Dorothy wanted to wake up and "follow the string!" like in a Frozen short. The path included some toys and ended with her favorite fruit, raspberries.
Dorothy was telling me that her new teacher has all the kids use the bathroom before recess. "Oh," I said. "That is a good idea. Remember last year when the teacher had to take the whole class inside from recess because you had to go to the bathroom?" Dorothy said flatly, "I guess Mrs. Hattrich learned her lesson, because after that she hired an assistant on the playground."
Dorothy made up a riddle: "What has 5 letters and you have to guess it?"
Answer: Wordle
(funny, she points out, because "Wordle" has 6 letters.)
Dorothy set-up a Lego family with two mothers and a son. "This child is genetically impossible," she said, "Because one mom has brown hair and blue eyes, and the other mom has brown hair and brown eyes, and the child has blond hair and green eyes."
Big sister Natalie, Girl-dad Wes, and Sarah's godchild Grace welcomed Josephine Palmer Russell to their family on September 3.
Dorothy's strep throat came with scarlet fever, a head-to-toe rash. She was irritating the area around her mouth by licking it, and she told me, "My skin feels like sandpaper. Feel it!" I touched her chin, and agreed. "Now feel it with your tongue," she suggested.
Dorothy held her hand in the light of a prism. It reminded her of the picture book A Bad Case of the Stripes. "It's like that Rainbowpox book we used to read," she said.
"I always call the Tangled movie Rapunzel," I said. Dorothy replied, "I still don't know why they call the Jasmine movie Aladdin."
Dorothy was reading a "Fantasy Book Title Generator" from the library, which assigns a book title from a chart based on your initials. Her title is Powerful Dragon, Brian's is Whimsical Dragon, and mine is Secret Ogre. "Ogre!" I exclaimed. "It's okay, Mom," Dorothy said. "Anything secret is good."
We got the sad news today that Dorothy's teacher, Ms. Wilkey, is being moved to another school due to the district's headcount, and Dorothy's class will be doled out to the other 4 second grade teachers starting tomorrow. Tears were shed.
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