I have a big cough. I have a big, tall cough.

Alex: I remember that we had a gate up for babies. A white gate, when I was a baby.

Alex: I don’t like being sick and watching too much TV.
Daddy: What?
Alex: When you’re sick you have to watch a lot of TV. And I don’t like to.

Claire: I told Mommy I want you to take me to the doctor.
Daddy: I can take you to the doctor. I like doing things with you!
Claire: When I’m sick, you can take me to the doctor always.
Daddy: Okay.

Daddy (singing the Blue’s Clues song): Thanks for doing your part, you sure are smart, and we can do, anything, that we wanna do!
Alex: Actually we can’t always do what we wanna do, Daddy.
Daddy: Why not?
Alex: Because sometimes we get sick.
(After expounding on that theory a bit, Alex comes up with another example.)
Alex: We hafta go to bed, but we don’t wanna go to bed. Kids don’t wanna go to bed.

Alex: Daddy, I can hold my starfish on one finger.

Claire: I want this cough to go away.



(Everyone is wearing their orange shirts today.)
Claire: Daddy, you have a pumpkin patch shirt.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: I have a pumpkin patch shirt.
Daddy:Yeah.
Claire: Mommy, do you have a pumpkin patch shirt?
Mommy: Uh-huh.
Claire: Alex, do you have a pumpkin patch shirt?
Alex: Yeah.

Claire: My throat hurts, and I'm coughing a lot. I have a big cold, Alex.
Alex: I have a bigger cold. I have a really –
Claire: I have a bigger, bigger cold!
Alex: Well I have the biggest. If you have a taller cold, you're sick.

Claire: I have a big cough. I have a big, tall cough. Alex, I have a big, tall cough.

Alex: I saw -- I see red leaves!
Daddy: Neat!
Alex: And yellow leaves on the trees!
Claire: And, I, see... um ... ... ... ... um... ... ... orange leaves! No, yellow!
Alex: There might be some brown leaves around here too.
Alex: Mommy, the ones with the prickles, the pines? They don't have leaves, they keep their spines.

(The kids have been pestering Mommy constantly.)
Daddy (to Mommy): Are you frustrated?
Alex (interrupting): Mommy?
Mommy: No. I guess I'm getting frustrated by all the --
Alex: Mommy?
Mommy (irritably): What?
Alex: Um, excuse me.
Mommy (irritably): What?
Alex: Um, I love you.
Mommy: Aw, thanks.
Claire: I love you too! I love you too, Mommy!
Mommy: Thanks, guys.
Mommy (to Daddy): Now I feel terrible.