Eanes Christmas last weekend

A little help unwrapping

The pink candle

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy was trying to lick me; I told her not to.  She said, "Can I lick your lips?"  I said no.  She countered, "But you lick your lips."

An ongoing conflict between Dorothy and her friend Willa involves which child gets to play with the pink and/or blue item -- markers, blocks, whatever.  Dorothy found a toy I had set aside which includes 4 paper princesses, and I told her that she and Willa can play with it when they stop fighting over the toys, because I was afraid the paper princesses might tear.  Dorothy posed a solution: "Just put my name on the pink and blue ones, and put Willa's name on the other two."

Dorothy was singing "Away in a Manger" while playing with a toy nativity scene, and she paused to tell us, "Jesus likes to hear songs about himself."

Merry Christmas from Valdosta!

Princess Party (two weekends ago)

First ballet class

Staring contest

Video:  https://youtu.be/ee3RG52twdU

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