There's two thinks we all know about Alex:
-She's stubborn and often refuses help
-and she's a dork.

Now, imagine her trying to get cereal from the top self of the cabinet so she can have her breakfast, now, sense she's so short, she has a chair that's below her, and between the chair and her is a step stool. She leans forward to grab the cereal. Pushing her weight back back the chair and stool slip out form under her. So she falls, hits her head off of the counter, than again off of the floor. Than the poor girl got hit hard enough in the head twice to bring tears to her eyes. So someone who's tall, or even average height, ends up getting the cereal for her while Mummy England is fussing over one of his babies, making sure she's okay.