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Stomp rockets this weekend

Watching the concrete pour

 

The Sunday Funnies

I told Dorothy, "I notice that you walked yourself into the school yesterday without a teacher.  Do you know your way to your classroom?"  Dorothy answered, "Not really.  The door keeps changing."  "The door keeps changing?" I repeated.  "Does your classroom change?"  "No," she said, "the door keeps changing into different holidays."

Dorothy asked what literate meant.  I told her, and she said, "Oh, I'm a literate."  "No, you're not -- you can read," I said.  "That's what I said," she responded.  "I'm a literate."

Cozy

Lego Advent calendar (aka Dorothy's reason to get up in the morning)

The Willa Funnies

Willa turned 6 yesterday, and she has been a part of our lives for over 2 years now.  I've been writing down the hilarious things she says and in her honor I present The Willa Funnies:

Willa asked me if she could get the ticky tacky.  I said, yes, and she went to the kitchen to get the taffy.

Our Disney+ trial had expired, and later Willa asked, "Why your Disney + exploded?"

Willa slipped on the playground equipment.  I checked on her and she told me, "My shoes weren't sticky enough."

Willa was listening to the podcast that Dorothy loves, Wow in the World.  The hosts are Guy and Mindy.  "Who do you like better, Guy or Mindy?" Brian asked Willa.  "Mindy, I think," Willa said.  "But I haven't seen her body."

With two kindergarteners playing together, you can imagine that I talk a lot about "fairness."  Last week Dorothy read the words on the t.v. screen out loud, and Willa offered, "It's sort of fair that Dorothy is reading, because I am getting my ears pierced."

Willa is very excited about getting her ears pierced.  She asked if dogs get their ears pierced, then followed-up with, "That was probably in the 90s."

"My eyes are burning," Willa said.  "Oh," I said, maybe because of allergies?"  "Maybe because I've not been blinking," she said.

Willa was playing pretend, and she told me she has a boyfriend.  "Does your boyfriend drive a fast car?" I asked.  "Yes, it has 27 wheels!" she answered.

Our extra bedroom is the guest room; so Willa referred to our extra table in the dining room as "the guest table."

Dorothy hosted Willa for a slumber party, and when we were all having fun, I said, "This is the best sleepover I've ever gone to."  "Don't you mean "The best sleepover I've ever stayed to?" Willa asked.

At the sleepover, Willa was having trouble sleeping, and I sat on the end of their bed.  "Can you stay here until I fall asleep?" Willa asked.  "I'll tell you when I'm asleep," she added.

I turned on The Star, an animated story of the birth of Jesus.  "The best Christmas movie ever!" I announced.  "It's not really a Christmas movie," Willa told me.

A dinosaur acting as stairs in a house (art class)

There were better pics, but this one captured the moment

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy has been able to recognize the Notre Dame logo from an early age.  Just this week she sussed out that it's made of interlocking letters N and D.

At Easter I unearthed a bright white waffle weave dish towel, which is still in circulation.  Dorothy spilled cranberry juice and cleaned it up with the towel.  "Ahhh, you're cleaning red juice with my best towel," I said.  Dorothy looked at it.  "I'm sorry, Mama," she said, "I didn't know that it had a bunny on it."

I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for Dorothy, and I put cranberry sauce on mine in lieu of jelly.  "A peanut butter and cranberry sandwich!" Dorothy announced.  "Isn't that a good name?  Let's tell Daddy that I came up with a name for your sandwich."

Dorothy followed me outside in the morning while I was taking out the garbage.  She was in her pjs.  "It's a cold day with cold wind," she said.  "Not my kind of day."  "Well, you're not wearing any pants, socks, shoes, or a sweatshirt.  You'd probably feel better if you were wearing some of those," I said.  "And even better if I was wearing all of those," she added.

Dorothy informed me that a piece of plastic had gone down the drain during her shower, and I was questioning her about it, and I said it would be okay except that only water is supposed to go down drains.  "And dirt," she sassed. "Isn't that the whole point of showers?"

A commercial advertised the t.v. show This is Us, which is apparently on its fifth season.  "Wait," Dorothy looked at me questioningly.  "There are only four seasons."

Dorothy has been unhappy with her podcasts lately because they've been discussing topics she doesn't like, such as germs and monsters.  Last night's Wow in the World episode was about predators.  "Predators!" Dorothy complained.  "Well, I guess they're talking about predators because it's almost Thanksgiving, and people eat turkeys on Thanksgiving."

Brian was playing a Christmas song on the piano.  Dorothy observed, "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays is like the completely wrong song for coronavirus, right?  'Cause we want to go somewhere, but we have to stay home."

Our little turkey

Happy Thanksgiving flashback

 

The Thankful List 2020

Again this year, Dorothy, Brian, & I each named something we are thankful for every evening in November.  Here, in chronological order, are Dorothy's items:

• My parents reading to me.
• All of my friends.
• All of those doctors & nurses who are helping people get better.
• For Ms. All that's working so hard for all the kids -- Cohort A, Cohort B, and Cohort C.
• Baby Sallie, and helmets for wearing when it's time to bike ride.
• Cars, my friends, Grandma & Grandpa, Gram & Big Daddy, helmets, masks, our Thankful Tree.
• That the president that Mommy & Daddy hoped for winned.
• Daddy playing the piano.
• Willa & Willa's mom letting me do my first sleepover [when coronavirus is over].
• My snail.
• Momma not making me have my entire dinner before I have my ice cream.
• Nothing right now.
• Starfall [a computer game].
• Mama thinking of doing socks on my non-footie jammies.
• For reading in your pajamas day at school.
• Camping.
• For mama for covering the statue of the creepy deer with moss.  [While camping, I disguised a hunting deer dummy.]
• Snail Willa.
• Barbie's videos where she discusses things, kind of.
• Maybe my new LOL, maybe not.
• The little kid zipline at the Fall Festival [2019].
• Ants -- I'm not actually like literally thankful, but I am sorry for them 'cause people keep stomping on them.
• The Tooth Fairy.
• Our make-up set.
• I'm out of thankfuls so I'm just gonna have to start saying things I'm not exactly thankful for.
• Mama letting me use her permanent markers.
• I don't have anything else I'm thankful for...except for this hot chocolate.
• Christmas.

Take a picture of this turkey before I eat it. Every side.

Girl on a climber

Dorothy is playing "coronavirus test" with her baby

The Sunday Funnies

During virtual school, Dorothy was disappointed when some other kids answered questions right.  "Dorothy, do you actually want the other kids to say the wrong answer?" I asked.  "Yes," she said, "because when they get it wrong, Ms. All calls on me."

We were listening to our favorite singer.  "Taylor Swift really likes to talk about liking someone and then getting mad at them," Dorothy rightly noted.

We were taking a walk and I saw that a neighbor had pulled her trash bin out next to the Trump sign in her yard.  "Look," I said, "Trump's out with the trash!"  Dorothy observed, "But the sign is still plugged into the yard."

"This nail polish remover is really crappy," I said.  "Let me put a new one on the grocery list."  I wrote "nail polish remover" on the list.  "Now write 'that's not crappy,'" Dorothy added.

Dorothy is responsible enough now that I let her use my art supplies

School art project to collage a memory (her birthday party)