All I wanna do is take a nap.

(Alex and Claire are playing with new stuffed animals: Piglet and Minnie Mouse.)
Alex: Soon, can we marry them?
Claire: Yeah. This is today… and we can marry them… today!


(breakfast at Cinderella’s castle)

Claire: Slow down, Daddy!

Claire: I wished for a pink baby.
Daddy: You wished for a pink baby?
Claire: No. Purple and pink baby.

(Belle visits our table.)
Claire: Daddy, did we watch that show, Beauty and the Beast?

(A princess has on a yellow dress.)
Claire (showing Daddy a forkful of scrambled eggs): This is yellow, like her dress!

Claire: Ariel’s my favorite princess.


(washing hands in the public bathroom)
Alex: I like these things, ‘cause you don’t have to turn the water on after you get soap.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: You just put your hands under it, and you’re done.


(It’s only midday at the Magic Kingdom, and Alex is already tired and grouchy.)
Alex: I want peace and quiet.


Claire: I wanna see if the merry-go-round line is too long.
Daddy: Let’s go to the merry-go-round right now.
Claire: Okay.
Alex (grouchily): All I wanna do is take a nap.


(riding It’s A Small World)

Alex (laughing): A crocodile with an umbrella!

Claire (many times): Look!

Claire: Look, flowers!

Alex (many times): Wow!

Claire: That’s on the ceiling! That’s funny!

Claire (entering every new room): Another small world!

Claire: Look at his hat, he’s turning all around!
Alex: Look at those girls dancing!
Claire: Birdie! Look!
Alex: Look, they have maracas!
Claire: Mommy! What’s that thing?
Mommy: Kangaroo?
Claire: Yeah! It is a kangaroo!

Alex: Look, a castle!
Claire: Oh that’s a ferris, that’s a wheel!
Alex: And a cowboy!
Claire: Another ferris wheel!
Alex: Look he’s throwing a lasso!

Alex: Little Bo Peep and more ducks!
Alex (singing along with the Small World music): Quack, quack quack quack, quack, quack quack… quack, quack quack quack --
Alex: Oh we’re gonna come out, Claire. Look!

Mommy: That was neat.
Claire: Yeah, but now it’s over.
Mommy: Yeah, it’s over.
Claire: But I wanna do it again.

Daddy: What did you think, Claire? Say what you thought.
Claire: I like it.
Daddy: What did you think, Alex?
Alex: I liked it.
Claire: Can I do it again? I like it!
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I like it.
Alex: I like it!

Alex: I like that ride.
Claire: I love that one.
Alex: Because you can see people that were long, long ago, in Virginia. Some people who were here long, long ago. Some people who were here long, long ago. We saw those people. Didn’t we, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah we did!