Ha ha! That funny.

Alex: Claire’s touching me!
Mommy: Claire, no touching.
Alex: Claire – Claire’s touching me again!


Claire: Uh take my shoes off.
Claire: Uh take my shoes off.
Daddy: You’re gonna take your shoes off?
Claire (with a big grin): Yeah.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire takes her shoes off.)
Claire (proudly): Uh take my shoes off!


(Alex is eating lunch. Claire is happily running back and forth between the kitchen and the family room.)
Alex: Daddy, Claire’s not listening.
Daddy: What do you want Claire to do?
Alex: I want her to eat.
Daddy: Oh, Claire already had lunch. She had lunch at school.
Alex: Oh.
Daddy: You could ask her what she had for lunch.
(Silence. Claire is still running around.)
Claire (on her next pass through the kitchen, still running): Uh had nuggets, Ah-yah, uh have nuggets at school.

(Alex jams his bread onto his thumb, so his thumb sticks out the other side.)
Alex: Daddy – look what I did with my bread, Daddy!
Daddy: That’s – pretty awesome.
Alex: It’s a funny thumb!


Claire: Mommy, play cups! Uh playin’ cups!
Mommy: You’re playing cups?
Claire: Mommy, do this one.


(Alex picks up the TV remote and holds it like a telephone.)
Alex: Huzz-oohhh! I’m Alex! See you later, Shnock!


(Daddy is putting Claire down for nap.)
Claire: Bye Ah-yah! Bye Mommy! Bye Grommie!
Alex and Mommy (waving): Bye!
Claire: Grommie dog.
Daddy: Right.
(Claire closes the bedroom door.)
Claire: Grommie doesn’t talk.


Mommy (to Claire): Do you think you could go with Alex to the dentist next time he goes?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy (to Mommy): I don’t know, do you think Claire’s big enough to go to the dentist?
Mommy: I don’t know.
Claire: I’m big! I’m big!
Mommy: You’re big? Are you big enough to go to the dentist?
Claire: Yeah!!


(During nap, Claire is talking quietly to herself and laughing a lot.)
Claire: Ha ha! That funny.


Claire: Uh wa Callum’s house.
Daddy: You went to Callum’s house?
Claire: Yeah. And the pool.
Daddy: And the pool, wow.
(Pause.)
Alex: We didn’t go swimming at the pool.
Daddy: Oh? What did you do?
Alex: Um, I ate pizza. And I drank lemonade.


Mommy: Hey. Alex, don’t get near her. And Claire, don’t touch faces.
Claire: No. No, Mommy.


(Claire is coloring.)
Alex: Do you wanna play strollers, Claire?
Claire: No. I’m playing color right now, Ah-yah.


Alex: Do these cook – chocolate chip cookies…
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: …live at Callum’s house? And he said we could take them?


Alex: What did you do, Claire?
Claire (proudly): Open the gate!
Alex: All by yourself?
Claire: Yeah!
Alex (sounding impressed): Good job!


Alex: I want Mommy to take me a bath today.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: No Daddy.
Daddy: Okay, no Daddy.
Alex: Because you’re sick.
Daddy: Okay.