Fun with Mom (Don't cross the streams)

Fun with Dad

You're invited!

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New school year, new backpack, new haircut!

Dorothy with the statue of Mary donated in memory of her great-grandmother (at St. John School)

Good Clean Fun with Baby Maggie in Valdosta

Big win

The Sunday Funnies

We like to taste the flavors of Skittles.  Recently, I gave Dorothy M&Ms, and she tasted each color and let me know the following:
Red is red apple.
Green is lime.
Orange is orange.
Yellow is lemon.
Brown is chocolate chip.
Blue is all the flavors mixed together.

I love hearing Dorothy's language come together.  She filled a cup until it was overflowing with water, and said, "Oops.  I think I need fewer water."

I guess I don't dress up enough.  I donned a dress and jewelry for an event on Monday evening.  Dorothy wouldn't quit saying, "Mom, you look so beautiful.  Your dress looks beautiful.  Your earrings look beautiful.  Your shoes look beautiful.  Your eyes look beautiful."  The next morning, snuggling in pajamas and with nothing on the agenda that day, Dorothy woke me from bed with the request, "Mom, you looked so beautiful yesterday.  Can you wear that same outfit again today?"

We were playing camping and I took out Dorothy's magnetic fishing pole and fish.  She told me, "We can catch these but we aren't going to eat them.  These are 'Up Fish'.  We can catch them because they can live up out of water."

Countdown to Kickoff

Welcome to the doll tent

Target

Dorothy's first video

Video:  https://youtu.be/xp6CcYO5OL8

Dorothy took this pic of the Sarahs -- her first photo I think!

Two more from the weekend

We love Andrew

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy and I were cuddling on the couch, and she licked me and meowed.  It clicked with me that this must be what goes on when Dorothy "plays kitty cat" with her friend on the school playground.  "Dorothy," I asked, "when you play kitty cat with Rye, do you lick her?"  "No," Dorothy said.  "She licks me."

We read a version of Sleeping Beauty where the uninvited fairy put a curse on the baby.  Dorothy said, "The fairy would not have done that curse if only they had invited her."  I asked, "What do you think she would have given the baby if she had been invited?" and Dorothy replied, "A pretty pacifier."

Dorothy:  My arms don't move together but my eyes do.  Why?

Pandora radio was playing and Dorothy said, "That's funny that there's an Octopus's Garden."  I said, "This song is by The Beatles, the same band that played the other song you liked, Yellow Submarine."  She said, "That's funny that this is really from A Bug's Life."

Brian, reading a short story about Bambi:  I don't think I've ever seen Bambi.
Dorothy:  That's because he's pretend.

Dorothy's fork fell to the floor.  I said, "Be careful with your forks."  "Why?" she asked.  "When your fork falls on the floor, it makes the fork dirty, and it makes the floor dirty, and it creates work for me when I have to pick it up," I said as I leaned over to pick up the fork.  "It's only short work," she said.

I let the air out of a pool toy.  Dorothy found it, brought it to me, and said, "Look!  It's deflated."  I said, "Oh, it looks like the plug opened.  It's okay.  I can blow it up again.  Also, sweetie, 'deflated' is a great word."  She said, "Mom, lots of people say 'deflated'."

Happy Meal on the way to meet Baby Andrew

Aunt Susan and Uncle Don stopped by for a nice visit in Savannah

Here are the ladies at the Botanical Gardens on a surprisingly temperate evening

You know you wanted more!

Welcome, Andrew Marvin Lasseter!

Born August 20
3:07 pm
8 lb 1 oz
20.5 in
Proud parents Daniel and Valerie and big sister Alina

The Sunday Funnies

I asked Dorothy what sort of fun she had at Gram & Big Daddy's house.  She said, "Gram doesn't exactly play with me.  She watches me play.  When I have a little girl one day, I will exactly play with her."

I complained after driving Dorothy to school, "We caught all the red lights."  Dorothy said, "We caught all the green ones, too."

Dorothy loves letters and got very excited to learn that "knife" begins with a silent Kk.  Now she wants to know if everything is silent -- "Does apple have a silent Aa?  Does Dorothy have a silent Yy?"

A few months ago when I took Dorothy to the YMCA pool only to find out that it was closed, she cried and I took her to get a treat at Pelican's Snoballs instead.  This week again we got to the Y and the pool was closed; she said calmly, "That's okay.  We can go to Pelican's Snoballs."

Dorothy loves babies.  She's not so good at catching and throwing balls.  We were gently tossing a basketball and she was jumping back and flinching.  Finally I told her that the ball is a baby, and she needed to reach out and catch that baby.  It worked like a charm.

Games

Mom makes me try on clothes

Tea time

Scotch hop?

Video:  https://youtu.be/AiM3oCmN9VA

Bows galore

We love baby videos

The Sunday Funnies

Gram bought Dorothy some light-up tennis shoes.  Dorothy and I were at the movies, and she kicked her feet on the seat to light them up three or four times in the dark.  I leaned over to ask her not to do that, and she informed me, "I'm trying to look for my toy that I dropped."

I was playing music, and when I came back into the room, Dorothy was standing absolutely frozen by the speaker.  She had her brow furrowed and she seemed thunderstruck.  Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn's After the Fire is Gone was playing.  I said, "Dorothy, what's the matter?"  She said, "I love this song."

Regarding her dresser:  "I can't remember which drawer has my socks, because the drawers all look just the same."

Every day or so Dorothy's toe will "snap" (like cracking your knuckles).  We all think this is funny and she points it out.  Yesterday, I was asking her to clean, and she said, "My toe snapped!  My toe is saying, 'Mom, you pick up the toys.'"  I said, "Oh, your toe is talking to you now?" and she said, "No, my toe is talking to you!"

We were visiting our friends Megan & John who have a toddler and a baby.  Dorothy pulled me down to her level and said firmly, "Follow me to the living room."  When we got there, she climbed up on the couch, stretched out her arms, and said, "I want to hold the baby."

Trampoline park

They make the cutest crafts at school. Blurry cowgirl!

Dorothy is a great age for enjoying my old toys

Blase hula hoop trick

Video:  https://youtu.be/XFtNFdUksNM

I'm going backwards!

Video:  https://youtu.be/o4aXhYyZ2pQ

Dorothy worked on this one

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy:  What do cats eat?
Sarah:  Cats who live in the wild eat bugs and mice.
Dorothy:  What do they drink?
Sarah:  They drink water.
Dorothy:  Do they drink milk?
Sarah:  Baby kittens drink milk from their moms, but big cats drink water.
Dorothy:  Do big cats drink water and milk not from their moms?  Is there underground milk?

Sarah:  Do you want to go see the Alvin & the Chipmunks movie?
Dorothy:  What are their names?
Sarah:  Alvin, Simon, & Theodore.
Dorothy:  Are they boys or girls?
Sarah:  Boys.
Dorothy:  Are there any girl chipmunks in the movie?
Sarah:  I think there is one.
Dorothy:  Is she a mom?  Is she a baby?  Is she a baby and a mom?

Somehow I ended up telling Dorothy that she can be a boss someday.  She said, "I don't want to be a boss.  I want to be a doctor."

We were taking a walk after a big rain.  Water was still pouring into the sewer, and Dorothy was pulling from at least two previous conversations --
Dorothy:  Do you hear the water in the gutter?  I love the sound of nature.

We were playing Elsa and Anna.  Dorothy said, "Elsa, let's pretend to be Lumpy and Roo."
So we pretended for a while to be Lumpy and Roo (from Winnie the Pooh), until Dorothy's Roo said to me, "Lumpy, have you heard of Elsa and Anna?"

Gram-i-Pedi

Angry Birds

"Elsa braid"

Rap-a-tap-tap

Video:  https://youtu.be/mOnT6JLPOtA

Popsicle and a podcast

"Anna braids"

The Sunday Funnies

We were reading nursery rhymes --
Sarah:
  Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
  Kissed the girls and made them cry.
  When the boys came out to play,
  Georgie Porgie ran away.
Dorothy:  Why did he do that?
Sarah:  That Georgie, I'll tell you...
Dorothy:  ...Not to do that!

Dorothy, after a playdate:  "Mom & Dad, I like playing with you, but I like playing with my friends even more."

Dorothy:  When I have a little one, and she says she is not tired, I will say "I'll bring you some more toys to bed."

Dorothy heard Beyonce's Single Ladies, then asked, "Why they say if you like something you put a ring on it?"

Regarding truth-telling--
Sarah:  Did you go potty?
Dorothy:  Yes.
Sarah:  Really?
Dorothy:  I'm proving it.
Sarah:  What does that mean?
Dorothy:  I'm telling you what really happened.

Dorothy:  When are they going to bring our dessert?
Sarah:  Soon.  The waitress will bring you a bowl of ice cream.
Dorothy:  Why is it taking so long?
Sarah:  They are cooking it now.
Dorothy:  Why do they cook ice cream here?

Aster's birthday party

Dorothy typed on the computer, and this time she made sense

Two years later at the mall

These two are 9 months apart

Late-night movie

Measuring Big Daddy in the shed

The Sunday Funnies

I was tickling Dorothy and blowing on her belly.
She said, "Never ever ever do that again!"
I said, "Really?  You never want me to do that again?"
She said, "Don't do it again until tomorrow."
I said, "Okay."
She said, "Let's pretend that it's tomorrow."

Dorothy has been bending the truth lately.  This includes:

• I didn't lick the pretzels.  These just came out of the bag with no salt on them.
• I used the potty.
• I didn't throw the toy.  It rolled over there all by itself.

Dorothy learns British words from Peppa Pig, and then teaches me.  Most recently, she said, "They call training wheels 'stabilizers'.  We call them 'training wheels' but 'stabilizers' is the real name."

Sleepover with Mary Claire

Batman tortilla

Checking out a snake at the library

Wink

The remains of the chalk

Flashback to Easter

Photo by Alina

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy took a look at her cartoon character bike helmet, inside and out, and said, "The inside is not cute at all."

Playdoh

Pool slide

Visiting with Avert & Juniper in Gainesville