Aw more. More. Please.

(watching Sesame Street)
Claire: Elmo!
Daddy: That’s right!
Claire: Elmo!
Alex: Elmo, Claire. And that's his email to check. It looks like a TV. Can you say "TV"?


(breakfast)

Alex: Clifford doesn’t fit in schooled. He’s too big. He’s really really really big.

Alex: I don’t like it when I have a burp in my mouth from eating bread all the time.

Alex: When I was a baby, I was sad because I have a burp too.


Alex: Can I cry when I get to school?
Daddy: Yeah. Do they have a crying rug at school?
Alex: No, they just have carpets.


(dropping Alex off at school)

Alex: School makes me sad.
Daddy: Aww. Does it make you a little bit happy?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Do your friends make you happy?
(Alex shakes his head.)
Daddy: What makes you happy?
Alex: Home.


(Daddy abandons the McDonald’s drive-thru because it’s moving too slowly.)

Alex (to Daddy): You can get a sandwich later.

Alex: The truck will move in a minute, and go to another store, and then you can get a sandwich, and you can get a sandwich, and you can… find where the sandwich store is.


(nap time)
Alex: Play in the backyard, play playroom, play trains, wake up Claire, come and close my door.


Alex: I want my Christmas tree now.


Alex: I was mad because I wanted to snuggle up with all my things in my bed.


Alex (singing to himself, playing with animals): I can’t sing, with the tiger it’s not nice, he hits me, and I put him in timeout, and I put him here, I put him right here, and I dance…


Mommy: Alex, it’s time to wash hands.
Alex: But I’m talking to Grover. I don’t wanna wash hands.
Mommy: Alex, it’s time to eat.
Alex: I wanna go straight to bed.
Mommy: All right, I’ll tell Daddy to take you to bed.
Alex: No!


Alex: Daddy, you see that picture with pie on it, chocolate pie on it?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Can you hold it?
Daddy: Well, Mommy’s reading it right now.
Alex: But you can –
Alex (in his “you’re silly” voice): You’re not Mommy, you’re Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah, I’m Daddy.


Alex: You have to not change your mind, Claire. That makes Mommy mad.


(dinner time)

(Mommy is flipping through Runner’s World.)

Claire: I see. I see.
Mommy: You wanna see? What’s that?
Claire: Car.

Mommy: What’s that? Man. Can you say “man”?
Claire: Man.
Mommy: Good job.
Claire: I see.
Mommy: Hang on.
Claire: I see.
Mommy: Hang on.

Claire: I see.
Mommy: What’s that?
Alex: That’s a man.
Alex: Can I see some more pictures on there?
Mommy: Okay.
Mommy: What’s this, Claire?
Mommy (to Alex): Let Claire say it, okay?
Mommy (to Claire): What’s that?
Claire: Apple.
Mommy: What?! What’s that?
Alex: Shoe.
Mommy: Yeah. It’s a shoe, Claire.
Claire: Dog.
Mommy: Right!
Claire: I see.
Mommy: Well, hang on, I need to see – I need to find something for you to look at.
Claire: Dog.
Mommy: Let’s find something fun to look at.
Claire: I see!
Mommy: Okay, hang on, Claire!
Claire: Apple.
Claire: Aw more. Aw more.
Mommy: There is no more. There’s no more broccoli.
Claire: Aw more. Aw more.
Mommy: Unless Alex wants to give you some of his.
(Alex gives Claire a piece of his broccoli.)
Mommy: Oh look at that! That was so nice!
Alex: Can I look at that?
Mommy: Yeah, let me find a good picture.
Claire: I see. I see.
Mommy: Okay, what’s that?
Alex: A tiger.
Mommy: It’s a mountain lion.
Mommy: What’s that?
Alex: It’s a man.
Alex: What’s he doing?
Mommy: He runs with no shoes on.
Alex: And what – where is he sitting?
Mommy: He’s sitting on a bench.
Claire: Aw see. Dog.
Mommy: Dog. And what’s that?
Claire: Dog.
Mommy: Man. What kind of man is that? Do you know, Alex?
Alex: A dog man.
Mommy: Yeah. A police officer. Who uses dogs.

Claire: I see.
Mommy: ‘Kay hang on, Claire.
Claire: I see. Car.
Mommy: Cars, right.
Claire: Car.
Mommy: Yeah and somebody walking.
Alex: Hello, what is that? I wanna see! I wanna see!
Mommy: Don’t freak out.
Alex: Where are they going?
Mommy: Mmm, to work.
Alex: Where’s work?
Mommy: Mmm, down the road.
Mommy: Alex, there are more chicken nuggets, but you need to eat a piece of broccoli if you want them.
Alex: No!
Mommy: Okay.
(Alex eats a piece of broccoli.)
Mommy: What’s that?
Alex: A motorcycle.
(Claire mumbles.)
Mommy: Yeah a robot.
Alex: And what’s he doing?
Mommy: Running.
Alex: And why is he doing that?
Mommy: I don’t know.
Alex: Can I see? I wanna see the calendar. I wanna see the calendar.
Mommy: I don’t wanna get the calendar.
Claire: I see!
Alex: Did you put it on the door?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Why can’t we look at it?
Mommy: I don’t feel like getting it.
Alex: That. Can we look at your magazine?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: What’s that?
Claire: Fuh.
Mommy: Foot!
Alex: I wanna see those. What are those?
Mommy: People, running. It’s a drawing of people.
Alex: What’s that?
Mommy: Foot. The foot?
Alex: And leg?
Mommy: And leg.
Alex: I’m kicking your computer.
Daddy: Please don’t.
Alex: And that.
Daddy: Alex, please don’t kick the table.
Mommy: He has on a green wig. And hair. He has on green hair.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: We’re not going outside? We’re not going outside?
Daddy: No it’s too late, it’s dark out.
Alex: Why is it dark?
Daddy: Because it’s late.
Alex: We have to go in our beds?
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Um. May I have more broccoli?
Mommy: More broccoli? You have more broccoli on your plate.
Alex: I want more chicken nuggets.
Mommy: You have one on your plate.
Alex: Ah? Bas? I want more – I want more honey mustard.
Claire: Aw more. Aw more.
Mommy: Gosh you guys are hungry.
Claire: Aw more.
Mommy: What do you want more of? The broccoli? We don’t have any more.
Claire: Aw see. Aw see.
(Alex gives Claire a piece of broccoli. Claire attempts to give it back.)
Mommy: Oh you don’t want that one? (laughing) Oh, you want it.
(Claire giggles as she eats the piece of broccoli.)
Mommy: Alex, how do you ask for more honey mustard?
Alex: Please.
Alex: Bababababa! Doh doh doh doh doh doh doh doh doh doh.
Claire: Doh doh.
Alex: Dohhhhhhhh!
Mommy: Alex, what should Mommy and Daddy have for dinner?
Alex: Um – a sandwich.
Mommy: What kind of sandwich?
Alex: (mumble) you have a sandwich.
Mommy: What kind of sandwich?
Alex: Um, green.
Mommy: Green sandwich?
Alex: Yeah, green.
Mommy: Doesn’t sound very yummy.
(Alex mumbles.)
Mommy: I guess that was a lot of honey mustard for one chicken nugget.
Mommy: Claire, you still have a lot of oranges left. Are you still hungry?
Claire: More.
Mommy: Gosh Claire, you’re eating a lot.
Alex: I want more chinuggets please.
Mommy: Chinuggets?
Mommy: I want you to eat more broccoli, please.
Alex: I will give Claire one of those.
Mommy: That will be nice.
(Alex gives Claire a piece of broccoli.)
Mommy: Claire, why are you playing in there? You eat it, Claire.
Claire: Aw see. Aw see.
Mommy: I see!
Claire: Aw see. Aw see!
Mommy: You wanna see? They’re running in the snow.
Alex: Why are they running in the snow?
Mommy: ‘Cause it snowed and they wanna run.
Alex: And are they run – are they running up over the hill?
Mommy: They sure are. She’s running fast down the hill.
Claire: Oh. Fass.
Mommy: What?
Claire: Foot.
Mommy: Yeah?
Claire: Fass.
Mommy: She’s running fast. Right.
Claire: Fass. Run.
Alex: I wanna – I want that last chicken nugget.
(Mommy puts her hand to her ear.)
Alex: Please.
(Mommy gives Alex the last chicken nugget.)
Claire: More.
Mommy: What do you want more of? Do you want toast?
Alex: I want bread.
Mommy: Bread. Do you want bread or toast, Claire?
Claire: More.
Mommy: You don’t care? You just want more.
Alex (indicating the honey mustard): Can I dip my broccoli in here?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (to Mommy): Daddy said I could dip more food in here.
Alex: Ahahaha!
Mommy: Is it good, with honey mustard on it?
(Mommy goes to check her email, but she’s still within earshot.)
Claire: Dah dah doh doh doh.
Bread: Hi plate. Hi plate.
Mommy: Hi bread.
Alex: Hi computer.
Daddy: Hi bread.
Mommy: Are you typing what Alex is saying?
Daddy: Yeah.
Mommy: Oh.
Alex: Hi. Hi Claire.
Claire: Uh-wuh-wuh.
Alex (playing with his bread): Up the ship on the board.
Claire: Ow. Ow.
Alex (playing with his bread): Mow, mow, mah, mah. Mah.
Claire: Mama!
Mommy: Claire bear!
Bread: Aw fee feh! Yay!

Alex: Can I see them running in the snow again? Mommy!
Mommy: Yes?
Alex: I want you to come sit in your chair!
Mommy: Ok, hang on honey.

Alex (to Daddy): You take my bread.
Daddy: What is that?
Alex: It’s a ship board.
Daddy: It’s a ship board?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: I don’t need your ship board.

Alex: Um, Lucy said that. I’m a ship board. And the (mumble) ship board – the ship board was getting squished. And now Lucy’s covered up! And now the ship board is flying, and it’s rolling. It’s row.
Claire: More. More. More.
Alex: And now she’s out the ship board. And she’s in the water.
Daddy: What do you need more of, Claire?
Alex: Um, Rosie’s here. Rosie’s here. Rosie took my food! Rosie took my food, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: More. More.
Daddy: What do you need more of, Claire?
Alex: Can you talk to Lucy?
Daddy (getting bread for Claire): Okay, hang on.

Alex: I want more bread too. With no butter.
(Daddy gives bread to Claire and Alex.)
Alex: Yay yay yay yay yay!
Alex (playing with his bread): The ship board is really big. Look at this. The ship board is –- a sh, I made a sandwich.
Claire (dipping bread in orange juice): Way woo.
Alex: (mumble) in the snow.
Alex: Now there’s snow in the –- in the –- in the water.

Daddy: What’s wrong?
Alex: Nothing.
Alex (with too much bread in his mouth): Napkin.
(Daddy gets Alex a napkin, which Alex uses to spit his bread into.)
Claire (pointing to the loaf of bread): Aw dah.
Daddy: Claire, eat the bread you have.
Claire: Aw more. More. Please.
Daddy: Did you say “please”?!
Claire: More.
Claire (laughing): Please.
Claire: Plez.
(Claire laughs.)
Daddy: Okay, more bread for you. Here, eat this bread. Claire, eat this bread and I’ll get you some more.
Alex: I got the rest.
Daddy: The rest of what?
Alex: The rest of the bread.
Alex (getting some of the spit-out bread from his bib): So there’s some in here. Ah. Yuck.
Alex: Here you go. It’s yucky bread. I don’t like too much in my mouth. I just want a little bit in there.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I just want a little piece. I want a tiny piece of bread. Not a big one. Just a tiny piece at a time. Will you get a little one for me? Will you get a little one?
Daddy: Yes.
Alex: Will you take it with some pieces?

(Daddy gets more bread for Alex and Claire.)
Alex: This is a piece. Not – not – not it bigger.
Daddy: Okay, you can rip it up if it’s too big.
Alex (ripping it): Okay, and I gonna put this on the table, so I have a little piece.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Now I have a little piece now. I didn’t have too much.
(Claire makes her bread fly around.)
(Alex makes his bread fly around.)

Alex: I feed him.
Claire: Aw dog.
Daddy: Don’t feed the dog, please.
Alex: That’s it. Now I’m not feeding him.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Claire’s feeding him. Look at Claire.
Daddy: She’s not feeding him.
Alex: He – she is!
Daddy: No, she’s just holding it.
Alex: Claire, don’t feed that dog. Can you put it on your plate and eat it? Can you eat it? Eat the big piece. What you have in your hand. And these pieces. What you have on your plate. One on your plate and one on your tray and (mumble) what you have in your hand, you eat it. It’s yummy. Are you all done? No. Just (mumble) Claire.
(Claire just stares silently at Alex throughout this speech.)
(Pause.)
Alex: Ah! Ch. Ch. Ch. Ch.
Alex: Can I bring Mommy’s magazine? I – I wanna get down and bring Mommy’s magazine to her so I can see the snow.
Claire: Aw dow.
Alex: Okay, Daddy? Claire’s all done. She ate a lot of food. Now dinner’s over, Daddy. Dinner’s over.
Daddy: You guys ready to get down?
Alex: Yeah, and dinner’s already over.
Daddy: Claire, you ready to get down?
Alex: Thanksgiving is over. And now we’re gonna have another Thanksgiving.
Claire (hiding behind her bib): Wooh!
Alex: May I get down please?
Claire (hiding behind her bib): Hi. Hi. Hi.
Alex: Doh! Doh! Duh-duh-doh. Dooohhhhhhh.
Alex: Rosie took my food. Rosie.
Daddy: Well, let’s get you guys down then, okay?
Alex: She took my food.
(Daddy gets Alex down.)
Claire (pulling off her bib): Uh bi. Uh dow. Uh dow. Uh bi.
(While Daddy gets Claire down, Alex runs over to Mommy.)
Claire (upset): Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama!
Alex: Can I show you the magazine?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Mama? Here you go.
Mommy: Okay, thank you.
Claire (running to Mommy): Mama! Mama.
(Pause.)
(Claire fusses.)
Daddy: What’s going on, guys?
(Silence.)

Can you be happy?

Alex: Mommy’s at work. Can you say that, Claire?
(Pause.)
Alex: No?
Daddy: Can you say that, Claire?
(Pause.)
Alex: Can you say “work”?
(Claire grins at Alex.)
Alex: Can you say “dinosaur”?


Alex: Did Grommie go to school?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: He stayed in the car?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: So he didn't scare my teachers? So he couldn’t scare my teachers?
Daddy: Yeah.


Alex: I want you to not get your warm coat wet.


Alex: Can you talk about what animals are in your shoe?
Daddy: Okay. One time...
Alex: And food. And water and milk and juice and water and milk and chicken and mashed potatoes and ... ... and ... ... pepper... ... and dinosaur pasta, and no pepper.


Alex (singing): You are my sunshine
Alex (singing): My only sunshine
Alex (singing): You make me happy
Alex (singing): When skies are grey
Alex (singing): You’ll never know dear
Alex (singing): My only sunshine
Alex (singing): You make me happy
Alex (singing): When skies are great
Alex (singing): You’ll never know dear
Alex (singing): How much I love you
Alex (singing): Please don’t take my sunshine away


Alex: Um, I don't have a sister. Just a brother.
Daddy: You don't have a sister, Alex?
Alex: No. Just a brother.


Alex: Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Can you be happy?


Alex: Be happy, Daddy. Why are you mad? Why are you talking like that?

Meg waked me up, and Grommie, and Virginia, Kirk, and the other man, Aunt Sheridan, Ed, they all waked me up.

Alex: Meg waked me up, and Grommie, and Virginia, Kirk, and the other man, Aunt Sheridan, Ed, they all waked me up.


Alex: (whining): I don't wanna go in the playroom, I don't wanna do anything!!


Alex: I touched all the animals and two people! And one bear, and one cow, and one pig, and one sheep, and one boy, and one mommy. I touched all of that.


Alex (crying): I wanna talk to Nana on the phone!


Alex (to Daddy): I want you to wash my hands.


Alex (to Daddy): I want you to feed me.


Alex: I think Pop’s at work.
Daddy: You think so?
Alex: Yeah. He - he will be home in a minute.


Alex: I don't love anyone.


Alex: I want chacha. I want Pop.
Daddy: You want Pop?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Pop’s at his house. Do you think Pop's at his house or Pop's at work?
Alex: He's at his house.
Daddy: Does Pop live there?
Alex: No! He lives in a barn.


Alex: When I was a little boy, I could eat melon toad.

Is it turkey time yet?

(Alex is watching the end of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.)
Alex: They're eating chicken.
Alex: They're eating turkey.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: They're eating turkey. They're gonna eat pumpkin pie in a minute, when it’s over.
Alex: Woodstock’s flying!
Alex: They're eating pumpkin pie.


Mommy: Okay, that's gross.
Daddy: How did that happen, Alex?
Alex: I was tryin’ to throw it to Claire, and Claire was tryin’ to catch it, and I throwed it in Grommie’s water.


Alex (singing): I'm a monkey, here I come, over the river, and the woods, and the coke, what a day I'm having ... I'm a monkey, ha ha ha, here I come... I'm just having fun…

Mommy: I'm a monkey, ha ha ha, here I come…
Alex: That's the song I sing.


Monkey (being thrown across the kitchen by Alex): What's happening to me?! Aaaaaahh!


(Daddy has a wooden spoon.)
Alex: That's Elmo.
Daddy (pretending to eat): Mmmmmmm.
Alex: But that's Elmo.
Daddy: He's delicious.
Alex: Get that outta your mouth, don't eat food – don’t eat people.
Daddy: Okay.


Alex: Is it turkey time yet?


Alex: When babies go to bed they always cry, Daddy.


Alex (pretending to make dinner): I’m having Thanksgiving dinner.
Aunt Sheridan: What are you having?
Alex: I'm having green beans... mac and cheese... green beans... I have some waffles too... and green beans.


Daddy: Alex, are you ready to wash your hands?
Alex: It’s time for Thanksgiving!!


(Daddy and Alex go upstairs to change Alex’s diaper.)
Daddy: We can't change diaper downstairs because there’s too many people down there.
Alex: And two people are up here changing the boy’s diaper.


(Daddy compliments Alex on how well he’s brushing his teeth.)
Alex: I'm gonna show Meg.
(Pause.)
Alex: And she will be berry happy.


(bed time)

Alex: I wanna watch the ship one.

Alex: Are all the people gonna go home?

Ah Mommy Daddy!

(Alex is watching the end of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.)

Alex: He has a table! Ayhyhayahsyah Woodstock!

Alex: Snoopy! He has chairs!


(after watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.)

Alex: I wanna watch it again!

Alex (whining): I wanna watch it again!

Alex (whining): I wanna watch it again!

Alex (whining): I wanna watch it again!

Alex (whining): I wanna watch it again!

Alex (whining): I wanna watch it again!


Alex: I want you to cry on the crying rug with me.

(Alex and Daddy are on the crying rug. Claire joins them.)
Claire: Ah Mama! Ah Mama! Ah Mommy Daddy!

Alex: I'm gonna get Mommy to cry on the crying rug.
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex leaves the crying rug to go get Mommy.)
Alex: Mommy, will you cry on the crying rug with me?
Mommy: Yes.
Alex: She said yes, Daddy!


(Mommy’s trying to get Grommie to stop licking her.)
Alex: He's trying to lick you.
Mommy: I know, and I don't want him to.
Alex: But it’s nice.

(Alex is looking at a placemat with pictures of all the US presidents.)
Alex: Those are other people on the TV and on the radio.


Alex: Daddy, come play with me!
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You have Bertie! He’s a bus!


Alex: I wanted Mommy and Daddy when I was a baby in my bed.


(Claire is crying.)
Daddy: What should we do to make Claire happy?
Alex: Oh, we have to give her a hug and a kiss.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I'll hug her.
(Alex gives Claire a hug. Then he sings Twinkle, Twinkle to her. Claire stops crying.)


Alex: Look, Daddy.
Daddy: I see, he drove right off the track.
Alex: She.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Daisy did.


Mommy: Claire! No open!
Claire (opening): Open.


Alex: And then the man came running, and then they show the big mess George made.
Daddy: That's right.
Alex: And then he brought a cart with a full of dirt in it.


Daddy (singing): I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair, I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair
Alex: What man?


Alex: Um, can you talk about Curious George again? I didn’t hear it.


Claire: Wawa. Wawa. Wawa. Wawa. Wawa. Wawa. Wawa. Wawa.
Daddy: Is that how you ask for it, Claire? Can you say “please”?
Claire: Plez.


Alex: Is Mommy still doing things?


Alex (referring to Claire): She always says “no”.
Claire: No.

Can you talk about there was a monkey in your shoe and he ate pasta?

Alex: Because I wore my boots today, because I got them dirty, and Mommy has to clean them.


Alex (referring to the coffee table): This is from the dining. This is from the dining. The dining's on the f -- on the fud floor.


(breakfast time)

(Alex wants a straw.)
Alex: I need a pencil to drink.

(Claire is playing with the remote.)
Alex: I wanna turn the TV off!
(Claire gives the remote to Alex.)

Alex: I made a turtle outta my t-- outta my waffle.

Alex’s waffle: Hi! I'm a turtle.


Alex: I put my dinosaur on the counter so Grommie doesn’t mess my dinosaur up.
Daddy: Okay, good.
Alex: But Claire’s dinosaur is on the floor. Can you put it on the counter, Claire?


Alex: Gobble gobble! Gobble gobble! I’m a turkey! Gobble gobble! Gobble gobble! I'm a tuuurkeeey!


(dinner time)

(Daddy opens a pot on the stove.)
Alex: Ah! Look at that. It went all the way to the ceiling. What is that?
Daddy: That's steam.
Alex: Where did it go?
Daddy: It went into the air.
Alex: Where's the air?
Daddy: It’s everywhere. It’s all around us. You can't see air, but it’s all around us.
Alex: Where could it be?

Daddy: Zing!
Claire: Zing!

Alex (to Daddy): What else was in your shoe today?

Daddy: Claire, if you had five apples, and you gave me three apples, how many apples would I have?
Alex: Two!
Daddy: That’s right.
Daddy: Alex, if you had six apples and you gave me three apples, how many would I have? Alex: Three.
Daddy: That’s right.

Daddy: Alex, are you a taco shell?
(Alex shakes his head.)
Daddy: Are you a flightless bird?
(Alex shakes his head.)
Daddy: What are you?
Alex: A chucklehead.

Alex: Can I have more honey mustard, please?

Alex: Can you talk about there was a monkey in your shoe and he ate pasta?

Alex: Can you say there was a chicken in your shoe and he had juice and water and milk and pasta?


Daddy: Alex, who’s my favorite boy?
Alex: Alex!
Daddy: That’s right.
(Pause.)
Alex (giving Daddy a hug): I love you too!


Alex: Can you talk about the giraffe and the elephant and they will eat food, juice, apple juice, and milk and water, okay?


(Alex and Claire are playing in Alex’s bed.)
Alex: Daddy, I need a baby. Can you get me a baby?
Daddy: I need a baby too. Where can I get a baby?
(Claire gets out of bed, gets Alex’s baby, and gives it to him.)
Alex: Claire got me a baby! Claire bear!


Daddy: C’mon Alex, let's go use potty.
Alex: No, I don't wanna do it.
Claire: Me!
Claire (running to the bathroom): Me me me me me me!
Daddy: Okay Claire, you can do it.
Alex: I wanna do it!


Alex: Let's see if Wyatt is there, or Ian is happy or if he's being mean.

Chirp chirp.

Alex: Here's what you can dump on Claire’s head.


Alex: Can you help me and then say “quack quack quack” to me?


Daddy: Alex, what are you gonna be when you get big?
Alex: A daddy.
Daddy: That’s right. And what are you gonna be when you get little?
Alex: A baby.


(playing in the tub)

Elmo: Look, Cookie Monster, I'm stuck on the wall!

Elmo: I heard a dragon!! Aaahhhhh!
Elmo: I heard a dragon, Cookie Monster! Come up here! Cookie Monsteeerrrr!


Daddy: Alex, if birds could talk, what do you think they would say?
Alex: Chirp chirp.
Daddy: If you could talk to a bird, what would you tell them?
Alex: Um, if you had a (story?), you have two heads, fly up in the sky, (mumble)?


Alex: What is love?


(in bed)

Daddy: Okay, I'm gonna give you a kiss now.
Alex: I want to talk to you! Can't leave if I'm talking to you.

Aw hug.

Daddy: No, Claire, you're still too little. You’ll get bigger, don’t worry.
Alex: Don't worry, Claire.
(Pause.)
Alex (to Claire): You'll get bigger and I’ll get bigger.
(Pause.)
Alex (to Claire): And when I'm little, you’ll be in Mommy’s tummy.


Alex: Next time I was sorry I ate the whole banana when it was green.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. I - I was sorry.


Alex: That horse is not nice to you.
Daddy: What horse?
Alex (laughing): He's pretending to be a dog. Is he licking you?


Claire (holding Juju on her head): Juju.


Daddy: Can you get Mommy’s bag?
Alex: It’s her purse.


(Alex is helping Daddy unload the car.)
Mommy: Oh thank you, Alex, can you go put it in the kitchen for me?
(Alex puts it in the kitchen.)
Alex: Say "thank you".
Mommy: What? You want me to say “thank you”?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Thank you.
Alex: You’re welcome.


Alex: Party’s over, and now you have to go do snowman with me.


Alex: You wanna go in the bouncy house in there? There’s a bouncy house. There's a snowman in there and we can cover him up.


Alex: I'm taking my dinosaur for a walk and, um, it’s dark and then he's sleeping. I'm looking for the store and then it can snow.


Claire: Aw hug.
(Claire walks over to Daddy and gives him a hug.)

Claire got me a book.

Mommy: Are you gonna try to go pee-pee in the potty at school?
Alex: No. Not today.


(Alex and Daddy are playing downstairs.)

Alex: All right, Daddy. It’s almost time to go to your work and have a party, okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Beep, beep, time to go to work!

Alex: We have to build a building!
Daddy: We have to build a building?
Alex: And then we have to do that.
Daddy: What?
Alex: We need to build a building, and then we need to brush our teeth in there, and get our pull-ups on. (Gibberish.)

Daddy: Where are we?
Alex: At work!
Daddy: Oh good, what are we gonna do at work?
Alex: Um, nothing let's go home.
Daddy: Okay.

Alex: Come to your work over here.
Daddy: Okay, what are we gonna do at work?
Alex: Um, work with our computers. Here's your computer.

Alex: I want you to not walk away or drive away, and no running but, we can take a run and then have a party.


Alex (washing hands): Am I done?


(dinner time)

Alex: Daddy, before I went to the grocery store, I saw the sun, and it was blue and pink and... it was orange... and - I stared at it, but Mommy said... “Don't stare at it.”
Daddy: Mommy you not to stare at it?
Alex: And then it went down because it was - it was getting late. And then I went in the grocery store and when I was done with the grocery store it was dark.

Alex: Claire, can you say “building”?
Claire: Bi-bis-dah-woh.
(Claire laughs.)

Mommy: Who wants more peaches?
Alex: Me!
Claire: Me!

Alex: I'm wiping my face so I can eat my peaches.

Alex: That’s for my party.
Daddy: Why are you having a party?
Alex: I'm almost three. I'm two.

Claire: Aw down. Aw down.


Alex: I wanna go to the animal zoo.


Alex: I wanna poop in my diaper.


(on the potty)
Alex: I don't wanna poop on the potty.
Daddy: Okay, do you want to poop on the Elmo potty?
Alex: I am pooping.

(still on the potty)
Daddy: Do you want to read a book?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, I’ll go get you something.
Alex: I want Claire’s cat book.
(Daddy goes to look for the book, but can’t find the cat book.)
Daddy (calling to Alex): How about Thomas?
(Daddy comes back with the Thomas book, and finds Alex reading Claire’s cat book.)
Alex: Claire got me a book.


Alex: I like treats.
Daddy: You like treats?
Alex: And cookies. I had a cookie before I went to the grocery store.

A different Daddy must be at a different house making a new airplane.

Alex: I saw a piece of Life cereal go down the drain.


Alex: Are we gona roll sleeves up before cookies?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Okay. I rolled my sleeves up!


Alex: That's my big chair. Why are you letting Claire sit in my big chair?
Mommy: Well Claire wants... to be big too.
Alex: Okay, I will find a different big chair.


Alex: I wanna play animals with you. And you can talk like Claire doesn’t. She doesn’t how to talk and say "hi!"


Alex: C’mon Daddy, let's go have dinner at your backyard house.


Alex: I like dinosaurs.


Alex: I like carrots too.
Daddy: Yeah? Me too.
Alex: And peas.
Alex: And corn.


Alex: Don't bother me!!!


Alex: Why is our pumpkin really gross?


Alex: Are we gonna get some fresh air?


Alex: Where's the fresh air?
Daddy: It’s in our backyard.
Alex: Can you show me?


Alex: What are those?
Mommy: Leaves.
Alex: Are those for Grommie? Dogs don't eat leaves.
Daddy: Dogs don't eat leaves.
Alex: Um, or people. Just giraffes.


(Alex is playing in his car on the deck.)

Daddy: Where are you going, Alex?
Alex: I'm going to the store. You can walk.
Daddy: I hafta walk?
Alex: I hafta ride in the car, and there's not any room for girls and boys.

Alex: Do you like pumpkin muffins for dinner?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: All right, now we got two things. Let's go home.

Alex: Ready to go um get dinner ready with me?

Alex: Mmmmmmmmmmm. Ready to eat!

Alex: Oh we hafta get a lot of things at the store, Daddy, let's go back to the store.

Alex: C’mon, Daddy.
Daddy: I'm comin’. Are we at the store?
Alex: Yeah.
Alex (to Daddy): Are you gonna get some more?
Alex (to Mommy): We left the other food at home, Mommy, so we can eat it later when we get home.

Alex: Do you wanna get tree branches for dinner?
Daddy: Yeah, let's get tree branches.
Alex: I don't like tree branches. And the - what's the green thing?
Daddy: Leaves.
Alex: No, what's the other thing that people eat?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: Okay, um… cucumber.

Alex: Can I brush off something too?
Mommy: What?
Alex: Did you brush off something?
Mommy: I erased something.
Alex: Can I do it?

Alex: This is my roof. If it’s raining. If it’s pretending to rain.

Alex: Let's go get some goss. To put in here. C’mon, Daddy. You ready?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Rrrrrrrrr. Rrrrrrrr. Rrrrrrr. Rrrrrrr.

Alex: C’mon, Daddy. Back home.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Can you mow the lawn?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Can you use your hands?

Alex: I have a Mommy at home. Not a Daddy. Just a different Daddy. You’re a new Daddy (laughing mumble).

Alex: I'm at home.
Daddy: Where's your different Daddy?
Alex: There's a - a different Daddy must be at a different house making a new airplane.

Alex: I bumped into a truck! A dump truck, Daddy.

Alex: Did Claire bring that outside?
Daddy: Yeah, Claire brought that rag outside.
Alex: Are some birds gonna eat it?
Daddy: No, birds don't eat rags.
Alex: What eats rags?
Daddy: Nothing eats rags. No one wants to eat a rag.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: What eats trees?
Daddy: Well, giraffes eat leaves.
Alex: What eats plants?
Daddy: A lot of things eat plants.
Alex: What eats plants?
Daddy: Um, dinosaurs eat plants.
Alex: What else?
Daddy: Deer eat plants. And rabbits.
Alex: What else?
Daddy: Um, Mommy, what else eats plants?

Alex: Oh no! My car fell over! And now I can't eat anymore and now my food flew away and now I can't eat anymore!
Daddy: Oh no!
Alex: You better fix my car, Daddy.


Daddy: Maybe we can go to the pumpkin patch with Linus, and wait for the Great Pumpkin.
Alex: But maybe the Great Pumpkin’s sleeping for a long time. But maybe we can see a frog.
Daddy: We can see a frog?
Alex: Yeah. (Gibberish.)
Daddy: What?
Alex: Maybe we can see a frog. Would that be silly?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Charlie Brown! Lucy! Sally, come on! Come on! Pumpkin patch!
Alex: There he is, Great Pumpkin! I see a frog and a boot! And I see Snoopy!


(Daddy is reading My Big Boy Potty.)
Alex (pointing at a picture of Michael peeing): What's that?
Daddy: That's pee-pee.
Alex: What is it?
Daddy: It’s pee-pee.
Alex: That's not pee-pee.
Daddy: Yeah, that's pee-pee. He's peeing in the potty.
Alex: That's not pee-pee. What's wrong with Michael?


(in bed)

Alex: But I'm gonna sit up in bed while Mommy and Daddy do all of something. And I will watch them when my door is open or closed.

And Marcie said. To herself!

Alex: Who's coming to my house today?


Alex: After Halloween, I was trying to get sleepy.
Daddy: Oh yeah? Did you?
Alex: Yeah. But when Mommy goes for a run I always get sleepy.


Alex: What do you say, Daddy?
Daddy: What did I say?
Alex: What do you say?
Daddy: What do I say?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: I don’t know, I don't say anything.
Alex: You said something.
Daddy: Oh I don’t know what I said.


Alex: The man’s gonna fix our ceiling because there's a big hole up there.


Alex: Next time at circle time, I talked about vegetables.
Daddy: Oh yeah? What did you say?
Alex: Carrot, and a pea.
Daddy: Oh! What else?
(Alex says something with his mouth full.)
Alex: Strawberry is a fruit.
Daddy: Yeah. What else is a fruit?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: What other vegetables are there? What else is a vegetable?
Alex: Green bean.
Daddy: That’s right. Any others?
Alex: I don’t know.


Alex: I fell in the giraffe.


Alex (to Mommy): Can I clean up with you?


(The following remarks were made during Mommy’s reading of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.)
Alex: I put the football um... on the outside and the book right there.
Alex: For the second one?
Alex: Is that a sticker? Is that a sticker?
Mommy: “Amen,” Peppermint Patty said.
Alex: And Marcie said. To herself!
Alex: Where’s the - where's the Frisbee?
Alex: That's just goss, Mommy.
Alex: Um, is Charlie Brown gonna say something?
Alex: Are you gonna say something?
Alex: Um, I wanna s - I want him to talk about all the stickers.
Alex and Mommy (singing): Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go
Alex: Are - are these dinners?
Alex: Can you put them up there?
Mommy: “With a turkey dinner...”
Alex: “... And all the trimmings.”
Alex and Mommy (in unison): Happy Thanksgiving.


Alex: I don't want my trains over there.

She has a mustache.

Mommy: What does Santa look like?
Alex: She has a mustache.

Alex: Party time! Somebody said that.
Daddy: Who said that?
Alex: Santa said party time.


Alex: Are you a robot?


Daddy: Mommy’s going for a run. Mommy likes to go for runs. You know that, don't you?
Alex: If she's going for a run, maybe can we look at pictures and play trains.


Alex: It’s time to ride on the tractor, Daddy. And look at cows, and horses, and roosters, and chickens.
Alex: Rrrrrrrrrrrr. Rrrrrrrrrrrr. Rrrrrrrrrrrr.
Daddy: Let’s ride the tractor upstairs.
Alex: Let's not. Let's stop for a minute. When we get upstairs we can ride again.


Alex: Um, goss went outta my bottom and went on the floor a little bit.


(night time, Alex is in bed)

(Mommy walks upstairs and goes into her bedroom.)
Alex: Mommy turned the light on.
Alex: Oh she closed the door.
Alex: I guess when she opens it she will turn the light off.

Alex: But two persons are missing. Daddy and Mommy. They’re cleaning up everything.

(Daddy coughs downstairs.)
Alex: I think that was Daddy.

Me!

Claire: Aw see. Aw see. Aw see. Aw see. Aw see.


Claire: Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.


Alex: Say - we say something and then we laugh, okay? Say – say “what does an owl say?”, can you say that?
Mommy: What does an owl say?
(Alex laughs.)
(Mommy laughs.)


Alex: I - I need to get down. Can you go work on your computer now?


Alex: Oh Backyardigans are inside, they went outta the car!


Daddy: Who's ready to go upstairs?
Alex: No one.


(Upstairs)
Daddy: Who's ready to go do bathroom stuff?
Alex: Me.
Claire: Me!
Alex: No, me.
Claire: ME!


(Alex reads Little Blue Truck Leads the Way.)
Alex: Little blue truck leads the way.
Alex: Um...
Alex: Little blue truck rolled into the city, beep, isn't it pretty?
Alex: What's this page called?
Daddy: You read it.
Alex: Little blue truck rolled into the city, beep beep beep, isn't it pretty?
Alex: Towering buildings went across the sky, li – little blue truck rolled in – I don’t know that page...
Alex: I don’t know that page...
Alex: They're all gonna get stuck, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.
Alex: Screech! Stop.
Alex: The blue, um –
Alex: I don’t know that one.
Alex: When the letter –
Alex: Follow Blue.
Alex: Uh - everyone (mumble) the little blue truck.
Alex: Um. I don’t know that page.
Alex: He went home.
Alex: The end.


Alex: Thank you Claire for moving.


Alex: Can I have my car, Claire?
(Claire gives Alex the car.)
Alex: Thank you.


Alex: Yeah, water be’s in bed.
Daddy: Water be’s in bed?
Alex: Yeah. Beds hold the water.


(bed time, overheard over the monitor)

Alex: Yeah, but I don't want you to go downstairs, I like to watch you.
(Mommy says something inaudible.)
Alex: And I – at night I like to look at you.

Alex: And what's Daddy gonna do after he cleans up the kitchen?
Mommy: He's gonna go to bed with me (inaudible).
Alex: Oh, where's your room?
Mommy: (inaudible) it’s past Claire’s door.
Alex: It’s right there?
Mommy: That's right.
Alex: The door’s open?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: And you open it and then you go to sleep and turn off the light?
(Mommy says something inaudible.)
Alex: And can I go to bed after this nap?
(Mommy says something inaudible.)
Alex: And I can't - and I can't get out of my bed?
(Mommy says something inaudible.)
Alex: Okay.
(Mommy says something inaudible.)
Alex: ‘Kay. Um, play in the backyard. And I will say play cards.
Mommy: Play cards?
Alex: Play in the backyard.
Mommy: Play in the backyard.
Alex: Um... Play trains.
Mommy: Play trains.
Alex: I have a mustache.
Mommy: Play in the playroom.
Alex: And play in the playroom. And wake up Claire and come and close my door.

At the grocery store you made me happy too.

Alex: I heard Grommie’s nails go “click, click, click”.

Alex: My barber shop has trains.


(Alex and Daddy are driving to Daddy’s barber shop.)

Alex: There’s um the high school, Daddy, that's where the band plays.

Alex: I hear a noise, can you tell me what it looks like?

Alex: I hear a car noise and it’s saying “click, click”.

Alex: Daddy, at my barber shop they have Percy and James. They have coaches.


(Alex and Daddy are now driving to the grocery store.)
Daddy: We'll get waffles and bananas.
Alex: And chips.
Daddy: And chips too.
Alex: And can you get some more food?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And when you go home, can I wash hands, because I'm hungry.

Alex: It’s windy, and it’s cold, and it – and it – it – and there’s rain.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: It’s all – everything’s happening.

Alex: I wanna eat grapes for dinner.


(Alex and Daddy are driving home.)

Daddy: Alex, you were such a good boy. You were so good at the barber shop and you watched me get my hair cut. It made me so happy to have you there with me.
Alex: At the grocery store you made me happy too.

Alex: Why is it so dark?
Daddy: Because it’s late, we need to go home and wash hands and eat dinner.
Alex: We need to be (inaudible).
Daddy: What?
Alex: We need to be in our beds.


Alex: After circle time, I ate snack, and then I watched – I watched TV.
Daddy: Wow! What did you watch?
Alex: Pooh Bear was not working, so I watched a different one about Elmo.
Daddy: What was wrong with Pooh Bear?
Alex: Pooh Bear didn’t work. It was tryin’ to turn off. I got a new show. I got Elmo.


Mommy (to Claire): Can you say “hi”?
Claire: Hi.


Alex: Let's put our toys away, Claire.


(The following remarks were made during Mommy’s reading of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Much is omitted.)

Alex: Where's the mail?

Alex: Where's Marcie?

Alex: Where's your booboo? Can you show me?
(Mommy shows Alex her booboo.)
(Alex laughs.)
Mommy: Why is that so funny?

Alex: Don't. Don't read.
Mommy: You don't want me to read?
Alex: Yeah, you read.

Alex: Pretzels and – ‘tato chips.

Alex: What's is that?
Mommy: It’s a chair
Alex: Is Linus sitting in it?
Mommy: Yeah, that's his chair.

Mommy: “Amen, Peppermint Patty said.”
Alex: And Marcie said to herself.

Alex (singing): Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go
Mommy: “With a turkey dinner...”
Alex: “... And all the trimmings”
Alex: I wanna put a sticker on the page.
Mommy: Okay. Which one?
Alex: The telephone.
Mommy: Okay. Which page?
Mommy: You could put it there. Or someplace funny.
Mommy: No, not over the words though. Although we know them by heart now.


(bed time)

Alex: If a train falls out my bed I'm gonna get what train fell out my bed. Like James or Rosie, or Thomas.
Daddy: Okay. And then you’ll get right back in bed, okay?
Alex: I won't be scared.
Daddy: No, you won't be scared.
Alex: Mommy and Daddy love me.
Daddy: Mommy and Daddy love you.
Alex: Okay.

I say “Wake up Claire and come and close my door,” can you say that?

(Alex lets out a big yawn.)
Alex: I'm tired.
Daddy: Yeah, me too.


Claire: Aw Ah-wo.
Claire: Aw Ah-wo.
Claire: Aw Ah-wo.
Claire: Aw Ah-wo.
Alex: Okay. Go get little Elmo.
(Claire runs out of the room.)
Alex: Claire knows how to say “Elmo”.
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: I'm gonna show her how to say “Grover”.
(Alex runs out of the room.)


Alex: I'm pretending to make a pie. A punkin pie.


Claire: Aw hat.
(Daddy gets Claire’s jacket.)
Claire: Jack.
(Daddy puts Claire’s jacket on her.)
Claire: Hat.


Alex: For a long time I'm gonna get a party in a minute, and then I'm gonna get ‘Giving in a minute. For a long time.


Alex: I'm a monster. Can I say “roar” and you say “aaah”?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Roar!
Daddy: Aaah!


Alex (to Daddy): Can you be a horse and I ride on you?
Alex: Can you be a horse? Be it!


Claire: Ah-wah. Hat.


Daddy: Alex, did you sleep at nap today?
Alex: No.
Daddy: What did you do?
Alex; I was sitting up talking about what Mommy was doing.
Daddy: What was Mommy doing?
Alex: She was downstairs doing school.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Then I went potty and Mommy did not come upstairs and next time I went potty Mommy came upstairs and I told Mommy I can't fix the rug, and then I went potty and then I went back to sleep, and then I was playing with my trains, then I was not playing with my trains, but when I didn't play with my trains, then I was playing with my trains.


Alex: ... And then, after nap, Mommy said, Percy’s not gonna stay on. And I was not gonna cry.


(brushing teeth)
Alex: Next time I didn't how to brush.
Daddy: You didn't how to brush?
Alex: And next time, I went to the dentist, and the dentist help me – help me – the dentist showed me how to brush.


(bed time)

Alex: What do you wanna do after nap?
Daddy: Well, tomorrow’s Wednesday.
Alex: No school today?

Daddy: Do you wanna tell me anything?
Alex: Play trains, play in the backyard and play in the playroom.
Daddy: Play trains, play in the backyard and play in the playroom, okay?
Alex: Can you say “play cards”?
Daddy: Play cards.
Alex: No, I said play in the backyard.
Daddy: Play in the backyard.
Alex: Play trains.
Daddy: Play trains.
Alex: Wake up Claire and come and close my door.
Daddy: Wake up Claire and come and close my door.
Alex: I say “Wake up Claire and come and close my door,” can you say that?
Daddy: Wake up Claire and come and close my door, okay?
Alex: Now give me a kiss.

What waffles are these?

(Due to production issues at Kellogg’s’s frozen waffle facility in Atlanta, Alex is served Homestyle Eggo waffles instead of Multigrain Eggo waffles.)
Alex: What waffles are these?


Alex: I have some food for you, you wanna come eat with me?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I did the puzzle by myself. With Mommy.


Alex: I can't poop in my chair.
Daddy: Do you wanna poop on the potty?
Alex: No. No thank you.


Alex: I wanna poop on the potty.


Alex: You’re too big, Daddy.
Daddy: Who’s too big?
Alex: You.
Daddy: I’m too big?
Alex: Yeah. You can’t sleep in my bed.


Daddy (singing): La la la la... library
Alex: La la la la... mouth, and nose, and eyes, and head, and forehead, and eyebrows, and the trash can goes over there and it flew up in the sky with the potty, and it open the lid and it had to go potty and it couldn't go potty and it made a big poop on the floor.

I'm a flightless ceiling!

Alex: Mommy goes to work, Daddy and Alex go to school with Claire, and Grommie goes to show and tell but he doesn’t! He takes care of our house.


Alex: I'm pretending to be a sofa.
Daddy: Claire is?
Alex: A sofa.
Daddy: Who is?
Alex: Me.
Alex (marching around): I'm a sofa!

Daddy (marching around): I'm a couch!
Mommy (marching around): I'm a chair!
Alex: Claire, can you be a lion?

Daddy: I'm a flightless bird!
Alex: I'm a flightless ceiling!


Alex: Ooh, we don't put rocks in our mouth, we eat food.
Alex: And we drink cups with milk and water.
Mommy: That’s right.


Alex: I saw another moon.


Alex: When we go to sleep it’s dark, and the moon be’s there, and - and - the stars be there, and when the sun comes out, and you can see the sun!


Alex: They got the tractor off the building, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah. I wonder how they got it off.
Alex: When you drive on the building, your tractor falls off.


Alex: I'm pretending to be a princess.


Alex: I'm 2 and I'm A. I start with A.


Alex: I'm hopping like a bunny.


Alex: I'm pretending to ride on the car.


Alex: Ahaha, look at me, I'm like a lizard! I'm pretending to be a lizard.

I love you too, Daddy.

Alex: I'm pretending to be like Grommie.

Alex: I'm not real, I'm just pretending.


Alex (pulling up his pants): You pull the back, I pull the front.


Alex: Not that remote, Claire.


(Alex is playing Work.)

Alex: Claire! No, Claire! No, Claire!
Daddy: What's she doing?
Alex: Claire’s bothering me at work.
Daddy: What's she doing?
Alex: She's bothering me at work.

Alex: I'm gonna work on the computer.

Alex: No Claire, I need to get at work, okay? Can’t come with me, okay?

Alex: No, Claire. No Claire, don’t bother me!


(playing in the playroom)

Alex: Next time I’ll be careful and not make a mess.
Daddy: Oh good.
Alex: Oh no! I'm makin' a mess.

Alex: There's a mess everywhere. Can you clean this up, Mommy?

Alex: I have the phone, you have the Blackberry.

Alex: I'm gonna be a princess.

Daddy: I like my kids. You guys are nice.
Alex (giving Daddy a hug): I love you too, Daddy.

Alex: I'm pretending to get a blanket from the giraffe.

Alex: I'm pretending to be a triangle.


Claire: Sack!

And who starts with 6? Mommy starts with 6.

(Daddy is wearing new running shoes.)
Alex: Are you wearing Mommy’s shoes?


Alex: Backyardigans are still here.
Mommy: Backyardigans are still here?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Which ones are here?
Alex: Back – um Pablo, Tyrone, Awnus, and Tasha.


Mommy: Tell Daddy what you asked me. Show that to Daddy and tell him what you asked me.
(Alex has a picture of a woman wearing a big straw hat. Her face is not visible.)
Alex: That’s Grandma.
Daddy: Oh yeah?
Mommy: He asked me if that’s Grandma. Isn’t that cute?


(Alex is playing with the letters on the refrigerator, moving one letter at a time.)
Alex: H for Daddy.
Alex: 7 for Mommy.
Alex: V is for Mommy.
Alex: P is for Grommie.
Alex (moving the U): W is for… Grandpa.
Alex: Alex starts with C.
Alex: Alex starts with a A.
Alex: I starts with T.
Alex: I starts with I, um, Mommy and Daddy starts with I.
Alex: And, Daddy starts with I, and what’s this?
Alex: What’s this, Mommy?
Mommy: It’s a J. Juh, Juh. J.
Alex: J. Grandma starts with J.
Alex: Alex starts with X.
Alex: I start with 2, and 3.
Alex: And someone starts with O.
Alex: Grandma starts with O.
Alex: And who starts with S? Alex?
Alex: And who starts with 6? Mommy starts with 6.
Alex: Mommy starts with 4.
Alex: Mommy and Alex starts with Y.
Alex: Now these letters.
Alex: This... um... Daddy starts with G.
Alex: And Mommy starts with G.
Alex: And... Brady starts with F.
Alex: And Ian starts with K.
Alex (moving a Q): And, um, Alex starts with quail.
Alex: Alex starts with R.
Alex: Oh! I start with A.
Alex: And - and - um, Daddy starts with – Daddy starts with…
Mommy: Alex, can I get in the refrigerator for a minute?
Alex: Yeah, and, who starts with this – (purfeev?)
Alex: All the letters!


Alex: Roar!
(Mommy laughs.)
Alex: I made you laugh.
Mommy: You did!
Alex: You’re silly, Mommy.
Mommy: You’re silly.


(Alex is putting on pajama top, looking out through the neckhole.)
Alex: I can't get my face through here.

Good job, Alex.

(Alex is looking at the stickers on his shirt, which are: Charlie Brown, a chair, and a toaster.)
Alex (in a shrieky singsong voice): There's Charlie Brown sittin' in a chair! There he is! He's sittin' in a chair! He's makin' toast! With butter on it!


Alex: There's a letter on the TV.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And a sign… And the moon… And stars… And some houses… And trees.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Can you say “eye”?
(Claire points to her eye.)
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: That's a hard word, Claire.

Alex (to Claire): You're too little for that chair. It's for big kids.

Alex (to Daddy): Can I have a napkin? Can you rip yours, and you can have a different napkin?

Daddy: I went to work today.
Alex: I didn't hear your car.
Daddy: You didn’t?
Alex: I guess you’re still at work.
Daddy: I'm still at work?
Alex: Yeah. And then I was hearing your car coming home.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: And then I saw you inside.

Alex: Mommy and Daddy can eat some big peaches. You can eat big peaches, Mommy and Daddy.

Daddy: Do you know what your last name is?
Alex: Thomas!
Daddy: What's your last name?
Alex: Thomas!
Daddy: What's your middle name?
Alex: Koo-koo.

Alex: Grommie was tryin’ to pretend to lick my spoon.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: He was pretending.

Daddy: Do you play with Reese?
Alex: I don't like Reese.
Daddy: Do you play with Yana?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Do you play with Everett?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Do you play with Charlie Brown?
Alex: No. He’s on TV.

Daddy: Do you play with Charlie Brown?
Alex: No... Yeah!
Daddy: What do you do?
Alex: We run around. I run around at school with Ian.
Daddy: With Ian?
Alex: Yeah. I was closer, and I didn’t have a car. Then I found a bike to play with!
Daddy: Oh!
Alex: Then I was done with it. And then it was my turn.


(Alex finishes brushing his teeth.)
Alex: Good job, Alex!
(Daddy laughs.)
Alex: Tyrone said that.


Alex: I do pants.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You do shirt.


Alex: Elmo, do you know where my hole is?
Alex: My foot. My foots go in holes.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Pablo’s laughing.


Alex: I want all my babies.


Alex: C’mon bear. I'm gonna take care of you. Right here in my bed.


Alex: Is it you climbing on me?
Bear: Yeah, it’s me.
Alex: Oh bear, you (mumble). Bear.


(Daddy is leaving Alex’s room at bedtime.)
Alex: Um, Daddy? I want you to be careful, okay? And not slip.

(Daddy opens Mommy and Daddy’s bedroom door. Alex is watching from bed.)
Alex: Oh he opened it.
(Daddy turns off Mommy and Daddy’s bedroom light.)
Alex: Oh it’s off.
(Daddy turns the light back on.)
Alex: Oh it’s on.
(Daddy turns the light back off.)
Alex: Oh it’s off.
(Daddy leaves his bedroom and goes downstairs.)
Alex: Oh he came out. It’s Daddy. There he is. ‘Cept for Mommy. Oh why did he go downstairs?

I want Charlie Brown Is Sad.

Alex: At the party, what did the girl do to Charlie Brown?
Daddy: I don’t know, what did she do?
Alex: She colored his head – his forehead. Then he blowed it off. He didn't like it.


Alex: Can you say “sink”, Claire?
Mommy (to Claire): Can you say “sink”?
Claire: Ink.
Alex: Can you say “table”?
Claire: Dah-buh.


Alex: I saw airplanes - I saw one helicopter and two airplanes.


Daddy: What color is my hair?
Alex: Black.
Daddy: What color is Claire’s hair?
Alex: Brown.
Daddy: And what color is my hair?
Alex: Black.
Alex: Mommy’s is br – um, brown. It’s – hers is brown.
Daddy: Yeah, it is.
Alex: What’s my hair’s color?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What color is my hair color?
Daddy: Your hair is brown, Alex.


(Daddy is watching TV.)

(Alex sees a commercial for a Christmas store.)
Alex: It’s Christmas.
Daddy: Where is it Christmas?
Alex: On the other show.

Alex: Do you not like to watch football?

Alex: Daddy? Are you watching a commercial?
Daddy: Um, no this is the news.
Alex: Oh. Mommy, that's the news.


(dinner time)

Alex: Can – I – I want some more mixed fruit and pizza, please.

Alex: I'm gonna wait for my mixed fruit for a minute, okay? I'm gonna wait for my mixed fruit for a minute, okay?
Mommy: You could eat a green bean.
(Alex eats a green bean.)
Mommy: You’re a good boy, Alex.


(Claire takes her bib off.)
Mommy: Claire! Are you done? Then don’t take your bib off.
Daddy: Claire, listen to Mommy and don't take your bib off.
(Daddy puts Claire’s bib back on.)
Alex: But Claire’s all done, Daddy.
Mommy: Then she needs to say “all done” and not take her bib off.
Claire: All duh.
Mommy (speaking for Claire): Write about me, Daddy! I can talk too.
Mommy: Claire, can you say “blog”?
Claire: Bah.
Alex: Claire, can you say “frog”?
Alex: Say “frog”, Claire. Say “frog”.
Claire: Fah.
Alex: She said “frog”!
Daddy: Good!
Alex: I taught her a word to say.


Alex: There's a monkey! There's a monkey. There's two monkeys.


Alex: I'm gonna go in the bathroom for a few minutes, okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You’re not gonna go, okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I’m gonna close the door.
Daddy: Okay.


(Alex picks out a sticker.)
Alex: I want Charlie Brown Is Sad.


Alex: Mommy, can I wear my sticker for nap?
Mommy: Yes. Just tell Daddy.
(Alex runs to where Daddy is.)
Alex (to Daddy): Mommy said yes.


(Claire has a used tissue.)
Claire: Ah trash.
Claire: Ah trash.
Claire: Ah trash.
Claire: Ah trash.
Claire: Ah trash.
Daddy : Okay, put it in the trash, Claire.
(Claire puts the tissue in the trash.)


Alex: I turned the light off, now it’s dark.
Mommy: Thank you.
Alex: Now you can put Claire to bed.


Alex: I was pretending to be a flashlight.
Daddy: You were?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: When?
Alex: Ah hahahaha!


(Daddy is reading a book to Alex.)
Alex (sticking his face in the book): Roar!
Alex: I was pretending to be a lion and say it to the snowman in the book.


Alex: I said a word! I said a silly word!


Alex: Oh! I forgot my horses.

Claire, you're messing up our family!

Claire: Juju.
Alex: I don't want Juju. I have Elly, I - I have Elly and Bobo!


Alex: I'm gonna have my little babies, and my big babies.


Alex: I run and then I got a timeout.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Then I talked to Claire what she said and Mommy said "sh".
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Then I was done.


Alex: We don't have Emily.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Or Percy or Henry or Gordon or Edward.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: We don't have those trains.


(Mommy is looking for the Bert toy.)
Mommy: Bert? Where are you, Bert?
Daddy: Bert doesn't talk, Mommy.
Alex: Um, Bert talks on TV.


Alex: Claire, you're messing up our family!


(dinner time)

Alex: Can I have some – some food on my plate?

Mommy: I don't know who Reese is.
Daddy: I do.
Alex: I do. I know what Reese looks like.
Daddy: You do? What does he look like?
Alex: Um he looks like a dinosaur.

Alex: Carrots hurt, Mommy.


(watching home videos)

Alex: I wanna see Alex eating pumpkin muffins.
Daddy (laughing): I don't think we have any video of Alex eating pumpkin muffins.

Alex: Was Grommie there?
Daddy: Grommie was there too.
Alex: Grommie was a good boy?
Daddy: Mm-hm, he had fun.

Alex: I wanna see Aex eating ice cream.
Daddy: Ice cream? Cake.
Alex: Yeah, cake. At Dana’s party.

Alex: I wanna see Alex running with Claire.

Alex: That was from yesterday.
Mommy: That was from a long time ago.

Alex: Who's there? Who's there with me?

Alex: I wanna see Alex dancing. I wanna see Alex dancing.

Alex: I wanna see Alex – um – at the – um – Romp ‘N’ Roll.

Alex: I’m tired of looking at pictures.


Alex: Grommie! Come eat this mess!


Alex: Crackers... Crackers... How many... Crackers do I do?


Alex: The duck is yellow over there.
Daddy: Yeah. What kind of food is yellow?
Alex: Mmmmmm... Cheese!

I do pants. I don't do shirt.

(Alex is in bed waiting to be gotten up.)

Alex: I can't get out of bed by myself. I can't go downstairs. If I can't fly, if I'm not a bird, if I'm a bird I don't have any wings.

Daddy: Do you wanna help me wake up Claire or do you wanna stay here and play?
Alex: I want you to stay in here and look at me play.


(Daddy is using the potty.)
Alex: Are you making some pee-pee?
Daddy: Yeah, I’m making a little pee-pee.
Alex: I wanna see.
(Alex looks.)
Alex: You’re a big boy, Daddy.


Alex: Wha – wha do you walk in in a door?
Daddy: I don’t know, what do you walk in in a door?
Alex: You walk in the front door and the garage door of the house. Those are some doors.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And you walk inside them and – and it has a door on the house. That’s where you walk.

Daddy: What do you look out at out a window?
Alex: A bird.
Daddy: A bird.


Alex: I put my water on the table so it couldn't fall down.


Alex: I wanna do Halloween again.
Daddy: I bet you do.


Alex: Can I - I don't like this one. Can I do a different one?
Daddy: Yes, you can do a different one.
Alex (doing the same one): Oh - I like this one.


Daddy: I didn't have a very good day.
Alex: You didn't? Um – um I – um – can I have another sticker? Can I have two stickers?


Alex: Can I not play house? Can I play house next time?


Alex: Uh-oh, Bobo’s on my head!


Alex: I do pants. I don't do shirt.


Alex: I got one leg in the other hole. And I got the same leg in the other hole.
Daddy: Oh, good job! That's really good.


Alex (talking to himself in bed): Next time I came out of my bed then I went in the (mumble) and then I drank some water and then I came in my room and then I got back in my bed.

You forgot your hat.

Claire: Aw Dada up.


Alex: Claire, no school today! Can you say “school”?
Claire: Scaw.


Alex: Who was that? Was that the witch?


Alex: She's a nice girl.
Daddy: Who's a nice girl?
Alex: The witch.


Alex: Is Claire gonna go take a shower?


Alex: I wanna look at Super Why and Sesame Street and the boy with the yellow shirt and dad with the green shirt and Thomas. All of that.


(The following remarks were made during Alex's and Claire's first viewing of It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.)
Alex: What's the dog doing?
Alex: Where're his dog friends?
Alex: What's that?
Alex: What's the dog worried about?
Alex: Is he lost?
Alex: Is it dark?
Alex: He found his house.
Alex: He got out of there.


Daddy: What happened in the show? What did all the people do, and the dog?
Alex: He was lost.
Daddy: Yeah. And what did all the people do?
Alex: Um, they were looking for the Great Pumpkin.


Alex (talking about the train table at the bookstore): Henry is not there. And Percy. And Gordon. And Bertie is there. And Thomas is there. And not Thomas and not Rosie. And not (mumble). And not those other engines too. That's what they don't have.


Mommy: We'll have yogurt and chocolate graham bunnies for snack.
Alex: And cookies. And cookies.
Mommy: Did you know that chocolate graham bunnies are the cookies?
Alex: They're not.


(driving in the car through Innsbrook)
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: ‘Nudder office.
Alex: Are those offices?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Another office!
Alex: Another office!
Mommy: Can you believe all these offices?
Alex: Another office.
Alex: Those are stores.
Alex: There’s another office over there.


(Alex and Daddy are in the car on the way to the bookstore.)
Alex: Where's your hat?
Daddy: What?
Alex: You forgot your hat.


(Daddy pretends to eat Alex’s ear.)
Daddy: Did I eat your ear? Mmmmm, yummy, I'm gonna eat the other one.
(Alex chuckles.)
Alex: It’s okay if you pretend.


Claire: Aw walk.