First day of in-person school

 

Neighborhood soccer started today

 

I turned around and they were on the car

 

The Sunday Funnies

"Why does yellow have a silent Ww at the end?"

I was writing a list for Dorothy which included some toys, and she watched over my shoulder:  "You put a Bb, but it's a Pp.  Paton."

I told Dorothy the story of The Gift of the Magi, and at its end, Dorothy said, "I thought that they were going to buy each other the thing they got rid of.  So, like, he was going to buy her the wig of her own hair."

Dorothy woke me up in the morning.  "I'm so excited.  I don't know why I'm excited.  What are we doing today?" she asked.  "Well, we have a Zoom birthday party for your cousin Erik today," I said.  "Oh, I didn't know that.  You didn't tell me that!" she said.  "That can't be what I'm excited about, because you didn't tell me about it.  What else are we doing today?"

Dorothy takes an allergy medicine, and she confidently checks the amount in the cup:  5 "mill-e-a-tors."

Dorothy's 6th birthday party

 

We started out the day making a rainbow cake.

There were 8 layers.

Dorothy demonstrated the Six/Nine spinning sign to Georgia because it was a shared birthday party for the two girls.

The kids were introduced to the horse.

Protection everywhere

Dorothy got on the horse stoically.

Each child got to ride around a course in the barn.

Then we ate cake.

And a video:  https://youtu.be/yN93xljBNX4

The remains of the cake (party pictures to come)

Helping put new handles on the cabinets

 

What do you do with a duplicate toy?

Tongue through tooth hole

The Sunday Funnies

A Notre Dame commercial was promoting its advances in medical technology design, including images of a woman putting on a prosthetic hand.  Dorothy asked why it was on the commercial, and I said, "Oh, well some people who go to school at Notre Dame--"  "Need a hand to go to school?" she interrupted.  "Need it to hold a pencil and stuff?"

Dorothy loves Barbie movies, and she regards Barbie as I would a beloved celebrity.  For example, "Mama, Barbie wears socks to bed!" she discovered.

We replaced our refrigerator, and I was taking photos of the old one to post on Facebook Marketplace and sell.  Dorothy asked why I was taking photos, and I told her that I was planning to sell the fridge, and she said, "Oh, so you're taking pictures of it so you'll remember it?"

We were reading Mary Poppins, and with the aid of a compass, Mary Poppins and the children traveled "round the world" to the North, South, and East, and met magical animals.  Finally, Mary Poppins announced that they were going West, and when they landed in an ocean and met a magical dolphin, Dorothy stopped me.  "Wait, where have they already been?" she asked.  "North, South, East, and now West," I said.  "Then where do they live?" she asked.

Our new refrigerator has an ice maker, and for the first few days, we had to dump the new ice into the sink instead of using it.  Somehow in this time Dorothy started calling the ice maker the "ice dumper."

We took out Halloween early; in the background you'll see Dorothy's "Barbie Scream House"

The ice cream truck route hits our neighborhood every Friday afternoon

Sipping from the sink

The sleepy unicorn requested this exact breakfast

Finished self-portrait

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy got up after her bedtime, and I let her come outside with me to put away the bikes that we had left on the carport.  "I like spending time with you, Mama," she said.  "Especially at night."

"Dorothy, even though you took a shower, you still have dirt on your face," I said.  "I never wash my face," Dorothy responded.

We started our first Zoom class of the day.  "How do the teachers get up so early?" Dorothy asked.

Dorothy reminisced, "Remember the time the snowstorm blocked us into Chicago?"

Brian bought some Simply Limeade, and Dorothy requested a glass of the "lime-onade."

"Dad, what is 4 times 24?" Dorothy asked.  Brian answered, and Dorothy shared, "Then there are 96 hours until my birthday."

We were reading a mystery chapter book, and a clue included that the mysterious person writes a capital letter Mm, never the lowercase.  Additionally, the children in the story happened to be eating M&Ms in the same chapter.  I pointed out this coincidence, and Dorothy observed, "Except M&Ms are a lowercase Mm."

"My hands are literally covered with glitter," Dorothy said.  "Glitter-ally covered?" I asked.  "Ha ha, very funny," Dorothy said sarcastically.  A moment later, she added sincerely, "Mama, that really was very funny."

Dorothy was following her teacher's directions to draw a car, but before she began she asked me for some crackers.  After a few of her teacher's instructions, Dorothy said, "Look, my lines are all shaky."  I looked at her and said, "That's because you're drawing with your left hand, and you're right-handed."   "But I'm eating with my right hand," Dorothy explained.  "And how do you know I'm right-handed?" she wondered.

RIP RBG

 

We had to postpone Dorothy's horse-riding party, but Willa came over for a celebratory sleepover

 

We visited the farm to pet the horses (party postponed because our friends are under the weather)

More farm

More farm

Spa play

More spa

Sand art

More sand art

Giltterized

Drawing a self-portrait for art class (photo before the tears started because it didn't look enough like her)