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The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy relayed from school:  "Boaen got on orange today."  "What did he do?" I asked with shock.  "He was spoken to three times," Dorothy shared.

I showed Dorothy a pair of pants and pointed out that there were rhinestones on the legs.  She gasped, "Are they real?"

Dorothy has started to read some simple books comprised of 3-letter words.  I asked her if she wanted to read the books again, and she said, "Only if you promise not to cry this time."

"What You Do When You're a Princess"

This video will walk you through the illustrations you see below:  https://youtu.be/OdH4OhO6TNk

Sarah took out her childhood Lite-Brite

The scene in bed

We spent MLK weekend in Columbus with Grace & Wes

Trying on Grace's Minnie ears

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy wanted to do a laundry load comprised of her doll's clothes.  For some reason she named it the "baby wash," as in, "Oh!  I know where the missing dress is.  It's in the baby wash."

We saw a dead squirrel on the road on our walk to the playground; on the way home, it was gone.  "Maybe it was playing dead," I suggested.  Dorothy answered thoughtfully, "Well, I didn't see any cuts on it, or flat parts."

Dorothy was watching a YouTube video of a young lady who sets-up enormous domino art.  This time, the venue seemed foreign.  "I think they're in another country," I said.  "I don't recognize the language that man is speaking."  "I don't know what country they're in," Dorothy answered.  A moment later, she added, "The girl said that she is breaking the Turkish record."

[Flashback to our Christmas travels]:  Dorothy observed the graffiti covering an entire bathroom door.  She asked about it, and I answered that someone wrote all of it.  "They had a lot to say," she replied.
Then she started asking questions.  "I don't know what that word means," I said.  "I think that person can't spell very well."  "Why not?" Dorothy wondered.  "They were a big person because they wrote all the way up to the top of the door."

We are enjoying a weekend with Grace and Wes

Winter, Southern-style

Big kid on the swings

New ballet silhouette

Cindy Sherman

Dorothy's art is wonderfully repetitive these days

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy looked at a box of Rice Krispies, pointed to the three characters, and said knowingly, "Pop, Snack, & Crinkle."

Dorothy painted this space mobile which was a Christmas gift

Art at the library

Camelia time

The Sunday Funnies: Christmas Edition

Dorothy watched a movie called The Star at school, and she proceeded to tell us about it multiple times a day for two weeks.  Usually, a Christmas song would come on, and she would say, "This song was in The Star!"

Dorothy's school put on a nativity play, and the preschoolers only entered the auditorium for their two-song showstopper.  Dorothy never realized that the play included all the classes and lasted longer than five minutes.  For example, when we watched the movie The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Dorothy commented, "Their show has all the parts of the story about Jesus, but our school only did the part about the angels."

She has heard much about the nativity story and refers to the angel "Gabrielle".

In Chicago we had the chance to drive through several passes with trains above, and each time, I suggested that we make wishes.  This happened six or seven times.  When we got home to Savannah, Dorothy was eager to rush to her bedroom.  A few minutes later, she came out sheepishly and whispered to me sadly, "Mom, do your wishes ever come true?"  (It turns out she was holding out hope that her bedroom would be filled with new LOL dolls.)

When we returned from Chicago Brian took down the large wreaths off our house.  Dorothy observed, "Our Christmas outside is gone, but our Christmas inside is a mess."

A bunch more pics from Chicago

There were a million lights at Lilacia Park in Lombard.

We ended up at Trader Joe's three times.

My, don't they look alike?

Reading with Grandma

A gift from Santa

Reading with Grandpa

Cooking

On the 9th day of Christmas...

Happy New Year

Dorothy is a great travel companion

Flashback to a Christmas party

Afternoon with Natalie

Breakfast with Max

Flashback to Christmas morning

Ellie, Erik, Aunt Katie, and Uncle Matt's Legos

Merry Christmas! (Santa through the years)

(The Eanes in me wants to visit again for a full-body picture.)

Provenzano Christmas Eve

We visited the Tennessee Aquarium on our road trip

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy made a beaded Christmas necklace at school and described it to me multiple times before it came home:  jingle bell, 6 green, 6 white, 6 red, jingle bell, 6 green, 6 white, 6 red, giant jingle bell, 6 green, 6 white, 6 red, jingle bell, 6 green, 6 white, 6 red, jingle bell.

We stopped on our drive to Chicago at the Tennessee Aquarium.  There is much for sale there, and I told Dorothy that we had spent our money on the tickets, so we weren't going to buy any of the extras.  Towards the end, she spotted one of those donation buckets where you drop in the coins and it swirls inside a big plastic funnel on its way into the bank.  "Can I do this?" she asked.  "It doesn't take any money!"

Dorothy approached Brian with her arms open wide and a mischievous look on her face.  "I'm here to hug you, Daddy," she said, "but don't tickle me back!"

We were singing the 12 Days of Christmas.  We got to #8, and Dorothy sputtered out, "Eight milks-a-making...makes-a-milking...maids-a-milking!"

Dorothy loves nothing more than being carried to the car "in the middle of the night" to begin a road trip.  At 5 a.m. in a hotel in Bowling Green, Dorothy stirred, and then said, "If I can't go back to sleep, we'll have to stay in this hotel another night."

Our angel in the nativity play

Dorothy showed Santa how her sequined dress changes

Sometimes I find photos on my phone that I didn't take