Dorothy's phone wasn't working. She brought it to me and watched me push a few buttons. "Oh, right," she said. "It was in airplane flight mood."
You Tube Kids has a timer and in order to extend the timer you have to answer a multiplication fact. Dorothy had been watching her phone for much longer than I had set the timer. I asked her how. She answered, "First I asked you, then I asked my daddy, then I counted on my fingers."
Something we read mentioned the initials "FFC". "What does that say?" Dorothy asked. "I don't know," I told her. "Just try," she said. "Sound it out."
I looked at my birthday list on July 11. "Today is your great-granny's birthday," I said. "That's Granny Annie." Dorothy smiled. Then I picked up my phone to text our cousin Natalie who also celebrates on July 11. I spoke into the phone, "Happy birthday!" Dorothy looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Wait...is she still alive?"