Santa's Wonderland 2018

One girl, four trees

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy:  Santa can't be watching 'cause Santa's in the mall.

Dorothy has offered some tempting threats lately.  Yesterday she said, "Mom, if you do not give me what I want, you cannot play with me tomorrow."  I said, "You are going to need to work on your threats."  So she added, "Please."

We were listening to Mr. Tambourine Man and Dorothy said, "It's funny that he says 'Play a song for me', and he is playing a song!"

When Dorothy is cutting up I will sometimes call her "Mischief Dorothy".  She confessed to me as I was tucking her in bed, "Mom, Mischief Dorothy is not real.  I was acting like Mischief Dorothy.  But it was me the whole time."

Dorothy was enjoying a bowl of red beans and rice when she spied a pepper and held it up on her fork:  "Mine has a green plop yucky!"

Sarah:  So you had lots of growing pains last night, huh?
Dorothy:  Will you measure me?

With some frequency Dorothy tells me, "Even though I turned 4, I still feel 3."

Sarah:  Dorothy, go back to bed, put your head on your pillow, and close your eyes.
Dorothy:  I try to close my eyes, but they keep opening up again!

Another weekend, another birthday party!

Pajama day at school

Dorothy was excited despite this end-of-day ennui.

DiNo-vember

Dorothy learned about "Dinovember" from a children's story and she continually stages dinosaur scenes throughout the house.

More friend fun

Keeping Willa in the afternoons is going really well.

(The yarn is their hair is Anna's white streak in Frozen.)

Playdoh gingerbread man

The Sunday Funnies

In addition to their teacher, Jill, Dorothy's school had a student named Jill join.  Dorothy said, "Can you believe we already have a Ms. Jill and now we have another Jill but tinier?"

Dorothy and I were watching Ant-Man, which is her first superhero movie.  She was asking lots of questions about how Paul Rudd got so small, and I was trying to explain that they used electricity like magic and put him in a machine to make him as small as an ant.  She kept interjecting, "But how they act like that?"  After a few rounds of this, Dorothy said, "That's not what I mean.  I mean how do they make him look so small for making the movie?"

Sarah:  Are you sure you want me to cut the pictures off of this box?
Dorothy:  I'm sure.
I started cutting.
Dorothy:  I changed my mind.  You're gonna need some tape.

I handed Dorothy a new box of markers.  A moment later she handed it back to me.  The grey, brown, and black markers were still inside the box, and she explained, "I don't want these color yuckies."

For making play dough and other things, I bought the cheapest salt on the shelf.  We call it the "craft salt."  After making a concoction, Dorothy asked, "Can you eat craft salt?"  I said yes and launched into an overly-long explanation of iodized versus non-iodized salt.  When I was done, she said, "Because some of the craft salt got in my mouth."

Christmas is coming

And we still have Halloween candy

Static

Afternoons with Willa are going well

Sunday evening gingerbread house

Sunday afternoon gingerbread houses

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy woke-up on Thursday and asked me, "Is today a school day?"  I said, "No, it's Thanksgiving!"  She paused and then replied, "We went to school on Halloween."

Perfect Andrew's baptism weekend

In no particular order

I am keeping Dorothy's friend Willa in the afternoons

The two are fast friends and a bit competitive!

Faux Snow

The Lady and the Tramp movie is filming in Savannah. Yesterday the crew sprayed the Cathedral area to imitate snow.

Queen Elsa or Lady Liberty?

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy popped out of bed once again.  "Mom," she said, "I need a you doll.  If I had a doll that looked just like you, I could keep it in my bed, and I wouldn't have to keep getting out of bed to come be near you."

Sears is going out of business

I bought this shoe department bench from the liquidation, and Dorothy spent an hour playing on it.

It's tough to be a kid in a store in November

Science experiment at St. James School open house

Rainy day birthday party

Building blocks of music

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy:  Will you read me this Betsy book?
Sarah:  No, I'm busy right now.
Dorothy:  You don't want to read me the Besty book, and Dad doesn't want to read me the Betsy book, and I want to read the Betsy book, but I can't read!

I gave Dorothy two cute pencils and she insisted on sharpening both right away.  Then she tested both the pink pencil and the purple pencil and said with disappointment, "They both write grey."

Dorothy asked to eat a "Kitty Kat" (a Kit Kat), and Brian started to sing the jingle for her, which she had never heard.
Brian:  Gimme a break, gimme a break, break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!
Sarah continued:  That chocolate crispy taste is gonna make you... (pause, trying to think of lyrics)
Dorothy offered:  Thirsty?

Dorothy saw a picture in a catalog of a kid playing inside a cardboard box that had been made to look like a television.  We took out a box, and she explained to Brian what she wanted to do:  "We'll cut a hole to make a 'card box' t.v., and I'll crawl inside, and then I will talk about stuff."

Gulfstream Family Day 2018

Banana toss

Link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8JRAVnx9K7LNTJJQS1iNVY2bGpOVWhvSU9KRDNBZlljcnZr/view?usp=sharing

Candy striper (our candy-tasting party)

Stocks are down in 3Ts; 5Ts rose by a full percentage point; 4Ts are holding steady in the Great Closet Clean-out

Flashback to breakfast in bed in Valdosta

Bubbles

Anna Leigh's wedding