Well, I always wanna be this big.

(Mommy has brought down the Christmas tree and decorations.)
Claire: Daddy! Christmas! It’s Christmas stuff!

(Mommy is setting up the tree.)
Alex: Merry Christmas, everybody!
Claire: Merry Christmas, everybody!

Alex: Will you read the Christmas book to me?
Daddy: Um, I will.
Alex: ‘Cause it’s Christmas.
Claire (jumping up and down): It’s! Christ! Mas!


Alex (out of the blue): Who says “quack quack”?
Mommy: A duck!
Alex: No, a cow!
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: I was being silly.


Daddy (to Claire): I love you.
Claire (to Daddy): I love you, too.


(Mommy, Alex, and Claire are putting up Christmas decorations.)

Alex (to Claire) Santa Claus’s coming, that’s Santa, but, it’s gonna be a couple more days, Claire.

Alex (very loudly): Merry Christmas, to, everybody!
Alex: I talked out the window.

(Alex stands in front of the reindeer.)
Alex: Santa’s on his sleigh, with a reindeer!
Daddy: Where?
Alex: It’s behind him.
Daddy: Oh, are you Santa?
Alex: Yeah, I was pretending. I like to be Santa.
Daddy: You’re cute.

Alex: Daddy saw me being Santa.
Mommy: He did?
Alex: Yeah I was cute, and I told him.

Alex: Oooh, that -- this is a fun Christmas! It’s very, very fun!

Alex: Is Santa gonna come at night?

(Alex hangs up the UVa nutcracker ornament.)
Alex: I like it! I like this one!

(Claire hangs up the soft snowman ornament.)
Claire: I like him. Him pretty.
Daddy: Yeah.
(Claire kisses the snowman ornament.)
Claire: I love this one.


Alex: Now it’s Christmas, and not Thanksgiving.
Alex: This is the last holiday.
Alex: And the last holiday after this one is my birthday, and I’m gonna be four.
Alex: I might not be ready to be four, yet.

Mommy: How is three different from four?
Alex: Well, I always wanna be this big.
Mommy: Yeah, you don’t wanna get bigger?
Alex: Yeah, I wanna be this big. Like I am already.


Alex: Claire, do you have a cough? Tell Mommy you have a cough.


(Alex comes out of the bathroom.)
Claire: Did you pee?
Alex: Yeah but, I don’t want you to see it. Oh no, sorry, I locked the door.


(Claire and Alex get their prizes for doing jobs.)
Claire: It a puzzle!! What you got?
Alex: I got a fairy.
Claire: Oh. This is a puzzle!


(dinner)

Alex: Hey, Claire. Why did the W say, P, why are you in the glass? Say “I don’t know.”
Claire: I don’t know.
Alex: Because… there was water in it!
Claire: I tell you a joke.
Claire: (Mumble mumble) fall down in the rain?
Alex: I don’t know.
Claire: Oh. When there’s water!
(Alex laughs.)
Claire: When there’s a cat!
Alex: Well that’s the end of the joke, right?
(Alex laughs and then laughs even harder.)
Alex: That’s a funny joke, Claire.
Alex: Why was the table on the dinosaur’s back?
Claire: I don’t know.
Alex: Because the fairy was walking on his neck!
Claire: Oh!
(Alex laughs.)
Claire: Tell me a joke.
Alex: You tell me a joke.
Claire: You tell me a joke.
Alex: I already did.
Claire: (Mumble mumble) fall down when there’s rain?
Alex: Well, you already said that joke. Say a different joke.
Claire: Where, there’s, water.

Alex: Tell me a joke, Claire
Claire: When the, weh, got in the water?
Alex: I don’t know.
Claire: When there’s rain!
Claire: Tell me a joke.
Alex: Well that’s not very a joke. That’s the same joke.

Alex: Why was there a chair on the snowman?
Claire: There was… rain coming!

Alex: Why was there a flower on top of the computer?
Claire: I don’t know.
Alex: Because there was flowers!
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Now, that’s all the jokes we can say.
Claire: Eat your dinner, Alex.
Alex: Tell me a joke, Claire.
Claire: When the – when the water (mumble mumble).
Alex: I don’t know.
Claire: When there’s – more water!
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: You keep saying that. But, I want you to tell me another joke.
Claire: When there’s a rain. When there’s snowman? When there’s Daddy.
Alex: I don’t know.
Claire: Oh. When there’s rain! In the water.
Alex: Oh.

Claire: May I have some more rollings please?