'So Patient, So Brave'

Alec just fell asleep clutching: two dinos, a mammoth, Scrat and his Cuddle Blanket. He was so tired, having missed our nap due to a rigidly scheduled dental appointment.
He was so good at the dentist! He opened his mouth wide, let the hygienist and dentist brush all his teeth and clean them with an electric whirly thing and paint them with flouride. Each time they let him get up from one of the procedures, he'd say, "All done" in a relieved voice, and wipe his hand across his forehead and say, "Whew!" We kept praising him and he'd mutter to himself, grimacing, "I so patient. I so brave." We were just wowed. He got a dino sticker and a small dino from the dentist. We took him to pizza afterward and then after work I took him to pick out $10 worth of new toys. One is the mammoth. Gram sent the big dino. Alec kept referring to the dentist as "look in-a the mouth" and said the experience was "a little bit scary."