Flashback to Gram & Big Daddy's visit in March

 

Flashback to the gift Dorothy left for the Tooth Fairy. She designed a tiny bed, and Mama stitched it exactly.

The Sunday Funnies

During Easter Dorothy was observing the superhero play of her boy cousins.  Swinging a pretend sword to show me, she described, "They were using plastic garden tools as fighting supplies."

Dorothy reported:  "All the girls got to go across the hall to Ms. Cavender's room for a dance party.  The boys had to stay behind and get a talking to."  "Why?" I asked.  "There keeps being pee on the bathroom floor," Dorothy explained.

Dorothy wanted me to cut her hair.  I asked why, and mentioned that it was already pretty short and still looks good.  "It's fun and I like the sound of the cutting," she explained.

Legos & books, simultaneously

STEAM parade at school (Dorothy is helium)

Video:  https://youtu.be/LbPRldm0ARk

Some Easter Pics from Brian

 

Baby Maddux (4 pink feet)

Baby Lizzie

Margie & Mama

Cheeseballs on a spoon (Andrew)

Egg hunt video:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/jo49b7fkXYWXV5Mu5

Some Easter Pics from Sarah

 

Godfather & godson

Posing with Aunt Valerie's truck

Baptism of Joe & Caroline's Lizzie

Grace, Wes, & Natalie at the egg hunt

Mermaid of the Amazon

Big Daddy's porch

Pastel poses

After hugs

Missing teeth, missing ears

First time on skates

Bunny parade in Savannah

Second window ("Wait for Me!!!")

Some Easter pics from Mary Beth

 

Sarah & her godchildren, Grace, Andrew, & David

The egg hunt is on

John, David, DJ, MC, Maggie

John's Easter basket (that bbq sauce age)

Dyeing eggs, lots of eggs

Spinning egg decorator

Natalie pulls Claire's hair at Lizzie's baptism

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy recently lost a tooth and twice she has referred to it as her "bitter tooth."  She has commented that some foods taste too sweet, and it must be because she lost her bitter tooth.

"Sew, a needle pulling thread," I sang.  "So, a start in conversation," Dorothy responded.  (She claims she made this up.)

Happy 40th birthday to Daniel

 Video: https://www.cameo.com/recipient/6255f740d3c6f13d95927578?utm_campaign=video_share_to_copy

Flashback to the greeting at a matching-toy playdate

Marshpoint Mariner Marathon

Wifi World Truck

Video:  https://youtu.be/Xd3FWQvtBXA

Dorothy's school assignment was to invent something and make a model.  She invented the "Wifi World Truck," a wifi-enabled car, so that she can watch YouTube on road trips.  She showed off her model in what turned out to be a 6-minute video tour, but I have shared here the first 30 seconds -- this intro was her brainchild.

Spring is for rompers

Sibling rivalry

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy referred to the sun-faded spots on my car's paint as "sunbathing stains."

The teacher asked the kids what they did over spring break, and I asked Dorothy whose vacation sounded the most fun.  "Mine did," she said, "because I saw 6 of my cousins.  Or maybe Hope's was even better.  She went to the Bahamas, whatever that is."

Dorothy put on some yummy-smelling lip gloss and then she kissed my elbow.  "Now smell your elbow," she instructed me.

More cousin love (Will)

Baby Reid love

Dear Tooth Fairy

Down another tooth

Flashback to 3/26 Dylan concert in Savannah (Rough & Rowdy Ways tour)

Happy birthday, Grandpa!

(pic by Katie)

The Sunday Funny

I asked Dorothy to pick up the fork she dropped on her floor during dinner with her cousins.  "I don't want to," she confessed, "but I will 'cause it's someone else's house."

Spring Break Photos

 

Hanging with the Mitchells in Oxford

Beale Street in Memphis with the Deans

Casting at Herb Creek Lake

Dorothy, Mary Claire, Maggie

Grace's baby Natalie in Columbus

Welcome, Reid!

Vulcan Park in Birmingham

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy was trying to remember a saying that was used in a book we read aloud.  "It's something about the devil," she said.  "It's like when you think of something and then it happens."  After some time I said, "Oh, I think it's Speak of the Devil!"  And Dorothy thought about it and said, "It's something like that.  Maybe The Devil Speaks?"

Around March Lucky Charms markets a cereal that turns your milk green.  I bought some on clearance after the holiday, and served it to Dorothy.  She was excited, but it didn't turn the milk green.  "Maybe it only works on St. Patrick's Day," she posed.

Through Facebook I learned that the uncle of one of Dorothy's classmates had died.  I asked Dorothy if Olivia had said anything about her uncle.  "She was sad at recess and she said something about how her uncle died," Dorothy replied.  "I'm sorry that she was sad," I said.  "She wasn't sad for very long," Dorothy said, "because she started playing again."  "Oh," I said, "that's good.  I'm sure her uncle doesn't want her to be sad."  "Didn't want her to be sad," Dorothy corrected me.

Dorothy said that she was finished eating, and I said, "When you ask for more food, I'm going to remind you that you didn't eat your grilled cheese."  "And I'm going to remind you that my grilled cheese was squishy," she retorted.

Dorothy stopped herself from opening her umbrella in the house because it's bad luck to do so.  "I think that a parent invented that so nobody can walk around the house with a big umbrella and bonk into things," Dorothy commented.

Dorothy watches YouTube videos of families playing with toys, and we've discussed why the family has so many toys and how advertising works.  At the end of a recent video, the mom disclosed:  "Mattel paid us to make this video."  Dorothy asked me about that, and I referred to our conversation about advertising; she asked, "But why are they paying them money?  They're already getting all the toys for free."

I bought Dorothy some Little Debbie Fudge Rounds, which are circular chocolate cookies with chocolate filling.  "I know why they're called Fudge Rounds," she said.  "They are fudge all around."

Dorothy has trouble going to sleep at night.  She often wakes up in the morning and says, "I' not sure I slept at all last night."

Painting ceramics at a birthday party last weekend

This divided tray solved only half of the food-touching problem