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We heard that the mail will take longer this year, so we got an early start

The Sunday Funnies

I started singing Love Me Tender, and when Dorothy didn't recognize it, I told her it was by Elvis Presley.  I pulled it up on YouTube to let her listen, and before she even saw the video, she complained, "Let me guess.  This is in black and white."

Dorothy was playing with her feet.  "Look, Mom," she said.  "I have five toes, but only four slots."

Half-vaxxed!

Dorothy's first grade school photo

You can see her ad hoc paper bow peeking out above her white clip.

Still reading

More pics from Halloween

 

Atlanta Braves Spirit Day at school

Saint Dorothy (All Saints Day at CCD)

 

Halloween in the books

Baseball card, Ted Lasso, black cat

The Sunday Funnies

I asked Dorothy what she learned in CCD.  "We learned about God's Creation and a little bit about Adam and Eve, which I was really glad about, because I've always been confused about that story," she told me.

I told Dorothy that I couldn't take a photo for her because my phone was charging on the other side of the house.  Not long after, she saw the phone, which was close to the charger, but not connected.  "I thought you said you were charging your phone," she demanded.  "I was, but it finished charging," I replied.  She looked at the phone and the cord and asked, "When it's charged, does it spit it out?"

Dorothy's classmate sent home Halloween treats that included mandarin oranges with faces drawn on them.  Dorothy wanted to save the peel, and though I managed to peel it neatly, Brian warned Dorothy that it will dry out and shrink.  "So it will grow old," I said, "and get wrinkles."  Dorothy didn't like this idea, but she was quick on her feet:  "It'll come right out of the bath," she countered.

In the same day, Dorothy took for her own my tomato pin cushion, and received a balloon animal at Gulfstream's Family Day event.  Of course, we joked that she should not let them touch.  "I can play coronavirus," she said, "and they'll have to social distance."

It seems that Dorothy has inherited Sarah's sense of direction.  She told me, "I'm the line leader this week.  I made some mistakes today.  I kept going the wrong way.  I even took us into the kindergarten hall."

Dorothy was gathering items for her Nancy Drew costume for school book character dress-up day.  "Why do I like preparing so much?" she wondered aloud.

Nancy Drew in the Clue Crew series makes a list of suspects and crosses them off as she determines each person's innocence.  In preparing for her costume, Dorothy wrote her classmates' names in a notebook and lined through some of them; then she rewrote the list and lined through different names.  She explained, "Even though in real life my friends would be happier to see their names crossed off, I think in the costume they would be happier to see their names not crossed off."

Dorothy's Ranger Rick magazine had a photo of a piece of agate colored like Cookie Monster.  Perhaps you've seen it in the media.  Dorothy showed it to me, and I said, "I recognize that!  I saw it in another publication."  She replied, "I did too.  I think it's a phenomenon."

In preschool Dorothy learned a song about the days of the week to the tune of The Addams Family.  She was singing it recently and I pointed out that a member of the Addams Family is Wednesday.  "That's a day of the week!  I wonder if that's why those songs are related," I suggested.  "They're related because it's the same tune," she clarified.

Painting in the Park

 

Nancy Drew from the Clue Crew Series (book character dress-up day)

 

Dinner and a good book

Find the 6 difrsis

Dorothy's "Book Trailer" for school

 Video link:  https://youtu.be/UfxarufFvmk

Block party this weekend

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy was grumpy, and I was making her lunch for school.  She complained that I don't cut off every speck of brown crust, and said, "When you don't take off all the crust, it makes me feel like you don't care about me!"  "Dorothy," I said, frustrated, "all I do all day long is care for you."  "Well, it makes me feel like you don't care about my sandwich!" she countered.

The local library is giving rewards for kids who participate in their October reading campaign and log 4 hours of reading in the month.  I loosely explained this to Dorothy, who said, "Ok, I want to do it.  Four hours in a row?"

Dorothy has an okay-grasp on parenthesis, and likes to suggest when they should appear in things she reads.  But she can't remember what they are called, so she cups her hands and says "those things."

Dorothy likes some privacy when she plays pretend or sings because she's starting to feel embarrassed.  She asked me to leave the bathroom while we were getting ready for the day.  I said, "Ok, but I'm not going to stay out very long."  "It's only going to be for one length of the Halloween Will Soon Be Here song."

Dorothy was supposed to use the potty, and then brush her teeth. Brian saw her leaving the bathroom.

  Brian: Where are you going?

  Dorothy: I need to fill in a ghost on my reading chart for school.

  Brian: Mom told you to brush your teeth first.

  Dorothy: No she said I could do this first. Mom! Can I fill in the ghost?

  Sarah: What?

  Dorothy: CAN. I. FILL. IN. THE. GHOST?

  Sarah: No, you have to brush your teeth.

  Dorothy: It will only take a teency-tincy second.

  Sarah: ....Ok.

  Dorothy (to Brian). See -told ya.

  Brian: No, not "told ya." She told you to brush your teeth. You were just being manipulative. 

  Dorothy. I don't even know what "blah BLAH blah blah blah" is.

Gulfstream's Family Day was a drive-thru event this year

Christmas is around the corner