The Sunday Funny

 On Halloween night a lady was dressed for Dia de los Muertos.  Dorothy generally doesn't like skeletons, so I pointed her out and said, "Look, she's dressed for the Day of the Dead."  "That's tomorrow," Dorothy replied with concern.

Sweater weather

Dorothy bought some Lego tape and made a carrot growing through the table

Soccer celebrates Halloween

Dorothy's art class assignment was an observational drawing

She drew a weed and a bonus rose.

Hermione at virtual school

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy posed in front of a scary Halloween yard decoration; Brian took her picture and then said, "Now turn around and look scared."  "I don't have to look scared," Dorothy answered.  "I am scared."

Dorothy picked-up a pack of my cinnamon gum and asked if she could have a piece; I said yes.  "Isn't there gonna be an 'if' in there?" she sassed.  "Like, if you put on your shoes?"

The instructions on Dorothy's worksheet read:  Draw an X on the triangles.  "I didn't know that Xx is a vowel," she said.  "What do you mean?" I asked.  "It says an Xx," Dorothy explained.

Dorothy asked me why mama birds can eat food on their own, even though, like their babies, they don't have teeth.

Art imitates life

I Spy: what's the scariest thing in this yard?

Children in the witches' brew

Spraying aphids on the lemon tree

 

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