Fairy - "tooF" - and Alecisms and a Zach story

This is going to be a veritable hodge-podge of a blog. Buckle up and hang on because I'm not going to worry too much about transitions!

*The tooth fairy made a visit Sunday night. Zach lost a top front tooth. I love these toothless pictures.

*Alec has this lisp. He told his daddy a "Super Kitty" story about lava octopusses that swim in the water. (Super Kitty is an Alec creation who is a cat superhero. She defeats all kinds of monsters and creates much mayhem on a daily basis.) Alec's story went something like this:

And den Thuper Kitty thaw da lava octoputhes in da water and den Thuper Kitty defeated da lava octoputhes!

*Today he was with Ms. Renee, his babysitter and she was trying to get him to finish his ham and cheese sandwich. She said something like, "You better eat it so you can be big and strong." Alec's reply was, "Welllll, I ate half of it so I can be big. And I'm already strong (th-trong)!"

*Zach came home telling me about this thing they did in school today where they took each letter of their names and then wrote a word about themselves based on that letter. I cannot remember what this is called. Anyway, he was telling me what he wrote about himself. For example, he put "Zarda snake" for Z, because that's his favorite snake. And he put "Amazing reader" for A, because he is an amazing reader. He got to the second A in his name and said the word he put was "Antelligent!" There was a moment of confused silence before it registered. He meant intelligent. I found the humor quite ironic.