Grown-ups don’t have friends.

(After school, Claire and Daddy walk to Daddy’s car.)
Claire (pointing at a minivan): That like Mommy car.
Daddy: Yeah… it’s big.
Claire (pointing at a sedan): That like Daddy car.
Claire (pointing at another sedan): That not Daddy car.
Claire (arriving at Daddy’s car): That Daddy car, Daddy!

Daddy: Does Claire have friends?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Does Alex have friends?
Claire: No – yeah.
Daddy: Does Daddy have friends?
Claire: No.
Daddy: Does Mommy have friends?
Claire: No.
Daddy: Grown-ups don’t have friends?
Claire: No. Grown-ups don’t have friends.

(The monitor shows Claire in her bed. Alex shakes the monitor.)
Alex: I’m shakin’ the monitor so Claire can shake.

Alex (to Grandma): Do you wanna play dragons?


Claire (excitedly): I’m getting a flu shot, Daddy!

Mommy: Are you gonna take Juju?
Claire: No. Her not get flu shot.

(Daddy is drinking coffee.)
Claire: When me be big, when me drink coffee!
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: When me be a daddy!
Daddy: Yeah! Or a mommy!

(Claire is doing a jigsaw puzzle by herself.)

Claire: I doing this part! Look! I doing it!
Daddy: Oh look, you’re doing it! Great!
Claire: Yeah! I doing pieces!

Claire: Come with me, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Claire: You come with me, and help me. Come.
Daddy: Okay.


(dinner)

Claire (to Daddy, re Sloppy Joes): You bite it. You bite it like – like this, with teeth.

Mommy: What’d you guys do at school today?
Alex: I did, duck, duck, duck, goose!
Mommy: You did? Fun!
Claire: I did circle time.
Mommy: You did circle time?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: He did – he – the goose had to run away from… from the chaser who’s chase, the ducker had to run… so he could catch the duck! I mean the goose!

Alex (out of the blue): What would happen if he would, if a jellyfish would sting you?
Mommy: Um, it would hurt a little bit.
Alex: And he would chase you?
Mommy: No, they don’t chase.
Alex: If a big wave comes and he goes back in the wave, does he sting you still?
Mommy: Um, if he stings you and you keep touching him or bothering him, yeah he’ll sting you again.

Claire (to her baby): I go under the table with you.
Claire (to her baby, singsong): It be really fun!
Claire (to her baby): There a monster un, in that chair.

(Alex is playing with Claire now too.)
Claire: That my favorite baby.
Alex: Me too.
Claire: Yeah.