Azaleas are on the way

School for the Gifted

Dorothy went to school this week to take a standardized test for admittance to the gifted program.  When I picked her up, I asked how the day went.  She complained, "I can't believe that you dressed me in a sweater.  I was so hot all day!"  It was a zip-up cardigan sweater over her uniform.

 

Looking for four-leaf clovers

Morning blogging

Dorothy's pet

Night blogging

The Sunday Funnies

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

I took a "before" picture because we are expecting that front tooth to come out any day now

This style is an attempt to stop hair-chewing

Here's to the Ladies Who Lunch

I received a gift assortment of hot chocolates for my birthday, and we've been doing tastings each night. Pictured here: raspberry hot chocolate

 

The Sunday Funnies

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."

Friend at the neighborhood little library

Blog Takeover

How-to-draw video

Homemade kite this weekend

Happy 1st birthday, Baby Will!

Kal-eye-doscope

The Sunday Funnies

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.

Personalized facemask fail #1