Amazon saw fancy cardboard packaging; Mama saw a flower

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy said she wanted to throw a walnut up into the tree to land in a squirrel's nest.  I said, "What if there are baby squirrels in the nest and the walnut hits one on the head?"  Dorothy quickly answered, "Baby squirrels don't cry."

Brian & I were watching a retrospective on 80s television.  Far into the program, When a Man Loves a Woman started playing and Kevin Arnold & Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years kissed.  Dorothy leaned over to me and whispered, "I like that part."

Before going to visit Oatland Island, a nature center, Dorothy asked, "Can you please let me be naked at Oatland Island because that's what the animals do?"

Aunt Fran mailed Dorothy a few play kitchen items along with a note explaining that her grandkids had outgrown their beloved play kitchen, and that she had donated it to a local child care center.  Dorothy pondered this as we played with the toys in her own toy kitchen, and then asked me, "Mom, when you outgrow this kitchen, will you not give it away and just let me play with it by myself?"

Grandma mailed Dorothy a valentine, and wrote her name in cursive.  Dorothy wanted to know why "Jane" started with a "Bb".  I explained that the letters were in cursive, and that later I would write cursive letters for her to see.  She said, "And I want cursive numbers."

Dorothy is getting picky about her clothes. She will only wear this shirt backwards, so it's white. She thinks.

Bike instruction

Happy birthday Aunt Mary Beth! We made you a shaving cream ice cream cone!

Dorothy loves to wear a turbie twist (she says it makes her look like ice cream)

Eye-to-eye with a cow (you'll have to trust me)

Dorothy made this sticker portrait a few weeks ago. While watching TV, she recognized a character on the show as her own picture, ran to get it, and we made a comparison.

The Sunday Funnies

I mentioned that I was getting older (happy birthday to me); Dorothy said, "But I want you to stay alive."

Dorothy likes to make "deals" that aren't really deals, as in, "Tomorrow I want you to sew this hole.  Deal?"

She also refers to things that happened (or didn't) in "the olden days".

A few times this weekend, she has picked up her story with "As I was saying..."

I mentioned that her neighbor friends take music lessons, and she told me, "When I get older I do not want to go to school, I want to go to music."

AMC Theatre

Look at those lights

Sinking

Playing "Room on the Broom"

Muddy lift home

Muddy tracks

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy understands that she must go to sleep in her own bed, but if she wakes up in the middle of the night, we let her come into our bed.  At bedtime she told Brian, "It's so hard to sleep when I'm waiting for the middle of the night."

Dorothy woke up in the middle of the night:  I had a scary dream.
Sarah:  Oh, I'm sorry.
Dorothy, sleepily:  And it's still happening!
Sarah:  What is it about?
Dorothy:  Pants that are walking.

Dorothy listens to my GPS when I have it on for directions.  She comments on the names of the streets, etc.  Last night, when we got where we were going, she said, "Uh!  It says our destination is on the left.  But I wanted our destination to be on the right."

Sarah:  Let's go home and eat dinner, take a bath, and go to bed.
Dorothy:  Let's go home and rest, read books, and play Elsa-Anna.

At school Dorothy was pretending that the large mound of sand was Elsa's ice castle.  She told me, "It wasn't really an ice castle because it didn't have any frozen fractals."

Dorothy noticed a dress that I had not yet put away after a wedding last weekend; it is sequined from top-to-bottom.  Dorothy said, "I love this."  She was gently rubbing her hand on the fabric.  "I really love this," she said.  "Do you have a kid one of these?"

Dorothy has a poster on her wall that is busy with Disney characters.  She was upset and did not want to go to bed; when I peeked in on her, she said, "I was crying and looking at this picture."  I said, "That's good."  She said, "No, I was crying and looking at the picture."  I said, "Yes, there's lots to look at on that picture.  All those characters."  She said, "No, I was CRYING and looking at the picture!"

Happy birthday Daddy

Do you wanna build a snowman?

Okay, bye:  https://youtu.be/tReq65VO8Bo

Thinking face

Elsa in her ice castle