Alexanderisms

Alexander says so many funny and cute things. 

He loves to pray before meals.  He always says the, "Thank you Father" prayer. 

Unprompted, Alexander prayed for someone to not be scared to fly to Nebraska.  He said, "Help them to be safe and not be scared."  We prayed this for my mom when she visited in November.  Amazing how he remembered that and applied it to someone else.

Just the other day, he held Audrey's hand and prayed with her.  Precious. 

At church Wednesday, he sang on the microphone forever.  Adam played the guitar.  It was amazing.

Adam and I sing, "Audrey Girl."  Alexander sings, "Audrey gawk."  Not sure what that gawk means.

 While most of what Alexander says is cute and sweet he certainly has times when he uses poor English.  He still struggles with pronouns, rarely using he and she correctly.  "Her is going to my house," he says.  We finally did get him to at least use the masculine and feminine pronouns appropriately when talking about girls and boys.  

When asking a question about himself he says, "My do it?"  We constantly remind him to ask, "May I do it?"

"In four days," and "In forty days." He has no concept of time.  "Last year." 

He confuses money and temperature.  He tells us it is not expensive, "It is forty dollars."  Alexander also says, "It is forty degrees."  He likes the number forty, but he uses any number. Sixty is often used as well. 

The other day I hurt my finger and yelled loudly.  Alexander later informed me that when I yelled I broke his heart into pieces.  I apologized and he said it was okay, because "Jesus is going to fix my heart.  He is going to come to my room while I am sleeping, turn on the light and put the pieces back together." 

After reading stories before naptime and bedtime each day Alexander's request is always, "Snuggle?" He will sometimes even wake throughout the night and ask to snuggle.  He often comes to our room in the early morning hours and asks to snuggle.  I usually just pull him in bed with us to get a few extra minutes of sleep.

We are awakened each morning to, "Mommy, can I have milk, O's, and a show?"  Of course the answer is yes. 


One last Alexanderism.  After getting a spray tan Alexander noticed my tan lines and asked, "Mom, why is your booty white?" 

Hilarious three year old.