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Oh! LOL! The string sounds to me like he made it up.

The names Cody and Savannah are too current to sound like Pippi and the animal names too normal. You can't name a monkey Mr. Nilsen (sp?) and then call anything a mere Flipper or Splash.

Asia (the continent) is mentioned in the books in reference to Pippi and her father's travels, but I don't think it's used as a name in any other sense.

But that's just my take. Maybe it's in the book and I just don't remember it. I hope not. I like it better if your son put it all together!

It sounds like Pippi's name... Pippalotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim's Daughter Longstocking.

DS wants to be a blacksmith, and has for about a year and a half now. If he keeps it up for a few more years I have a friend who has a friend who has a kind of "high-end" blacksmithing business (mostly door and cabinet hardware, and locks), and she said she could probably set him up with a summer internship... but it's another case of you have to be "this high" to reach the anvil... LOL

I hear that when I was 5 I wanted to be a music teacher so I could teach everyone all the songs I knew that no one else did. By High school I wanted to work for either the CIA or the consular service. I do teach my son music now but am in a very boring cubicle job.

ds7 - illustrator, writer, mad scientist and REAL ESTATE agent, which just cracks me up!
DS2 - as far as we can tell, a dancer.

self - wanted to be an 'eye doctor'. Turned out to be a programmer and mom, but I have had a couple of frantic opportunities to do eye-trauma triage (tiny piece of dust in eye!!!! aaahh!!!! mooooom!!!!)

Ph. D. Mathematician/like his favorite uncle. DS10 has never wavered on that one.

DD9- Anything to do with animals/nature: snake scientist (eek!), veterinarian, Jane Goodall's assistant, "cat whisperer"

DS3- leaf blower (I assume he meant a person who uses one, not the actual tool but who knows)

DD13 wants to be a doctor and DS11 wants to be a physicist/engineer/inventor/aviator/author.