It was a happy Halloween for the princess, queen, and chef

Hocus Pocus ballet

Mr. & Ms. Peanut

The Sunday Funnies

We went to a trunk-or-treat and came home with a bag of candy.  Dorothy dumped her candy on the floor and started putting it in little piles.  Then she said, "Ms. Candace says you can sort anything."

Dorothy is being moved to a new class at school.  I told her, "Do you remember that you're moving to Ms. Mary's class on Monday?  They might even move your cubby."  Dorothy said, "They don't move the cubby.  They just move the name."

Dorothy had $1.07 in change and we went to the Dollar Store to spend it on one item and tax.  She brought her toy to the check-out and dumped-out her money.  A nickel must have been stuck in the bottom of her change purse.  The cashier said, "I need another nickel."  Dorothy stood still, looked at her expectantly, and stated factually, "It's missing."

Trunk-of-Tree

Trunk-or-Treat

School photo proofs

Chalk

That patented smell

It dipped into the 60s here for a day

The Sunday Funnies

We were playing Go Fish.  Dorothy is still learning the names of the suits.  She drew a card and told me, "I have the Queen of Shamrocks and the Queen of Sparrows!"

Dorothy still adds an -er to words to indicate their function.  She has a toy doctor kit and needle, and she refers to the shot as the "shot-er".

In the early morning I told Dorothy that I was going to sing to Daddy, which happened to be in my throaty morning voice.  Dorothy said, "You don't have to sing in Daddy's voice.  You should sing in your own."

The waitress delivered the bill after we went to dinner, and the credit card fell to the floor.  Dorothy looked for it under the table and when she didn't see it she announced in the restaurant, "Our poor, poor credit!"

Dorothy was taking a bath, and I couldn't reach something in the bathroom.  I gave a frustrated, growling, grumpy sound.  Dorothy said, "Don't make that bad noise.  My dad will think I'm in trouble."

AM party, PM party

AM cupcake, PM cupcake

Board game

Sightseeing on the bike ride

Church Directory Photo Proofs: The Good & The Bad

Take a picture of this

This picture does not betray how quickly she ran to the doughnuts after Mass

The Sunday Funnies

We have a hand-me-down paperback Barbie book, and we recently watched the Barbie movie of the same story.  The movie was long and included much more detail.  Dorothy said to me, "I know why this book doesn't have the whole story!  I think some of the pages were torn out!"

Dorothy often misunderstands when villains are being insincere or sarcastic (or using terms she doesn't know) and she credits them with kind intentions.  In the Barbie movie, the scared villain spoke to the heroine's barking dog, "Nice puppy, nice puppy."  Dorothy said, "The bad guy is calling him a nice puppy, so the bad guy must be a little bit good because he's calling him nice."

I complained that my body creaked and I must be getting old.  Dorothy responded, "It's hard for Gram to get down and it's hard for Big Daddy to get up."

We were gluing sequins on paper.  I asked, "Are you sad?  You look sad."  Dorothy said, "No, that's just my craft face."

Dorothy and Avert at the beach

It's not a collection

Are you bigger than a breadbox?

My Book About Me

Bacon Park Dr.

I was looking up restaurants near my house, and I entered my address on Google Maps.  I called Dorothy over to show her the picture of our house on "street view", which was taken when we had Halloween decorations on display back in 2014.

I told her, "This is a picture of our house when you were just born.  That was back when we had those two big trees in the yard that you see in this picture."  I kept noticing details that have changed.  "That was back when we still had those little bushes along the walkway.  That was back when the neighbor's house was yellow, so that's why we still call it 'the yellow house'."

Dorothy, looking at the picture, chimed in: "That was back when there were words in the street."

The Sunday Funnies

Sarah:  Do you want to go outside?
Dorothy:  Nyah. (This is a new addition to her vocabulary.)
Sarah:  What?
Dorothy:  Nyah.  That means "no".

Dorothy let me know that ladybugs are only girls, not boys.  I asked if baby ladybugs have daddies.  She said, "They just have two mommies."

Sometimes I'll ask Dorothy a question and halfway through the story I'll realize that she has explained it to me before.  She usually also lets me know that she is telling me again.  Recently, she's let me know by saying, "I told you this when I was three."

Shark attack

Workin' for a living

Dorothy made this Halloween t-shirt

After I told her that (lacking an orange shirt) purple can be a Halloween color, she chose to make a blue pumpkin and a pink ghost.

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