Take it in

So happy together

Also happy birthday Grandpa Chuck!

Triple rainbow attempt

Double rainbow!

The Easter Sunday Funnies

Watching Cinderella:  Mom, did you know that some people marry princes, and some people marry dads?

I decided that Dorothy can have a morning chore, which is throwing away her pull-up in a grocery sack.  I walked her through the steps the first morning -- take a bag out of the closet, put the pull-up inside, and twist.  On the second morning, I asked her how it went.  She said, "I picked the bag that I wanted the most -- the one that was holding all the other bags."

At the mall we saw a kiosk with Disney character t-shirts.  Dorothy walked around the kiosk, naming the characters:  from Frozen, Anna; from Beauty and the Beast, Belle; from Alice in Wonderland, "Allison."

At bedtime:  My ear hurts.  Can I have an ice pack?  Also, can I have the heating pad in case the ice makes my ear cold?

Big spender at the mall

Chicks at the mall II

Chicks at the mall I

Egg tree

Posing for a pic

Earning her keep

Dipping her toes in the sea

Sock puppets

Mermaid Pride Festival

Showing off her heart

Dorothy covered her ears the entire time at the dentist

First day of spring

Free cone at DQ!

Snowball

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy, to Sarah:  Were you talking to yourself?  Usually you talk to me.

Putting on new pants:  These pants have pockets in the back?!  To put my phones in?!

Brian likes to remind Dorothy that the two of them are Italian; usually this happens at dinner over olive oil, pasta, and other Italian fare.  With St. Patrick's Day coming, he mentioned that they are also Irish.  She has food and ethnicity swirling around her head, and when I mentioned St. Patrick's Day, she let me know, "Daddy and me are Irish.  Grandpa is Irish.  You are vegetarian."

Our Little Shamrock likes silly poses

Viewing the Budweiser Clydesdales

Bringing her A-Game to a class about butterflies

"It's a spiderweb"

Who loves daylight savings time?

More baseball clay

Tire swing

Wacky day at school

You did not say your Lls

Video:  https://youtu.be/Xb23bZf9CNE

Butterfly Day

Playground with the ones she loves

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy likes to refer to the present as "now these days", as in "I like yogurt now these days."

Big Daddy was reading an enormous Frozen book to Dorothy (one of those hard-backed giant books with no detail left out).  After nearly 30 minutes reading at the kitchen table, Dorothy said, "This chair is making me uncomfortable.  Let's move to the couch with the book and start over."

Dorothy and I went to an appliance parts store to buy a dryer drum belt; ours had snapped and Brian was going to fix it.  Later I told Brian, "We went to the store and bought the replacement."  Dorothy added, "And a belt."

I took out my driver's license at a store and Dorothy announced, "Your Sarah card!"

Dorothy jumped from the couch to the chair, knocked off the remote control, and the back popped off it.  I rushed over to check out the scene and Dorothy asked, "Was that too much for you?"

I wrote the year (2018) and Dorothy said, "It's almost our neighborhood" (1802 Bacon Park Drive).

Pajama day at school

This is the picture she wanted me to take.

Ballet Photoshop

In full bloom

The ocean called...

New Friends

Dorothy was promoted to Miss Jill's class at her school.  The school isn't big on class lists, but according to her Valentines, here are the trendy names of her new classmates.  I've included the Social Security Administration's ranking of the name's popularity in 2014.

Jace: 68
Aster: not in top 1000
Ellana:  not in top 1000
Belia:  not in top 1000
LJ: not in top 1000
Ryleigh: 188
Henry: 33
Charli: 612
Nicholas: 57
Rye: not in top 1000

Dorothy's name rose in popularity from 729 in 2014 to 652 in 2016.

Frozen Concert

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy and I were looking closely at a penny.
Me:  What is on the front?
Dorothy:  A head and a body.
Me:  What is on the back?
Dorothy:  A tail.  A train.

Dorothy:  When you were a little girl did you used to play Anna and Elsa with Aunt Mary Beth?

Dorothy:  I did something.
Me:  No response.
Dorothy:  You say, "What did you do?"

Dorothy collected all the checker pieces in her hands and asked, "Mom, can I throw these?"  I said, "If you pick them up, yes, you can throw them."  She said, "I already picked them up."

Dorothy walked into the living room fresh from bed, with messy hair and sleepy eyes, and her first words were, "Can you wash sheets?"

We were playing doctor with Dorothy's dolls.  The baby doll was hurt because she didn't wear her helmet and she fell off her bike; I was fussing at the mama doll and saying it was her job to make sure that her baby wears a helmet.  Dorothy, playing the part of the doll mom, replied, "I was just too busy on my computer I didn't notice."

Invented ice skates

Chillin'

In Training

After

Before

A fun day with family

Daniel, Valerie, Alina, & Baby Captain EO visited Savannah.  We enjoyed Oatland Island, Screamin' Mimi's pizza, and a scouting trip to Babies R Us.

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy:  Can I bring nachos for show-&-tell on Friday?

Dorothy was mad at me and said, "I'm going to hit you."  I feigned shock.  So she dialed it back:  "I'm going to put something on you.  Something that rolls.  It's boogers."

Of her new friends in Miss Jill's class:  At school there is a sister, and somebody who owns a sister.  They're twins.

I was choosing Dorothy's clothes for the day.
Sarah:  Isn't the weather funny?  Yesterday you were wearing a sweatsuit and today you are wearing a t-shirt and shorts.
Dorothy:  What was I wearing yesterday?
Sarah:  Oh, do you know that when you wear a sweatshirt together with sweatpants, you can call it a sweatsuit?
Dorothy:  And what do you call wearing a t-shirt and shorts together?

Dorothy received a valentine with something in a package shaped like a llama.
Sarah:  I'm not sure whether it is a candy or a toy.
Dorothy:  I will have to taste it to find out.

Dorothy, unprompted, at dinner:  Dad, I had 3 meltdowns today.

And just like that, we're famous!

Link to Steve Hartman's "On the Road":  https://youtu.be/en51O6PpyLI

Steve meets Dorothy

"On the Road" with Steve Hartman

Valentine loot from school

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Amazon saw fancy cardboard packaging; Mama saw a flower

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy said she wanted to throw a walnut up into the tree to land in a squirrel's nest.  I said, "What if there are baby squirrels in the nest and the walnut hits one on the head?"  Dorothy quickly answered, "Baby squirrels don't cry."

Brian & I were watching a retrospective on 80s television.  Far into the program, When a Man Loves a Woman started playing and Kevin Arnold & Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years kissed.  Dorothy leaned over to me and whispered, "I like that part."

Before going to visit Oatland Island, a nature center, Dorothy asked, "Can you please let me be naked at Oatland Island because that's what the animals do?"

Aunt Fran mailed Dorothy a few play kitchen items along with a note explaining that her grandkids had outgrown their beloved play kitchen, and that she had donated it to a local child care center.  Dorothy pondered this as we played with the toys in her own toy kitchen, and then asked me, "Mom, when you outgrow this kitchen, will you not give it away and just let me play with it by myself?"

Grandma mailed Dorothy a valentine, and wrote her name in cursive.  Dorothy wanted to know why "Jane" started with a "Bb".  I explained that the letters were in cursive, and that later I would write cursive letters for her to see.  She said, "And I want cursive numbers."