Alex put on this little show for us a couple of weeks ago. I love the part in the middle where Alex and I start laughing so hard that the show has to stop. Kids are weird.

Here is a funny video that we took of Alex today.

Yesterday I was talking to Alex about when her camp goes to the swimming pool. I asked, “Do you have lessons?” Alex replied,”No, we can do whatever we want. Except pee in the pool.”

Alex has her third loose tooth. On the way to camp this morning she said, “I hope it comes out this weekend - then the tooth fairy will give me a $100 bill like last time.” I said, “Are you sure? I think it was a $1 bill.” And Alex replied, “It was a $1 bill and $100 bill.” I’m still laughing over that.

Yesterday when we were out at lunch Alex said that she was never getting married. My friend Jim looked at me and said, “Maybe she could marry Knox Pitt.” Knox is one of Brad Pitt’s new twins. Alex looked up and shouted, “My name is not Mouse Pit.”

When we were walking home this afternoon Alex said that she wants to get a kitten and name it Mashed Potatoes.

Here’s a video of Alex laughing really hard while sledding on Dylan’s snowboard. This was taken on Christmas 2007.

Last night when we were walking home Alex was grumpy and complaining a lot. When she gets like this she often complains about things that we aren’t even talking about or things that don’t make sense to me. She suddenly said, “Fine, I’ll just sleep in my room by myself because you said I had to be in there.” Now, Alex has been sleeping with me since the beginning of the year and occasionally I will say that she should start sleeping in her own room but I hadn’t said anything recently and I certainly wasn’t talking about it while we were walking home. I replied, “I didn’t say anything about that but you should start sleeping in your own room again. If you aren’t going to use it we should turn it into something else like … .” Alex interrupted me and said, “Like an alien spaceship?” At that point we both started laughing so hard. I said, ‘Yes, an alien spaceship with tin foil on the walls and blinking lights that making beeping sounds.

Now I was thinking of turning the room into an office or a dining room. I don’t know why alien spaceship didn’t occur to me. After Alex said that we laughed the rest of the way home and she wasn’t grumpy anymore.

Tonight during during Alex asked, “Can I tell you what Parker did today?” (Parker is her nemesis and sounds like the kid who is the discipline problem in her class). Alex then said, “Parker was talking while the rest of us were doing our work diligently.” I repeated with amazement, “Diligently?” And she replied, “Yes, do you already know that word Mommy?”

The other night when I picked up Alex at her after school program we started walking home and she asked me if we could take a taxi home (the walk is about 8 blocks). I said no because it wasn’t too cold or raining or anything. She then said, “but we never take a taxi.” I them asked her if she had any money to pay for the cab - she replied, “yes, I have a quarter and a $140.00″. I started laughing - well, then I guess we have enough money to take a cab.