You can have your mouth open underwater without letting water into your lungs… if you need justification besides “art” then you could say the kitten is trying to catch a fish in its mouth.

what

“Thompson, with a ‘P’, as in psychology”

oh hey it me

or /ɪɛztɛɪaɪ/ depending on whether you treat the final phoneme of moped as /t/ or /d/ -> [t]