When we get home, could you get me a nice warm outfit?

(watching Dora)

Boots: Do you want to play drums in the big drum parade?
Claire: No.

Boots: Do you want to play with animals at the animal center?
Claire: Yeah.


(Alex is in swim class.)

Alex (to Miss Kelly): May I go now?

Alex (to Miss Kelly): What’s your name?

Alex (to a classmate): What’s your name?

Alex (later, speaking to the same classmate): What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?
Alex: What was your name again?

Alex (later, speaking to Daddy): Daddy? Daddy! That boy’s name is Chris, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.


(in the car on the way home from swim class)
Alex: When we get home, could you get me a nice warm outfit?


(Alex is counting tomatoes – properly!)
Alex (pointing as he goes): One, two, three, four, five.
Daddy: Good! Alex can count now!
Mommy: Good!
Alex: I like to count tomatoes.


(dinner)

Mommy: What did you do at swim practice?
Alex: Um, I float on my back, I float on my tummy, and I swim like that, and (mumble), and we didn't do the board.
Mommy: Good!
Alex: And we blow bubbles!

(Alex and Claire start shaking their arms around, doing a little dance at the table. After a short while, Daddy and Mommy join in. Claire laughs. Alex laughs and passes gas. Everyone dances some more. Then Alex stops dancing.)
Alex: Let's take a break.

Big trash can!! Loud trash can.

(Daddy dresses Claire. Claire likes her dress.)
Claire: Show Mommy.
Daddy: Mommy’s still sleeping. We’ll show her later when she gets up.
Claire: Take shower.
Daddy: Mommy’s sleeping. Then she’ll take a shower.
(Pause.)
Claire: Uh go show Ah-yah my shirt.


Claire: Dat Kipper!

Dora: Is it a baby cow?
Claire: No, dinosaur.


(Claire and Alex are playing in the family room. Alex is arranging a party.)

Alex: The party’s starting, Claire!
Claire: I uh get my bear.
Alex: This is gonna be fun!
Claire: I uh get my bear, too! I uh get my bear, eat, with me!

Claire: Climb climb climb climb, on, the sofa. And, on, the chairs. And, that all.

(Claire is holding Mommy’s rolled-up yoga mat like a purse.)
Claire: Daddy, bye-bye, I go, grocery store.

Alex: It’s time to eat cake, Claire.
Claire: ‘Kay. Time. Cake.

(Alex goes to the other room to get cake, then after a few moments, comes running back.)
Alex: Claire I’m scared, so I want you to go get some, ‘kay?
Claire: ‘Kay.
Claire: Uh go with you bear. ‘Kay? Okay.
(Claire and her bear go to get cake.)
(A long time passes, and Claire doesn’t return.)
Alex: Claire? Are you getting food? What kind of food did you get?
Claire (from the other room): No.
Alex: Get some cupcakes, and…
Claire: Kinda food. Carrots.
Alex: Get carrots, (inaudible) and…
Claire: That all, Ah-yah.
Alex: …And cupcakes and muffins.
Claire: Okay.
(Time passes. Claire returns with some food. A discussion ensues about what she got, and what she still needs to get. She goes back out for more food, and returns this time with a baby bottle.)
Alex: Did you get tomatoes?
Claire: No.
Alex: Cupcakes?
Claire: No. I get cupcakes, Ah-yah.
Alex: Okay.
Claire: Cupcakes. Cupcakes, Ah-yah.
Alex: Candles. There’s a marker.
Claire: Cupcakes.
Alex: ‘Kay.
(Alex and Claire drink from baby bottles.)
Claire: That yummy!
(Claire laughs.)
Claire: That yummy!
(Claire laughs.)
Claire: That milk. In there.
(Alex laughs.)

Alex (whining): Daddy! I hurt my this. I hurt this.
Daddy: Where?
Alex: Here. See it’s red?
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Ah-yah!
Alex: What are you getting, Claire?
Claire: Um, cupcakes.
Alex: There’s a cupcake.
Claire: Okay.
Alex: There’s some cupcakes.

Alex: I need some corn, Claire.
Claire: No.
Alex: Can I get just one corn?
Claire: No.
Alex (to Daddy): Claire’s not giving me corn!

Claire: Uh get my bear, Ah-yah.
Alex: Okay.
Claire: Uh get my bear, eat, with me.

Alex: I’m all ready to go. I have drinks… and a can... and milk… and more milk… tea… coffee, tea, milk, and… teapot. If we need some more.

Alex: I need to sit with my bunny. And bear.
Claire: ‘Kay. I sit right there.

Alex: We have to sing “Happy Birthday”.
(Alex sings “Happy Birthday”. Claire joins in intermittently.)
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday dear Claire and Alex
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday to you
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday dear Claire and Alex
Alex (singing): Happy Birthday to you
Alex: Yay!
(Alex blows on his cupcake candle.)

Alex: Where am I gonna sit, Claire? Where am I gonna sit?
Claire: Right, there.
Alex: I don’t have room. Because your bear’s sitting there.

Alex: Claire. Claire I’m – I’m too tired to eat.


(after nap)
Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: I had a dream – for nap – and, it was someone at school – um, it was a dream, about… Thomas and Daddy. That – Thomas came from my class, I though he came from, from the uh, from the, from behind the chair but, I fl – I, uh, it was about, Thomas and Daddy! Thomas and Daddy. But I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the dream.
Daddy: Why didn’t you like the dream?
Alex: Because, I didn’t like it, because my brain was telling me stories. Look I’m standing on here.
Daddy: Please don’t stand on that, Alex.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: Because I don’t want you to get hurt.


Alex: Help help! I’m gonna fall in the river!
Claire: No.
Alex: I’m falling!


Alex: Do frogs poop and pee?


Alex: I’m hungry, and -- and sleepy.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Let’s run around! Let’s run around!


Daddy: What did you do at Nana’s house?
Claire: Play strollers.
Daddy: Play strollers?
Claire: No. Play… airplane.


(Claire takes off her shoes, with a slight assist from Daddy.)
Daddy: Yay! You can take off your shoes and socks.
Claire: Yeah! Pull over heel.


(Alex is rolling a beach ball.)
Alex: I need to go pee so I better roll fast!


(Alex and Claire watch a thunderstorm during dinner.)

Alex: Big thunder!
Mommy: Yeah, that was big.
Claire: Big trash can!
Mommy: Is that what it is?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Okay.

Claire: Loud trash can!
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: I call it thunder.

Claire (repeating something Mommy said several minutes earlier): There you go, honey.
(Claire smiles.)
Claire: There you go, honey.

Claire: Big trash can!! Loud trash can.
Alex: No, Claire, that was not a trash can. In storms, they’re thunder.
Claire: Big trash can!
Alex: Trash cans are not the right thing.
Claire: Loud trash can!
Alex: It’s not things that you drop that fall, that means it’s really quiet about it. It’s just a little quiet. It’s not that loud, Claire.

Alex: Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big boom!
Mommy: Yeah. That was a big boom.

Alex: Big, big, big, big boom! Daddy.
Claire: Yah yah big, big, big, big boom!
Alex: But our trees and bushes need milk and juice, I think. They need juice and not water. Water’s their favorite, right?
Daddy: That’s right.

Claire: Big, big boom, Daddy.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Claire, it’s not a trash can.
Claire: Big boom.
Alex: Yeah it’s not a trash can either.
Claire: Big, big, big, big, big, big boom!
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: Did you see that?! Did you see that big whoosh?!

(A big wind blows through the yard.)
Alex: Look, Daddy!!
Daddy: Wow.
Alex: The jingles were, ringing.
Claire: W-- Daddy, big wind.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: The wind is so strong.
Claire: Yeah. Big, big wind.
Alex: Yeah.


(Alex and Claire are playing bouncy balls.)
Alex: Trade?
Claire: Yeah, trade.
Claire (making the exchange): There you go.

We can’t ‘trol people.

(Alex gives Claire a hug.)
Alex: I hugged my Claire bear.


(Mommy comes home from the grocery store. Claire is in the other room, but wants to help put them away.)

Claire: Uh help groceries too.
Claire: Have napkins.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: And carrots... and mac and cheese.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Uh go kitchen first. Help.

(Claire and Alex are taking groceries out of the grocery bags.)

Claire (finding some English muffins): Daddy, bread!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Little pizza bread.

Alex: I'm so tired of doing groceries.

Alex: I see sausage. I got sausage!
Mommy (enthusiastically): All right!
Alex: Sausage!
Mommy: Yeah!

Claire (holding a glass jar of spaghetti sauce): Uh really careful!

(The groceries are all put away.)
Claire: That all, Ah-yah. That all, Ah-yah.
Claire: That all, Ah-yah. That all.
Alex: Yeah.


(Alex notices Mommy’s pedicure.)
Alex: Look at your red toenails, Mommy!


Daddy: Claire, can you count to three thousand?
(Claire smiles, but says nothing.)
Alex: One, two, three thousand!


Alex (to Claire): I ate you. You’re in my poop.
Claire: Give it back.
Alex: I ate you, your whole body’s in my poop.


(dinner)

(Claire notices that Mommy has eaten all of her chicken.)
Claire: Chicken.
Mommy: Yeah.
Claire (whining): Uh get more.
Mommy: I don’t want any more.
Claire (whining): Uh get more chicken.
Alex: We can’t ‘trol people.
Claire (whining): Uh Mommy.
Alex: We can’t ‘trol people.
Claire (whining): Uh Mommy. Uh Mommy.
Alex: Stop whining! Use your big – use your big girl voice.

Alex: Chew that up. Claire, chew that up. ‘Cause you have a lot of oranges in your mouth.

Alex (to Claire): Why are you putting your finger in your mouth?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Yucky, Claire!
Alex (to Daddy): Claire put her finger in her mouth.
Daddy: Yeah, I saw that.
Alex: Little babies do that. Little babies do that.
Daddy: They do sometimes.
Alex: Claire’s a li – little baby.
Daddy: No, she’s a big girl.
Alex: She is, but, girls are babies, some girls.
Daddy: Baby girls are.
Alex: And I’m her brother.

Watch me go really, really, really fast.

(breakfast)

Claire: Two more sausage, Ah-yah. Two more sausage on my plate. Two more. Two more sausage on my plate.
Alex: Yes there is.


Alex: Are you a little bit grouchy, Daddy?


(Claire stands on the bottom step into the garage.)
Claire: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jump.
(Claire steps down.)


(Alex is eating graham crackers at snack.)

Alex: This looks like me, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Look at this, Daddy. Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: This is Claire!

Alex: This is Mommy’s head.
Daddy: What is it?
Alex: This is Mommy’s head. Mommy’s head and her neck. Look, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah!


(Claire reads Gossie.)
Claire: Gossie sad.
Claire: Uh gossie find her shoes. Uh gossie find her boots!
Claire: There it is.
Claire: Gossie sad.


(dinner)

Alex (in a robotic voice): I am a robot. Beep beep beep buh buh beep beep beep. I'm a robot.

(Claire makes a weird gesture with her hands. Mommy mimics her.)
Claire (to Mommy, smiling): Do it! Do it!
Claire (to Mommy, smiling): Do it!

Mommy (giving more pizza to Alex): That's all there is. There isn't any more.
Alex: There isn’t any more.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Just like the book.
Daddy: Yeah. What book is that?
Alex: Madeline.

Alex: I'm tired of eating this pizza.
Daddy: Well then stop.
Mommy: You don't have to eat it.
Alex: ‘Kay. Well then I'm all done.


(Claire and Alex are pushing strollers.)

Claire: Watch, Mommy. Watch. Watch me go REALLY, FAST.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire runs.)

Claire: Mommy, watch me go really, really, really fast.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire runs.)
Mommy: Wow, that’s fast!

Claire: Watch me go really, really, really fast.
(Claire runs.)

Claire: Watch me go really, really, really fast.
(Claire runs.)

Alex: I'm gonna go really really fast, Mommy.
(Alex runs.)

(Both Alex and Claire do this many times.)

Claire: Watch me go fast, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Watch me go really fast.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Really really fast.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire runs.)

If I – uh, uh – if – if I would sleep – and watch TV – and watch Science Kid, and all the shows, and have some food, and go to sleep? !

(Breakfast. Claire is holding a waffle in her hand.)
Claire: Dat more waffles, Daddy. Uh have more waffle in my hand.


(Daddy is covertly eating a piece of chocolate.)
Claire: What dat?
Daddy: What?
Claire: What dat in your mouth?


Alex: Is it time to go to the pool yet?


(Alex is taking his swim lesson.)

Daddy: Hi, Alex!
Alex: I swimmed to the stairs!
Daddy: Good!

Miss Kelly (to the swimming class): What do you wanna do?
Alex: Um… dinosaurs.

(The class blows bubbles.)
Alex (to Daddy): I did it!

Alex (to Miss Kelly): Then can I go next?

Alex: Watch this, Daddy.

Alex: Watch this, Daddy.

Alex (to Miss Kelly): Can I go?


(in the car after swim practice)

Alex: What did I – what did you pass that I just saw?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: I want to show you it.
Daddy: Well why don’t you tell me about it?
Alex: What the fire truck – what the fire truck comes up to.
Daddy: Oh, a fire hydrant!
Alex: Yeah.

(Daddy parks the car.)
Alex: When you turn off the car, why does the clock go down?


(dinner time)

Daddy: So Alex, what did – what did Daddy do at the pool?
Alex: Daddy went all the way under the water.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah. By hisself. And he went up! And I liked it. And I laughed.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: That Daddy.

Daddy: Go ahead, ask me a question.
Alex: If I – uh, uh – if – if I would sleep – and watch TV – and watch Science Kid, and all the shows, and have some food, and go to sleep?
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Why would I do that?

Alex (to Claire): I thought you wanted that tomato.
Claire: No, I don’t like it, Ah-yah.
Alex: Then can you give it to me.
Claire: No. My tomato.
Alex: Okay. If you want to, you can give it to me.
Claire: No. Mine, Ah-yah.

(Claire tries to get down from her stool, but Grommie, trying to get at the crumbs in her chair, is in her way.)
Claire: Excuse me, Grommie. Excuse me, Grommie.
(Grommie moves aside. Claire gets down.)
Claire: Your turn, Grommie! Eat! My chair!


(Claire falls down and cries.)
Mommy: What happened, Claire?
Claire: I bump my knee, Mommy.

I'm a hat doctor, too.

(breakfast)

Claire: No ‘chool?

(An episode of Backyardigans comes to a close.)
Claire: Backyardigans. Backyardigans, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah. Where did they go?
Claire: Eat snack.

(Alex and Claire are looking at the Kix box.)
Alex (pointing): K, I, A and X. Kix!
Claire (pointing): Another Kick, up there!

(Upon request, Daddy lets Alex and Claire look inside the Kix box.)
Daddy: Lotsa Kix.
Alex: Yeah. Just like if lots of heads fall outta your head, and then lots of heads will fall out!


(in the car on the way to school)

Alex (crying): I wanna get out. I wanna get out.

Alex (crying): I wanna go home.


(Alex is pretending that the Wii remote is some kind of medical device.)

Alex: And when somebody bleeds they have to get to the honey doctor.

Alex: I'm gonna look in your ears. This part is for look in your ears.
(Alex looks in Mommy's ears with the Wii remote.)
Alex: They look fine, Mommy.
Mommy: Good!
Alex: So… but, we just have to walk on your chest.

Alex: Those are all the numbers I know.

Alex: One circle, Claire. So I'm gonna put this around. I want your doctor, and the honey doctor. (Mumble.) I'm gonna look in your ears, Daddy.

(Alex looks in Daddy’s ears with the Wii remote.)
Alex: They look fine, Daddy.
Daddy: Good!
Alex: All -- we have to do is give you a shot.
Alex: Here's a shot.
(Alex gives Daddy a shot with the Tivo remote.)
Daddy: Okay.
(Alex grabs Daddy's leg repeatedly.): Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Alex: I'm gonna look in your eyes.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: They look fine.
Daddy: Good.

(Claire looks in Mommy's ears.)
Claire: They look fine.
Mommy: Okay good.
Claire: Uh gonna look at you, Daddy. Uh you.
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Daddy look at your ears. Daddy say, “pine”.
Daddy: Oh, fine?
Claire: Yeah.

Alex: I'm putting some cream in your ear.
Daddy: Okay.

Claire: Daddy, (mumble) your ears. Daddy look fine, Daddy. Look fine. Look fine. Daddy look, fine.
Daddy: Good, thank you.

Alex: Is he 30 or 3?
Claire: 30.
Alex: 30, okay.

Alex (holding two microphones on his head): You have to wear those two hats, next time.
Mommy: Oh no, not the hats!
Alex: I'm a hat doctor, too.
Mommy: Okay.

(Claire checks Daddy’s ears again.)
Claire: Daddy, look, fine.
Daddy: Okay, thank you.

Alex (to Mommy): I'm gonna spray in your eyes.
Alex: Tsssh, tssh. Tsssh.

Claire (whining): That mine. That mine! That mine!
Alex: We're at the doctor, Claire. We're doctors. So, doctors don’t get worried.

(Claire checks Daddy’s ears again.)
Claire: Daddy look fine. There you go, look fine.
Daddy: Ok, thank you Claire.
Claire: Daddy, other ear.
(Claire checks Daddy’s other ear.)
Claire: Daddy, look fine.
Daddy: Okay, good.

Claire: Daddy, check your ear. Look fine.

Claire: Uh check your ear uh check Mommy.

Alex: I'm gonna keep your ear safe.
Claire: Uh ear, safe.

Alex: We're all done, Mommy. We're all done. The doctor's all done.

Claire (talking on the Wii nunchuk remote as if it’s a phone): Hello? Hello, man.


Claire: Daddy check, your ears.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire checks Daddy’s ears.)


Claire (whining): No talk to me. No talk to me. No talk to me.
Daddy: Don't talk to you?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay, I won't talk to you.


(dinner time)

(Daddy tells Alex about a chicken nugget tree and an applesauce bush.)
Alex: Chicken nuggets don't grow anywhere.
Daddy: Well, yeah, I guess that's true. You're right.
Alex: Applesauce doesn't grow anywhere either.
Daddy: Well where does it come from?
Alex: From… from… from a bowl.
Daddy: From a bowl?
Alex: From a box. From -- from a can.

Alex: Alex is sleepy 'cause -- 'cause, he's Claire's brother.

Daddy: Applesauce comes from apples.
(Alex shakes his head and smiles.)
Alex (in his “that’s silly” voice): Not from apples!
Mommy: They're mushed up apples, honey. And apples come from apple trees.
Alex: And pears come from pear trees.

Mommy: Alex, Claire's bread is talkin' to your bread.
Claire’s bread: Hi. Hi, Ah-yah. Hi your bread.
Claire’s bread: Hi. Hi. Hi Ah-yah. Hi bread. Hi bread. Hi bread.
Claire’s bread: Hi elephant.

Alex: Mine’s is a germ.
Mommy: A germ? Is he gonna say “hi” to the elephant?
Alex's bread: Hi elephant.

Alex's bread: Hi, I'm a crab.
Claire: Okay.
Alex’s bread: Are you a ladybug?
Claire’s bread: No I a elephant.
Alex’s bread: Oh.

Alex: Mine’s is made out of -- um -- look. Animal. Hi.
Claire: Hi. Hi crab.

Alex: It's a boy.
Alex’s bread: Hi
Claire’s bread: Hi boy.

Alex: Mine’s is made out of, a ladybug.
Claire: A cat. A cat. A cat.
Alex: A head!
Claire: A cat. A cat. A cat.


Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread
Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby went to the doctor
Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby and the doctor said
Alex (singing): Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread
Alex (singing): SHOOORT -- NIIIIN -- BREEEEEAD!

Uh went uh Callum house. Uh share.

(Daddy and Claire are coming downstairs for breakfast. The sound of the TV can be heard.)
Claire: Dora?
Daddy: Is that Dora?
Claire: Yeah. Go downstairs, watch, see Dora.
Daddy: Okay.


Diego: Does a green iguana live in the rain forest, or the snow?
Claire: Snow.
Diego: The rain forest! Correcto!

Alicia: Can a green iguana roller skate, or climb?
Claire: Climb.
Alicia: Climb, right! Green iguanas are great climbers!

Diego: To hide from scary animals, does a green iguana put its head in the sand, or camouflage?
Claire: Cah, tadge.
Diego: Correcto, camouflage!


Alex (talking about Mommy): When – when Uncle Doug grew, she didn’t have anyone to play with, and she cried.
Daddy: Ohhhh.
Alex: She wanted to – she wished she had a brother and a sister to play with. And she didn’t.


Alex: I went to Callum’s house!
Claire: Uh went uh Callum house. Uh share.


Alex (to Claire): I'm gonna teach you how to swim.


(At bed time, Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Alex: You hafta shave.

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

(Claire just got up, and Daddy is changing her diaper.)

Claire: Big poop.
(Claire holds her hands up about 3 inches apart, to illustrate.)

Claire: No ‘chool?
Daddy: Oh, we go to school today. And Mommy and Daddy go to work.
Claire: I don’t like ‘chool.


(after school)

Daddy (to Alex): What did you do at school today?
Alex: I don’t know!

Daddy (to Claire): Claire, what did you do at school today?
Claire: Eat lunch. Nuggets.


(Alex and Mommy are getting ready to go to the swimming pool for Alex’s first swimming lesson.)
Alex: Can we play in the sand, too?

Claire: Daddy uh go run.
Daddy: You’re gonna go run?
Claire: Yeah. Run fast.

(Mommy is upstairs, Alex is downstairs.)
Alex: Does the monitor get to your room, Daddy?
Daddy: No, it doesn’t go to my room, just your room and Claire’s room.
Alex: But I wanna talk to Mommy. I wanna tell Mommy something.
Alex (shouting): Hello?! Mommy!

Claire: Go, watch Daddy. Run, really fast.
(Claire starts to run, stops, and goes back to her starting position.)
Alex: Watch, Daddy. Watcha watcha watcha!
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Go, [counting on fingers] one, two, three.
(Claire runs.)


(Claire plays trains.)

Sir Topham Hatt: Uh James, uh go to tree house.
James: Okay.

Claire: Uh bus get a job. Uh bus get a job.
Sir Topham Hatt: Uh bus uh go to tree house.
Bus: Okay.


Claire: Take sock off, Daddy. Take sock off, Daddy. Take sock off, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy takes his sock off.)
Claire: Other one.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy removes his other sock.)

Claire: Uh sit on feet.
(Claire sits on Daddy’s feet.)


(Daddy’s stomach rumbles.)
Claire: Dat you, Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah, that was me.
Claire: Oh.
Claire (smiling, mimics the sound): Mmmmmmmmmmm.

(Daddy shows Claire the attached picture.)
Daddy: What’s that?
Claire: Claire, eating.
Claire: Claire, eating.
Daddy: Claire eating! That’s right!
Claire: Eating birthday cake.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Sad.
Daddy: Sad?
Claire: Like this.
(Claire makes a sad face and a boo-hoo sound.)


(Grommie runs to the door.)
Claire: Dat. Dat Mommy.
Claire : Grommie bark.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Grommie bark again.
Claire: At window.
(Grommie whimpers.)
Claire: Grommie barking!
(Claire hears the sound of a car door.)
Claire: Dat Mommy.
(The door opens.)
Claire (running to the door): Ma – ma – ma – Mommy!!

(Alex comes inside.)
Alex (calling out): Daddy, I have something to tell you!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex (looking around): Yeah!
Daddy: I’m right here!
Alex: Hey, there you are. Hee hee!

Daddy: What did you wanna tell me?
Alex: I did a great job at the pool!
Daddy: You did?! Good for you!!
Alex: And there were different friends there, and they’re gonna be in my class now.


Alex (peeing in the potty while standing up): I'm peeing in the potty standing up.

Daddy: How did you pee in the potty, Alex?
Alex: Standing up!
Daddy: That’s right! Good for you!
Alex: I’m a daddy now, so I can do that.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: I’m growing up!

Tree!! Daddy, came up!!

(At around 7 AM, Alex wakes up and starts singing to himself in bed.)

Alex (singing): Old MacDonald had a farm
Alex (singing): EIEIO
Alex (singing): On that farm he had a cow
(Long pause.)
Alex (singing to the tune of EIEIO): Moo moo moo moo moo
Alex (singing): On that farm he had a pig
Alex (singing to the tune of EIEIO): Oink oink oink oink oink
(The song continues.)

Alex (singing): ABCDEFG
Alex (singing): HIJKLMNOP
Alex (singing): QRS… TUV
Alex (singing): W, X, Y and Z
Alex (singing): Now I know my ABC
Alex (singing): Next time won’t you sing with me

(Alex sings the alphabet song two more times.)

Alex (singing): One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, eleventeen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!

(Alex continues to sing more numbers.)


(Daddy wakes up Claire.)
Daddy: Did you hear Alex singing?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Did you like it?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What did he sing?
Claire: Letters.


Claire (pointing at a picture of a camel): Camel.
Claire (pointing at each of its legs): Have leg. ‘Nother leg, ‘nother leg, ‘nother leg, ‘nother leg.


Claire (dropping a toy tomato): Uh dropping ‘mato.


(Claire reads The Carrot Seed to herself.)
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come – come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire: Nothing come up.
Claire (very excitedly): Tree!!
Claire (to Daddy): Tree.
Daddy: Yeah?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What now?
(Claire does not respond.)
Daddy: What did the little boy say?
Claire: Oh.
(Pause.)
Daddy: “Just as the little boy…”
Claire: Just as the little boy…
Daddy: “…had known it would.”
Claire: …know it would.

(Claire reads The Carrot Seed to herself, again.)
Claire: Wuh uh seed. Wuh uh seed.
Claire: Wuh whoa the seed.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came – came up.
Claire: Nothing came up, nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing. Came. Up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up. Uh tree?
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire (very excitedly): Nothing came up! Tree!! Daddy, came up!!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nuh – nothing came up.
Claire: The end.
Claire: Little – little boy with seed. (Mumble) water. Yay!
Claire (handing the book to Daddy): Daddy’s turn!

(Daddy tries to read The Carrot Seed to Claire, but she keeps interrupting.)
Claire: Uh see tree, Daddy. Uh see tree.

Claire: Daddy have booboo.

Claire: Daddy. Uh have finger. Uh have finger, uh broke.
Daddy: My finger broke?
Claire: Yeah.

(Claire reads The Carrot Seed to herself.)
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing –
(Claire gets distracted for a moment.)
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Nuffing came up.
Claire: Water the plant.
Claire: Waters the plant.
Claire: Water the plants. Plant.
Claire: Water the plant.
(Claire gets distracted again.)
Claire: (Mumble) water. (Mumble) plant.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Uh Ah-yah is? Uh Ah-yah. Uh Ah-yah is.
Daddy: Alex went outside.
Claire: Why?
Daddy: He wanted to play outside.
Claire: Why?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Claire: Uh play down. Play down. (Mumble) stairs.
Claire: Daddy have nap. Daddy have nap.
Daddy: Daddy have nap?
Claire: Yeah. Claire. Claire have nap. Claire have snack.
Claire (returning her attention to the book): Water seed.
Claire: Water seed. Water water seed.
Claire: Water seed.
Claire (enthusiastically): Tree!! Came up, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Came up!
Daddy: Neat!
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: Nothing came up.
Claire: The end.
Claire: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Claire (noticing Daddy’s band-aid): Uh mines. Uh mines.
Daddy: Well you don't have a booboo.
Claire: Daddy feel better. Daddy feel better, your finger.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: The end. Daddy’s turn. Daddy read it. Daddy read it. Daddy read it, Daddy. Uh read it.

(During Daddy’s reading of The Carrot Seed, Claire keeps interrupting.)
Claire: Uh see tree. Please?
(When Daddy gets to the page before the carrot comes up, Claire gets a look of excited anticipation. Daddy turns the page.)
Claire (with a big grin): Come up!!

Claire: Daddy go library. Daddy, library closed.
Daddy: Yeah, the library’s closed.
Claire: Daddy, go bookstore. Uh go bookstore.

Doggie in window, woof woof

(Claire is pushing her stroller around and around the kitchen table. Mommy is sitting at the table.)
(Claire stops beside Mommy.)
Claire: Uh stopping, Mommy. Uh stopping.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire starts going again.)
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
Claire: Uh going!
(Claire stops beside Mommy.)
Claire: Uh stopping, Mommy.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire starts going again.)
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
Claire: Uh going, Mommy!
(This routine is repeated several times.)


(Claire is playing in her crib during nap.)

(Claire pretends to put her baby doll to bed.)
Claire (singing): Lullaby good night
Claire (singing): Juju Mommy Daddy too
Claire (singing): Mommy Daddy too
(Claire sings something unintelligible.)
Claire (singing): Doggie in window, woof woof
Claire: Yay!
Claire: Good night.
(Claire covers her baby doll with a blanket, and pats it on the back.)

Claire (talking to herself): Mommy ‘chool, Daddy Claire, Ah-yah Claire, Claire Claire, Grommie… Grommie at home.

Claire (semi-singing to herself): Mommy stay home. Mommy stay home. Today. Today. Mommy eating. Today. Today. Today.


Alex: One day when I’m a daddy, I can get old and I can't play.


Alex (at dinner): I like squishy things.


(Claire is wearing Mommy’s shoes and pushing her stroller.)
Claire: Uh going to work. Uh see Pop.

A popsicle course.

(Alex is running around the house before school.)
Alex: Daddy, I'm getting tired of running, so can we go ahead and go to school?


Claire (crying in the car on the way to school): Uh play at home.


(Claire is sick.)
Alex: When you're sick, you have to watch TV, right?


(Alex wants Mommy to play with him in the playroom.)
Alex: I wanna make a popsicle.
Mommy: A popsicle?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: What does that mean?
Alex: A popsicle course.
Mommy (laughing): Oh, an obstacle course.


(Alex and Claire are washing their hands before dinner.)
Alex: Is that my towel?
Mommy: Yeah.
Claire: Is that my towel? No? That Ah-yah towel.
Mommy: Yeah, this is your towel.
Claire: Oh.


(dinner)

Alex: Mommy? If you put broccoli or peas or oranges or tomato in your mouth, you'd have everything in your mouth, and your mouth would be full.

Alex: Mommy? One tomato’s up, and, all the tomatoes are down!

Alex: Are you getting me the circle breads?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Those are my so yummy breads.

Pee-pee come out!

(The UPS truck pulls up in front of the house. Alex and Claire run to the front window.)
Alex (excited): The brown truck!
Mommy: Brown truck! Exciting!
Alex: It brought us something!
(Alex and Claire jump up and down at the window, squealing excitedly.)


Alex: Let's not play behind the curtains, Claire, because that’s dangerous.


Claire: Pee-pee come out! Uh go poop on the potty.

(Claire is sitting on the potty.)
Claire: No pee come out.
Daddy: Well, you can sit there for a little bit. You want a book?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: I'll get it.
(Alex runs off.)
Daddy: Oh, Alex's gonna get you a book, isn't that nice?
Claire: Yeah. Nigh. Ay-yah.
(Alex returns with a book for Claire and a book for himself. He sits down and they each read.)

Claire: Uh 'nother book.
Daddy: Okay, I’ll go get you a book.
(Daddy goes to get Claire another book.)
Claire: Pee-pee come out!
Alex: Pee-pee came out!
(Daddy returns to find Claire peeing in the potty! What a big girl!)

Claire: Uh happy now.


Alex: Does Dora pee on the potty? Does Science Kid pee on the potty, everyone on TV too?


(bed time)

Mommy: Tomorrow is Friday.
Alex: And after Friday it will be Saturday.
Mommy: That’s right.
Alex: And next time it will be Sunday.

Alex: Play backyard play playroom play trains. Did you say your words?

Alex: I'm sleepy!
Mommy: Good.
Alex: Now play ear and play hair and play doorfraim, what is it?
Mommy: Play doorframe.
Alex: And play doorframe and play foot and play leg and um, play, play, play head and play nose and play, play, play ponytail, and play chickie and play dog and play door and bang on door and play cars and play, play cars, and play door knob, and now go to sleep and look at pictures and play on the ceiling and play on the floor.

Mommy: Okay, I love you.
Alex: I love you too. And play back and play toe.
Mommy: Okay.
(Mommy leaves Alex’s room. There is a brief silence.)
Alex (shouting to Mommy): And play house!
Alex: And play house!
(There is no response.)
Alex: Okay?
Alex: And play house!
(Still no response.)
Alex: And play with Daddy!
Alex: Okay?
Alex: Say “okay.”
Alex: Please?
Alex: Please?
Daddy (shouting from downstairs): Okay!
Alex: And play with Daddy!
Mommy (shouting from downstairs): Okay!

I'm a tree.

Alex: Put this waffle on your head.
Daddy: No thank you.
Alex: Okay. I’ll take your house away.
(Alex pretends to pick up the entire house and throw it.)
Alex: I took it away. I threw it outside.


Claire (sad): No go ‘chool. No go ‘chool, Daddy. No go ‘chool.

Claire (crying): Daddy, uh play at home. Daddy, uh play at home.

(Alex uses the potty.)
Alex: We don't get chocolate anymore. I'm all trained. I'm all potty trained so we don't have to get chocolate any more.

(Alex and Claire step off the bottom step into the garage.)
Alex: One two three four five six seven eight nine ten jump!
(Alex jumps down.)
Claire: Nine, ten, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, three, twelve, fourteen, jump!
(Claire jumps down.)

(in the car on the way to school)
Claire (crying): Uh play at home!


(dinner time)

Claire (to Daddy): I want more water.
Alex: May I have more water please. Listen to Daddy.
Claire: ‘Kay.
(Pause.)
Claire (to Daddy): Uh have some water.

Claire: Uh have more water.
Alex (irritated, looking at Claire’s water cup): There's plenty of water in there.
Claire: Uh have more water.
Alex: You see the water in there?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: You see it?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: So there's water in it.
Claire: Uh have more water.

Claire: Daddy Daddy Daddy.
Daddy: Hi!
Claire: Hi. Daddy Daddy Daddy.
Daddy: Hi Claire.
Claire: Daddy Daddy Daddy. Daddy Daddy Daddy. Daddy Daddy Daddy.

Alex: Waffles and strawberries are my favorites.

Alex: And muffins.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Pumpkin muffins with chocolate in them.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: And... special treats!


(Claire jumps.)
Claire: Dat big jump. Dat big jump, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah!

Claire: Do it again. Really big one. Really big one. One, two, jump!
(Claire jumps.)

Claire: Dat big one!
Daddy: That was a big one.

(Claire is wearing Mommy’s shoes.)
Claire: Daddy, uh go to work.

(Claire and Alex are now both wearing Mommy’s shoes.)
Alex: I'm a mommy too.
Claire: I'm a mommy.
Alex: I look like a mommy.


Alex: And we can run like a ponytail.


(Claire walks up the stairs, holding her arms straight up above her head.)
Claire: I'm a tree.

I have a stummyache. I ate too much.

(dinner time)

Alex (looking at his own reflection in his spoon): Where’d Alex’s head go?
Alex: Where’d my head go?

Claire (looking at her spoon): Where’d my head go? Where’d my head go? Where’d my head go?

Alex: Daddy, when I’m big, when I'm growing, I can have big feet when I’m a daddy!
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And wear big shoes.

Daddy: Alex, would you rather have three hands or three feet?
Alex: Two hands.
Daddy: But if you had to choose one or the other, would you rather have three hands or three feet?
Alex: Three feet and four feet.
Daddy: Why?
Alex: Because I have A LOT OF FEET!!

(Alex sings some nonsense words.)
Alex: That's the cucumber song.
Daddy: That’s the cucumber song?
Alex: Let's sing the strawberry song.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Strawberries… strawberries… strawberries all day long.

(Claire, standing, leans over and puts her head on the floor. Her shirt hangs down and blocks her view.)
Claire (crying): I can't see, Mommy! I can't see.
(Mommy fixes Claire’s shirt so she can see.)

Alex: That’s like if you go over a hill. Claire’s a hill.

Alex: Can I have more oranges?
Daddy: No, no more oranges. But you can have anything else.
Alex (smiling): I want some handprints, Daddy. I want some handprints.
Daddy: You want some handprints?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay.
(Daddy pretends to take a set of handprints off the wall and give it to Alex.)
Alex: Thanks. Now you can have a million dollars.
(Alex pretends to give a million dollars to Daddy.)
Daddy: Thanks.


(Claire is sitting on the potty.)
Alex: Did Claire poop yet, Mommy?!
Mommy: No, not yet.
Alex: I'm gonna get her a book!


Alex: I have a stummyache. I ate too much.


Alex: Will you do me a favor, Mommy? Will you give me a million dollars so I can fix the TV?


(Alex and Claire are combing Mommy’s hair.)

Alex: Mommy, you’re at the barber shop.

Alex: Keep going straight, Claire.
Claire: Okay.

Alex: Does that look cute, Mom? Does that look cute, Mom, Claire? Does that look cute?

When people are sad, they always be sad.

Alex: When people are sad, they always be sad.


Alex: I took off my apron all by myself!


(Alex and Claire are spinning around in the kitchen.)
Alex and Claire: Digga dirk… digga dirk… digga dirk…
(This goes on for a long time.)
Alex: Why is the floor falling?
Mommy: Because you’re dizzy.

Alex and Claire: Digga dirk… digga dirk… digga dirk…
(This goes on for a very long time.)
Claire: Floor falling!


Alex: I need to go pee really bad.
(Alex runs off to the bathroom.)
Alex: Claire, can you come with me?
Claire: Yeah.
(Claire runs off to join Alex in the bathroom.)

It’s far away, Ay-yah. ‘s far away.

(Claire, Alex and Daddy are riding in the car.)

Claire: Moon, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: I can’t see it.
(Pause.)
Claire: It’s far away, Ay-yah. ‘s far away.


Alex: When I’m a daddy I can still wear underwear!


Alex: I’m goin’ to work.
Alex (gathering up his work supplies): I need some tissues… I need my sticks… … and a bouncy ball.

Not anymore.

(lunch)

Daddy: Are you guys driving Mommy crazy?
Alex: No.
(Pause.)
Alex: Not anymore.

Alex: It’s really noisy in here.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Your coffee – the coffee maker’s loud and the washing machine’s loud.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And I’m tryin’ to eat.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: If it’s really noisy in your house, and you’re tryin to sleep, it would wake you up, and then, you would run downstairs and see, what it was.
Daddy: That’s right.


(Alex is in his bed during nap time.)
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.
Alex (sort of chanting): Have a good nap, Cookie Monster.


Alex: Claire? I thought of some fun things we could do.


(dinner)

Claire (for the umpteenth time): I don’t like it.
Mommy (frustrated): Then don’t eat it! Stop telling me that, Claire!
(Pause.)
Alex: I like it.
Mommy: Good.
Alex: You can be happy with me.


Alex: Meg’s really crazy. Meg’s so silly. Meg’s so crazy.


(bed time)

Daddy: I wanna tell you how much I love you. Do you know how much I love you?
Alex: A lot.
Daddy: To the moon and back, Little Nutbrown Hare.
Alex: You have brown hair.
Daddy: And you’re a little nut.

This is so fun! This is a fun house.

(Alex and Claire are playing in the new toy house in the backyard.)
Alex (looking out the window at Claire): Hello!
Claire: Hello!
Alex: Nice to meet you at the window!
(Claire walks around to the door.)
Alex: Nice to meet you at the door!

(Claire looks out of the window.)
Claire: Hi Mommy Daddy!
Mommy and Daddy: Hi!
Claire: Uh in the house!

Alex (hanging out of the window): Whoa! (Mumble) out the window hangin’ out the window! Get me back in the window!

Alex: This is so fun! This is a fun house.

Alex: This is my favorite window to get out.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: See you later, Claire.
Claire: See you later.

(Alex walks up to Daddy.)
Alex: Hello sir.
Daddy: Hello Alex.
(Alex walks up to Claire.)
Alex: Hello sir. Hello sir. Nice to meet you sir.


(Grommie is licking himself.)
Alex: Grommie’s licking him.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: He must love his self.


Alex: I think Grommie’s hiding from the crying.


(Claire is lying on the floor.)
Claire: Help me, Ay-yah, help me.
(Alex helps Claire stand up.)
Daddy: Aw, that was nice, Alex! I like that!
(Claire lies down again.)
Claire: Help me, Ay-yah. Help me.
(Alex lies down next to her.)
Alex: Help me, Claire.
Claire: Okay.
(Claire gets up and helps Alex get up.)
(Claire then again lies down.)
Claire: Do me now. Do me.
Alex: No.
(Daddy helps Claire up.)
Claire: Lie down, Alex. Lie down.
(Alex lies down. Claire helps him up.)
(Claire lies down.)
Claire: Help me, Daddy.

(Claire is wearing Daddy’s sunglasses.)
Claire: Look at me, Mommy, look at me.

Claire (fussing): Uh bump eye, Mommy. Uh bump eye.
Mommy: Oh, what happened?
Claire: Uh bump eye on the book.
Mommy: Oh, let me kiss it.
(Mommy kisses it.)
Claire: Uh get ice.
Mommy: You want ice?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Okay.
(Claire runs to the refrigerator.)
Claire: Uh get it. Uh get it.

Nothing.

(Claire gives Alex a train toy.)
Claire: That yours, Ay-yah.
Alex: Thank you.
Claire: Thank you, Ay-yah. Thank you.
Alex: Say "you're welcome", Claire.
Claire: Welcome.
Alex: Thank you.

(A little later, Claire gives Alex another toy.)
Claire: That yours, Ay-yah. Welcome, Ay-yah. Welcome.
Alex: She learned.


(Daddy is watching Wimbledon on TV.)
Daddy: What are those people doing, Alex?
Alex: Playing soccer. Playing baseball.
Daddy: What are they doing?
Alex: They're playing baseball.
Daddy: No, they're not playing baseball.
Alex: Playing soccer.
Daddy: No, they're not playing soccer.
Alex: Basketball.
Daddy: No, not basketball.
Alex: Football.
Daddy: No, not football.
Alex: What else?
Daddy: What else?
(Pause.)
Daddy: They're playing tennis.


Daddy: If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Alex: I told everybody -- I told somebody that at home -– at -– at school.
Daddy: And what did they say?
Alex: Nothing.

Claire's Vocabulary (662)

a
Abby
after
again
air
airplane
Alex
all
animal
another
apple
applesauce
are
arm
Ashleigh
at
ate
away
baby
back
backpack
backwards
bag
ball
balloon
banana
Band-Aid
bang
barbecue sauce
basket
bath
bathroom
be
beans
bear
bed
beep
Bert
Bertie
beside
bib
big
Big Bird
bike
bin
bird
birthday
blanket
bless you
blocks
blue
blueberries
boat
Bob
Bobo
boing
bone
boo-boo
book
bookstore
bother
bottle
bow
bowl
box
boy
bracelet
breakfast
bridge
bring
broccoli
broke
broken
brush
bubble
bubble
bubble gum
bucket
bug
bump
bumpy
bunny
burp
bushes
butter
butterfly
button
by
bye-bye
cabinet
cage
cake
Callum
Camden
came
Campbell
can
car
cards
carrots
carry
cart
cat
catch
cave
Cecilia
ceiling
cereal
chair
change
cheek
Cheerios
cheese
chew
chick
chicken
chin
chip
chocolate
choo-choo
circle
Claire
class
clean
Clifford
climb
clip
clock
close
closet
clothes
cloud
c'mon
coach
coat
coffee
cold
color
come
computer
cookie
Cookie Monster
cool
cough
counter
cousin
cow
cracker
crash
crawl
crayon
cream
crew
crocodile
crocs
crust
crusty
crying
cup
cupcake
curtains
cut
Daddy
Daisy
Dana
dance
dark
deck
deer
diamond
diaper
did
Diego
different
digger
dinner
dinosaur
dirt
dirty
do
Doc
doesn't
dog
doggie
doggie hotel
dolphin
done
Dora
dot
Doug
down
downstairs
Downtown
dragon
drawer
dress
drink
drive
driveway
drop
drops
dry
duck
dump
Dylan
ear
eat
egg
eight
elephant
Elly
Elmo
Elmo's World
Emily
end
engine
Ernie
everybody
excuse me
exercise
eye
face
fall
family room
fan
fast
feet
find
finger
fire engine
fire truck
firefighter
fish
fit
five
flag
flashlight
flew
floor
flower
fly
food
foot
forest
fork
four
Friday
friend
fries
frog
froggy
funny
garage
garden
gate
George
Gerald
get
giraffe
girl
give
go
goat
gone
good morning
Gossie
got
graham bunnies
Grandma
Grandpa
green
Grommie
Grover
hair
haircut
hand
hang
happy
hat
have
he
head
heavy
hello
help
her
here
heroes
hi
high
hill
him
hippo
hippo
hold
home
honey mustard
hood
hooray
horse
horsey
hot
house
hug
hungry
hurt
I
ice
Iha
in
is
it
jacket
James
job
juice
Juju
jump
keep
key
kids
kiss
kitchen
knock knock
lap
last time
laugh
lawnmower
leg
let
Liam
library
lick
lid
lie
life cereal
light
like
lion
lizard
look
loud
Love Shack
Luigi
Lullaby
lunch
machine
mad
mailbox
Maisy
make
Mallory
Mama
man
mat
Mater
me
medicine
Meg
Megan
Mick
milk
mine
minute
monkey
monster
moo
moon
moose
more
Morgan
motorbike
motorcycle
mountain
mouse
mouth
move
Muck
mud
muffin
mulch
music
my
name
Nana
nap
napkin
neck
need
Neer
new
nice
night
night-night
nine
no
nope
nose
not
nugget
Oakley
octopus
of
off
oh
okay
old
on
one
onion
open
orange
Oscar
other
ouch
out
outside
over
owl
package
paint
pan
pants
paper towel
party
pasta
Peanut
pear
pee
peek-a-boo
pee-pee
penguin
people
Percy
pet
Pets
Peypey
phone
pick
picture
piece
pig
pigtail
pigtails
pillow
pink
pizza
PJs
plane
plate
play
Play-Doh
playground
playroom
please
pocket
poop
poopy
Pop
potty
present
Preston
Pucka
puddle
pull
pull-up
push
put
puzzle
quack
raccoon
race
railing
rain
read
ready
red
ride
right
rinse
rip
rock
Rock-A-Bye Baby
rocket
roll
room
Rosie
rug
run
sack
sad
sandwich
sauce
sausage
say
school
school bus
Science Kid
Scruffey
second
see
see you later
seven
shade
shed
sheep
sheet
shine
shirt
shoe
shopping cart
shot
show
shower
Sid
sidewalk
silly
sink
sit
six
sky
sleep
sleepy
sleeve
slide
snack
snail
snake
snow
snowman
soap
sock
soda
sofa
soft
special treat
Spencer
spider
spin
spit
splash
spoon
squirrel
stack
stairs
stand
stay
stem
stem
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sticker
Stickers
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store
strawberry
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sun
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swings
table
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take
tape
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telephone
ten
thank you
that
the
them
there
these
these
this
Thomas
those
three
throw
thumb
thunder
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tiger
tight
time
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to
toast
toaster
Toby
toes
tomorrow
tongue
too
Topham Hat
towel
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track
tractor
trade
train
trash
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triangle
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tummy
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Turner
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TV
Twinkle Twinkle
two
uh-oh
umbrella
uncle
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underwear
up
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upstairs
Virginia
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wall
want
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water
waterfall
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wet
where
whoa
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window
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yard
yea
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yogurt
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zipper
Zoe

Ummm... birthday!

Claire (crying repeatedly on the way to school): Uh play at home!


Alex: I see the flag blowing in the breeze!


Alex: They're driving in the trees. They're driving in the woods. That's silly, a car can't drive in the woods!


(Claire leads everyone into the house.)
Claire: C'mon Mommy. C'mon Daddy Ay-yah. C'mon Grommie. C'mon Grommie.


(Alex and Claire are playing trains. Alex starts singing.)
Alex: Shunting trucks and hauling freight
Alex: Red and green and brown and blue
Alex: They're a useful useful crew
Alex: All with (mumble) roles to play
Alex: What else, Daddy?
Daddy: Round Tidmouth Sheds...
Alex: Round the Tidmouth Shed, far away
Alex: Down the hills and round the bends
Alex: Thomas and his friends
Daddy: Good job, Alex!


(Alex pooped on the potty. Claire heads into the kitchen for her chocolate.)
Claire: Uh get my chocolate, Daddy.
Daddy: Alex'll get it for you. Or I will, if he can't reach it.
Alex: I can scoot it over to myself. I'm big as a giant. So I can do it.


Daddy, may I have Mommy's doll that her Grandma gave her?


(nap time)

Alex: Play head, and play eye, and play nose, and I will be really mad, and don't turn off your light, and don't close your door, and, and… and don't close your door, I mean -- mess with books, and play door, and play house… and look at pictures, and now go to sleep. And play on the floor and play on the ceiling.
Daddy: Okay, night-night, I love you.
Alex: I love you too.
Alex: And play light.


(dinner time)

Daddy: Claire, do you know what today is?
Claire: Ummm… birthday!
Daddy: That's right! Whose birthday is it?
Claire: Juju!

Mommy: What's today, Claire?
Claire: Friday!

Mommy: What's today?
Claire: Tomorrow.

Mommy: What's today?
Claire: Claire.
Mommy: Claire?
Claire: Yeah.
Mommy: Is it your birthday?
Claire: Yeah.

(Alex spontaneously starts singing, showing the right number of fingers each time.)
Alex (singing): Four little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Alex (singing): Three little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Alex: And -- what else?
Mommy: Two.
Alex (singing): Two little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Alex (singing): One little monkey jumpin’ on the bed
Alex (singing): One fell off and bumped his head
Alex (singing): Mommy called the doctor and the doctor said…
(Claire and Alex sing the last line together.)
Alex (singing): “No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Claire (singing): “No more jumpin' on the bed!”

Claire: Campbell eating.
Mommy: Campbell was eating?
Claire: Yeah.

Claire: Ashleigh eating.
Mommy: Ashleigh was eating?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire: Dylan eating.
Mommy: Dylan was eating?
Claire: Yeah.
Claire: Iha eating.
Mommy: Iha was eating?
Claire: Yeah.

Daddy (to Alex): Alex, don't tell her, cause I wanna see if Claire knows how old she is.
Daddy (to Claire): Claire, how old are you?
Claire: Three!
Daddy: Three? And how old is Alex?
Claire: Four.
Daddy: How old is Daddy?
Claire: Nine.
Daddy: How old is Mommy?
Claire: Four.
Daddy: How old is Grommie?
Claire: Night.
Daddy: What?
Claire: One!

(Mommy points the camera at Claire.)
Claire: Uh say cheese.

Claire: Uh get picture uh birthday.
Mommy: You want me to get a picture of you eating your birthday cake?
Claire: Cheese!
Claire: Uh see it.

Alex: I like the icing.
Mommy: I do too.
Claire: I like uh icing.
Alex (to Mommy): I like you because you're icing.

Claire: Uh see Claire eating.

You go to one, you go to two, and you go to three. Isn't that funny?

Claire (crying repeatedly on the way to school): Uh play at home!

Alex: Elly's cold. I like it when she's cold. It feels nice.

Alex: The window's so you don't fall out the window.
Alex: The screen's so you don't fall out the window if someone opens it.

Claire: Pee come out!
Alex: On the TV?
Claire: No -- on the diaper. See? See?

Alex (to Claire): I'm gonna show you how to go to two.
Alex (counting on his fingers): You go to one, you go to two, and you go to three. Isn't that funny?

Alex: Can you – can you – can you make dinner for Grommie now?

Uh Ay-yah be happy.

(Claire, Mommy, and Daddy are downstairs. Alex is upstairs by himself, screaming and crying.)
Claire: Uh Ay-yah come down.
Daddy: Alex will come down when he's ready.
Claire: Uh Ay-yah be happy.
Daddy: Aw, that's sweet.
Claire: Ay-yah be happy.
Mommy: Awww.


(Claire is pretending to eat dinner at the little table.)
Claire (looking down on the floor): Strawberry down there.
Claire: Uh get it.
(Claire picks up an imaginary strawberry with her foot.)


Claire: Uh get you, Daddy!
Daddy: Oh no, you're gonna get me!
Claire: Bird get you!
(Claire grabs Daddy with "bird hands".)


Claire: Rain, Daddy! Rain coming!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: The rain’s already raining! The weather got all wet.

Claire: Uh thunder come, boom!
(Claire laughs.)


(Alex is holding a yoga block in front of him, saying nothing.)
Daddy: What's that, Alex?
Alex: I'm getting, this is the part o' pea. I'm getting peas in my garden.


(Alex and Claire are looking out the window at the rain.)
Alex: Pitter pot, pitter pot, pitter drop.
Claire: Pitter pop, pitter pop.


Alex: I said that Daddy, when you were in the playroom. Where the trains are.
Daddy: Yeah, what's that room called?
Alex: The second playroom.


Alex (pointing to dots on the back of his pizza): Daddy? If there's one here and one here and one here, that makes a face on your face.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: There's a nose and your eyes.