What Alex Said

Today at dinner, while pretending to be the cat: I am interested in hairbrushes and I like to climb walls. Sounds kind of like a personal ad...

Our super-intelligent, highly verbal, can-do-math-in-his-head child got kicked out of preschool a few weeks ago for "aggressive behavio...

While playing in the bath, a pretend conversation among the toys: "I don't want to eat my eye." and then, "Why? It tastes...

Last week in the car, about 10 minutes away from home, Alex said, "What if the car were so long that part of it was still in the drivew...

Today after a rousing game of hopscotch on the sidewalk Alex asked if he could bring his rock inside because, "I don't want it to g...

Yesterday, while looking at the glow-in-the-dark star stickers on his ceiling: I'm going to swallow a shooting star so it can shoot out ...

Yesterday my husband was explaining to Alex the differences between baseball and softball. He said that in softball, the ball is bigger and ...

No direct quote at the moment, but wanted to pop in to report that the overgeneralization of the past has progressed. Alex now uses the corr...

Found a scrap of paper with this scrawled on it: "Look! My penis is deaf." Wha???? ***** Today when getting out of the bath: Jim s...

"You have butt cheeks!" Pause "So do I!" Pause "You have bigger butt cheeks!" Shouted down the stairs, "...