Alec-isms

Silly:

“Hey tickle me right here” (pointing to his armpit) ..”it’s the tickle jackpot!”

Science:

During super-storm Sandy as we were watching the weather and they were talking about the storm cells. “Mom, I need to go check the DNA of the storm’s cells.  Because you know everyone’s DNA is different. I need to unravel the strands.”

Geography:

Is Lost Angela part of the United States?

Music:

Alec singing (to the song- Call Me, Maybe)…  ‘she’s my mother…so call me, maybe’

Me- “Ummm…Alec it’s  ‘here’s my number – so call, maybe’”

Alec- oh….(pauses)- that makes so much more sense.

Pop Culture:

He mumbles something about Justin Beaver.

I say – “you mean Justin Beiber?” 

Alec “ Yeah….Who is the Justin Beaver guy anyway?”

Me: “Where did hear about Justin Beiber?”

Alec:  “Brady Bacora was talking about him on the playground. His sister in love with him.  I just hear things and then I know them, mom”.

Well there ya go.

Practical:

In the car driving the other day “Mom- so if someone says ‘it’s a long story’ that really just means they don’t feel like telling you the story –right”?

Me- “You are right- that’s a pretty smart observation. You are a smart kid”

Alec- “That’s me – Mr. 2 smart brains”. 

I think I have mentioned before that Alec spends a lot of time ‘in’ his brain trying to put things in boxes when he can’t understand something. He has a small obsession with the Titanic right now and spends a lot of time trying to figure out how big it really was. Was it bigger – than our house? Yes. Is is bigger than my school? Yes. Things like this….. over and over and over and over.

His biggest and must current beef is with the fact the there is really only (in his mind) one body of water that is ocean (if you look at it on the map) and since it is all connected why does it have different names. The expanse of it is perplexing to him. He just wants us to say ”Yes Alec – there is only one Ocean!”. We talk about this often.

It’s hard to be him with all these thoughts!