A book we were reading mentioned an old-fashioned phone that looked like a daffodil. "Wait, what?" Dorothy asked. I explained how the phone was shaped, and offered to show her a picture of one. "No, you don't need to show me a picture," she said. "I'm thinking of one in my head. I can see it now. It's yellow on top with a green bottom."
I told Dorothy "no" again, and then said, "I guess today is a no day." "I'll tell you no, Mama," she said. "Okay," I agreed. "Mama, you cannot have any coffee today! And you can't watch any Veronica Mars tonight!"
When we held Dorothy's birthday party at Gram & Big Daddy's house, we found out that Dorothy had absorbed all the details of her cousin Mary Claire's similar party nine months earlier. As we set-up, she kept offering corrections: "At Mary Claire's birthday party, we hung the sign here..." "At Mary Claire's birthday party, we used the other cake plate, the one that plays music..."
Aunt Valerie and Uncle Daniel gifted our family a character dinner at Disney for Dorothy's birthday. Valerie packaged the gift card cutely with a letter from Cinderella inviting Dorothy to dine. Then Valerie told an excited Dorothy, "You'll meet the stepmother and stepsisters, too." "That's okay," Dorothy replied understandingly.
"Supper is ready," Gram said. Dorothy sidelined me and whispered, "They call dinner supper."