Pictures from the sleepover!

 Link:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/9AaxCRUZbejhKon49

The theme was oceans & mermaids.

Dorothy decorated the red velvet cake.

Dinner & cake outside

Scavenger hunt

Shaving cream

Sand art

Tie dye

Dorothy is nine!

Party of Five

Livia, Iona, Dorothy, Annica, & Willa

Slumber party decorations are under way

Taco night with Iona last weekend

 

And the museum has a new children's exhibit about Impressionists

 

Our local museum is displaying knights' armor

 

Dorothy didn't want to get too close.  And notice the dehumidifier!

The Sunday Funny

Traffic was harried on the way home from school.  "I've heard three horns.  I hope they're not beeping at me," I said.  "Maybe they're honking at you because you only have one hand on the wheel," Dorothy offered.

Birthday recap

 

Dorothy woke up early,

read her annual poem by Grandma,

& tested her first present (a remote-control car).

Her cupcakes for school looked awesome.

All the kids at school wore polka dots for "Dot Day" which happens to be on Sept. 15 every year.

After school we headed to Tybee Island for ice cream,

sand and waves,

grilled cheese at Five Guys for dinner,

and a fun time opening all those presents!

And we're nine!

Why I Love Hamsters

 

And a visit with Will & Reid

 

An awesome trip to see Notre Dame play NC State

 

Tailgating in the cars (lightning storm #1)

Whatever it takes

Matchy-matchy (evacuation for lightening storm #2)

Winning smiles (45-24)

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy's class was taking a look at old technology.  I emailed her teacher and offered to loan her our rotary phone.  Dorothy read over my shoulder and added, "You should have told her that it was a phone with the little circles on it."

Dorothy couldn't find a passage I told her was in parenthesis.  I pointed to it on the paper.  "Oh," she said, "I was looking for air quotes."

I spilled hot water and burned my hand.  After some minutes, Dorothy asked me, "Do you want to face your fears, and pour some more hot water for me?"

We were putting on our shoes to join my neighbor and her daughter for a walk.  Dorothy said excitedly, "I need to think of a conversation starter!"

Dorothy and her friend played board games throughout the morning.  Later, she said sweetly, "It's fun to play games with friends.  It's more fun than playing with adults."

Dorothy's picture is the start of a bulletin board at school

BOOK IT!

Hanging out after her first Girl Scout meeting

Dorothy visits the early '60s

 

This is Brian's mom at age 10 or 11.

The Sunday Not-So-Funny

UPDATE 9/6:  The magazine updated the website with the correct words.  Order is restored.

Dorothy submitted a poem about hummingbirds to Zoobooks magazine.  Months later, I was thrilled to see it published in the online gallery, and called her over to the computer.

She burst into tears.

The magazine editors changed the words of her poem.  (I think they had trouble reading her handwriting.)

"It's supposed to say glad, not red!  I mean, how would I not know whether it's red or blue?

They changed word to worry!  That doesn't make any sense -- worry doesn't rhyme with bird!

This has my name, but it makes me look like I'm 5 years old, not 8!"

I agree completely.

Here is the real poem:

Hum, hum, hum, it's what they do

I  don't know if they're glad or blue

The humming of their wings

Makes me want to sing

Sticking their beaks into flowers

Flying backward is their superpower

Zipping softly without a word

Do you know what it is?

It's a hummingbird!

Happy day

Grace, Wes, Natalie, & Josie stopped by

Yarn llama

School is out for the next 6 days, so we spent the evening at the pool

That Chipotle Glow

Popsicle break

Library haul