(Sometimes it’s an ordinary trip to the shoe store that really makes it clear how important it is that Dillan have access to the full 26 letters on a keyboard or letterboard, and the proper support and strategies that allow him to tell us something unexpected (and belly-tickling) like this…)

Trail-shoe-buying trip:

Mom:  Dillan, what do you think about these shoes?

Dillan:  I was initially skeptical because they looked awful in the box, but on my feet they are not as ugly.

Mom:  You’ve tried on a few different ones. Which do you like best?

Dillan:  Seems that it would be fitting to choose the underdog shoe. 

(Of course it would!)