So we're at this stage...

Just a fairy in her toy forest

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy asked me what time something was going to happen, and I told her between 9 and 10 in the morning.  She made a thinking face and then said, "There's nothing between 9 and 10.  It's just 9-10."

Occasionally an ice cream truck will come through our neighborhood, and last weekend, we treated ourselves to the snow cone truck.  "Ice cream!  Snow cones!  What kind of a quarantine is this?" Dorothy asked.

I overheard Dorothy playing with her dolls, and one told the other, "I'll drive the car because I have my driver's lessons."

Dorothy asked me how bathtubs are made.  I rambled on about ceramic, and stumbled over my answer, and when I was finished, she said, "No, I mean how do they get the water to come out of the wall?"

We were watching "The Story of the Animated Drawing" on Disney+.  It was a black-and-white t.v. show that aired in 1955.  In it, Walt Disney was showing off animated stills, including Snow White.  Dorothy said, "Oh!  Snow White used to be black-and-white, and it was color later."

Sailing on her scooter nowadays

This photo was taken after 9 p.m. because we sleep late and stay up late lately

All in a day's work

One of these teeth is loose

Father's Day was happy

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy learned about a frog's life cycle.  The term was new to her.  At one point she called it the "frog cycle".
"Do you know what a human's life cycle is?" I asked.  "A baby, a toddler, a child, a teenager, an adult, an old person."  "A skeleton!" she added.

Dorothy asked why her watch lights up if it does not have any batteries.  I told her that it does have a battery, it's just a small little one shaped like a coin -- "It's very, very small, and when it runs out, you can buy another one and put it in the watch."  "If it's very small," she asked, "then how do you find it in the stores on the shelves?"

Dorothy has a book with a picture of Betty Boop; she later referred to her as "Betty Booper".

Happy birthday, Big Daddy!

Have Brads, Will Puppet

Tadpoles by the hundreds

Alina is legally a Lasseter!

The child at the end of the tunnel

The Sunday Funny

I (Brian) was playing Aaron Copland, and when Fanfare for the Common Man came on, I thought, "This is a teachable moment."  So I went over to Dorothy and said, "Hey, this music is a fanfare. And you know how generally they play trumpets and a fanfare for royalty? Aaron Copland wrote this for everyone - all people, because everyone is worth celebrating."  I told her the title.  Dorothy thought for a moment and replied, "Why didn't he use the word 'people' instead of 'man'?"

"Take a picture of me"

Dorothy is into pancakes

The streets were so hot today that the puddles turned hot

It took 5 minutes to find this hidden egg

Oatmeal cookies on the way

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy had a bad dream that someone cut the bangs on her LOL Hair Surprise doll.  "It was just a dream," Brian consoled her.  "We can go to the living room and look at the doll, and you'll see she's fine."  "But I don't have the one that was in my dream," she said.

Dorothy asked me what a guppy looks like.  "You know, I'm not sure," I said.  Then I remembered that she watches a cartoon called Bubble Guppies, and I said, "But you know because you've seen them in Bubble Guppies."  I don't watch the show too closely, I guess, because Dorothy countered, "But those are mermaids."

BJD-DJLD

Dorothy came up with this pose

Sometimes the dolls walk with us

At first they were Leia braids

Proud of her pigtails

Always with the skinned knees