For Valentine's week Dorothy's teacher was talking about hearts, and she asked each child what makes his heart beat fast. One after another, the kids gave examples of exercise: running, gymnastics, spinning around. Dorothy went last. "Doing XtraMath," she said. This is her school's timed computer game about math facts.
Dorothy has been making up her own jokes lately:
What's a cat's favorite food?
A purr-nip
What did the nutcracker say when someone made it laugh?
You crack me up
We were watching a YouTube video called "Jelle's Marble Runs." The set-up is a course for a marble run, filmed and narrated as though you're watching a live sporting event. There are even stands full of fans (marbles). It's surprisingly engaging. At the end of a series of races, the marbles ascended stairs in stop-motion, carrying a tealight Olympic torch, up to the winner's podium. "They must be so proud," Dorothy observed.
Dorothy likes soft-boiled eggs, and the eggs we usually buy are brown. We happened to buy white eggs, and when I picked-up an egg and cracked it, Dorothy said, "I thought those eggs were already peeled!"
Dorothy appeared in the living room from bed. "If I had three people in my heart, Willa would have one-quarter of my heart, you would have one quarter and one-half of one quarter of my heart, and Dad would have one quarter and one-half of one quarter of my heart."
Dorothy is sort of anxious by nature. Now that she's reading, I keep having to play-down the warnings on all her objects -- the toys, her bicycle, the inside of her helmet. The helmet should not be used for climbing or diving.
Dorothy's art class was looking at a painting depicting a baptism in a river. "The person is walking into the water to be baptized," the teacher said. Dorothy was surprised, so I added that at some baptisms, instead of pouring water over the head, people will be baptized in a river or big tub. "And they already could walk?" she asked.
