Roly poly on the bike path

Meet Josie

Big sister Natalie, Girl-dad Wes, and Sarah's godchild Grace welcomed Josephine Palmer Russell to their family on September 3.

Meet Hammy

Door-othy

Teeter totter

The Sunday Funnies

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."

Kat's birthday party

Visit to the pet store

We are hamster-ready

Socially-distanced scootering

New classroom, new germs. Doc says yep it's strep.

The Sunday Funny

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."

Dorothy's first Bananagrams (loose rules)

It went fine

Second start, second grade

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.

I told Dorothy that this Lego was scaring me, so she left a reminder note

Cousin visit flashback

Mail's here! More animal facts!

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy appeared beside my bed, complaining about school:

"You know what enrages me?  It enrages me that the new science teacher, Mrs. Peters, has a sign above her door.  The sign says 'Go Dawgs.'  Is that even allowed in school?"

Water party!