Berries in our neighbor's yard

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy and I played a card game, and when it was over, I said, "That was fun.  You're a good partner."  "Not your partner," she clarified, "You mean your competitor."

I reminded Dorothy that my adult cousin still has a baby tooth.  "Maybe the Tooth Fairy will bring her a dishwasher," she joked.

Dorothy watched Brian make a bourbon pie.  When it came out of the oven, she said sadly, "Too bad I can't eat it because it's a beer pie."

Old friends passing through Savannah

Reading chair

The free lemonade stand was successful (and brief)

Dinner & a good book

Tybee roadside attraction (exercising caution)

 

Cushy job

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy watches a show about a little girl who acts as the detective for a queen.  Out of the blue, Dorothy suggested, "Mira should get paid because she's the royal detective."

We had delicious turtle candies which were dark chocolate topped with sea salt.  Dorothy may have been the first to taste them, and she announced to the group, "There's something you need to know!  This sugar is salt!"

Time to restock our supply of Rainbow Magic books

Flashback to playing Headbanz

No-bummer summer

Wave jumping

The Sunday Funnies

We stayed up late this weekend, and Dorothy kept announcing, "It's 72 minutes past my bedtime!"  "It's 86 minutes past my bedtime!"

A food pantry truck was ahead of us on the road, and Dorothy asked about the picture on the back.  "That's a Wal-Mart truck that has an advertisement for a food pantry," I said.  "When people need groceries but cannot afford them, they can go to the food pantry and pick-up groceries for free.  Wal-Mart is advertising that it donates money to the food pantry."  "Shouldn't they donate food?" she asked.

Dorothy referred to a time when I elbowed her in the head.  "When did I elbow you in the head?" I asked.  "When you were jumping jacking," she said.

Legos and bouncy balls

 

Let the sign do the talking

Big orange balloon for a head

Picnic wear

Mama keeps documenting these teeth

The Sunday Funnies

We were watching a show about ballet dancers.  "They dance on their toes, and that must be easy for them!  They have flat-toed ballet shoes," Dorothy observed.

Dorothy's school has a few playgrounds, and I asked her which one she played on that day.  "The run-away-from-Elijah playground," she answered.

Dorothy complained that her online reading program made her "login again to continue learning."

I mentioned to Dorothy that I had trouble sleeping the previous night, and that I got up and ate a big snack.  "That sounds like so much fun," Dorothy said enviously.

Gram sent us mail from Valdosta, and I was pleased that it arrived so quickly.  "It usually takes 4 hours to get to Valdosta, but it took two days for the mail to get here," Dorothy complained.

Photo caption contest

You're looking at the class spelling bee champion!

Playing "teacher"

Not having it

Dentist now and then (getting longer on the chair)

 

The Monday Funnies

Dorothy was doing a school assignment online, and she came to me and complained, "I missed two questions in a row that were about the second paragraph, and the problem is, I don't know what a paragraph is."

I was complaining to Dorothy about people who have been traveling for the past year and spreading Covid.  Dorothy decided to rat-out one of her classmates:  "One of the most likely reasons is Makaela.  She travels to a place called Jacksonville all the time."

"Mom, I learned that stars can explode."  "Yes."  "The sun is a star."  "Yes."  "What will happen if the sun explodes?

The other grandmother missing a tooth

 

Dorothy's school had a "steam vocabulary parade" today, and it was streamed live. Here is Dorothy dressed as spider silk and waving to the camera.

 

Tree friends

Rainbow in our backyard

Sprinkler weather

Always with the book today

The Sunday Funnies

I noticed a big scrape on Dorothy's knee after I picked her up from school and I asked her if it made her cry.  "It's just a highlighting hurt," she said.  "What does that mean?" I asked.  "It doesn't hurt that much," she answered, "it's just sort of highlighting your boo boo."

We were playing a game where you put a card with an image on your forehead, and you can't see your own card, but you have to ask the other players questions until you figure out your object.  Dorothy was sneaking peeks at her own cards.  I placed a moon on her forehead, and her first question was, "What time of the day do I come out?"

Beach Day

From the toothless photoshoot: "Take a full-body picture of me."

Slime (pic from the weekend)

Another home haircut

Library returns (the Rainbow Magic series)

Cartoon characters in peril

The Sunday Funnies

We were running late for a playdate.  "We all forgot the track of time," Dorothy observed.

Dorothy wanted to play a guessing game about where she hid the key for her diary.  "If I guess it," I said, "I'll know where you keep your key."  "If you guess it," she said, "I won't tell you you're right, and  I'm going to keep a solemn look on my face."

"Mama, Mama, you gotta see!  The package says 'Barbie dolls don't stand on their own,' but I just got her to stand on her own!  Come see!  Come see!  But don't run," Dorothy advised.

Dorothy heard the phrase "pint-sized," and we ended up talking about the size of an actual pint.  I explained that the creamer carton in our fridge holds a pint, and that a big carton of milk holds a gallon.  Dorothy said, "I have an idea.  We can fill up the small carton with water and pour it into an empty big carton to see how many times it takes to fill it up."  "Okay," I said, "but we don't have any big gallon milk jugs, so we can use our half-gallon soymilk carton and fill it two times."  "We can fill two of them," Dorothy said.  "We don't have two empty ones," I said, "but we can fill it up and count the number of times, and then empty it and fill it up again and keep counting."  "Or, I have an idea," Dorothy countered.  "We can fill it up once, and just do the math double."

Chillaxin'

You may enter if you are wearing something rainbow

Gram missing 2 front teeth

The scene lately

The words are coming out cuter and cuter

Outdoor friends

The Sunday Funnies

We were watching the Masters, which might be Dorothy's first exposure to golf, and she made several good observations.  When a player did a practice swing, she yelled, "He didn't even hit the ball!"  And when CBS showed a montage of players over the years hitting balls into the water on the 12th hole, Dorothy said, "Oh, they're showing the outtakes?"

Dorothy was listening to a podcast that tells folk tales, and the intro to an episode about Giant's Causeway said, "Now, scientists will tell you that these matching stone columns in Ireland and Scotland were created by volcanoes...But legend will tell you..."  Dorothy hates volcanoes, and was coming up with an alternate explanation for the Causeway.  She said something about rocks tumbling down the side of a mountain, and I reminded her, "Well, the podcast said it was created by a volcano." Dorothy retorted, "Well, only scientists think that."

Lately Dorothy will make up a game she wants to play, such as a pillow fight.  I'll agree, and then she'll explain that there are 4 attempts in each round, and 6 rounds in the game...

The day after we got our second vaccinations, I was lying on the couch and Dorothy asked for a second Fruit Roll-up.  I was thinking about how she was having to fend for herself for food that day.  "Usually I would say no, but I'll make an exception today," I said.  "Because you're too tired to say no?" she asked.

Well, here's the height of cute

Crazy hair, don't care