Twinning now & 2 summers ago

Mary Claire, Maggie, & Dorothy

 

Visitors!

The Sunday Funnies

We heard a Taylor Swift song in a movie, and later another song of hers in a commercial.  "Taylor Swift is getting really, really famous!" Dorothy exclaimed.

We've been enjoying the Who Is/Who Was book series.  Dorothy mentioned that she has a copy of Who Was Anne Frank that she got in the school book swap, but she hasn't read it yet.  "I don't want to read it," I said, "because it's so sad.  She died really young."  Dorothy countered, "Well, it's as long as any of the other books, so she still had a lot of interesting events in her life."

Dorothy watched a movie years ago in her first grade class and came home talking about it.  We couldn't find the movie she described online, but by looking at the stills on YouTube we found and enjoyed its sequel, Rabbit School:  Guardians of the Golden Egg.  Today, Brian was flipping through movies available on our current streaming service, and Dorothy ran to me.  "Mom!" she said.  "I finally found out the name of the movie that I liked in school, the first one before Rabbit School:  Guardians of the Golden Egg.  It's called Rabbit School."

I stitched an embroidery kit that reads "Coffee, please."  The packaging was printed in both English and French.  "Do they think the people who need the French words can read Coffee, please?" Dorothy asked.

Latergram: Tybee

 

Hammy-o

Puzzles with neighbor Alice

We managed a little fun on this record-hot day

Celebrating the 50th state

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy is very exact with her language.  I pointed out that she has a tan where she wears her watch; she corrected that she had a "non-tan" where she wears her watch.

Dorothy asked, "Isn't it funny that 'I am' is a sentence, but 'I'm' is not?"

She was reading aloud the poems children submitted to Ranger Rick magazine.  "I can always tell when the kids are running out of rhyming words," she observed.

Dorothy had a blister on the back of her heel, and I asked her which shoes she was wearing the day before.  "Whichever ones are strewn across the floor," she replied.

Clay Camp Round-up

 

Squishies Playdate

This playdate lasted almost 4 hours around this coffee table.  The girls kept adding toy categories:  first Squishies, then Lego Friends, Fingerling Monkeys, and finally Hatchimals.

Pool days

Pottery camp week

Dorothy made this awesome mosaic garden stone this weekend!

End-of-camp performance

Last day at VBS

That don't-take-my-picture face

Dorothy at Vacation Bible School

Happy 70th Birthday, Big Daddy!

Happy Father's Day

Chatting with her friend at the library circus show

We helped set-up for Vacation Bible School

Fancy

Hot Pool Summer

Piano recital

 Duet with Daddy:  https://youtu.be/3d1buNx0DOM

Scootin'

Dorothy is making her way through a reading list/prize kit

Didgeridoo program at the library

Air

I put balloons in Dorothy's tent and she turned them into characters

Playdate (and twinning)

Dorothy won this ball at the giant claw machine at Grady's birthday party!

Reading Room

New watch, who dis?

Hammy took first prize at the library pet competition!

 

Dorothy and her friend check out our new organ

ConGRADulations, Alina!

 

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy's friend slipped her an invitation to his birthday party, but the whole class wasn't invited.  I asked her when he gave it to her, and she revealed a method the kids used all year long:

"When we want to go somewhere, we roll our pencil there, and then we get out of our seats to get the pencil.  So Grady rolled his pencil to me, and gave me the invitation, and then I rolled my pencil to my backpack, and I got up and put it in there."

Take a picture of this before I take it apart

Blueberries are sweetest picked in the morning

I missed the memo on last day of school pics