I didn't do nothing!

Alex: Even though I don't have Cinderella anymore, I'm still a good listener.


(dinner)

Mommy: So. Tell me about school.
(Pause.)
Claire: I don't know.
Claire: What I did.
Alex: It was wet on the play set.

Mommy: Did you and Jaap play today?
Alex: Yeah, we played Jail, and I got stuck in jail.
Mommy: Oh.
Alex: I was the bad guy. And I was kidding that I wasn't the bad guy.

(later)
Mommy: Claire, you didn't tell me what you did at school today.
Claire: I didn't do nothing!
(Mommy laughs.)
Claire: I just did… um… I just did…
Alex: Circle time?
Claire: I just did… going to nap…
Mommy: What?
Claire: I just did once, and I just did… took my friends to going to nap. And that's all I did!

Claire: I didn't do ANYthing! Else at school.
Mommy: No circle time?
Claire: No.
Mommy: No jobs?
Claire: No.
Claire: And I went home all by myself!

Claire: Then I... checked my folder, then I opened the door, then I went outside, then I drived the car, and I went home by myself!
(Claire and Mommy talk more about all of the things she did by herself.)

Mommy: Claire, did you make your own lunch?
Claire: Mm-hm.
Mommy: What did you make for lunch?
Claire: Um, water.
(Alex laughs.)
Claire: And squeeze water.
(Alex laughs harder.)
Claire: For real!

Claire: Daddy, when I'm eating, can you think I'm a butterfly when I close my eyes?
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: No -- think I'm a flower.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire closes her eyes and grins.)
Daddy: You're a flower.
Claire: No! Think I'm a flower!
Daddy: Oh, okay.
(Claire closes her eyes again.)
Daddy: I think that's a flower.
(Pause.)
Daddy: I think you're a flower.
(Claire giggles.)