Dorothy scooters with her purse in case we run into the ice cream truck

Brian put together our new bed frame

Slurp

We chased the ice cream truck

Getting longer all the time

The Sunday Funnies: The Tooth Fairy Edition

The day her tooth came out, Dorothy prompted our Google Home with the phrase "tooth fairy."  Google responded, "According to Wikipedia, The Tooth Fairy is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Western and Western-influenced cultures."  Dorothy exclaimed, "Google doesn't think the tooth fairy is real!  She said a fantasy figure!"

Dorothy wanted the Tooth Fairy to leave her a toy and not take her tooth.  I said I couldn't promise, and gave her some options.  "But I think you should leave the tooth for the Tooth Fairy, and what's meant to happen will happen," I added.  Dorothy, still in tears, replied, "Or whatever happens will happen."

Dorothy wanted to communicate to the Tooth Fairy that she wanted an LOL in exchange for her first tooth, so she wore her LOL pajamas to bed.  In the morning, I noticed that she was wearing them backwards.  She explained, "When I turned over on my belly last night, I wanted the Tooth Fairy to be able to see the LOLs on my pajamas so she would know what I wanted, so I turned my pajamas around before I turned over."

After she opened her LOL, Dorothy offered, "Gram will be creeped and freaked to see that my new LOL has skin that turns green.  And 'disturved.'"

Pumping the basketball

Another cute tooth pic, and the lead-up to the pic

The First Tooth Gets a Toy

Dorothy was very excited about the Tooth Fairy and woke-up at 3 a.m.  She didn't check under her pillow, but she climbed into our bed.  We never went back to sleep, and decided to just get up at 5 a.m.  We waited for Dad to return from his bike ride, and then went into Dorothy's bedroom to see if the Tooth Fairy had come.
Video:  https://youtu.be/jMFoJ97CHU0

One down!

Dorothy wants to know how this ring got on the Gack

p.s. Grandma has sent an answer!

Dear Dorothy:

When Gacks are young their antlers are small and grow as they grow.

The ring was there from long, long ago!

This may not be true for a deer or a moose.

Enjoy your books,

Love, Dr. Seuss

Dorothy wanted to sleep on her floor this weekend

The Sunday Funnies

We attended a bike-around-the-block birthday party that ended with popsicles in a yard.  As we left, Dorothy proclaimed, "This was the best birthday party I've ever had!"

Dorothy was eating a store-bought dill pickle.  She commented, "Mmm, Mama, it still has a hint of cucumber."

I told Dorothy that she had to wait 10 minutes before I helped her with something.  "What?!" she whined.  "Ten sets of sixty seconds?!"

I opened my YouTube channel, and Dorothy looked at my screen and observed, "All of these videos feature me."

Dorothy watched YouTube videos made by children and families who are acting out different sketches.  Although she has been watching these videos for many months, she just told me, "I'm noticing that all the men characters in the videos have the same voices as the dads in the videos."

Dorothy and Willa were playing "wedding" (or, as Dorothy says, "whetting").  "You know what you can do as soon as you get married?" Dorothy asked Willa.  My ears perked up.  "You can get divorced," Dorothy informed her.

I said, "I'm going to watch the school board meeting today.  They're talking about school this fall, which will probably be virtual.  Do you know what that means?"  Dorothy replied with dread, "Freezing computers."

I was explaining to Dorothy that when I was a teenager, you couldn't talk on the house phone and use the internet at the same time.  "But that's not good," she said, "because what if you were on the phone and you needed to buy a dress before it went out of stock?"

We give that tooth a few tugs every day, but it's not ready to come out.

We got up at 6 a.m. and headed to the beach. This sleeping picture was taken on the way home.

Dorothy's dolls are busy

Willa says that if you close your eyes and hold your breath you will remember where your lost item is

Picture of grace (that's a tiara)

Swimsuit swap (they are so much happier in each other's clothes)

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy and Willa were absorbed all day in playing pretend, and I kept popping into the bedroom to check in on them.  Dorothy told me, "You're like Jack the Narrator in The Stinky Cheese Man.  You keep popping into stories where you don't belong!"

We watched fireworks on the Fourth of July, and Dorothy commented that she likes "the ones that sizzle."

Dorothy's book showed pictures of mice doing naughty things.  One mouse had broken a piggy bank and coins were spilling out.  "Oh, this mouse busted the piñata at the party before it was time," she reasoned.

(I found some drafts of Sunday Funnies that I never published -- enjoy some old ones below!)

Days after her ballet recital, Dorothy dressed-up in the full costume and did a living room performance.  She nailed the moves, until the third verse of the song.  Then she froze and looked at me in confusion and said, "I forgot.  I forgot the moves."  That's when I remembered that the ballet teacher fades the song and offers a shortened version for the little ones!

Dorothy is into dramatic whines nowadays --

You never buy me strawberries anymore!

Dorothy whined that her friend got balloons for her birthday, and we reminded her that we took her to Disney World for her birthday.  "You took me to Disney World but the only thing I liked was the teacups!" she cried.

Dorothy is into offering solutions lately --

Mom:  My throat hurts, so I don't want to eat anything scratchy.
Dorothy:  How about you could eat a banana because those are smooth?

Mom:  I don't want to think about how dirty this Taco Bell is.
Dorothy:  Maybe you could just not think about it?

More scenes from strawberry dress day

Ahhh! We're in the same dress!

"Mom, you hung it upside-down."

2 hats

Frozen II

Dorothy and Willa are playing together again. We missed her!

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy likes to drink ice-cold water.  I told her that when we get a new refrigerator we are going to get an ice maker.  She asked, "Can we get one of those kinds that has ice, water, and lemonade that comes out of the door?"

Dorothy watched a live game show that celebrated the launch of her favorite podcast's new book.  After it ended, she explained excitedly to Brian, "We won a theme song at the end of the show, and we also won a book that you can buy at the stores!  You couldn't buy it yesterday, but you can buy it today!"

Dorothy was playing dangerously, and I said, "Be careful!  If you slip and fall, you'll really get hurt...but it might make you lose your tooth!"  And Dorothy quipped, "I'll have to put it under my hospital pillow!"  (She swears she made this up.)

We were reading Blueberries for Sal and the story talks about canning the berries.  Dorothy asked what that meant, and I explained the process, using words like can, jar, winter, and jam.  "Oh," Dorothy said, "You mean preserve?"

We were reading an American Girl book which talks about WWII.  Somehow Dorothy ended up referring to the sides of the war as "teams".

Scooter decked out for the 4th

Neighborhood fireworks

Like an afternoon at the Cracker Barrel

Found her wiggling her tooth