Yesterday at lunch I ate a burrito.

Claire: Daddy -- no Alex, when the cloud is tired of holding the rain, he lets go of it -- he lets go of it -- and it drops down to the ground.

Claire: So that's how -- so that's how it rains.


Claire: Hey Daddy, yesterday at lunch I ate a burrito?  Yesterday at lunch I ate a burrito.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Mm-hm.
Daddy: Wow.
Claire: But I didn't eat it because I didn't like it.

Thanks for caring about me.

Narrator: The Busy World of Richard Scarry.
Claire: It's not scary, that's the name of the show.


(Mommy is tucking Alex into bed.)

Alex: I wish I didn't have a virus or a cold.
Mommy: Oh, I wish you didn't have a cold, too.  Or a virus that makes your lips and tongue hurt.  So that you can eat and be happy.
Alex: Thanks for caring about me.

Isn't it taking a long time for Christmas?

(Claire and Alex are riding bikes, accompanied by Daddy.)
Claire (out of the blue): Daddy?  Isn't it taking a long time for Christmas?

(On the way home from riding bikes)
Daddy: Maybe Mommy'll have dinner ready for us.
Alex: I can't wait to taste it!  I love dinner!

How can the ball game come from the ball game to someone's TV?

Alex: How can the ball game come from the ball game to someone's TV?


Claire: How do you spell, "I - love - my - family"?


Claire: Daddy, how do you write -- how do you write -- I -- how do you write, um, "All my friends coming to my party"?

It's not scary.

Alex: Daddy!  I got a thank-you card from Richie!
Daddy: Oh great!
Alex: There's three pictures!  And it says something on it.  Mommy read it to me.
Alex: It came from this envelope.


Narrator: The Busy World of Richard Scarry.
Claire: It's not scary.


Claire (talking to herself): Nine, one, one.
Mommy: What's nine-one-one?
Claire: Fire chief!

He uses that for, a creditor, creditors who like to eat him.

Alex: We're not gonna fight today, right Claire?
Claire: Right.  And I'm -- I'm gonna listen to what you say, and… you can listen to what I say.  And we'll do whatever we say, right?
Alex: Right.


(Alex and Claire are eating toast.)
Alex (pinching his tummy): Me want toast!  Me want ticky toast!
Claire: Me want butter toast!
Alex: No, remember?  Daddy used to play that joke?  With the tummy?
Claire (pinching her tummy): Me want toast!
Alex (pinching his tummy): "Me want ticky toast!", that's what he said.


(Alex and Claire have been fighting.)
Claire: Somebody get along with me, 'cause I'm mad.



(dinner)

(Daddy rolls his eyes.)
Alex: It’s not nice to roll your eyes, because that means “Whatever”.


Claire: There’s lots of stars in space, and there’s lots of stars in space, like buh-ginia.
Daddy: Oh yeah?
Daddy: How many states are in space?
Claire: One, two, three.
Daddy: And how many stars are in space?
Claire: A hundred.
Alex: No, a million!
Claire: No a thousand!
Alex: No, it’s a million. Right, Daddy?

(Alex made a porcupine at school, and Daddy is admiring its quills.)
Alex: Daddy, you know what he uses those for?
Daddy: What?
Alex: He uses that for, a creditor, creditors who like to eat him.
(Alex goes on for a while describing how the porcupine uses its quills.)
Alex: That’s how he protects himself.
Daddy: I see. From creditors.
Alex: Yep.

Claire: If you touch the pokeypine, pokeys all over it, if you touch it, “Ow!” it will hurt really bad.


(bath time)
Claire: Help, I'm stuck on a rock 'cause there's tape on the rock that sticks to little girl persons that sit on it.


(Daddy commends Alex for drying himself off without any help. Claire pays this no notice, but Alex, apparently, senses that she might feel inadequate.)
Alex: Claire, it’s still okay to be small. You don't have to worry about big. I'll teach you some stuff. That I learned at school. And I'll try to teach you.

And that’s – that’s Virginia on her iPad.

(At the end of every show, ever; usually just as the credits roll, but sometimes earlier if it’s clear the show is coming to an end, Claire says…)
Claire: Can we watch another one?


Daddy: Did you have fun today?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What did you do?
Claire: We went to the place where the, the plaything was in the… the big building.


(Today was Picture Day at school.)

Claire: We got to hold a bunny rabbit!

Claire: I like bunnies! I like real bunnies.


(dinner)

Claire (petting Grommie with her feet): Grommie feels like a bunny rabbit.
Alex: He’s soft and fluffy.
Claire: Yeah that’s why a bunny rabbit’s like that.

Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: When I was a baby, I called you “Dada”.
Daddy: That’s right.

Alex: When I was a baby, I said “Mama, buwah, Dada.”
Daddy: What does that mean?
Alex: It means “Mommy belongs to Daddy.”

(Claire and Alex are talking about raising their hands at school.)
Claire (raising her hand): You have to do this to raise your hand.
Alex: You don’t go “Hey! Gimme! Gimme a turn!”
Claire: No. You wait – you wait until the teacher looks at you, and then go, “What?” Right?
Alex: Yeah, they’ll say “Okay, it’s your turn, you can tell me your question.”
Claire: Yeah.

(Alex has a picture from school. It’s divided into four quadrants, labeled “baby”, “child”, “teenager”, and “adult”, and Alex drew a different picture in each quadrant.)

Mommy: Tell me about this picture.
Alex: That’s a baby, a daddy, a teenager, and grown-up.

Alex (talking about the “adult” quadrant): That’s Daddy, putting dishes in the dishwasher, and that’s the knife one, and the spoon one – no that’s the fork one, and that’s the knife one, and that’s the spoon one.
Mommy (pointing to the “child” quadrant): And what’s that one?
Alex: That’s – that’s a playset, and that’s me and Claire kicking a ball. We’re children.
Daddy: What’s the baby doing?
Alex: That’s a baby crawling toward her rattle.
Mommy (pointing to the teenager quadrant): And what’s that one?
Alex: And that’s – that’s Virginia on her iPad.


Alex: How do butterflies get their yummy nectar? Then.
Alex: How do they get the nectar? ‘Cause they don’t have a tongue to suck it up.
Alex: How do they get the nectar?
Daddy: Who are you asking?
Alex: You.
Daddy: Oh. Um… maybe Mommy knows.
(Mommy explains, and even shows Alex a picture on her computer.)

Claire: Daddy? How do you make the rain when it’s straight coming down?
Daddy: What do you mean, Claire?
Claire: How do you – you know how to make the rain? That is straight? You know how to make the rain?

Claire (holding dried apple chips): Mommy? How do you make this? How do you make what I’m holding?
Mommy: Um, you dry out apples.
Claire: How do you dry out apples?
Claire: How do you dry out the apples?
Claire: Mommy?
Mommy: I don’t know.
Claire: Oh.
(Pause.)
Claire: Daddy, isn’t it hard work to make a big house?
Daddy: It sure is.
Claire: There’s a lot of things to make a big house, isn’t it?
Daddy: A lot of things.
Claire: Mm-hm. Daddy, Santa comes through the fireplace, but how can he get out of the fireplace?
Alex: Well, I’m sorry Claire, but Santa doesn’t come through the fireplace, ‘cause we don’t have a chimney. We don’t have a chimney, right Daddy?
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: So he doesn’t go through the roof, he goes through the door. We give him the keys on Christmas Eve. Right, Daddy?
Daddy: That’s right.
Claire: But where is a fun thing?
Alex: What?
Alex: What is Claire talking about? Do you know, Daddy?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Claire (firmly): Yes. I’m telling you that when is a fun thing, where we can go?

Claire: You just went to a party. You just went to a party. But I didn’t go there, because you just got to go there. But you’ll be sad – you’ll be sad for my birthday, because –
Alex: It’s not your birthday, it’s someone else’s.
Claire: I said, I said, it’s not my birthday because, because, I’m gonna go to Blake’s birthday.
Alex: Can I stay home with Daddy? I like my Daddy.
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Can I stay home with Daddy, Claire? Can you go with Mommy, because I want to stay home with Daddy.
Claire: But I love Daddy, I want to go with Daddy!

(Blake’s birthday party is in March.)
Claire: But when is it March? It’s taking a long time for March to come.
Alex (in a reprimanding tone): Claire. I think you might be complaining about a different birthday now.
Claire: I’m complaining about…
Alex: …someone else’s birthday.
Claire: I’m complaining about Blake’s birthday.

(Alex answers Claire’s earlier question about rain.)
Alex: There’s a river, and it comes up in the air, but you can’t see it come up in the air, it’s invisible when it comes up in the air, and then it gets to a cloud, and then, when it’s too much water, it rains!
Claire: Yeah but then when he doesn’t want more water, and then he, he drops it!
Mommy: Who’s he? The cloud?
Claire: Yeah. He drops it.

Bye-bye, Frosty, I hope you have fun melting.

Claire: And look at the bottom of the deck! It’s covered in snow too!

Claire: Daddy, the bird bath is covered in snow!

Alex: Hey! The ball is covered up in the snow!

Claire: And the slide is covered up in the snow!


(The snowman is melting; Claire just saw his eye fall off.)
Alex: Bye-bye, Frosty.
Claire: Bye-bye, Frosty, I hope you have fun melting.


Claire (out of the blue): Now a different state is dark, because, this state is… up.


Claire: Daddy? I just beated Mommy, because I got lots of matches, so I’m gonna do that to you!


(Outside the barber shop, Alex sees a stream of water running down the sidewalk.)
Alex: Look, there's water. Let's investigate where it’s coming from.


(At the barber shop, Claire hands Alex a lollipop.)
Claire: Do you want this one, Alex? It’s called Root Bear.

Claire: I’m not asking for my birthday anymore.
Daddy: Good for you!
(Claire looks very proud of herself.)

(Alex shows Claire his ring from the barber shop.)
Claire: A pirate ring! Mine’s a flower. I like my pretty ring. I look pretty when it’s on me.

Alex: Mommy, I’m not messy, I’m just sticky.


(Claire comes up to Daddy and whispers in his ear.)
Claire: We’re not gonna have dinner any day. We’re not gonna do anything in our house.
Daddy: Oh, really?
Claire (whispering): Even dinner!
Daddy: Even dinner?!
Claire: Even bath, and everything.
Daddy: Wow.

Daddy! Are you coming out to play in the snow?

Alex: Daddy, it’s snowing outside!

(Alex catches a snowflake on his tongue.)
Alex: Needs sugar.

Alex: Daddy! Are you coming out to play in the snow?

Alex: It’s snowing faster!

Claire: Can we play kick to each other with this ball?


Alex: The grass is almost covered with snow!
Claire: And the mulch!
Claire: Now, we’re gonna have to put on our boots! And the deck!!


Alex: What if we just had a huge snowball and we dropped it. Then the – then the whole world would be covered with snow. What about that?


(Claire wants to help de-clutter.)
Claire: Mommy, all right, how ‘bout we find a box, and find all the baby stuff, because we’re not babies anymore.

When we get home, I’m gonna tell Mommy that I love soccer!

Claire: Mommy said that in that cabinet was candy, and we could eat some candy at snack today.
Daddy: Oh, won't that be fun!
(Claire smiles.)


Claire: Daddy, I counted 'til the waffle came up.  I counted how much numbers the waffle will come up.


(Alex is playing a song on his toy xylophone.)
Alex: This is a sad song.

(Alex discovers the secret of the xylophone.)
Alex: It's under here, Daddy.  A nail pops up.  And it hits these things.  So it can make a noise.  See?

Alex: You have to look very closely under.  Then you can see a nail pop up.  Wanna see, Claire?

Alex: And these things are musical, see?  So, that helps, the piano, make, a sound!

Claire: I can do another music.  It's a sleeping music.  Do you want to sleep, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah.
(Claire sings a made-up song while playing the maracas.)


(Claire is playing with the toy learning computer.)
Claire: I'm trying to do the flowers, but what do I do when he takes one away?
Daddy: Well, maybe you're supposed to count them.
Claire: I did count them.  I counted one two three.
Daddy: Well you need to press the button with a three on it.
(Claire makes a funny face, as if considering this odd suggestion, but decides to give it a try.)
(In Claire’s defense, the computer voice instructs the player to "Count the flowers that are left."; it says nothing about pushing a button.)

Claire: How do I -- what is this many?



(after indoor soccer)

Claire: Daddy? I had fun!

Claire: When we get home, I’m gonna tell Mommy that I love soccer!

See how I have cookies in my name?

Alex: Every night I think about Disney World.  I miss it.


Minnie Mouse: Why do you love cookies every day?
Cookie Monster: 'Cause I'm Cookie Monster!  See how I have cookies in my name?

The Three Little Fish and the Big Mean Shark.

Alex: Mommy?  How do you spell, "I'm sorry, Claire, that I yelled at you"?


(Claire tells Daddy about a book from school.)
Claire: The mommy was there and the baby was there and, um, the big shark came to the, first, um, fish house… and then… I went huff, I went huff and puff and crash your house down.  And then, um -- and then, with the, um, second fish, made a, uh, house, and… and then, uh… and then, and then he, second fish made his house, THEN, um, shark came and blew huffed and puffed and crashed his house down, and then the third little fish built his house it was a boat house, and then, the other ones was going to her house, but then, the big shark, the big mean shark, went, to the third fish's house, and crashed his house down too but he couldn't do it.  And then, he, went, he didn't have any teeth they all fell out, he couldn't… um… he couldn't, he couldn't… um… um he couldn't, get uhhh crash the house down, then he went and they all, the things, aaaand then he would get all the persons they went back to their house.  With the mama fish.
Daddy: What was the name of that story, Claire?
Claire: The Big Little Fish and the Big Mean Shark.  The Three Little Fish and the Big Mean Shark.


(Claire has rolled her pants up to her knees.)
Claire (grinning): I have short pants.


Claire: Daddy!  Daddy!  Something really bad happened!  Alex went potty, then he wiped his bottom with toilet paper, then he flushed it, and the toilet paper is stuck in the drain!

Yesterday was… that day, but today… is Valentine’s Day!

Claire: Yesterday was… that day, but today… is Valentine’s Day!

Claire: I’m really excited!


Claire: Why does it have hearts on it?
Daddy: Because hearts mean love.
Claire: Oh. What does pig mean?


Claire: Alex, today is Valentine Day! Is it exciting?
Alex: Um, yeah.
Claire: I’m really exciting. I’m really excited.

Why are my sticky hands so sticky?

Claire: I know what starts with leaf, Daddy. I know what starts with leaf.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: The end of it. The end of the name. F. F is the end of the name.
Daddy: Good!


Claire: I got a letter from Blake’s party! So I get to go there. Just me. See, it says “Claire”.

Claire: So I get to go there, not Alex!


(snack time)
Claire: Why are my sticky hands so sticky?


Claire: Daddy, could you play freeze tag with me?


(Claire doesn’t want to go upstairs to bed.)
Claire (whining): But I don’t wanna go upstairs, I don’t want to sleep. My feet want to walk, for a long time.

I’m in the middle of a book. I wanna keep reading.

(Alex is reading a Bob book, and Claire wants him to help her with something.)
Alex: How ‘bout you ask Mommy? I’m in the middle of a book. I wanna keep reading.

Alex: I like having Daddy time.
Daddy: Yeah I do too.


(Claire drew a picture.)

Claire: It’s our whole family, watching the baseball game.

Claire: That’s our family, and that’s the people on TV, kicking the ball.


(Claire hurt her toe. Alex drew her a picture.)
Alex: This is a picture for you, Claire. To make you feel better. And I put a heart on his head because I love you.


(Alex is playing with his computer while Daddy plays with his computer.)
Alex: My computer plays music like yours.

I wanna stay five! Forever!

Claire: Mommy, why do you know to go to places? Why do you know how to go to places?


Claire: I found it! I found it! It was shoved in a stroller!


Claire: Alex! But dinosaurs don’t be in jungle!
Alex: I’m just pretending, Claire.
Claire: Okay.

Daddy: You know what I love?
Claire: What?
Daddy: My kids.

Claire: You know what I love?
Daddy: What?
Claire: My family.

Alex: I wanna stay five! Forever!


(Daddy’s watching a basketball game on his computer.)
Claire: What’s that sound?
Daddy: That’s the players’ sneakers, they squeak on the floor.
Claire: But why can we hear it? They’re all the way in the TV, why can we hear it?


(It’s snowing.)

Alex: Wow! It’s getting windier and windier!

Alex: Hey Claire! Guess what! Some of the snowflakes are blowing away, that’s what it does on the computer. And I can really see that for real.

Claire: Oh! It’s snow on the deck!

Claire: It’s on top of the play set!

Alex: Hey! This part is almost covered up! Then we would say, “Where’s our backyard?”

Alex: It’s a real snowstorm here.

Claire: I need my boots, so I can go out in the snowstorm.

Alex: It’s okay for making snow angels on the deck, but it isn’t good for making a snowman.

Claire: Look at Grommie! He has snow on him!


(Claire and Alex are playing in the snow.)

Claire: Did you eat it? You can’t eat snow.
Alex: Yeah you can.
Claire: No, you can’t. You can’t eat the yellow snow.

Alex: Let’s have a snowball fight.


(Claire and Alex come back inside.)

Claire: Daddy, can you cut my hands up? They’re too cold, I want some new ones.

(Alex’s pants are all wet.)
Alex: Because everybody threw snowballs on me.

Alex: Mommy it was good that I had those messy pants. I’ll tell you why: I was having fun!

Claire: You only can eat the um, white snowballs, not the yellow ones.
Mommy: Yeah, how do you know that?
Claire: Because, I heared somebody tell me at school.


Alex: I wish there was another snow. I wanna have another snowball fight. That was fun.


(Alex and Claire are playing.)
Alex (to Claire): I thought you were laundry!
Claire: I wasn’t laundry!

How do you make a thing and how do you make lots of things?

(Mommy is tucking Claire into bed, and Claire has been asking lots of questions to stretch out bedtime.)
Claire: How do you make a purple flower?
Mommy: It grows from a seed.
Claire: But how do you make it purple?
Mommy: That’s just how it grows. I’m gonna go now, Claire.
Claire: But I hafta tell you something!
Mommy: Last thing, Claire.
Claire: How do you make a thing and how do you make lots of things?

Pockets in front!

(Claire just got dressed.)
Claire: Pockets in front!
(Claire does a 180-degree jump.)
Claire: Pockets in back!

I readed!

(Today, Alex found that he could read all the Level 1 BOB books. Then he taught Claire to read them too!)

Claire: I readed!

Alex (to Mommy): She didn’t need my help!
Alex (to Claire): You’re doing great!

Alex: You read that all by yourself!

Claire: I’m excited that I readed it!

Alex: You can go, Daddy, we’re gonna read by ourselves for a while.


Alex: You can’t drink the whole ocean.
Daddy: No, you can’t drink the whole ocean.
Claire: Yeah, because, you might have a lot of pee, and it might go all, down, your bottom, and you might pee in your pants because of all that.

Daddy, you have to wake up! We have a puppet show for you!

Claire: Daddy, you have to wake up! We have a puppet show for you!


Claire: Mommy, you can’t look at me, I’m still hiding your slippers.


(Alex and Claire are helping Daddy with the laundry.)

Alex (to Daddy): Can we always help you do laundry?

Claire: I really love doing laundry!

Alex: We have a lot of laundry to do today! Yay!


Alex (to Claire): Why’d you move your dreamcatcher?
Claire: I want it over there.
Alex: So it can get – get to your dreams faster?
Claire: Yeah.

If your leg falls off, how do you get a new leg?

(breakfast)

Claire: Daddy, I thinked about the beach, and I thinked about home… and I thinked about picking a purple flower that’s nice… and I thinked about chocolate… but my brain just thinked about nothing, it just sleeped and didn’t have any nice dreams!

Claire: I like puppies.

(Claire has been nibbling at her breakfast for an hour.)
Claire: Daddy, this is not enough food! Blueberries, this, and vitamin.

Claire (looking at her plate): Who ate those blueberries? Who ate those blueberries?
Daddy: You did.
Claire: No I didn’t. Oh yes I did. I feel the blueberries in my mouth and I did eat it.


(Claire and Alex are going outside to play in the backyard.)
Claire (to Mommy, brightly): Do you wanna go pick up dog poop?


(Alex is looking forward to watching the basketball game with Daddy.)
Alex: I wanna see if, if someone puts it in the hoop, and – I wanna cheer!


(driving home from soccer practice)

Claire: If your leg falls off, how do you get a new leg?

(Claire and Alex argue over which is faster: an airplane or a helicopter.)

(Alex comments on the painted line indicating the turn lane.)
Alex: It’s like the equator: it cuts the earth in half.
Claire: Who cuts the earth in half?
Alex: No, it’s just a line. One part is on one side, and one part is on the other side, but they’re still connected.

Claire: If there’s a big rock in the road, like a tree, a car couldn’t go on the road, because there’s a big rock there!


(lunch)
Claire: Daddy? I got a big crusty in my nose, and it was a oval!
Daddy: Oh!
Alex: Wasn’t it red?
Claire: It was red a little bit, and it was really black and yucky, and, watery!


(Alex and Claire are helping Daddy to fold laundry.)

Alex: Claire, did you know I can fold underwear?

Claire (to Daddy): You find the grown-up socks, and I’ll find the kid socks.

Claire: How do you inside-out a underwear?

Alex: Claire? How ‘bout you help me with the inside-out socks, and I’ll put the socks together, okay?
Claire: Okay.

Mommy: You guys being big helpers?
Claire: We’re helping Daddy fold laundry.

Claire: Is this inside-out? Or outside-out?

I know how to make apple sauce.

(dinner)

Claire: Alex I love the pizza!  Don't you?
Alex: Yeah it's too yummy.

Claire: My tummy's really growling!  What else, can, we, ha-wave?

Claire: I know how to make apple sauce.  You squeeeeeeeeeze a apple…
(Claire mimics the action and squints.)
Claire: … then the water will come out in the cup, then you close it up…
(Claire mimics the action.)
Claire: …and theeeeen, you just put a straw in it, and you eat it.

A little and a lots and a little.

(Daddy is buttering bread for the kids.)
Claire: I want mine to have lots.  Not lots, just a little.  A little bit of lots.  A little and a lots and a little.