It seems that these buds in particular consider it a great pleasure to share a chair with Alec. As you can see, he tolerates the sharing of space but does think it necessary to provide them much room.
What Alec is saying with his eyes here is: "Pipe down Mom, for I am a boy standing on a post and I will, will, will be jumping from it to the ground below. There is no stopping me."
Alec is now in a great phase of loving superheros. He loves the books, pretend play and imagining that goes with them. Luckily, he and I are on the same page with respect to the movies - "I think I would like to watch that when I get bigger" he proclaims when he sees any such DVD case.
Oh to be a kid. Alec has hardly questioned where Spiderman came from that day and whether or not he will come back. Talk about living in the moment ...