Saturday, January 23, 2021

Friday, January 22, 2021

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Art class today

A drawing of Dorothy's room: yellow walls, green and white carpet, bed, dresser, picture wall, garland of bows, colorful lamp, and Legos on the floor

Monday, January 18, 2021

Sunday, January 17, 2021

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy plays with a friend who is into dinosaurs -- the girl crawls around on her hands and knees and roars.  This isn't really up Dorothy's alley, but she has compromised with the friend and will play dinosaur.  This is the dinosaur she agrees to:  "Its name is Dorothy-o-saurus and it's purple, it stays a baby forever, it lives forever, it eats plants, it can walk on two feet, it can jump over a tree, and it learns how to protect itself as soon as it's born."

Dorothy refers to her hem as "the rim of her dress."

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Monday, January 11, 2021

Some assembly required

Dorothy bought a bike with her Christmas money

Sunday, January 10, 2021

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy has taken to walking around the house while she brushes her teeth, and jokes that she's pretending to be me.  "I'm pretending to be you again," she told me, toothbrush in hand.  I laughed and said, "Goodnight, Dorothy."  "Goodnight, Sarah," she corrected me.

Dorothy was writing a sentence for school.  "Yes, so they can have another adventure" was her answer.  She completed "Yes, so they can have a" and asked me, "So, how do you spell 'nother?'"

I praised Dorothy's reading, and said, "You're reading almost as well as me."  She replied, "Yeah, you can't keep any secrets from me, unless you write it in cursive."

Dorothy issued a threat:  "If you don't let me stay up and finish these books, I'm going to read them straight away when I wake up tomorrow morning.  I'm going to read all four of them, and I'm going to do it before I even wake you up."  (And she did follow-through.)

Dorothy was making plans for the following day, and described her 8 o'clock plans as "At 8 and 8:59 and all through there."

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Monday, January 4, 2021

Sunday, January 3, 2021

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy has a chapter book to read over the holiday and a "book club" Q-&-A to complete.  In chapter 8, the character Jack encounters a T-Rex and can't decide what to do; at the chapter's end, a friendly Pteranodon appears to scoop him up and fly him away.  Her questionnaire asks, "Do you think it is a good idea for Jack to run from the T-Rex?  Why or why not?"  "No," Dorothy answered, "because the Pteranodon is already flying away with him."

We have a large pump body wash in the shower.  Dorothy was near the end of her shower, and I asked, "Did you wash your feet?"  "Yes," Dorothy answered.  "I used a whole new push of soap for my feet."