The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy is sort of anxious by nature.  Now that she's reading, I keep having to play-down the warnings on all her objects -- the toys, her bicycle, the inside of her helmet.  The helmet should not be used for climbing or diving.

Dorothy's art class was looking at a painting depicting a baptism in a river.  "The person is walking into the water to be baptized," the teacher said.  Dorothy was surprised, so I added that at some baptisms, instead of pouring water over the head, people will be baptized in a river or big tub.  "And they already could walk?" she asked.

Personalized facemask fail #1

Personalized facemask fail #2

Outdoor reunion

 

Last night's birthday celebration

Happy birthday! in Legos

6 years ago tomorrow

Showing work to the teacher

The Sunday Funnies

Overheard:  "Star light, star bright, second and third stars I've seen tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight."

Dorothy complained, "I hate it when I get water up my eyes."

Dorothy heard that Hank Aaron died, and I explained that he was a famous baseball player who set a homerun record, and that he lived until he was 86.  I then had to explain a home run record.  "Well, at least he did that, right?" she replied.

We all dressed-up for a "fancy dinner" at home.  Dorothy and I were wearing high heels; they were approximately the same height.  She said, "Look, the points on our shoes are the same."

Fancy dinner

Love notes

A woman at the table

Art class today

A drawing of Dorothy's room: yellow walls, green and white carpet, bed, dresser, picture wall, garland of bows, colorful lamp, and Legos on the floor

Uni - cycle

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Dorothy plays with a friend who is into dinosaurs -- the girl crawls around on her hands and knees and roars.  This isn't really up Dorothy's alley, but she has compromised with the friend and will play dinosaur.  This is the dinosaur she agrees to:  "Its name is Dorothy-o-saurus and it's purple, it stays a baby forever, it lives forever, it eats plants, it can walk on two feet, it can jump over a tree, and it learns how to protect itself as soon as it's born."

Dorothy refers to her hem as "the rim of her dress."

Dorothy took this picture which makes it look like Brian didn't do all the work hanging our new lights by himself

This is our home compared to the local Krispy Kreme

 

Virtual PE

Video:  https://youtu.be/UzkCyaw0YdI

Beloved fox hat

Picking up our worksheet packets at school

Some assembly required

Dorothy bought a bike with her Christmas money

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Dorothy has taken to walking around the house while she brushes her teeth, and jokes that she's pretending to be me.  "I'm pretending to be you again," she told me, toothbrush in hand.  I laughed and said, "Goodnight, Dorothy."  "Goodnight, Sarah," she corrected me.

Dorothy was writing a sentence for school.  "Yes, so they can have another adventure" was her answer.  She completed "Yes, so they can have a" and asked me, "So, how do you spell 'nother?'"

I praised Dorothy's reading, and said, "You're reading almost as well as me."  She replied, "Yeah, you can't keep any secrets from me, unless you write it in cursive."

Dorothy issued a threat:  "If you don't let me stay up and finish these books, I'm going to read them straight away when I wake up tomorrow morning.  I'm going to read all four of them, and I'm going to do it before I even wake you up."  (And she did follow-through.)

Dorothy was making plans for the following day, and described her 8 o'clock plans as "At 8 and 8:59 and all through there."

Popcorn and a movie

And...schools here are back to fulltime virtual

Spot the reader

Dorothy made some musical notations for music class and performed them

Video: https://youtu.be/i1QYynykhk4

Christmas Morning Flashback

 

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy has a chapter book to read over the holiday and a "book club" Q-&-A to complete.  In chapter 8, the character Jack encounters a T-Rex and can't decide what to do; at the chapter's end, a friendly Pteranodon appears to scoop him up and fly him away.  Her questionnaire asks, "Do you think it is a good idea for Jack to run from the T-Rex?  Why or why not?"  "No," Dorothy answered, "because the Pteranodon is already flying away with him."

We have a large pump body wash in the shower.  Dorothy was near the end of her shower, and I asked, "Did you wash your feet?"  "Yes," Dorothy answered.  "I used a whole new push of soap for my feet."

These fuzzy cuties were a Christmas gift craft

Good age for Uno