New toy (spending that Christmas cash)

The Sunday Funny

Brian singsongs: Georgie Porgie pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry.
Dorothy: Wait, what?
Brian: Oh, it's just an old song, that's how it goes.
Dorothy: Good tears or sad tears?

Gingerbread kits on clearance and leftover Halloween candy

Johnny Mathis and Gram stopped in for a quick visit

Roblox lesson from Mary Claire

Mouse Trapped!

Outdoor delivery for neighborhood friend

Dorothy's homework was to measure her bed in units of shoes

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy was sleeping in her bed on the first night that she used her canopy.
"I think that tomorrow we should have a major cleaning day," she said.
"Ok," I asked, "why?"
"Well, the canopy looks really nice and makes me think that my room should be clean.  And if my room is clean, it makes me think that the whole house should be clean.  If the whole house is clean, we won't have to close all the doors when people come over."

Dorothy received a board game as a gift.  The premise is that a fox stole a pie and you have to figure out which fox did the deed.  Dorothy was studying the box.  "It's just like Clue," she announced, "but not scary!"

We were playing Sorry and Dorothy and I teamed-up against Brian.  "Girls rule!  Boys drool!" I exclaimed at some point.  Dorothy looked at me with surprise.  "How do you know that?  Kids in my class made that up!" she said.

Flashback to Chicago (Hidden Lake)

Good morning, Mama

Dorothy's milk dripped in the shape of a snowman and winter hat

Flashback to Pajama Day at school just before Christmas

2 hours of play and 30 minutes of cleanup, I call it a win

The wind before the storm

The Sunday Funnies: Chicago Edition

I was getting Dorothy dressed for her first outing in Chicago, and she complained, "Why are we putting on a coat over a sweater?!"

We stepped outside on a cold Chicago day, and after a few breaths Dorothy exclaimed, "We're dragons!"

Dorothy followed me to the Deans' basement -- and she looked around in wonder, and proclaimed, "I love Grandma and Grandpa's whole house."

Grandma and Grandpa's house phone rang -- Dorothy glanced here and there, and noted, "The phone is ringing in two places!"

Grandma was taking something out of the oven, and she held up the heart-shaped red potholder that said "Hot Stuff."  "Look what this says," Grandma showed Dorothy.  "It's a good reminder," Dorothy replied solemnly.

At home Dorothy insists on washing her hands in cold water.  In Chicago the water is much chillier.  She was washing her hands at Grandma and Grandpa's house with a little bit of hot and a little bit of cold.  "This is the house where I discovered warm water," she remarked.

One of these had a good ending

Santa Claus brought a baby doll and a puzzle, but Santa Becky brought hand-me-downs

Mail hold! Christmas card edition

A pit stop (and now we're home)

Somewhere in Southern Indiana

Tons of Christmas pics!

Google Photo link:

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/LNWczyewT1zXvpYEA

Warm wishes!

Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

 

Christmas movie time

Studying their new gifts

Cousins at the light show at the Morton Arboretum

Christmas in Chicago

The last mile

On the move

Green Day and Red Day at school

Winter blooms

On the edge of her feet

A canopy of one's own

The Sunday Funny

 On our way to school we pass a Dairy Queen, and it recently closed, and the sign has been disassembled.

"Why did that Dairy Queen close?" Dorothy asked.  "Was it that thing where the workers stop working for a while?"

"A furlough?" I asked.

"No."

"A strike?"

"Yes, that's the one.  Or maybe the workers all decided to quit."

"Maybe."

"Or maybe all the workers are sick?"

"Could be."

"Or maybe they decided to get jobs somewhere else?"

(I thought she was going to bring up the supply chain next.)

Mr. Popper's Penguins

 

Bed and a good book (likely about fairies)

Neighborhood Christmas gathering, and a comparison from last year to this year

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy borrowed two flashlights from Gram and brought them to Uncle Daniel's house.  Afterwards, back at Gram's house, I asked, "Dorothy, did you leave all the flashlights at Daniel's house?"  "No," she answered, "there's one left."

Dorothy's spelling homework was to do a practice test outdoors in sidewalk chalk.  There were 8 words.  When she was done, I started to "grade" it.  I said, "skills...correct...10%.  rocks...correct...20%."  Dorothy stopped me right away.  "You're only going to give me 80%?" she figured out.

I told Dorothy that I took a trip to the store but it didn't have what I needed.  "It was a bomb," I said.  "It was a bummer," she countered.  "Bummer is bad, bomb is good."

Dorothy's class has an elf that moves around at night.  I asked Dorothy, "Where does she live when it's not Christmas?  I mean, what does Ms. Hattrich do with her?"  And Dorothy informed me, "Well, she's from the North Pole, so I assume she lives there."

More Neighborhood Baby

Dorothy lives to find her elf after a night's antics