I wanna show Uncle Kirk how I can swim by myself!

Claire: I don’t want Uncle Kirk to get me.


Claire: I don’t want Uncle Jimmy to look at me.


Claire: I’m excited it’s Grandma’s birthday.

Claire: Are we invited to Grandma’s birthday?
Daddy: Yes, we’re invited to Grandma’s birthday.
Claire: Oh. So we can eat Grandma’s cake when she eats it?
Daddy: Yes.


Alex: Bye-bye, Daddy!
Daddy: Where are you going?
Alex: I’m gonna play bocce, but the grown-ups will show me where to stand.


(on the beach)

Claire (excitedly): Let’s bury Meg!

Claire (excitedly): We can bury me up!

Claire (to Daddy): I’m gonna bury you up!
Daddy (to Claire): I’m gonna bury you up!
Claire (to Daddy): I’m gonna bury you up!
Daddy (to Claire ): I’m gonna bury you up!
Claire (to Daddy): I’m gonna bury you up!
Daddy (to Claire): You’re gonna bury me up!
Claire (to Daddy): You’re gonna bury me up!
Daddy: Okay.
(Pause.)
Claire: No – you’re gonna bury yourself up.


(lunch)

Alex: Are we gonna do the…
Alex (speaking carefully, but kind of slurring his words): Chrysanthemum senimar?
(Alex then falls out of his chair.)
Mommy: Okay. I think that’s enough juice for you.

Alex: Claire, you don’t have to do the book seminar. You can play.



Aunt Sheridan: Do you know what Grandma’s name is?
Alex: I only call her Grandma, so I don’t know her whole name.


Alex: That was a fun – that was a fun seminar, Daddy.
Daddy: Well you should tell Aunt Sheridan that.
Alex (to Aunt Sheridan): I liked your seminar.


(making a birthday cake)
Claire: Am I gonna put the eggs in?
Daddy: I don’t know, Claire.
Aunt Sheridan: Yeah Claire, you’re gonna put the eggs in.
Claire (to Daddy, excitedly): I’m gonna put the eggs in!

Claire: You put them in, and it turns into a cake!

(Meg cracks an egg, and it goes all over her hands.)
Alex: You always get messy when you start cooking.

Claire (to Daddy, proudly): I dumped the eggs in!


(Claire finishes eating her cake.)
Claire: That was yyyyummy cake!


Claire: How do you make people?
Daddy: How do you make people?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Um… you have to make babies first, and then they grow up into people.
Claire: Oh.
Claire: How do you make people babies?


(Claire and Daddy are getting ready to go to the pool.)
Claire (to Daddy): Is it okay if Mommy comes too?



Alex: I liked the big gust of wind until it got stronger. It felt like a kind of big big giant bear.


Alex: I’m really good at games, too, like bocce.



Alex: I opened a popsicle shop, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: We didn’t have very many customers. Uncle Kirk, Courtney, Meg, and Virginia. We had to ask them what color they wanted. Grandpa was there but he didn’t want one.


(Claire plays in the pool.)

Claire: I wanna show Virginia how I can swim myself.
(Claire shows Virginia how she can swim by herself.)

Claire: I wanna show Meg how I can swim myself.
(Claire shows Meg how she can swim by herself.)

Claire: I wanna show Courtney how I can swim myself.
(Claire shows Courtney how she can swim by herself.)

Claire: I wanna show Grandma how I can swim myself.
(Claire shows Grandma how she can swim by herself.)

Claire: I wanna show Grandpa how I can swim myself.
(Claire shows Grandpa how she can swim by herself.)

Claire: I wanna show Uncle Kirk.
Daddy: Well, Uncle Kirk’s not here.
Claire: I wanna show…
Claire: I already showed everybody in the pool.
Daddy: Well when Uncle Kirk comes back you can show him.

Claire: Uncle Kirk!
Claire: I wanna show Uncle Kirk how I can swim by myself!
(Claire shows Uncle Kirk how she can swim by herself.)

Claire: I wanna show…
(Claire looks around.)
Claire: I wanna show…
Claire: I wanna show…

Claire: Let’s be a shark, and get people!
Daddy: Who do you wanna get?
Claire: I wanna get everybody!
(Claire gets somebody.)

Claire: I wanna get everybody!
(Claire gets somebody.)

Claire: I wanna get Grandma!
(Claire gets Grandma.)

Claire: I wanna get Meg!
(Claire gets Meg.)

Claire: I wanna get Grandma again!
(Claire gets Grandma.)

Claire: I wanna get Grandma again!
(Claire gets Grandma.)

(After swimming, Daddy is helping her take off her bathing suit.)
Claire (proudly): I’m big, so I can swim myself.


Alex: Mommy, is it okay if Virginia and Courtney stay in my room? They’re gonna tell me boy secrets.