The remains of the cake (party pictures to come)

Helping put new handles on the cabinets

 

What do you do with a duplicate toy?

Tongue through tooth hole

The Sunday Funnies

A Notre Dame commercial was promoting its advances in medical technology design, including images of a woman putting on a prosthetic hand.  Dorothy asked why it was on the commercial, and I said, "Oh, well some people who go to school at Notre Dame--"  "Need a hand to go to school?" she interrupted.  "Need it to hold a pencil and stuff?"

Dorothy loves Barbie movies, and she regards Barbie as I would a beloved celebrity.  For example, "Mama, Barbie wears socks to bed!" she discovered.

We replaced our refrigerator, and I was taking photos of the old one to post on Facebook Marketplace and sell.  Dorothy asked why I was taking photos, and I told her that I was planning to sell the fridge, and she said, "Oh, so you're taking pictures of it so you'll remember it?"

We were reading Mary Poppins, and with the aid of a compass, Mary Poppins and the children traveled "round the world" to the North, South, and East, and met magical animals.  Finally, Mary Poppins announced that they were going West, and when they landed in an ocean and met a magical dolphin, Dorothy stopped me.  "Wait, where have they already been?" she asked.  "North, South, East, and now West," I said.  "Then where do they live?" she asked.

Our new refrigerator has an ice maker, and for the first few days, we had to dump the new ice into the sink instead of using it.  Somehow in this time Dorothy started calling the ice maker the "ice dumper."

We took out Halloween early; in the background you'll see Dorothy's "Barbie Scream House"

The ice cream truck route hits our neighborhood every Friday afternoon

Sipping from the sink

The sleepy unicorn requested this exact breakfast

Finished self-portrait

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy got up after her bedtime, and I let her come outside with me to put away the bikes that we had left on the carport.  "I like spending time with you, Mama," she said.  "Especially at night."

"Dorothy, even though you took a shower, you still have dirt on your face," I said.  "I never wash my face," Dorothy responded.

We started our first Zoom class of the day.  "How do the teachers get up so early?" Dorothy asked.

Dorothy reminisced, "Remember the time the snowstorm blocked us into Chicago?"

Brian bought some Simply Limeade, and Dorothy requested a glass of the "lime-onade."

"Dad, what is 4 times 24?" Dorothy asked.  Brian answered, and Dorothy shared, "Then there are 96 hours until my birthday."

We were reading a mystery chapter book, and a clue included that the mysterious person writes a capital letter Mm, never the lowercase.  Additionally, the children in the story happened to be eating M&Ms in the same chapter.  I pointed out this coincidence, and Dorothy observed, "Except M&Ms are a lowercase Mm."

"My hands are literally covered with glitter," Dorothy said.  "Glitter-ally covered?" I asked.  "Ha ha, very funny," Dorothy said sarcastically.  A moment later, she added sincerely, "Mama, that really was very funny."

Dorothy was following her teacher's directions to draw a car, but before she began she asked me for some crackers.  After a few of her teacher's instructions, Dorothy said, "Look, my lines are all shaky."  I looked at her and said, "That's because you're drawing with your left hand, and you're right-handed."   "But I'm eating with my right hand," Dorothy explained.  "And how do you know I'm right-handed?" she wondered.

RIP RBG

 

We had to postpone Dorothy's horse-riding party, but Willa came over for a celebratory sleepover

 

We visited the farm to pet the horses (party postponed because our friends are under the weather)

More farm

More farm

Spa play

More spa

Sand art

More sand art

Giltterized

Drawing a self-portrait for art class (photo before the tears started because it didn't look enough like her)

This is six

 

(LOL "glitterizer")

It's a dome climber (we bought it from our neighbor and wheeled it to our house on a wagon)

 

Any guesses what this is?

Mary Claire coached Dorothy via phone and DJ pulled her own tooth (#2)

Maybe the Tooth Fairy will be working this weekend

No deck, just dirt

Headbanz guessing game

Split screen

Sarah's godchild had a beautiful little baby

Introducing Natalie Catherine Russell

Born Friday, September 4, 2020, at 5:25 p.m.

to Grace (Morgan) and Wes Russell

Columbus, GA

8 lbs., 9 oz., 21 inches

The Sunday Funnies

I noticed that Dorothy was holding a booger and asked her to go wash her hands.  She returned and said, "I washed the booger, so it doesn't have germs on it anymore."

We were listening to a story about superpowers.  "I want my superpower to be flying, and breathing under water," Dorothy said.  "Oh, and the power to go to sleep right away by lullaby.  That would really help me."

Dorothy was struggling to read the words "tennis shoes" and once she sounded it out, she exclaimed, "What!?  Why did they spell it like that?  It's 'ten-a shoes.'"

I wiggled Dorothy's tooth and told her that I think it might come out this weekend.  "Do you think the Tooth Fairy works on the weekends?" she asked.

Behind the curb

 

Flashback: Dorothy kept a Happy Meal box and made some fries to refill it

 

The girls like to play "toy hotel"

Happy...September

Virtual School (No Shoes Required)

Bad news, good news

Bad news:  Dorothy fell off her bike yesterday and cracked her helmet.

Good news:  She is okay, and got a new helmet out of the deal.

(When she was wee, and barely talking, I chose a bike helmet for her at Target that was light blue with a street scene.  She understood shopping, and when we moved to the next aisle, though she talked very little, she demanded, "Pink!  Butterflies!  Go back!"  So we went back and got the pink helmet with the butterflies.  As you can see, once again, Dorothy chose her own helmet.)

The Sunday Funnies

I gave Dorothy some canned fruit cocktail, and she argued that it was not actually a cocktail.  I told her that a cocktail means a mix of different ingredients, and she argued that I sometimes make a drink for her that is a cocktail.  "Well," I said, "that's a mix of a drink and ice."  "Well," she said, "sometimes you give me a mix of water and ice and call it a cocktail, and technically ice and water are the same thing."

Dorothy said, "Oh no!  I stretched out my slinky!  Can somebody stretch it in?"

Dorothy was playing detective and wanted to create a distraction, or as she said, "a distractment."

We had not let Dorothy watch any cartoons one day, and she argued, "Your child should have 2 hours of screen time each day."

Walking in the heat, I commented, "It's like a sauna out here."  Dorothy agreed, "Yeah, even though I don't know what that feels like."

We picked up groceries which included something from Pillsbury, and she looked at the bag and asked, "What's in there?  I see the Puff Man!"

We were discussing cookie dough, and Dorothy commented that kids "can't eat rotten eggs."

Lucky Charms

Pencils through a bag of water

Dorothy's assignment was to draw a goat

Bubble snake from the weekend

Weekend movie time

Class knuckles

The Sunday Funnies

We were looking at titles of the books in our neighborhood's little library, all standing erect on a shelf.  Dorothy referred to a book that she thought was for someone older than her, but I said, "This is the real meaning of You can't judge a book by its cover."  Dorothy responded, "Well, in this case, it's You can't judge a book by its spine."

I looked at an image of a flower and suggested that it was a lily of the valley.  Dorothy immediately chimed-in, "Oh, I know what a lily of the valley is:  a highly poisonous woodland flowering plant."  (Thanks again to her podcasts.)

Andrew's "Two Infinity & Beyond" 2nd birthday party via Zoom

 

No stabilizers, as Peppa Pig would say

 Video link:  https://youtu.be/nLSzWJY-QHA

A few more pics from the first day of school

 

and a video if you want it:  https://youtu.be/UETU-oRxVhY

First day of virtual kindergarten

The bike path in our neighborhood also has this wooden part

Quarantine haircut