I pointed out a beautifully blooming Japanese magnolia tree. Dorothy quipped, "If they were selling that tree, roots and all, we'd buy it!"
"Mom, elephants are lucky. Wanna know why? They can give themselves a shower with their trunks, and if they want to look at their noses, they don't have to hurt their eyes."
Before I dropped Dorothy at school on her first day back, I told her that I was going to ask her a thousand questions when she got home. For the next two days, whenever there was a quiet moment, Dorothy would prompt me, "Now about those thousand questions..."
Dorothy's thinking is getting very meticulous. On her first day back to school, I asked her to count the kids in her class and let me know how many kids are in her group, Cohort B. After a moment she said, "Well, I won't actually know how many kids are in Cohort B if somebody doesn't come to school today."
Brian was sitting in Dorothy's room, reading a very long chapter to Dorothy from an Oz book. Dorothy was playing with toys on her floor, and, totally in the zone, she stood up and accidentally instructed her dad to, "Hey Google, stop."