Family photos by our friend Caroline

 

Lunch date

Happy actual birthday to Maddux!

Dorothy after school

Twins at the pool

 

Some photos from Grandma & Grandpa's visit

 

Friends at the birthday party

 

Happy birthday (party), Maddux!

 

Morning faces 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

 

2nd, 1st, K, P-K

 

Off to second grade

Open house at school

 

At the disco

The Sunday Funnies

I leaned over the back of the couch, arms flailing and bottom in the air, to retrieve something that had fallen.  "You look like me when I'm having fun!" Dorothy remarked.

In the movie Clue, the killer hangs up the call of the victim on the base of an old-fashioned phone.  "Can you really hang up a phone by pushing those buttons?" Dorothy asked.

Dorothy is enjoying a series of books about a girl named Amelia, who grows older in each book.  "A kid asked if there is going to be a book about Amelia in high school and college," Dorothy told me.  "How do you know that?" I asked.  "It says it on the back of the book," she told me.  "Oh," I answered, "and what did the author say?"  "It wasn't the author, it was Amelia," Dorothy responded, "and she said she can't see into the future."

Mermaid paper dolls

Tybee evening with G&G

Photo session in the books

Elbows on the table

At the library: Don't choose a book by its cover

Seeking shade

I was making Dorothy try on clothes for family photos, but we cancelled them because she has a rough cold right now!

The end of summer is near

Spot the swimmer

Camp pick-up (spot Dorothy)

Day 2 of gymnastics camp

We've enjoyed free museum weekends this summer

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy knows about lead poisoning.  Lately, we have been playing the board game Clue and we even watched the movie, where a character is hit over the head and killed by the lead pipe.  "Wait," Dorothy interrupted, "so they didn't make him drink from it?"

First penpal, with a friend who is on a long vacation

Flower arranging with Iona

Flashback to making bracelets with Willa

Scenes from a 12-hour bug (feeling better today)

"Lemanad" Stand

Dorothy misses her cousins!

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy referred to the Chick-fil-a mascot:  "You know those cows that say 'Eat more chickens?'"

Dorothy wanted to buy an overpriced stuffed animal keychain; I showed her a picture of a cheaper one that I had on reserve to give her instead.  But she said, "Oh!  It can have a friend!"

We were doing a hidden picture search, and we were supposed to look for a volleyball, or, in Dorothy's words, "some sort of textured ball."

Meeting Abby the bunny at the magic show

 

Donuts for breakfast

Cousins at the museum

Each hash = 10, pinecone were .05 each, and dad owed her $10 bucks by the end of it.

The whole crew