Dorothy got up after her bedtime, and I let her come outside with me to put away the bikes that we had left on the carport. "I like spending time with you, Mama," she said. "Especially at night."
"Dorothy, even though you took a shower, you still have dirt on your face," I said. "I never wash my face," Dorothy responded.
We started our first Zoom class of the day. "How do the teachers get up so early?" Dorothy asked.
Dorothy reminisced, "Remember the time the snowstorm blocked us into Chicago?"
Brian bought some Simply Limeade, and Dorothy requested a glass of the "lime-onade."
"Dad, what is 4 times 24?" Dorothy asked. Brian answered, and Dorothy shared, "Then there are 96 hours until my birthday."
We were reading a mystery chapter book, and a clue included that the mysterious person writes a capital letter Mm, never the lowercase. Additionally, the children in the story happened to be eating M&Ms in the same chapter. I pointed out this coincidence, and Dorothy observed, "Except M&Ms are a lowercase Mm."
"My hands are literally covered with glitter," Dorothy said. "Glitter-ally covered?" I asked. "Ha ha, very funny," Dorothy said sarcastically. A moment later, she added sincerely, "Mama, that really was very funny."
Dorothy was following her teacher's directions to draw a car, but before she began she asked me for some crackers. After a few of her teacher's instructions, Dorothy said, "Look, my lines are all shaky." I looked at her and said, "That's because you're drawing with your left hand, and you're right-handed." "But I'm eating with my right hand," Dorothy explained. "And how do you know I'm right-handed?" she wondered.