Why he say “double oop”?

Alex: That’s too loud. It’ll wake up Claire, and Mommy. I don’t want to wake up my mommy and my sister.

Alex (to Claire): I was playing trains downstairs with my daddy.


Claire (watching Leapfrog on TV): Why he say “double oop”?


Claire (carrying her baby doll and a bib over to the toy kitchen): We’ll have snack. We’ll have snack. Baby’s hungry.


Claire: I can't take my baby to the playground. Her get mulch on her.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Playgrounds have mulch.
Daddy: Right.
Claire: Her have to stay in the car.
Daddy: Right.


(before dinner)
Claire: Double oops! Double oops!

(during dinner)
Claire: Double oops!

(Alex is waving at the TV.)
Daddy: What are you doing?
Alex: I’m waving at the man.

(Later, Alex and Claire are both waving at the TV. Alex suddenly stops and freezes.)
Alex: I ran outta waving.

Claire (smiling): Wakey wakey double oops!
Claire (smiling): Wakey wakey double oops!

I no go to school. I no go to school. I’m sick. I can’t go to school.

Alex’s dinosaur (to Alex’s other dinosaur): Hi Farmer Pickle. Can you put the hay away?
(Alex laughs.)
Claire: You put the hay away? Pickle. Get uh – get uh – get uh the hay away?
(Claire laughs.)

Claire: I no go to school. I no go to school. I’m sick. I can’t go to school.


(Because Claire is sick, she stays home from school, and Daddy works from home.)

Claire: I’m making you some food. To eat in my chair.
Daddy: Good.
Claire: You like milk?
Daddy: Yeah, I like milk.
Claire: Okay.
Claire: And cupcakes?
Daddy: Yeah, I like cupcakes.
Claire: It have chocolate.

Claire: I’m making dinner!
Daddy: Oh good!
Claire: I’m making cupcakes and dinner and ‘mato.

Claire (bringing a cupcake to Daddy): This have chocolate.
Daddy: Oh, thank you!
Claire: You’re welcome.

(A car honks in the distance.)
Claire: I hear a car! I hear a car, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: It say: “urp!”
(Claire laughs.)

Claire: I gonna go to my grocery stores. Bye-bye, Daddy.
Daddy: You’re gonna go to the grocery store?
Claire: Yeah. I gonna go to two grocery stores.

Claire: I be right back, with my – with me, bring, this, can. I be right back!

Claire: I be right back! Eat your food, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: I be right back!

Claire: I’m home!
Daddy: You’re home!
Claire: I got more food. For you to eat. They lollipop, for microwave.
Claire: This have lot – lotta food, in it! Let’s make it.


(Mommy and Daddy get Alex up from nap.)
Alex: I don’t feel good.
(After further questioning, Alex elaborates by pointing in his mouth.)
Alex: Something’s happening in there.
(Further diagnostic questioning includes, but is not limited to, the following.)
Daddy: Does it itch?
Alex: No, it doesn’t itch.
Daddy: Does it hurt?
Alex: No.
Daddy: Does it feel funny?
Alex: It feels funny.
(Pause.)
Daddy: Is it way in the back of your mouth [Daddy points back in his own mouth] or up here [Daddy points to the front of his mouth] on your lips?
(Alex thinks for a moment.)
Alex: The back. Yucky water’s comin’ up.

Mommy: Did you eat lunch today?
Alex: Ummm…
Alex: Yeah. Just not the lettuce.
Daddy: You didn’t eat the lettuce?
Alex: I don’t like lettuce. It’s hard to chew up for me. It’s hard to chew up.


(Claire reads “Teeth Are Not For Biting” to herself.)
Claire: No biting.
Claire: No biting.
Claire: No biting your finger!
Claire: Get a hug. (Mumble.) Get a hug.
Claire: Don’t fight. Don’t bite.
Claire: Say cheese! Cheese!

Grown-ups don’t have friends.

(After school, Claire and Daddy walk to Daddy’s car.)
Claire (pointing at a minivan): That like Mommy car.
Daddy: Yeah… it’s big.
Claire (pointing at a sedan): That like Daddy car.
Claire (pointing at another sedan): That not Daddy car.
Claire (arriving at Daddy’s car): That Daddy car, Daddy!

Daddy: Does Claire have friends?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: Does Alex have friends?
Claire: No – yeah.
Daddy: Does Daddy have friends?
Claire: No.
Daddy: Does Mommy have friends?
Claire: No.
Daddy: Grown-ups don’t have friends?
Claire: No. Grown-ups don’t have friends.

(The monitor shows Claire in her bed. Alex shakes the monitor.)
Alex: I’m shakin’ the monitor so Claire can shake.

Alex (to Grandma): Do you wanna play dragons?


Claire (excitedly): I’m getting a flu shot, Daddy!

Mommy: Are you gonna take Juju?
Claire: No. Her not get flu shot.

(Daddy is drinking coffee.)
Claire: When me be big, when me drink coffee!
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: When me be a daddy!
Daddy: Yeah! Or a mommy!

(Claire is doing a jigsaw puzzle by herself.)

Claire: I doing this part! Look! I doing it!
Daddy: Oh look, you’re doing it! Great!
Claire: Yeah! I doing pieces!

Claire: Come with me, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Claire: You come with me, and help me. Come.
Daddy: Okay.


(dinner)

Claire (to Daddy, re Sloppy Joes): You bite it. You bite it like – like this, with teeth.

Mommy: What’d you guys do at school today?
Alex: I did, duck, duck, duck, goose!
Mommy: You did? Fun!
Claire: I did circle time.
Mommy: You did circle time?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: He did – he – the goose had to run away from… from the chaser who’s chase, the ducker had to run… so he could catch the duck! I mean the goose!

Alex (out of the blue): What would happen if he would, if a jellyfish would sting you?
Mommy: Um, it would hurt a little bit.
Alex: And he would chase you?
Mommy: No, they don’t chase.
Alex: If a big wave comes and he goes back in the wave, does he sting you still?
Mommy: Um, if he stings you and you keep touching him or bothering him, yeah he’ll sting you again.

Claire (to her baby): I go under the table with you.
Claire (to her baby, singsong): It be really fun!
Claire (to her baby): There a monster un, in that chair.

(Alex is playing with Claire now too.)
Claire: That my favorite baby.
Alex: Me too.
Claire: Yeah.

When the moon hits your head like a big pizza pie, moray…

(Alex and Claire are each in their own bed, but shouting to each other.)

Alex: Claire! Quiet time! You bet!
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Claire! Quiet time! You bet!
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Do it to me! Do it to me, Claire!

Alex: Are you being silly?
(Claire mumbles.)

Alex: I’m gonna come in your room!
Claire: Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Alex: Read me a story, Claire! Read me a story, Claire!

Alex: Claire, is it time to wake up?



Claire: I have a pink shirt with a flower on it. I like my flower.

Alex: The microwave is going fast.
Alex: The microwave is going fast.
Alex: The microwave is going fast.

(Alex is “biting” people with a monster made of two potholders.)
Claire: I do it to you, Mommy!
Claire (to Alex): Can I have my turn?


Claire: Mommy, I want uh sit in chair. I want a chair, and read.


(Alex looks at his dinner.)
Alex: Grapes, pasta, carrots, water!


Claire: I have my soft bunny.

Claire: I have Abby! And… my – my – my soft blanket… and I have…
Alex: Wait for me to talk!
Claire: No I’m talking.
Alex: No I’m talking.
Claire: No I’m talking.
Alex: No I’m talking.
Claire: No I’m talking.
Alex: No I’m talking.
Claire: No I’m talking.
Alex: No I’m talking.
Claire: No I’m talking.
Alex: No I’m talking.
Claire: No I’m talking!
Alex: No I’m talking!
Alex (to Daddy): May I talk first?
Claire: No I’m talking!
Alex (to Daddy): May I talk first?
Daddy (to Alex): What did you say?
Alex: May I talk first?
Daddy: Yes. We’ll take turns.
Claire: No I wanna talk too!! No I wanna talk too!! No I wanna talk too!!
(Alex says what he wanted to say, but it’s inaudible under all of Claire’s screaming.)
Claire: I wanna talk too!! I wanna talk too, Daddy!
Daddy: All right, what do you want to talk about, Claire?
Claire (suddenly perfectly calm): I like my books.

(Alex, Claire, Mommy, and Daddy make grumpy faces.)
Alex: Grumpy old troll!
(Alex laughs.)
Claire: Can’t go under my bridge!
(Claire laughs.)

(Alex, Claire, Mommy, and Daddy talk about new things they did or learned today.)
Claire: I did my toys.
Alex: I learned something new at school. I learned about owls yesterday. And I usually learn about bats, but um, yesterday I learned about owls, and that’s a new thing I did!
Daddy: Neat!

Daddy: Claire, if you could have dinner with any three fictional characters, who would they be?
(Claire makes her grape fly through the air and crash onto her cup, with sound effects.)
Claire: Waaaahhh… bop.
Daddy: You don’t wanna answer that question? That’s okay.
Alex: You can ask me.
Daddy: Alex, if you could have dinner with any three fictional characters, who would they be?
Alex: They would be Grandma, Grandpa, and… Tyrone!

(Claire is shouting/singing about her family members, ending with…)
Claire: …And Gromit.
Alex: And Gromit. Some people call him Gromit, but we call him Grommie.
Claire: Grommie.
Alex: Sometimes I like to call him Gromit.
Claire (shouting/singing): Whoa, I love Gromit, and Mommy, and Daddy, and Alex, and Claire, and Mommy, and Gromit!

(Claire holds a grape stem across the back of her wrist.)
Claire: I have a watch.
Daddy: What do you have, Claire?
Claire: I have a watch. I pretending to be a watch.

Claire (being silly): I don’t like grapes.
Alex (being silly): I don’t like grapes.
Alex (fake crying): Ehhh-hehhh-hehhh.
Claire (fake crying): Ehhh-hehhh-hehhh.
Alex: I like grapes.
Claire: I like grapes.

Alex: Hey Daddy, may I sing you a song?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: What – what is that song? The one you haven’t singed?
Daddy: The one I haven’t sing? Which one is that?
Alex: Um… Moray.
Daddy: Oh, okay. You can sing that one.

(Daddy reminds Alex how it goes, and then Alex takes a turn.)
Alex: When the moon hits your head like a big pizza pie, moray…

Claire (pushing her stroller): We’re going to a party house!

Alex: Can you grab stars?
Daddy: What? Can you grab stars?
Alex: Can you grab a star?
Daddy: No.
Alex: Why?
Daddy: Because they’re too far away.
Alex: But – why are they too far away?
Daddy: Because they are.
Alex: They’re not too far away. I didn’t know they’re too far away.
Daddy: Yeah.

Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yes Alex.
Alex: Can you be nice to me um – um before I go to sleep, because I’m – I’m very tired.
Daddy: Okay.

Alex (talking to himself): First you take the Z, then you add the Ass. Now you’ve got Zap.
Alex: That’s not a word!

Alex: Claire, it’s your pick tomorrow. Do you want to pick words or letters?
Claire: We’re not at breakfast.
Alex: We’re gonna do that at breakfast. And which one do you want?
Claire: Um.. Letters.
Alex: I thought you’d pick words.
Claire: ‘Kay I can pick words.
Alex: Okay you can pick letters.
Claire: Pick words, uh, letters!
Alex: Okay, words.


(getting ready for bed)

(Claire is lying down, waiting for Mommy to change her diaper.)
Claire (to Mommy): Come on over here!

(Daddy is reading the Backyardigans story “Pirate Treasure”.)
Alex: One day can we go to a pirate island?
Daddy: You want to go to a pirate island?
Alex: Yeah, with lots of soft, soft sand. And a jungle.

(Claire is giving out kisses before bed.)
Alex: No sloppy kiss today, okay Claire?

Claire (counting smiley faces, in a funny voice): Fourteen… eighteen… eleven… twelve… fourteen… eighteen… eleven… twelve!

(Daddy tucks Alex into bed.)
Daddy (to Alex): I love you very, very, very much.
Alex: Even when I’m sad and I get a timeout?

That's not a real thing, what you said.

(Daddy and Claire wake up Alex.)
Claire (to Alex): Get out uh your bed, it's seven. It's time to wake up. Get up.

Claire: I uh show mommy my purple shirt.

Claire: Alex is sad.


(Alex is watching Leapfrog, as it runs through the seasons rapid-fire.)
Alex: It's raining. It's not raining. Now it's snowing.

(Claire is saying “no” to everything.)
Daddy: I know, you say no to everything.
Claire: I don't wanna say no. I don't wanna say no to everything.


(Daddy and Alex come downstairs after playing with Duplos.)
Alex: Mommy! We built a house, and a forest! And there were two bears, and one nice bear, and Daddy made a giant monster!
Mommy: Aw, did you have fun playing with Daddy?
Alex: Yeah. It was quiet time, for us! It was special Daddy and Alex time!


Daddy: What comes after twenty? Twenty-one!

Alex: Twenty-one… twenty-nine, twenty!
Mommy: Thirty!
Alex: Thirty!
Alex: I can count in Spanish too! Uno… doce!


Mommy: Is it hard being three? How is it being three?
Alex: It has its ups and downs.


(snack/dinner/feast)

(Alex requests jellybeans.)
Alex: And yummy beans. Color beans.

Alex: After feast, can we build a obstacle course up in the playroom? Do you wanna help me?
Mommy: Yeah, okay.
Alex: Yippee!!

Alex: It's hard to get up the yogrit.
Mommy: Do you need help?
Alex: Yes.
Daddy: Do you want to consume the yogrit?
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: That's a pretend thing.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: That's not a real thing, what you said.

(Mommy tells Alex he can pick two friends to attend his birthday party. Alex chooses Callum and Neer.)
Alex: Can Claire pick one?
Daddy: One what?
Alex: One of her friends?
Claire: I pick Campbell and Ashleigh.

Daddy: Alex, if you could vote for anyone in the world, who would you vote for?
Alex: Pablo!
Daddy: Good! Claire, if you could vote for anyone in the world, who would you vote for?
(Claire eats her chip and stares at Daddy.)
Alex: Campbell?
(Claire eats her chip and stares at Daddy.)
Alex: Or Ashley? Campbell or Ashley?
(Claire eats her chip and stares at Daddy.)

(Daddy talks about jellybeans.)
Daddy: They come in all different colors, like maroon, and aqua… teal… and mauve… what other colors?
Alex: Those are not colors.

Daddy: Jellybeans come in lavender… periwinkle...
Alex: Those are not words.

Alex: There's toko, poko, stoker, pokos, and doks.
Daddy: Are those colors?
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: I want some more. I want some more beans.
Claire: May I have some more beans please, Daddy?
Daddy: Oh Claire, that's so nice of you to ask that way.
Alex: May I have some more beans please?

Alex: And after grapes, can feast be over? 'Cause I want to build my obstacle course with Mommy.

Alex: There was an old lady who swallowed a rooster. I don't know why she swallowed a rooster, perhaps she'll… dooster.
(Pause.)
Alex: There was an old lady who swallowed a napkin, she wasn't a bapkin, who swallowed that napkin…
(Pause.)
Alex: There was an old lady who swallowed a cup! I don't know why she swallowed a cup, perhaps she'll bup.
(Pause.)
Alex: There was an old lady who swallowed a -- a cat! I don't know why she swallowed that cat, perhaps she'll back.
(Pause.)
Alex: There was an old lady who swallowed… a car! I don't know why she swallowed that car, because, perhaps she'll hang on the bar.
(Pause.)
Alex: She whistled all the things outta her mouth. Happy fall!

Daddy (to Alex): You gotta work on saying your pleases and thank yous, okay?
Alex: Okay. “Pleases and thank yous.”

(Claire has the "runny nose" monkey cup.)
Claire: Him have a runny nose.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Look, Alex, runny nose.
Alex: Yeah.
Claire: I got him, runny nose.


(Dinner. Daddy is watching election results on TV and Alex and Claire are fascinated by the cool 3-D graphics popping up around the reporter.)
Alex (to Claire): Look. That thing went up!
Claire: Yeah. It gonna go down.
(It goes down.)
Alex: It went down!
Claire: Yeah. Uh do that again.


(after dinner)

Claire: Mommy, I take off my shirt!
Mommy: You took off your shirt?
Claire: Yeah, it wet.

(Alex sees a political commercial on TV.)
Alex: That's United States mekercial -- and it talks about the 'Nited States.
Daddy: That's right!
Alex: That's 'Nited States.
Daddy: That's right!

(Election coverage continues.)
Alex: Oh, the 'Nited States! He's talking about the 'Nited States, Daddy!
Daddy: Yeah!
Mommy: Good job, buddy!

Dat my new book. From the night witch.

Claire (referring to her new Dora book): Dat big book.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: Dat my new book. From the night witch.
Daddy: Yeah.
Claire: It has lotta stories in it.

I wanna do Halloween.

Alex: Hey, Claire. After dinner we’re going trick-or-treating.

Claire: We’re going trick-or-treating after dinner.
Alex: Yeah. It’s a long time to wait, Claire.


(Claire and Alex are playing with the Calico Critters house.)

Claire: Let me get in!
Alex: Who’s at the door?
Claire: Me! I’m Daddy! Daddy’s home! Let me get in.
(Alex opens the door for Claire.)
Claire: Thank you.
Claire: I go to work!

Claire: There’s no place to park!

Claire: Oh bye-bye! Bye-bye, we’re going to work! It’s work time!

Alex: That’s a bowny, that’s not work.

Alex: Uh-oh. A fire. The beds are floating away! They’re not gonna have any beds, oh no!


Alex (putting on his pants): I'm needing some help.

Claire: I wanna do Halloween.

(Alex and Claire shout from the front window at some boys playing in the street.)
Alex: Happy Halloween!
Claire: Happy Halloween!
Alex: They don't hear us.
Claire: We’ll have to say it louder.
Alex: Happy Halloween!
Claire: Happy Halloween!
Daddy: Happy Halloween!
Alex:They still don't hear us.

Claire: They're still not hearing us. They're still not hearing us.

Alex: Happy Halloween!
Alex: Boy!
Boy: Happy Halloween!
Alex: He heard me!

Claire: Happy Halloween!
Boy: Happy Halloween!

Alex: He's nice.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: He really is nice.

Boy: Happy Halloween!
Daddy (to Alex and Claire): He just said it to you.
Alex: Happy Halloween to you!
Claire: Happy Halloween to you!


(Dana and Camden come over, in costume, to go trick-or-treating.)
Alex (to Camden): I’m Buzz Lightyear!
Camden (to Alex): And I’m a pirate!


Claire (looking at a trick-or-treater): That scary.


(After very briefly trick-or-treating, Claire sits with Daddy on the front stoop and hands out candy to the trick-or-treaters.)

Trick-or-Treater: Happy Halloween.
(Claire gives candy.)
Trick-or-Treater: Thank you.
Claire: You’re welcome.
(The trick-or-treater leaves.)
Claire (to Daddy): He go back to him house.

Claire: Another one come. Uh another one come.

Claire: Uh give this uh next one.

Claire: Her go back to her house.

Claire: Where Mommy?

Claire: Where Grommie?
Daddy: He’s inside.
Claire: What he doing?
Daddy: He’s resting.
Claire: On his pillow?
Daddy: In his crate.
Claire: Oh.


(Trick-or-treating is over.)

Claire (eating chocolate-covered pretzels): Mmm. Nyum Nyum.

Alex: Now comes Thanksgiving!

Alex (singing): I’m a cowboy with a lollipop

Alex: After bed is it Thanksgiving?


(Alex is crying because he fell off the couch and hurt his hand. Daddy is comforting him.)
Claire: I wanna give him a kiss and a hug. Feel him better.

Mm. Need salt.

(Claire and Alex are having pretend dinner, and pretending to play the dinner game.)

Alex: What is your favorite costume?
Claire: Abby.
Claire: What is your favorite costume?
Alex: Buzz Lightyear.

Claire: What is your favorite costume, Grommie? Your favorite costume is…
(Pause.)
Alex: Dog!
Claire: Dog.


(Alex and Claire are playing with the Calico Critters house.)
Alex: Let’s say the things the mommy says, okay?


(Daddy, Alex, and Claire are talking a walk in the neighborhood.)

(Alex and Claire have their hoods up.)
Claire: Our head is funny!

Alex: I -- my muscles are very hard to get up!
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: And they're hard to get up here. I don't like it!
Daddy: Okay.

Alex: Only a fire truck can do that.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Like only Santa can go down the chimney.
Daddy: Right.

Claire: A big truck with milk in there.


(Claire takes a break from playing trains in order to take off her shoes.)
Claire (taking off her shoes): I go faster. Hurry hurry! I go back to my train!


(Alex is playing with letters.)
Mommy: Alex. Can you spell “cat”?
(Alex sounds it out, and spells “CAT” correctly!)

(Alex spells a few more words for Mommy, with a little help here and there.)

Alex: Can we do it again?
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: I want one with a G in it.
Mommy: Um, how ‘bout… gum.
Alex: Gum, yucky!

Mommy: Can you spell “fun”?
Alex: F.
(Alex gets the F.)
Mommy: And then “uh”.
(Alex gets the U.)
Mommy: Good job!
Alex: M. M, M. M, where are you?
(Alex gets the M.)
Mommy: Good job, buddy! You spelled lots of words!

(After playing letters, Alex runs around the house, singing.)
Alex (singing): A B C D E F G, H I J K L M N O P, Q R S, T U V, W X, Y and Z, so now I know my ABCs, next time won’t you sing with me!


(Alex sits down for lunch.)
Alex: Chicken nuggets! If I turn into a chicken nugget, I won’t be able to eat chicken nuggets, you will put me in your mouth! I don’t want to be a chicken nugget, why did you give me chicken nuggets again?


(snack)

Alex (to Daddy): Watch this.
(Alex takes a bite of his cheese and looks thoughtful.)
Alex: I need salt.
(Alex laughs.)
(Daddy laughs.)
Alex (to Claire): Watch this.
(Alex takes a bite of his cheese and looks thoughtful.)
Alex: I need salt.
(Alex laughs.)

(Mommy is wiping down the cabinets while the kids eat snack. Claire wipes up the graham cracker crumbs on her tray.)
Claire: I get it all clean.
Alex: Claire clean up like you, Mommy.


(dinner)

(Alex has being doing his “needs salt” joke with Claire and Mommy.)
Alex: This time everybody watch.
(Alex slowly looks around to make sure everyone is watching.)
Alex: Watch me.
(Alex takes a bite.)
Alex: Mm. Need salt.

Okay, then I show Mommy my pretty, pretty, jacket.

(Daddy wakes up Claire.)
Daddy: Good morning, sweetheart.
Claire: I like my blanket.
Daddy: Oh good!
Claire: It keep my – me nice and warm.

(Daddy dresses Claire.)
Claire: Uh show Mommy.
Daddy: Well first we have to go wake up Alex.
Claire: Okay, then I show Mommy my pretty, pretty, jacket.

(Alex is picking a show.)
Claire: Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah?
Claire: I pick uh show a-morra.
Mommy: You pick a show tomorrow, that’s right.


Mommy: What did you have for lunch?
Alex: Grabbioli, and carrots and peas. The carrots were in the peas.


Alex: I ate your cookie.
Claire: Don’t eat my cookie.
Alex: Aah.
Claire: I eat your cookie! Wah!
Alex: I’m gonna eat my cookie! You cannot eat my cookie now. You cannot eat it.
Claire: I ate it.
Alex: No I ate it.
Claire: No I ate it.
Alex: No I ate it.
Claire: No I ate it.
Alex: No I ate it.
Claire: No I ate it.
Alex: No I ate it.
Claire: No you ate it.
(Pause.)
Alex: Yeah!


Alex: Jokes are like this: Why do chickens fall down the slide?
Daddy: I don’t know, why do chickens fall down the slide?
Alex: Because he bumped his head!


(Daddy, Mommy, Alex, and Claire are going to pick up Mommy’s car from the mechanic.)
Claire: Now we go do errand.
Daddy: Now we go do an errand?
Claire: Yeah. After Mommy car.
Daddy: After Mommy's car?
Claire: No, after 'chanic.
Daddy: After the mechanic, yeah.
Claire: Yeah.


(dinner)

Alex: Aah!
Claire: Why you say “aah!”?
Alex: I just wanted to.
(Pause.)
Claire: Aah!
Alex: Why’d you say that?
Claire: I decide to – I just, I just want to.
Alex: Let’s not do that.
Claire: Okay.

Alex’s carrot: Hi.
Claire’s carrot: Hi.
Alex’s carrot: Let’s go for a walk.
Claire: ‘Kay.
Alex’s and Claire’s carrots (in unison, as they fly above Alex’s and Claire’s heads and descend into their mouths): Whooooaaaa!
(Alex and Claire laugh, then pick up more carrots.)
Alex’s carrot: Hi.
Claire’s carrot: Hi.
Alex’s carrot: Let’s go for a walk.
Claire: ‘Kay.
Alex’s and Claire’s carrots (in unison, as they fly above Alex’s and Claire’s heads and descend into their mouths): Whooooaaaa!

Claire: Now me want some more. I need some one more. May I have more pasta please, Daddy, and more carrots and more grapes?

(Claire burps.)
Alex: Say “excuse me”.
Claire: Ah-koos me.
Alex: Good job, Claire. Now you can have a ticket.
(Alex hands Claire an imaginary ticket, which she takes.)
Alex: Now eat it.
(Claire eats it.)
(Alex fake cries and complains. Claire laughs.)

Alex: Now you do it to me.
Claire: Here you go, a ticket.
(Alex pretends to eat the pretend ticket.)
Claire (in a gruff voice): Don’t eat your ticket!

My back hurts.

(Claire is watching Alex use the potty.)
Alex: Ouch.
Claire: Why did you say “ouch”?
Alex: My back hurts.

(Alex gets dressed.)
Claire: Good job.

I think that boy’s gonna do it too.

(Alex, Claire, and Daddy are in the car. It’s raining.)

Alex: It’s not on my sherdles.

Alex (referring to the windshield wipers): If I were a swiper, I could do that.

Daddy: What could you do?
Alex: I could swipe the rain off.

Alex: Swipers tryin' to get really really really fast, before the rain gets all over the car.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: We need our swipers.


(After dinner, Alex wipes his hands with a wipe.)
Alex (holding the wipe out to Daddy): Your turn!
(Daddy takes the wipe and starts wiping his hands.)
Alex: I think that boy’s gonna do it too.
Daddy: What boy?
Alex: My boy, when I grow up, and I’m a daddy, I think my boy’s gonna do it too.
Daddy: Do what?
Alex: Go like that – [Alex pantomimes wiping his hands with a wipe] – “Your turn!”

Mommy: How do you spell Alex?
Alex: A L X E.

Mommy: What’s your last name?
Alex: Gatewood Thomas.

Mommy: What’s your phone number?
Alex: 9111.

Alex: Let’s put our tongues together.


(bed time)

(Alex puts on his PJs all by himself.)
Claire: Good job, Alex.

...in the pumpkin patch, waiting for the big pumpkin, and they went trick-or-treating, and he didn’t, and Sally didn’t, and he missed trick-or-treats.

Alex: Because he was sitting in the pumpkin patch, waiting for the big pumpkin, and they went trick-or-treating, and he didn’t, and Sally didn’t, and he missed trick-or-treats.

Alex: I coughed and sneezed at the same time.
Daddy: Wow.
Alex: Yeah. I didn’t like it. Well it just took a minute.
Daddy: That nose… is very stopped up.
Alex: I’ll have to go to the doctor and she’ll have to fix it.
Alex: She’ll have to f—the doctor has to fix my nose.

(Claire doesn’t want to go to school.)
Alex (to Claire): I like to stay home too. I like to stay home too, Claire. But that’s your job before you grow up. And when you grow up you go to… what? Work! So, you have to go to school because you’re a kid still. Because kids go to school sometimes.


(Claire and Alex are leaving for Callum’s house. Daddy is working from home.)
Claire: Go do your work, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Claire: Go work on your computer.


Alex: Um, kid scientists, are, um, pretend.

Alex: Keep thinking, is, um, a good job, so, can you do that, Mommy? Can you keep thinking?

Ho ho ho. I’m Grandpa. I go to work. And I read the newspaper.

(Alex and Claire are watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.)

Alex: He’s going somewhere else, Claire. They’re going trick-or-treating.

Alex: He’s getting in his airplane.

Alex: He got holes in his airplane. He’s gonna land.

Alex: He’s lost.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: He needs to get home and see all his friends.

Alex: He’s still lost.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: But he’ll find his way back. He’ll find his way back.

Alex: He’s going through the water.
Alex: He’s going in the grass.
Alex: He’s going in there.
Alex: He’s going out there.

Alex: He found it.
Claire: Yeah.

(They reach the scene where Snoopy alternately dances and cries to Schroeder’s piano playing.)
Claire: Dancing.
(Claire dances in her seat.)
(Claire gets up from the sofa and dances.)
(Alex gets up from the sofa and dances.)
(Alex pretends to cry.)
(Alex and Claire dance.)

Claire: He wants his Mommy.
Alex: Yeah.
Alex: He’s crawling away again.


Alex: I like Claire, but sometimes when she doesn’t – I like her, I love her, I still like her when she’s sad.


(snack)

Claire: I saw Alex on the playground. I saw Alex on the playground.
Daddy: You saw Alex on the playground?
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: Mm-hm.
Alex: You remember, right? I know you remember, because, it was today.


Alex (out of the blue, in a deep voice): Ho ho ho. I’m Grandpa. I go to work. And I read the newspaper.
(Alex laughs.)


Alex: Look! A new book!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: A new dentist book!
Daddy: Fun!
Alex: A new book, Mommy, look, look!

(Daddy is reading a Dora book to Alex and Claire.)
Daddy: Who do we ask when we don't know which way to go?
Alex and Claire (in unison): Map!
Daddy: Map!
Alex and Claire (in unison): Cat in the Hat Map!

Nice to meet you, sir.

(Alex and Claire are playing together.)

Alex: We ran out of cheese, Claire. I can’t make cookies without cheese.

Alex: Something’s blocking our way. Do you see what it is? Beehive! Run! Bees! They’re gonna try to eat us!

Alex: Claire, I have a idea for you. Could you -- could you mix up the cookies, and put some mulch in it, and then rub all it around?


(Mommy begins to carve the pumpkin. Alex and Claire watch.)
Alex: This is gonna be fun!

Alex: I’m Super Pablo!
Claire: I’m Super Dora!

(Claire takes a couple of seeds out of the pumpkin.)
Claire: I wanna wash my hands.

(Daddy shows Claire some pumpkin seeds he took out of the pumpkin. Daddy’s hand has pumpkin on it.)
Claire (staring at Daddy’s hand): Go wash your hand.


(lunch)

Alex: Is it almost California?
Alex: Is it almost California?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Is it almost California?
Mommy: What do you mean?
Alex: You said that outside a long time ago.
Mommy: I said Grandma and Grandpa are in California. Is that what you mean?
Alex: Oh. They live in California?
Mommy: No.
Alex: They’re going to California?
Mommy: Mm-hm. That’s where they are. Right now.
Alex: Okay.



Mommy: Do you guys like ketchup?
Alex: Yes we do.
Claire: I like ketchup!
Alex: I like ketchup, it’s my favorite!
Claire: I like ketchup!
Mommy: Okay.



(Mommy, Daddy, Alex, and Claire are at the neighborhood’s outdoor Halloween party. Lying on the ground near the pumpkins is a skeleton. Alex, unprompted, walks over to the skeleton and takes it by the hand.)
Alex (shaking the skeleton’s hand): Nice to meet you, sir.
(Alex laughs.)

Uhhhh.

Alex (to Claire): Buses don’t fly, they drive. Airplanes fly.
Alex: Can the bus say, “These are cool airplanes”?
Claire (playing with the bus): These are cool airplanes.


(Alex is putting on his shirt.)
Claire: What’s – what’s on your shirt, Alex?
Alex: You’ll have to wait and see. What’s on it.
Claire: Okay.
Claire: There’s some words and dog!


(driving around looking at things)

Alex: I see apartments.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: So people can live that don’t have houses.

Alex: Uhhhh.
(Alex repeats this a few times.)
Alex: Did I do that four times?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: Did I?
Daddy: I wasn’t counting.
Alex: Can you count this time?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Uhhhh.
(Pause.)
Alex: Count.
Daddy: One.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Two.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Three
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Four.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Five.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Six.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Seven.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Eight.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Nine.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Ten.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Eleven.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twelve.
Claire (grinning): Twelve.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Thirteen.
Claire (grinning): Thirteen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Fourteen.
Claire (grinning): Fourteen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Fifteen.
Claire (grinning): Eighteen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Sixteen.
Claire (grinning): Eighteen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Seventeen.
Claire (grinning): Seventeen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Eighteen.
Claire (grinning): Eighteen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Nineteen.
Claire (grinning): Nineteen.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty.
Claire: Twenty.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty-one.
Claire: Twenty-one.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty-two.
Claire: Twenty-two.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty-three.
Claire: Twenty-three.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty-four.
Claire: Twenty-four.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty-five.
Claire: Twenty-five.
Alex: Uhhhh.
Daddy: Twenty-six.
Claire: Twenty-six.
Alex: How many did I do?
Daddy: Twenty-six.


Alex: Where’s Mommy?
Daddy: She’s taking a shower.
Alex: Why is she taking a shower?
Daddy: So she can get clean.
Alex: I didn’t see her getting dirty.
Daddy: Well, she got dirty.
Alex: Why did she get dirty?
Daddy: I don’t know.


(Claire is throwing a tantrum before nap, as usual.)
Alex: Claire likes to whine. She whines every day.


Alex (to Mommy, out of the blue): I just need to get one more muscle and then I’ll be like Daddy?


Mommy: Does anybody want snack?
Alex: Somebody does. It’s Alex.


(Alex is watching football with Daddy.)
Alex: Will my name be Alex when I’m older, and I can play football?


(Daddy picks up his chicken sandwich.)
Claire: It have – it have chicken.
Daddy: Mmmm.
Claire: It crunchy.

We'll very keep you safe

(Daddy drives Alex and Claire to school.)

Alex: Did you see I’m still tired?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Because I growled.
(Pause, while Daddy thinks about this.)
Daddy: You mean you yawned.
(Pause, while Alex thinks about this.)
Alex: Yeah, I yawned.

(Claire coughs.)
Alex: We need to get you some mask, Claire.

Alex: I’m too big for this car. Can you get a bigger car?

Alex (regarding the caterpillar, which is no longer in Daddy’s car): I really miss that toy.


(Alex and Mommy are playing together.)
Alex: Um, can you say the words I tell you to say?
Mommy: Yeah.
(Pause.)
Alex: Then we gonna get (mumble) the blueberry.
Mommy: Is that what you want me to say?
Alex: Yes – no, I want you to say: “Why’s the cat in there?”


(Alex throws the ball to Grommie in the kitchen.)
Alex (laughing): He slided! I didn’t know dogs could slide. He skated!


(Alex wakes Claire up from nap.)

Alex: Guess what I’m gonna do, Claire! I’m gonna do something special! I’m gonna take things that start with D to school!

Alex: I got a bucket. They call it a bail.


Alex: Claire, when you want to get Grommie his ball, you have to say “Give!” really loud.


Mommy: Alex, do you want some cheese?
Alex (in a gruff voice): Yeah. Cheese make me healthy.


(dinner)

Claire: Grommie’s licking my feet.
Alex: Grommie loves you.

Alex: Let’s play the dinner game.

Alex: You can drink wine when you’re a mommy, Claire.
Claire: I be a mommy and, I sit in that chair.
(Claire indicates Mommy’s chair.)


(Claire sits on the potty, with only Alex in the bathroom with her. Alex sings softly to her.)
Alex (singing): You can go to sleep
Alex (singing): Mommy and Daddy are here
Alex (singing): You’ll never be sad
Alex (singing): We’ll very keep you safe
Alex (singing): Don’t cry
Alex (singing): We’ll very keep you safe

And she gets to wear underwear.

Alex: And she gets to wear underwear.
Daddy: Yeah, when she's potty trained.
Claire (to Alex): And you all potty trained!
Alex: Yeah, I'm already.
Claire: Yeah.

It really really soft.

Claire: It’s too rainy, Alex can’t do soccer today.

Alex: Hey Claire? Elly woke up very early, but Bobo woke up a little bit early.
Claire: Yeah. Juju and Mallory woke up very early too.

Alex: Hey Daddy, at school yesterday, Miss Shern said no wiping Alex’s bottom anymore, he wipes his bottom all by himself.
Daddy: Wow!
Alex: He has to, but I don’t want to. I don’t want to, Daddy.
Daddy: Oh, but she’s saying you’re a big boy.

Mommy: Okay, I need to get hugs and kisses ‘cause I’m about to get in the shower.
Claire: You have to wash your hair, Mommy.


Alex: What is it, Mommy?
Mommy: What?
Alex: What do you call it when it's soaking wet?
Mommy: It's pouring.
Alex: It's pouring, yeah.

Claire: I peed on the potty and then me got a sticker.

Alex (singing): It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
Alex: Do you know that song, Claire?

Alex: It's pouring everywhere.

Claire: We can't go outside when, it's rainy outside.

Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yes buddy?
Alex: After school, when it was soaking wet, um, Neer got his umbrella, and put it on top of him, and then, his mommy, and, Mommy – Mommy thought she didn't have one so -- but she did have one! And it was soaking very wet.


Alex: Hey Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah buddy.
Alex (enthusiastically): Um at school we heard about a story who… who a lady ate up some leaves! She ate, she ate up everything!
Daddy: That's silly!
Alex: Yeah. Um, um, I thought, I said, I thought it was a lady who did that every day. I think she did that every day, and, at school and Miss Shern was reading it.


(Tonight’s dinner game is “wishing to the Magic Pumpkin”.)

Mommy: I wish for my family to be happy.

Alex: I wish that Daddy would climb a tree.

Daddy: I wish that I love my job.

Claire: I wish that Daddy be in a tree.


Daddy: Okay, here's a test. Who's our favorite football team?
(Alex raises his hand.)
(Claire raises her hand.)
Daddy: Alex?
Alex: My favorite football game is Everett!
Claire: My favorite football game is Campbell!

Daddy: Who's our favorite basketball team?

Alex: My favorite basketball team is Neer.

Claire: My favorite basketball team is Ca -- … Miss Whitney.

Alex (to Mommy): Who's your tennis ball player? Who's your favorite tennis ball player?
Mommy: Ask Daddy, he has one.
Alex: What's your tennis ball player?
Daddy: Rafael Nadal.
Alex (laughs): That's a silly one!!


(Claire has a new blanket.)

Claire: That my new blanket!
Mommy: Yeah!
Claire: It (mumble) have a cat on it!
Mommy: Yeah!
Claire: I soft it. It soft.

Claire: That my new blanket, Daddy!


(Claire sees her bed made up with her new blanket.)
Claire: I like my new blanket!


(Because she has a blanket now, Claire no longer needs to wear a sleep sack to bed.)
Claire (jumping up and down excitedly): I don't have a sleep sack, Daddy!


Claire (talking to herself in bed, as she strokes her blanket): It really really soft.

Very bad means you watch a show.

Alex: And I'll try not to bump into it, Claire, because, trying is the best thing to do.

Claire: The shopping cart's really really hard.
Alex: Yeah.
Claire: And the TV's hard.


(Mommy reads a book to Claire.)
Claire: Why him say, "That's enough!" Why him say that?


(Daddy burps quietly.)
Alex: Did you drink apple juice?


(Alex is playing "I'm stuck.")
Alex: Can you get your friends to help me?
Claire: Yeah. Juju Mallory help you.
Alex: Can the cow help me?
Claire: Yeah.

Alex: Don't say "eh".
Claire: Eh.
Alex: I don't like that.
Claire: Eh.


Alex: Can we watch a show?
Daddy: No.
Alex: But Claire hit her lip.
Alex: Very bad.
Alex: Very bad means you watch a show.


(Mommy is preparing to serve the craisin pumpkin bread that Alex and Claire made earlier.)
Claire (jumping up and down): I want eat bread! That yummy!


Daddy: Who made this bread?
Alex: Us.
Claire: Mommy. And Claire and Alex. We made it for you.

(Alex has been asking Daddy for more water.)
Alex: Daddy, I said it, quite times. Quite a times. And you didn't listen -- to what I was saying.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: So can you do that tomorrow?

Alex: Can you say, who wants the pumpkin, okay?
Claire: Who wants the pumpkin?
Alex: Me!
(Claire hands over an imaginary pumpkin. Alex eats it.)
Claire (in a stern voice): No, don't eat your pumpkin.


(Alex is pretending to need rescue.)
Alex: Help me!
(Pause.)
Alex: Help me!
(Pause.)
Alex: Help me!
(Pause.)
Alex: Hey Claire, you know what "help me" means? It means you need help.

I went on a fire engine!

Claire: I went on a fire engine!

Alex: We did go on the fire truck, we checked it out!

Alex: It was veeery big.

Alex: And it was yellow and black. And there was lots of tools in it.


(Claire reads "Elmo's New Puppy" to herself. She's never heard the story before.)

Claire (in an angry voice): I don't like you going to the grocery store, dog! No, no.
Claire (in an angry voice): I don't like you going to the grocery store, dog!

Claire (in an angry voice): I don't like you doing that. Dog.

Claire: You wanna go outside, Elmo? Okay, go outside, the end.


(Alex looks at the prizes in the earning bin.)
Alex: I'm gonna choose the baby and the football next time. I'm gonna choose the football on Wednesday, and I'm gonna choose the baby, on, Saturday.


(Daddy tells Alex what Daddy's full name is, and then they practice saying Alex's full name.)
Alex: And Elly is Elly Gatewood!

Claire: Juju Gatewood!


(Alex and Claire give Daddy hugs before leaving with Mommy for play group.)
Alex: I love you, Daddy!
Claire: I love you, Daddy!

Claire: Juju gave you a hug!

Hey Daddy? The best way to drink water, if you’re thirsty?

(At the end of the Dora episode, the credits play.)
Alex (mock frustrated): Why don’t they click on Dora?!
Alex: Why don’t they?
Daddy: I don’t know. They never do, do they?
Alex: Yeah.


(Alex and Claire are watching Diego.)

Alex: Shake your body, Claire.

Alex: Abeevaday!
Alex: Or something.
Alex: I don’t know the word.


Claire: No ‘chool?

Claire: I have a little breakfast. Alex ate all his big breakfast.

Claire: Whoa. That a big jump.

Alex: Yeah, the raccoon’s taking my Elly.

Alex: Raccoon took Elly! Raccoon took Elly!

Alex: Daddy, come back to me!
Claire: Come back to me!
Alex: Come back to me!
Claire: Come back to me!
Alex: Come back to me!
Claire: No, come back to me!
Alex: No, come back to me!
Claire: No, come back to me!
Alex: No, come back to me!
Claire: No, come back to me!
Alex (yelling): No, come back to me!
Mommy: Okay, no yelling.
Claire: Don’t come back to Alex!

Alex: I love Elly very much.

Alex: I’m stuck.
Claire: I not stuck.
Alex: I’m stuck in the mud.
Claire: I not stuck.


Alex: Yay! I got out of the snakes!


(Claire is washing her hands.)
Alex: It’s hard to see the germs, Claire.


(lunch/keshnerkle)

Claire: Why you have that bib? Why you have that bib on?
Alex: I don’t have that bib. I don’t have a different bib.
Claire: Why you have – why you have that bib? Why you have that bib?

(Mommy is making another sunbutter-and-jelly sandwich.)
Claire: That – that my jelly.
Alex: I want jelly.
Claire: I want jelly!
Alex: I want jelly!
Mommy: You’ll both get jelly, I promise.

Claire: I like water. I like water.
Daddy: You like water?
Claire: No I was talking to water.
Daddy: Oh okay. I’m sorry.
Claire: I like water.

Claire (talking to her sandwich): You like water?
Claire’s sandwich: No.
Claire: You like milk?
Claire’s sandwich: Yeah!
Claire: You like water? I like water!


Claire: Mommy got new air, Grommie.

Alex: Can you wipe my bottom really fast, ‘cause I'm thirsty.

Alex: Hey Daddy? The best way to drink water, if you’re thirsty?
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: You swish it around until you're not thirsty anymore.



(Claire and Alex are playing the Timeout Game.)

Claire (to Alex, angrily): You knock down the forest?
Alex: I knocked down the forest.
Claire (angrily): You knock down the forest, time out right there!

Claire (to Alex): Time - THREE MINUTES!


(Daddy plays the song Mad World.)
Alex: That’s Mad World!


(Mommy comes home from the grocery store.)
Claire: Mommy!
Mommy: Hi!
Alex: We missed you!

Alex: I heard Claire playing with Doc… and I was whining in my room…
Mommy: You were?
Alex: Yeah.

Claire: I want you to say “ow” again.
Claire: I want you to say “ow” again.
Mommy: What? You want what out?
Daddy: She wants you to say “ow” again.
Mommy: Oh.
Mommy: Ow!
Claire: No on your hand.
Mommy (shaking her hand as if she hurt it): Ow!
Claire (pointing to the hummus container): No on that.
Mommy (touching the container): Ow!
Claire: No on your lid.
Mommy (touching the lid): Ow!
Claire: No you can’t get it off of that. Put it back on.
(Mommy puts the lid back on the hummus container.)
(Claire giggles in anticipation.)
Mommy (pretending to be unable to take the lid off): Ow!
Claire: No eh – put that in there.
Mommy (taking the lid off): Ow! I got it.
Claire: No. Not like that! Right -- right there. Back there, Mommy!
Mommy: I can’t do it right! Ow! I can’t get the lid off. Ow!
Alex: Can I do it?

Alex: I thought we could go to – for a walk this morning, and we could um – we could um – we could um – we could play in the playroom and go for a walk. Well… not for too long because I might get tired.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: You remember yesterday? You remember yesterday when I was walking? I got tired.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Because I was walking too long.
Mommy: Yeah, I took you too far.
Alex: Because we – because we took a shortcut, so – I didn’t want to take a shortcut….. but we couldn’t because Daddy was here and we had to get Daddy over there.
Mommy: Is that what happened? I thought Daddy came to pick us up.
Alex: Yeah, he came to pick us up. He came over where we were. He drove the car there. He – that – he did – he went over there where we were.

Alex: Well, I think we should play baby birds tomorrow. Because I don’t like doing it sometimes.


(Alex is climbing the rock wall on the playset.)
Alex: I'm very strong, but my foot won't move.

(Alex is climbing the ladder on the playset.)
Claire: Be careful, Alex!

(Alex is swinging on the swings.)

Alex: Can you slow me down if I need to scratch myself?

Alex: That's too much pushing, Daddy.
Daddy: Is this better?
Alex: That's better. I'm just tipping over a little bit.

Alex: I wanna get out so I can see Juju in a magazine.

Alex (to Mommy): I wanna see Juju in a magazine.
Mommy: Okay. It’s on page 36.
Alex: Okay.
Alex (flipping through the magazine): Page... 36...

(Claire pretends to write on the deck.)
Claire: Mommy, Daddy, Grommie, Oakley, Claire!


(Daddy and Alex play the rhyming game.)
Alex: What happened to my eye, when I fell down and I said, I don’t have a rhyme.

Alex: I just hit my head, but then what happened to my bed?

Alex: Hey Daddy, I have one more.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I want a song, and I fell down on a bong!


(Bath time. Daddy rinses Alex’s hair.)

Alex: Hot.
Daddy: Oh, is it too hot?
Alex: No, it’s not hot, it’s just a little hot.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: I just said "hot" because it was burning me.

Fire is dangerous.

(Today’s Alex and Claire quotes are deliberately provided without context.)


Alex: I think I should just stop pooping and get ready for the party.


Alex: Someone peed there, yuck.


Mommy: I don't understand.
Alex: Please understand.


Alex: I think I hear Elly crying.


Alex: Fire is dangerous.


Alex: Alex's name is still there, it's every day!


Alex: What are we gonna do? We'll be stuck down here forever, we can't get in our house!


Claire: We're home, Juju!


Alex: It’s always chalky day. We hafta get chalk again! Why do we always hafta get chalk?!


Alex: We gotta fix your flat tire, Claire.


Claire: A chinchilla.
(Claire laughs.)


Claire: What's this?
Alex: Chair.
Claire: Oh.


Claire: I'm doing -- I'm big doing it! I'm big.


Alex: That's the other boy's yard.


Alex: Banjo banjo! Banjo banjo! I'm a banjo!
Alex (running around): Banjo banjo!
Claire (running around): Banjo banjo!
(Both kids continue running around saying “Banjo banjo!” for about two full minutes.)


Alex (to Grommie): You like me? I think you like me. Do you like me, Grommie?

Alex: Oh no! He's crazy!

Alex: Can I play ball with him?


(dinner)

Claire: Yummy dinner!

Alex: Let’s play the dinner game!

Alex: Can we play it? Yes? Or no?

On the counter.

Alex: Yummy, hot waffle.
Alex: It's burning my fingers but not my mouth.


Claire: Our house is leaking.

Alex: I need to go inside, drink some water, and take a rest.

Alex: I had a busy day.
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Yeah, I was workin’ hard at school.


Daddy: Why are you taking off your pants and underwear?
Alex: Oh. I didn’t know I was doing that.
Daddy: Don’t take off your pants and underwear.
Alex: I thought I was doing something wrong. Or I was doing something right.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Sorry, Daddy.
Daddy: It’s okay!


(Alex and Claire are playing trains and cars.)
Thomas: Hi, it’s nice to meet you, Sarge.
Sarge: I love you, Thomas.
Thomas: I love you, too.
Alex: And Scruffey was on his way.


Claire: I want my blanket on. I want my blanket on, I go to sleep with Juju.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire runs off and throws herself onto the floor with Juju, waiting for Daddy to cover her with a blanket.)

Alex: Tree, mud, toolbox! Where do we go first?
Claire: Toolbox!
Alex: Do you see the tree?
Claire: Right there!
Alex (jumping over the “tree”): We jump over the tree, where do we go next? Mud!
Claire: Yeah.
Alex (going through the “mud”): We go through the mud, where do we go next?
Claire: Toolbox!
Alex: Toolbox, yeah!

Claire: Are you coming? Are you coming? Are you coming, Daddy?
Daddy: Coming where?
Claire: Coming to fix my blanket.
Daddy: Yeah.
(Claire again runs off and throws herself onto the floor with Juju, waiting for Daddy to cover her with a blanket.)

Claire: Daddy? I knock over my blanket again. I knock over my blanket. I want you come fix it.
Daddy: Okay.
(Claire runs off again.)


Claire: I all comfy.

Alex: You look like a nest.


(Claire counts some trains. There are four of them.)
Claire: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Alex: Good counting.
Claire (counting again): One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.


Alex: Daddy, can we read books after we play trains? Can we have special time with you?
Daddy: Yeah, you can have special time with me.

Alex: I like reading books and playing trains. It’s my favorite thing. And running is my favorite thing too.

(Alex plays trains.)

Alex: Hey this, Daddy? This is a forest, a dark forest where scary animals live.

Alex: Kevin’s working and digging dirt. He’s tryin’ to do it all the way. Before it gets dark.
Alex: Dig dig, dig dig, dig dig, dig dig, dig dig
Alex: Yay.
Alex: Dig dig, dig dig, dig dig, dig dig

Alex: There might be a bear coming.
Alex: He – I heard it.
Alex: Somebody might be walkin’ from – under the sign.

(Alex picks up the toy phone and starts talking into it.)
Alex: Yeah. That’s funny that you need a truck.
(Pause.)
Alex: Well, I can’t bring you a truck today. It’s almost time for my dinner. Sorry.
(Pause.)
Alex: I can get you a new tree. Okay. Bye.
(Alex hangs up the phone and walks over to Daddy.)
Alex (to Daddy): I can’t get Pablo a new truck today, because he has his old truck, and I have to get my dinner.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: So… I have to get him a new tree instead.

Claire: There, Daddy.
(Claire gives Daddy a cup from her tea set.)
Claire: That all the water.
Claire (walking off): I’m gonna get some water for me.


(The pizza delivery man comes to the door.)

Claire: Pizza man’s here!!

Claire: I like pizza man!!

Claire (jumping up and down): Pizza, pizza, pizza!!

Claire (jumping up and down): Yummy, yummy, yummy!!

Claire: I like pizza!!


(Alex asks Mommy to buy him a toy he saw in a magazine, and Mommy explains that it costs a lot of money.)
Mommy: How much money do you have?
Alex: I have lots of it.
Mommy: Oh, can I borrow some?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Where is it?
Alex: On the counter.
Mommy: Okay.