I have a nose. Right beside my mouth.

(Daddy wakes up Claire.)
Claire: Mommy, I play – Daddy, I playing cars.
Daddy: You’re playing cars?
Claire: Yeah. Dey in timeout. Dey was pushing.

Claire: Dere a monkey on my PJ shirt. I like my PJ shirt.

(Daddy opens Claire’s diaper to change it.)
Claire: Dat big poop!

(Daddy is changing Claire’s diaper.)
Claire: You can’t eat poop.

(After Claire’s diaper has been changed.)
Claire (to Daddy): You need wash your hands, dey have poop on dem.

Claire: Dat my shirt. I pick out it.

Claire: Put those up uh I don’t trip on them.
Daddy (rolling up Claire’s pant cuffs): There you go.
Claire: Thank you.


Claire: I choked yesterday. I choked yesterday.
Alex: What did you choke on?
Claire: I choked on a grape yesterday.
(Alex says something inaudible in response.)
Claire: I choked on a grape at dinner.
(Alex says something silly in response.)
Claire: When I eat it, when I eat it, and I choked on it.
Alex: And then it fell out.
Claire: Yeah, it fell out.
Alex: It got stuck in your throat?
Claire: Yeah, it was in my tummy.
Alex: Did it hurt?
Claire: No.
Alex: Did it hurt when it was in your throat?
Claire: No, it (mumble) was in my tummy, it was in my mouth, and, I choked on it, the grape!
Alex: And it popped out!
Claire: Yeah. I choked on it, I choke on a grape, I choke yesterday, I choke yesterday, I choked on it, at dinner.


(Daddy makes Juju talk to Claire.)
Claire: Her talk with her mouth.
Daddy: She doesn’t have a mouth.
Claire: Juju doesn’t have a mouth. Mallory doesn’t have mouth either.
Daddy: No.
Claire: Mallory have a nose.
Daddy: Yeah, she has a nose.
Claire: I have a nose too.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: I have a nose. Right beside my mouth.

Claire: And I have teeth. Teethies.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: And I have eyes.


(Claire plays with Matchbox cars.)
Claire: I’m pretending to be Alex, and drop him off. I’m pretending to be Alex, with my cars.
Daddy: Oh!

Claire: This is Alex. The green car is Alex. The black car is Claire. And the green car is Alex.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Claire: Let’s go.


(After nap, Claire runs into Alex’s room.)
Claire: What is you doing?
Alex: I’m reading this book.
Claire: Oh.


Daddy: Claire, how many chuckles are in a chucklehead?
Claire: I don’t know.
Alex: Two!
Claire: Two.

Daddy (to Claire): How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Claire: I don’t know.

Daddy: Alex, what’s the biggest number you know?
Alex: Sandal.
Daddy: Sandal?
Alex: No. Uh, sanzo.
Daddy: What?
Alex: Sanzo.
Daddy: That’s not a number.
Alex: Uhhhh… two? Is that a number?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Is it big?
Daddy: It’s not very big, no.
Alex: Uhhhh… one?
Daddy: That’s a number.
Alex: Is it big?
Daddy: No, it’s not very big.
Alex: Uh, three? That’s a number.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Is it big?
Daddy: Yeah, that’s pretty big.
Alex: A thousand. That’s big.