Lightening Up /Life With Alex!

My last entry was so sad. Luckily we have Alex around to lighten things up.

Lately, Alex has been asking me a lot about weddings and who pays for what.

Today he asked about the honeymoon. Who pays for that? (Our piano teacher is going on her honeymoon next week, I think that is where this train of thought is coming from. At least I hope so!)

I told him the man does.

Then I gave him the list we had so far.

The man pays for the rings, the flowers, the tuxedo's, the wedding breakfast and the honeymoon.

(In a traditional world....right?)

Then he sort of shrugged and told me he would worry about it later and then informed me, "You will be my helper and explain me how to do it."

Yes Alex. I will be your "helper" and explain you how to do it.

Sometimes it's hard to correct his English as it's just so plain funny.

His older sisters have been teaching him about comebacks. As in witty remarks. His are so strange. Usually he just repeats whatever they say right back at them. 

Sister: Alex, you look like a monkey.

Alex: Oh yeah, well, YOU look like a monkey.

So they told him he has to come up with his own comeback. 

(Please keep in mind, I have not been apart of these "learning moments" only heard about them after the fact.)

Here is an example of an Alex comeback that Kambree posted as her FB status the other day:

"You know what??? I'm going to rub ketchup on your face.... and then your face will be red." 

Tonight Rylee is  going to Young Women's with me. Alex asked me if she was going to have an "experience"? I was puzzled? "An experience? Well, she's going to an activity." "I know but this will be her first young women's experience."  True. I guess she will be having an "experience"?

He starts junior high on Friday. (In our school district the 7th graders get to come a day early on their own. He'll be home with me Monday when the rest of the kids start school. Which works out fabulously as that is the day Kambree moves back to school and he will help me move her. He is a great help moving things!)

Yikes.

Dev took him and Brach to the junior high on Monday and helped them find their lockers, practice opening them and walked them around to their classes. I can tell he's excited/nervous. I'm just plain nervous. I feel like I'm throwing my baby to the wolves. 

I'm worried as he has three special help classes, ESL, Speech and Fast Forward (a reading program) yet he has all regular classes. When does he attend these special classes? Oh, they'll pull him out for those? Great. And then he misses what he needs to hear in his regular classes and gets behind there? There has got to be a better way. 

I stole this pictures of my friends blog - her husband went on one of the scout camps. (Thanks Amy!) Alex is in the orange with James' Crocodile Dundee hat.

No idea what is going on with my fonts.