Dog eating his bone. Dogs eat bones. No biting!

(Claire is reading a book.)
Claire (indicating her book): They on a train.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: I went on a train at the museum yesterday. Uh Mommy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: It really fun.

(Claire reads “Teeth Are Not For Biting” to her doll.)
Claire: Dog eating his bone. Dogs eat bones. No biting!
Claire: Uh – no biting!
Claire: No biting. No biting! Boy.
Claire: No biting, Daddy.
Claire: No biting!
Claire: "No biting," said boy.
Claire: Get a hug.
(After a brief interruption, Claire returns to her book.)
Claire: When no biting! Said, uh, on a gate.
Claire: No biting! No biting, no biting! I get a hug.
Claire: No biting! A bird! Look Daddy, a bird, right there!
Daddy (from the breakfast table): Yeah.
Alex (from the breakfast table): Show me! Show me! Show me!
Claire: No biting.
Alex: I wanna see!
Claire: Okay.
Claire: It’s right… here.
Alex: There?
Alex: I can’t see when you move.
Alex: I’ll have to look at it after I’m done.
Claire (reading again): Wuh no biting, no biting!
Claire: Smile!
(Claire grins.)
Claire: The end.

(Claire reads a Thomas book.)
Claire: Thomas book. Thomas on a train.
Alex: Thomas is the train. Thomas doesn’t ride the train, silly!
Claire: People ride trains.
Claire: I like trains.
Alex: I like trains, too!
Claire: Yeah.
(After a brief interruption, Claire continues.)
Claire: When I was on a train with Thomas.
Claire: Uh train is Thomas.
Alex: The train was broken, Claire.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: So, that’s part of the words, so say it.
Claire: “The train is broken,” said Thomas.
Claire: Uh train is broken!
Claire: Uh go fix him.
Claire: When I go fix Thomas? Aday. [Today.]
Claire: Him – he – him really long.
Alex: Yep, because he has lots of coaches.
Claire: When him got really long.
Claire: A cow right there!
Claire: When a cow right there. A cow was gone.
Claire: Thomas was sad.
Claire: Thomas was sad aday.
Claire: When Thomas was happy aday! Dat was Topham Hatt right there. The End.


(Claire comes home from school.)
Claire: I ate my sandwich, Daddy.
Daddy: You ate your sandwich?
Claire: Yeah. There was no food in it.
Daddy: There was no food in it?
Claire: Yeah.
(According to the school menu, Claire ate a dinner roll at lunch.)


(Claire gets her baby stroller.)
Claire (to Daddy): Can you go with me to… a cupcake store?

(Claire and Daddy go to the cupcake store, aka the laundry room.)
Claire: Uh go to another cupcake store.


Alex (to Claire, trying to affect a deep voice): Ho ho ho. I’m Grandpa. You be Grandma?
Claire (trying to affect a deep voice): I’m not Grandma.
Alex: You be Grandma, okay?
Claire: No.
Alex: Let’s eat our dinner.
Claire: No!

(Alex learned about baby teeth at school.)
Alex (to Daddy): I don’t want my teeth to fall out.

(Daddy is clarifying some things about the Tooth Fairy.)
Daddy: You put your tooth under the pillow, and then the Tooth Fairy comes and gives you a present.
Alex (sounding concerned): And then I still have my pillow?
Daddy: Yeah, you still have your pillow. The Tooth Fairy doesn’t take your pillow.

Alex: Pretend – pretend fairies take pillows?
Daddy: No, nobody takes pillows.


Alex: I like building with blocks.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: It’s my favorite thing to do.


(Alex retrieves some blocks that rolled behind the sofa.)
Alex: Now they’re all hairy. They’re all dirty, and they’re all hairy. It’s dirty back there.


(Grommie licks Claire.)
Claire: Him love me.


Alex: You need to shave, Daddy! To get the sprinkles off. They’re prickly.


Claire: Can you play with us, Daddy? Can you play with me?


Alex: Did you open these, Claire? Did you open these?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: You’re not apposed to open these, they get all messed up.
Claire: Okay.
Claire: I won’t open it again.

(After pretending to talk on the phone, Alex runs into the train room.)
Alex (alarmed): I told Grandma! That the green beans were baking! And then steam came outta the oven! And there was a fire!
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: And the firemen had to come!

Alex: Hey Claire? It’s almost twenty so we have to hurry up.

(Claire is trying to get Daddy to come eat the birthday dinner she made for him.)
Claire: You better eat, Daddy!

Claire: You better eat!
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy sits at the table.)
Claire (apologetically): I ate a little bit of your water.


(bed time)

(The following remarks occurred during Daddy’s reading of The Complete Adventures of Big Dog and Little Dog.)

Claire: They takin’ a bath. They dirty.

Daddy: What do they see?
Claire: A fox!
Alex: It’s not a fox, Claire, it’s a skunk.

(Alex asks several clarifying questions about what precisely the substance is that the skunk sprays on Big Dog and Little Dog.)

Daddy: They are very dirty.
Claire: Her dirty too.

Daddy: Uh-oh. Big Dog is in big trouble. Little Dog is in big trouble, too.
Claire: They got a big mess. They need to clean it up!

Alex: Why do they need a new couch?

Daddy: Now Little Dog has a sweater. And Big Dog has a sweater.
Alex: Yay!


(The following new additions appeared unexpectedly in the middle of Alex’s bedtime “words”.)
Alex: …And play coffee… and play X-ray… and play ball…

(Alex’s words also included the following, which were introduced to the litany about a week or two earlier.)
Alex: … And play A, and play Z, and play W, and play X.