The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy likes to drink ice-cold water.  I told her that when we get a new refrigerator we are going to get an ice maker.  She asked, "Can we get one of those kinds that has ice, water, and lemonade that comes out of the door?"

Dorothy watched a live game show that celebrated the launch of her favorite podcast's new book.  After it ended, she explained excitedly to Brian, "We won a theme song at the end of the show, and we also won a book that you can buy at the stores!  You couldn't buy it yesterday, but you can buy it today!"

Dorothy was playing dangerously, and I said, "Be careful!  If you slip and fall, you'll really get hurt...but it might make you lose your tooth!"  And Dorothy quipped, "I'll have to put it under my hospital pillow!"  (She swears she made this up.)

We were reading Blueberries for Sal and the story talks about canning the berries.  Dorothy asked what that meant, and I explained the process, using words like can, jar, winter, and jam.  "Oh," Dorothy said, "You mean preserve?"

We were reading an American Girl book which talks about WWII.  Somehow Dorothy ended up referring to the sides of the war as "teams".

Scooter decked out for the 4th

Neighborhood fireworks

Like an afternoon at the Cracker Barrel

Found her wiggling her tooth

So we're at this stage...

Just a fairy in her toy forest

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy asked me what time something was going to happen, and I told her between 9 and 10 in the morning.  She made a thinking face and then said, "There's nothing between 9 and 10.  It's just 9-10."

Occasionally an ice cream truck will come through our neighborhood, and last weekend, we treated ourselves to the snow cone truck.  "Ice cream!  Snow cones!  What kind of a quarantine is this?" Dorothy asked.

I overheard Dorothy playing with her dolls, and one told the other, "I'll drive the car because I have my driver's lessons."

Dorothy asked me how bathtubs are made.  I rambled on about ceramic, and stumbled over my answer, and when I was finished, she said, "No, I mean how do they get the water to come out of the wall?"

We were watching "The Story of the Animated Drawing" on Disney+.  It was a black-and-white t.v. show that aired in 1955.  In it, Walt Disney was showing off animated stills, including Snow White.  Dorothy said, "Oh!  Snow White used to be black-and-white, and it was color later."

Sailing on her scooter nowadays

This photo was taken after 9 p.m. because we sleep late and stay up late lately

All in a day's work

One of these teeth is loose

Father's Day was happy

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy learned about a frog's life cycle.  The term was new to her.  At one point she called it the "frog cycle".
"Do you know what a human's life cycle is?" I asked.  "A baby, a toddler, a child, a teenager, an adult, an old person."  "A skeleton!" she added.

Dorothy asked why her watch lights up if it does not have any batteries.  I told her that it does have a battery, it's just a small little one shaped like a coin -- "It's very, very small, and when it runs out, you can buy another one and put it in the watch."  "If it's very small," she asked, "then how do you find it in the stores on the shelves?"

Dorothy has a book with a picture of Betty Boop; she later referred to her as "Betty Booper".

Happy birthday, Big Daddy!

Have Brads, Will Puppet

Tadpoles by the hundreds

Alina is legally a Lasseter!

The child at the end of the tunnel

The Sunday Funny

I (Brian) was playing Aaron Copland, and when Fanfare for the Common Man came on, I thought, "This is a teachable moment."  So I went over to Dorothy and said, "Hey, this music is a fanfare. And you know how generally they play trumpets and a fanfare for royalty? Aaron Copland wrote this for everyone - all people, because everyone is worth celebrating."  I told her the title.  Dorothy thought for a moment and replied, "Why didn't he use the word 'people' instead of 'man'?"