If we go to space, will that be far from our house?

Claire: My toothbrush is green, and Alex's toothbrush is orange. They're not the same color, Mommy.


(Claire and Alex are watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.)
Claire: If we go to space, will that be far from our house?


Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Claire.
Claire: One day can we…. One day can we… One day can you draw… um... One day can you draw…. One day can you draw…um, Mickey and Goofy and Donald, and, um, Pluto, and all his friends… all of his friends, so, Daddy, can you -- um draw, Mickey Mouse and Daisy and Goofy and Pluto and Donald… all, and… Mickey Mouse and, all his friends and all his house?
Daddy: Yes.
Claire: Okay.

Claire: Daddy, where does Mickey Mouse live?
Daddy: Doesn't he live at the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?
Claire: No, where does he live? What state does he live at?
Daddy: Florida.

Claire: Are we gonna stay in this state?
Daddy: No when we go to the wedding we're gonna go to a different state.
Claire: What state?
Daddy: North Carolina.
Claire (excited): Oh!

(Claire eats a Kix.)
Claire: Daddy, it didn't crunch big crunchies.


Alex: I'm gonna tell Miss Worthington about North Carolina.
Daddy: Yeah, you can tell her all about it.
Alex: That's still on our Earth, right?
Daddy: Right.



(Daddy picks up Claire from school.)

Claire: Now we’re gonna go to the wedding!

Claire: I told Miss Kidd about the wedding!

Claire: Is it still gonna be fun? Even if I don't have my toys I want?

Claire: Are we going to the wedding now, Daddy?


(driving to North Carolina)

Alex: Ooh, there's a big church comin’ up on my side!
Claire (breathlessly): Ooh. Yeah!
Alex: See there's a big church.
Claire: I saw it, Alex.

Claire: We’re going under three bridges! Hey Daddy – hey Alex, we’re going under three bridges!

Alex: I saw a skyscraper! I see a skyscraper!

Claire: We’re going under another bridge!
Claire: Wowww.


(approaching a very big bridge)
Alex: Are we gonna go on it, Mommy? It looks so fun.
Mommy: No, I think we’re gonna go under it.
Alex: Under it? Can we go on it?

Claire: When are we gonna go on another bridge?
Alex: I don’t know.
Claire: Are we going up a bridge now?
Alex: We are. We’re going up a bridge.
Claire: Wow.

Claire: We’re going up a tallll one!! It’s gonna be fun!!


(Claire and Alex have their first-ever encounter with bar soap.)
Claire: That's silly. That's silly.
Mommy: Is that silly?
Claire: Yeah. I never had that kind.
(Pause.)
Claire: I never had bar soap.



(Waiting for dinner at the hotel restaurant)

Alex: Some people laugh through their nose.

Daddy: Sometimes people throw their heads back and laugh.
(Claire throws her head back and laughs.)

Alex: I'm patient!

Alex: Why does this restaurant let people sit there forever?

Mommy: What do you do at a wedding?
Alex: You dance.
Mommy: You dance.
Alex: You eat cake.
Mommy: Well, we’re not gonna eat cake.

Alex: We’re gonna be late for the wedding if we wait in this restaurant just sitting here.


(in the hotel room, getting ready to go to the wedding ceremony)

Alex: I'm excited about the wedding.
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: How ‘bout you make my hair nice?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: So I look handsome in the wedding.

Alex :Hey Daddy, I can climb up this bed all by myself!

(Mommy finishes getting Claire ready.)
Mommy (to Claire): ‘Kay sweetheart. Come look at yourself.
(Claire looks at herself in the mirror.)
Claire: I look pretty!

Claire: I look pretty!
Claire: Look at me!
Daddy: Yeah, you look pretty!

Claire: Yay, I look pretty!

(A little later, Alex looks in the mirror.)
Alex: I look handsome.


(heading back to the hotel after the wedding)

Alex: It’s late. It’s later than we've ever been, isn't it?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Everybody needs to go to the hotel and go to sleep.

Claire: I can hardly see nothing.

Daddy: Children? Did you have fun at the wedding?
Alex and Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Tell me all about it.
Alex: We ate treats.
Claire: Cookies. Jellybeans.
Alex: We... watched your... uncle Pam and uncle Bob get married. Right?
Mommy: It was cousin David and cousin Cathy.
Alex: And we danced. That's all.
Claire: But we didn't eat any cupcakes.
Alex: Mm-hm.
Claire: They had peanuts in them?
Alex: Mm-hm.
Claire: And, that's all.