There were better pics, but this one captured the moment

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy has been able to recognize the Notre Dame logo from an early age.  Just this week she sussed out that it's made of interlocking letters N and D.

At Easter I unearthed a bright white waffle weave dish towel, which is still in circulation.  Dorothy spilled cranberry juice and cleaned it up with the towel.  "Ahhh, you're cleaning red juice with my best towel," I said.  Dorothy looked at it.  "I'm sorry, Mama," she said, "I didn't know that it had a bunny on it."

I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for Dorothy, and I put cranberry sauce on mine in lieu of jelly.  "A peanut butter and cranberry sandwich!" Dorothy announced.  "Isn't that a good name?  Let's tell Daddy that I came up with a name for your sandwich."

Dorothy followed me outside in the morning while I was taking out the garbage.  She was in her pjs.  "It's a cold day with cold wind," she said.  "Not my kind of day."  "Well, you're not wearing any pants, socks, shoes, or a sweatshirt.  You'd probably feel better if you were wearing some of those," I said.  "And even better if I was wearing all of those," she added.

Dorothy informed me that a piece of plastic had gone down the drain during her shower, and I was questioning her about it, and I said it would be okay except that only water is supposed to go down drains.  "And dirt," she sassed. "Isn't that the whole point of showers?"

A commercial advertised the t.v. show This is Us, which is apparently on its fifth season.  "Wait," Dorothy looked at me questioningly.  "There are only four seasons."

Dorothy has been unhappy with her podcasts lately because they've been discussing topics she doesn't like, such as germs and monsters.  Last night's Wow in the World episode was about predators.  "Predators!" Dorothy complained.  "Well, I guess they're talking about predators because it's almost Thanksgiving, and people eat turkeys on Thanksgiving."

Brian was playing a Christmas song on the piano.  Dorothy observed, "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays is like the completely wrong song for coronavirus, right?  'Cause we want to go somewhere, but we have to stay home."

Our little turkey

Happy Thanksgiving flashback

 

The Thankful List 2020

Again this year, Dorothy, Brian, & I each named something we are thankful for every evening in November.  Here, in chronological order, are Dorothy's items:

• My parents reading to me.
• All of my friends.
• All of those doctors & nurses who are helping people get better.
• For Ms. All that's working so hard for all the kids -- Cohort A, Cohort B, and Cohort C.
• Baby Sallie, and helmets for wearing when it's time to bike ride.
• Cars, my friends, Grandma & Grandpa, Gram & Big Daddy, helmets, masks, our Thankful Tree.
• That the president that Mommy & Daddy hoped for winned.
• Daddy playing the piano.
• Willa & Willa's mom letting me do my first sleepover [when coronavirus is over].
• My snail.
• Momma not making me have my entire dinner before I have my ice cream.
• Nothing right now.
• Starfall [a computer game].
• Mama thinking of doing socks on my non-footie jammies.
• For reading in your pajamas day at school.
• Camping.
• For mama for covering the statue of the creepy deer with moss.  [While camping, I disguised a hunting deer dummy.]
• Snail Willa.
• Barbie's videos where she discusses things, kind of.
• Maybe my new LOL, maybe not.
• The little kid zipline at the Fall Festival [2019].
• Ants -- I'm not actually like literally thankful, but I am sorry for them 'cause people keep stomping on them.
• The Tooth Fairy.
• Our make-up set.
• I'm out of thankfuls so I'm just gonna have to start saying things I'm not exactly thankful for.
• Mama letting me use her permanent markers.
• I don't have anything else I'm thankful for...except for this hot chocolate.
• Christmas.

Take a picture of this turkey before I eat it. Every side.

Girl on a climber

Dorothy is playing "coronavirus test" with her baby

The Sunday Funnies

During virtual school, Dorothy was disappointed when some other kids answered questions right.  "Dorothy, do you actually want the other kids to say the wrong answer?" I asked.  "Yes," she said, "because when they get it wrong, Ms. All calls on me."

We were listening to our favorite singer.  "Taylor Swift really likes to talk about liking someone and then getting mad at them," Dorothy rightly noted.

We were taking a walk and I saw that a neighbor had pulled her trash bin out next to the Trump sign in her yard.  "Look," I said, "Trump's out with the trash!"  Dorothy observed, "But the sign is still plugged into the yard."

"This nail polish remover is really crappy," I said.  "Let me put a new one on the grocery list."  I wrote "nail polish remover" on the list.  "Now write 'that's not crappy,'" Dorothy added.

Dorothy is responsible enough now that I let her use my art supplies

School art project to collage a memory (her birthday party)

Camping facepaint flashback

Fairy rings

Fresh from bed

QWERTY party trick

 Video:  https://youtu.be/hP1r3hdPnCE

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy held-out a handful of Halloween candy.  "Can I have two pieces, or three?" she asked.  "One is not an option."

Dorothy and Willa covered their bodies in dirt.  As I was spraying them with the water hose, they were having fun discovering their clean skin.  "My legs look whiter than usual," Willa said.  "Maybe you're usually dirty," Dorothy posed.

Dorothy was examining the zipper on her sweater.  "These look like molars," she told me.  "Do you know that they're actually called teeth?" I asked.  "What?!?!" Dorothy exclaimed.

Dorothy's favorite podcast was going to offer a special episode on YouTube.  I asked Dorothy what time.  "7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific," she told me.

We went camping this weekend

Waiting in the car line for drop-off at school

Sending Grandma hugs on her 70th birthday

Dorothy's invention for art class: a bike with an umbrella so you can ride in the rain

Dorothy's first pet

She named her snail "Willa."

The Sunday Funnies

Kamala Harris was offering her first speech as Vice President-Elect and shattering a glass ceiling.  Dorothy walked through the room, and I stopped her and said, "Look.  That's the new Vice President that we elected."  I was having an emotional moment, and Dorothy took it all in, and came up with, "She's pretty."

Dorothy's bed was overflowing with stuffed animals and I started to take some out as I tucked her in.  "No!" she said.  "They voted and they want to stay in the bed."

I hope my Groundhog Day is November 7

Dorothy for President

50th Day of School Celebration

School project (timely for the last 24 hours)

Election Night 2020

Here's a hopeful distraction, The West Wing theme by Brian:

https://youtu.be/BrkS-vHcuo8

Doin' the new hair dance

The Sunday Funny

 On Halloween night a lady was dressed for Dia de los Muertos.  Dorothy generally doesn't like skeletons, so I pointed her out and said, "Look, she's dressed for the Day of the Dead."  "That's tomorrow," Dorothy replied with concern.