When you're dead, you can't eat.

Claire: Daddy, I took the muffin out, all by myself!
Daddy: Great, good for you!

Claire: I want a purple house, and a new purple baby, and…
Alex: You've got so many babies already, Claire.
Nana: She's collecting them.
Claire: Yeah I'm collecting babies. For my birthday.

Nana (to Claire): You have to think about what you want for Christmas, and then you can think about your birthday later.
Claire: Uh… a Christmas tree.

Claire: When it's time to get a Christmas tree, I, I wanna have fun decorating it.

Alex: The best part is opening your presents.

Alex: And it -- it's fun hanging up your stocking.

Alex: Last -- last Christmas Grommie got some bones.


(Claire is serving imaginary food.)
Claire: I have milk on my cupcake. Do you want milk on your cupcake?
Daddy: Yes.
Claire: Okay.
(Claire pours milk on Daddy's cupcake.)
Claire: Do you want milk on your gooeys?
Daddy: Yes.
Claire: But, can I have one of your gooeys? Because I don't have a gooey.
Daddy: Yes.
(Claire takes one of Daddy's gooeys.)
Claire: Thank you.


(Daddy is working on his computer. Alex sits down next to him with a book and a matchbox car, and pretends to work on his "computer".)
Daddy: Hmm.
Alex: Hmm. Where did I put my numbers?
Daddy: Hmm.
Alex: Wha -- the computer's not working!
Alex: The mouse -- the poi -- the arrow won't move! It stays right in the middle.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: And the mouse is going everywhere.
(Alex moves the matchbox car all around.)
Alex: There we go.
Alex: I left it up here.
(Alex moves the matchbox car all around again.)
Alex: There it is.


Claire: Daddy, when I was going past Grommie, he put his tail in his mouth. His tail.


(Daddy is again working on his computer, and Alex is again pretending to work on his "computer".)
Alex: I don't like work.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Do you think we should go play for a while?
Daddy: Yeah I think we should.
Alex: It's boring sitting here and doing work. Boring.


(Alex is on the swings.)
Alex: Daddy, we're not bothering Mommy, and Mommy said, she's happy that we're -- getting out and playing!

Alex: Let's go play and get some more exercise, Claire!
Claire: Yes!
Alex: Keep our bodies healthy!
Claire: Yes!

(Alex and Claire are pulling up carrots in order to feed a probably-dead ladybug they found.)
Alex: We were just getting something for the ladybug to -- oh, I forgot. When you're dead, you can't eat.


(Daddy heads to the back door to call the kids in for dinner, but instead, finds them both sitting silently in the kitchen, chins glumly resting on hands.)
Daddy: What are you guys doing?
Alex (sadly): We lost our ladybug.
Daddy: Aw.
Alex (sadly): We dropped him.

Daddy: Well maybe he flew away.
Alex (sadly): But he's dead.

(Alex and Claire are watching Caillou.)
Alex (to Claire): Can you say what letter says "guh" and sometimes "juh"?
Claire: No I can't say -- do that.
Alex: It comes after -- at the end of F.
Alex: A, B, C, D, E, F…
Alex: Juh… Juh… Juh…
(Claire is fixated on the TV and doesn't respond. Alex goes on a while longer.)

(After a short break.)
Alex: Juh, juh. J, E, E. What letter is that?
Alex: You want me to tell you?
Alex: I can tell you what letter if you want.
(Still no response from Claire.)