No stabilizers, as Peppa Pig would say

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A few more pics from the first day of school

 

and a video if you want it:  https://youtu.be/UETU-oRxVhY

First day of virtual kindergarten

The bike path in our neighborhood also has this wooden part

Quarantine haircut

 

The Sunday Funnies

We were visiting a waterside neighborhood and sitting on a public bench.  I asked Brian if he thought the city or the nearby house owned the enormous tree.  "Why would you ask such a ridiculous question?" Dorothy laughed.  "Nobody owns trees!"

Dorothy was playing with her skirt, and I said, "Your skirt sounds like a flag flapping in the wind."  "In Chicago," she added.

I was deciding who would make a choice first and I asked Dorothy and Willa to pick a number between 1 and 10.  Dorothy chose 9, and when Willa chose 10, Dorothy objected, "Mom said a number between 1 and 10."

We were reading a book and reached an exciting conclusion of a chapter.  "Daddy loves dead ends," Dorothy noted.  "What?" I asked.  She repeated it.  "Daddy loves dead ends...I mean cliffhangers."

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