Dorothy said she wanted to throw a walnut up into the tree to land in a squirrel's nest. I said, "What if there are baby squirrels in the nest and the walnut hits one on the head?" Dorothy quickly answered, "Baby squirrels don't cry."
Brian & I were watching a retrospective on 80s television. Far into the program, When a Man Loves a Woman started playing and Kevin Arnold & Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years kissed. Dorothy leaned over to me and whispered, "I like that part."
Before going to visit Oatland Island, a nature center, Dorothy asked, "Can you please let me be naked at Oatland Island because that's what the animals do?"
Aunt Fran mailed Dorothy a few play kitchen items along with a note explaining that her grandkids had outgrown their beloved play kitchen, and that she had donated it to a local child care center. Dorothy pondered this as we played with the toys in her own toy kitchen, and then asked me, "Mom, when you outgrow this kitchen, will you not give it away and just let me play with it by myself?"
Grandma mailed Dorothy a valentine, and wrote her name in cursive. Dorothy wanted to know why "Jane" started with a "Bb". I explained that the letters were in cursive, and that later I would write cursive letters for her to see. She said, "And I want cursive numbers."