nap. Daddy have nap.
Daddy: Daddy have nap?
Claire: Yeah. Claire. Claire have nap. Claire have snack.
Claire (returning her attention to the book): Water seed.
Claire: Water seed. Water water seed.
Claire: Water seed.
Claire (enthusiastically): Tree!! Came up, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Came up!
Daddy: Neat!
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: The end.
Claire: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Claire (noticing Daddy’s band-aid): Uh mines. Uh mines.
Daddy: Well you don't have a booboo.
Claire: Daddy feel better. Daddy feel better, your finger.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: The end. Daddy’s turn. Daddy read it. Daddy read it. Daddy read it, Daddy. Uh read it.

(During Daddy’s reading of The Carrot Seed, Claire keeps interrupting.)
Claire: Uh see tree. Please?
(When Daddy gets to the page before the carrot comes up, Claire gets a look of excited anticipation. Daddy turns the page.)
Claire (with a big grin): Come up!!

Claire: Daddy go library. Daddy, library closed.
Daddy: Yeah, the library’s closed.
Claire: Daddy, go bookstore. Uh go bookstore.

Doggie in window, woof woof

(Claire is pushing her stroller around and around the kitchen table. Mommy is sitting at the table.)
(Claire stops beside Mommy.)
Claire: Uh stopping, Mommy. Uh stopping.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire starts going again.)
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
Claire: Uh going!
(Claire stops beside Mommy.)
Claire: Uh stopping, Mommy.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire starts going again.)
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
(This routine is repeated several times.)


(Claire is playing in her crib during nap.)

(Claire pretends to put her baby doll to bed.)
Claire (singing): Lullaby good night
Claire (singing): Juju Mommy Daddy too
Claire (singing): Mommy Daddy too
(Claire sings something unintelligible.)
Claire (singing): Doggie in window, woof woof
Claire: Yay!
Claire: Good night.
(Claire covers her baby doll with a blanket, and pats it on the back.)

Claire (talking to herself): Mommy ‘chool, Daddy Claire, Ah-yah Claire, Claire Claire, Grommie… Grommie at home.

Claire (semi-singing to herself): Mommy stay home. Mommy stay home. Today. Today. Mommy eating. Today. Today. Today.


Alex: One day when I’m a daddy, I can get old and I can't play.


Alex (at dinner): I like squishy things.


(Claire is wearing Mommy’s shoes and pushing her stroller.)
Claire: Uh going to work. Uh see Pop.