The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy and Willa were absorbed all day in playing pretend, and I kept popping into the bedroom to check in on them.  Dorothy told me, "You're like Jack the Narrator in The Stinky Cheese Man.  You keep popping into stories where you don't belong!"

We watched fireworks on the Fourth of July, and Dorothy commented that she likes "the ones that sizzle."

Dorothy's book showed pictures of mice doing naughty things.  One mouse had broken a piggy bank and coins were spilling out.  "Oh, this mouse busted the piñata at the party before it was time," she reasoned.

(I found some drafts of Sunday Funnies that I never published -- enjoy some old ones below!)

Days after her ballet recital, Dorothy dressed-up in the full costume and did a living room performance.  She nailed the moves, until the third verse of the song.  Then she froze and looked at me in confusion and said, "I forgot.  I forgot the moves."  That's when I remembered that the ballet teacher fades the song and offers a shortened version for the little ones!

Dorothy is into dramatic whines nowadays --

You never buy me strawberries anymore!

Dorothy whined that her friend got balloons for her birthday, and we reminded her that we took her to Disney World for her birthday.  "You took me to Disney World but the only thing I liked was the teacups!" she cried.

Dorothy is into offering solutions lately --

Mom:  My throat hurts, so I don't want to eat anything scratchy.
Dorothy:  How about you could eat a banana because those are smooth?

Mom:  I don't want to think about how dirty this Taco Bell is.
Dorothy:  Maybe you could just not think about it?

More scenes from strawberry dress day

Ahhh! We're in the same dress!

"Mom, you hung it upside-down."

2 hats

Frozen II

Dorothy and Willa are playing together again. We missed her!

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