Syllable, syllabus, crescendo, credenza

I'm in the process of organizing all my course readings for next semester (it's a doozy of a semester—I'm going to read until my eyeballs fall out). Alexander came up beside me and began reading over my shoulder.

"Is that how you spell syllable?!" he asked in shock.

"Syllabus," I said. "A document that tells what the course is going to cover."

"Oh," he shrugged and ran off. 

*****

He has so many little confusions and I keep meaning to keep a list of them to share and keep forgetting to do so. Perhaps in the future I will be better. For now I will tell you that we were looking for Alif Baa the other day, a text book for learning the Arabic alphabet, which we had misplaced. Alexander was the one to find it.

"It's right here on the crescendo!" he called from the dining room.

Credenza.

He consistently mixes up those words. 

He's cute.