I checked-out an audiobook from the library, and Dorothy listened to much of it, but it was too scary-mature for her. She told me, "When I listen to that book, it makes my stomach feel like it's carsick, even though we're not riding in the car."
We were watching a show where the soloist in a children's chorus loudly sings off-key. Dorothy asked, "Why does he sing off-course of it?"
Dorothy has read dozens of Rainbow Magic books, which follow a strict formula involving goblins stealing something for the goblin leader, and human girls working with fairies to retrieve the purloined object. But recently I checked-out a few chapter books from another series, which Dorothy read voraciously, and then announced, "I think I'm tired of Rainbow Magic books. I'm enjoying these new books." I asked why. "They're about different things," she answered. "They talk about different things, and different things happen."
Dorothy made up a joke: What state has the most pencils? Pennsylvania I laughed, then recommended that she ask, "What state needs the most erasers?" "That's not as funny," she explained to me.
We were watching the crew races in the Olympics. "They're pedaling backwards!" Dorothy giggled.
Recently we made a code maker/breaker where a number corresponds to a letter, but the first iteration was too complicated. When I gave Dorothy a message to decode, she returned it and wrote on the answer line, "This is too hard!"
I mentioned that we were going to watch Jeopardy. Willa asked what that was, and Dorothy explained it, and Willa said it sounded boring, and Dorothy said, "I much prefer a grown-up show called The Wheel of Spin."
Willa brought some regular Oreos to our house, and we had some Golden Oreos. I suggested that the girls make half-and-half Oreos. Instead of untwisting them, they broke them in half and put the two flavors together like half moons.
I heard a big thump. Then I overheard Dorothy tell Willa, "The gymnasts in the Olympics make it look so easy!"