Alex has been joking about all of the reports on Hurricane Alex. He loves the lines on the TV screen that say "Don't Underestimate Alex" and jokes about how all of those reporters are trying to "track" him and talking about how "strong" he is. I couldn't resist taking a picture of him in front of our TV during the local newscast.
Patrick and Alex are always butting heads. They just don't see eye to eye on a lot of things. In many ways, they seem to be alike. Both are a bit stubborn and won't change their opinions so easily. Both love playing games, although obviously, Patrick's grown-up sense of responsibility usually takes over while Alex's immaturity is still apparent. They're very different in a lot of ways, of course. One of the ways was causing us some trouble this morning. Alex tends to ask for a lot of things, and we might agree to all of them, but when we finally say "no", it doesn't matter how many things we already said "yes" to, he automatically makes it seem like we never say "yes". Hopefully he'll outgrow this and realize how lucky he is as he matures. Alex has been pretty obsessed with video and computer games this summer. Because of our discussion with him this morning (see above), we told him he couldn't play with any electronics today. He found other things to do. He actually played with Eric. He actually did his chores. He actually asked to go to the pool instead of complaining that the rest of us wanted to go to the pool and he didn't. We'll see if he still remembers our discussion later this week.
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