Working on a collage for art class

The Sunday Funny

 Dorothy was pretending to be a frog and I was teasing her and doing a funny dance to act like there was a frog in my pants.  She begged, "Let's play that game again.  Say all those same things again.  That's the funniest thing you've ever said to me, Mama."

Before school, after school

(bright-eyed and ready to go)

(chocolate on her mouth and a far-off stare)

Dorothy made a map of our house

 

The bike path has a small creek

The Sunday Funnies

 I mistakenly called Dorothy's first day of in-person school her "first day of virtual school."  She said, "Not virtual school.  In-person school.  Virtual means 'not close.'"

I gave Dorothy a pear which had a fruit sticker on it.  "Hey, this has a receipt on it!" she said.

I was watching ND football, and yelled "Shoot!" when they fumbled.  Dorothy told me that I said a bad word, and I told her that shoot is not a really bad word.  "What is the really bad word?" she asked.  "It sounds like shoot, but with the short Ii vowel sound," I joked, because she is studying vowel sounds at school.  "Dang it?" she asked.

When Shutterfly has a special, you have to take the Christmas pic

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