Maybe the Tooth Fairy will be working this weekend

No deck, just dirt

Headbanz guessing game

Split screen

Sarah's godchild had a beautiful little baby

Introducing Natalie Catherine Russell

Born Friday, September 4, 2020, at 5:25 p.m.

to Grace (Morgan) and Wes Russell

Columbus, GA

8 lbs., 9 oz., 21 inches

The Sunday Funnies

I noticed that Dorothy was holding a booger and asked her to go wash her hands.  She returned and said, "I washed the booger, so it doesn't have germs on it anymore."

We were listening to a story about superpowers.  "I want my superpower to be flying, and breathing under water," Dorothy said.  "Oh, and the power to go to sleep right away by lullaby.  That would really help me."

Dorothy was struggling to read the words "tennis shoes" and once she sounded it out, she exclaimed, "What!?  Why did they spell it like that?  It's 'ten-a shoes.'"

I wiggled Dorothy's tooth and told her that I think it might come out this weekend.  "Do you think the Tooth Fairy works on the weekends?" she asked.

Behind the curb

 

Flashback: Dorothy kept a Happy Meal box and made some fries to refill it

 

The girls like to play "toy hotel"

Happy...September

Virtual School (No Shoes Required)

Bad news, good news

Bad news:  Dorothy fell off her bike yesterday and cracked her helmet.

Good news:  She is okay, and got a new helmet out of the deal.

(When she was wee, and barely talking, I chose a bike helmet for her at Target that was light blue with a street scene.  She understood shopping, and when we moved to the next aisle, though she talked very little, she demanded, "Pink!  Butterflies!  Go back!"  So we went back and got the pink helmet with the butterflies.  As you can see, once again, Dorothy chose her own helmet.)

The Sunday Funnies

I gave Dorothy some canned fruit cocktail, and she argued that it was not actually a cocktail.  I told her that a cocktail means a mix of different ingredients, and she argued that I sometimes make a drink for her that is a cocktail.  "Well," I said, "that's a mix of a drink and ice."  "Well," she said, "sometimes you give me a mix of water and ice and call it a cocktail, and technically ice and water are the same thing."

Dorothy said, "Oh no!  I stretched out my slinky!  Can somebody stretch it in?"

Dorothy was playing detective and wanted to create a distraction, or as she said, "a distractment."

We had not let Dorothy watch any cartoons one day, and she argued, "Your child should have 2 hours of screen time each day."

Walking in the heat, I commented, "It's like a sauna out here."  Dorothy agreed, "Yeah, even though I don't know what that feels like."

We picked up groceries which included something from Pillsbury, and she looked at the bag and asked, "What's in there?  I see the Puff Man!"

We were discussing cookie dough, and Dorothy commented that kids "can't eat rotten eggs."

Lucky Charms

Pencils through a bag of water

Dorothy's assignment was to draw a goat

Bubble snake from the weekend

Weekend movie time

Class knuckles

The Sunday Funnies

We were looking at titles of the books in our neighborhood's little library, all standing erect on a shelf.  Dorothy referred to a book that she thought was for someone older than her, but I said, "This is the real meaning of You can't judge a book by its cover."  Dorothy responded, "Well, in this case, it's You can't judge a book by its spine."

I looked at an image of a flower and suggested that it was a lily of the valley.  Dorothy immediately chimed-in, "Oh, I know what a lily of the valley is:  a highly poisonous woodland flowering plant."  (Thanks again to her podcasts.)