I woke her up early this morning to get back on schedule for school but it didn't turn out as planned

Chocolate mustache

All the pants are getting shorter

Howdy, Partner. Over.

Tangled

We visited the Isle of Hope neighborhood and did some plein air painting

 While we were getting ready to go, I was looking for a good paper.  Dorothy reminded me, "You can't judge a painting paper by its texture!"

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The Sunday Funnies

We were riding in the car, and Dorothy asked, "Mom, does 'street' begin with an Ss, or something silent?"

Dorothy sings to her phone and it identifies songs for her.  She told me in surprise, "Mom, it's not called On the First Day of Christmas, it's called The Twelve Days of Christmas!"

Dorothy asked for a taste of Brian's chocolate soda, ran to the kitchen, and returned with a soup ladle.  "I brought the yodle-y thing," she said.

We watched Floor is Lava, a games show on Netflix, which begins with the introduction of the teams, and their personal stories.  After the game finished they announced the winner, and Dorothy jumped around in excitement, and cheered, "Yay!  They really needed the ten thousand dollars!"

I looked-up an author that we enjoyed, and commented that he is still alive and 95 years old.  "That's even older than you and daddy!" Dorothy responded.

We were in a neighbor's backyard, which included a swimming pool, a jungle gym, a water table, a climbing dome, a sprinkler, and a few other toys.  We overheard Dorothy tell her friend, "You have everything you need!"

Dorothy painted this picture of her and Willa watching the sunrise

The girls brushed their teeth for about 15 minutes

Today was supposed to be the first day of kindergarten

Our start date has been pushed-back to August 19 and the year will begin virtually.  But as you can see, I've been collecting uniforms and school supplies for quite some time.

The girls designed a bike

"Make a face like an LOL doll."

The Sunday Funnies

We were playing a card game where the numbers have cute vegetable faces on them, and Brian laid down a card and said, "There's crazy green onion guy."  Dorothy said right away, "I believe that's pronounced 'celery.'"

Dorothy refused to eat the foods we had prepared for her dinner, and we were fussing about it at length.  Eventually, Dorothy started talking in a funny voice, and added, "Will a bunch of laughs get you over my dinner thing?"

I pointed out a scar on Dorothy's knee, and she said plaintively, "I miss having my normal knee."

Dorothy heard the music of the ice cream truck in the neighborhood.  We grabbed shoes and Dorothy, Willa, and I started running through the streets on a truck hunt.  Dorothy, excited, exclaimed, "I'd recognize that music anywhere!"

Dorothy was feeding a miniature pony at a farm, and ran to me excitedly and said, "Mom, that horse has braces!"

With frequency, Dorothy has been misusing the phrase "You can't judge a book by its cover."  For example, she mentioned a story about a wolf and a rabbit, and I said that it was a fox and a rabbit, and she said, "Oh well, you can't judge a book by its cover.  I guess we'll have to watch it again and see."

Brian and Dorothy were watching the Swedish Chef on the Muppets, and when he took off his glasses, his normal bushy eyebrows showed.  Dorothy said, "Look, his eyes are mustaches!"

Dorothy scooters with her purse in case we run into the ice cream truck

Brian put together our new bed frame

Slurp

We chased the ice cream truck

Getting longer all the time

The Sunday Funnies: The Tooth Fairy Edition

The day her tooth came out, Dorothy prompted our Google Home with the phrase "tooth fairy."  Google responded, "According to Wikipedia, The Tooth Fairy is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Western and Western-influenced cultures."  Dorothy exclaimed, "Google doesn't think the tooth fairy is real!  She said a fantasy figure!"

Dorothy wanted the Tooth Fairy to leave her a toy and not take her tooth.  I said I couldn't promise, and gave her some options.  "But I think you should leave the tooth for the Tooth Fairy, and what's meant to happen will happen," I added.  Dorothy, still in tears, replied, "Or whatever happens will happen."

Dorothy wanted to communicate to the Tooth Fairy that she wanted an LOL in exchange for her first tooth, so she wore her LOL pajamas to bed.  In the morning, I noticed that she was wearing them backwards.  She explained, "When I turned over on my belly last night, I wanted the Tooth Fairy to be able to see the LOLs on my pajamas so she would know what I wanted, so I turned my pajamas around before I turned over."

After she opened her LOL, Dorothy offered, "Gram will be creeped and freaked to see that my new LOL has skin that turns green.  And 'disturved.'"

Pumping the basketball