Sweater weather

Dorothy bought some Lego tape and made a carrot growing through the table

Soccer celebrates Halloween

Dorothy's art class assignment was an observational drawing

She drew a weed and a bonus rose.

Hermione at virtual school

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy posed in front of a scary Halloween yard decoration; Brian took her picture and then said, "Now turn around and look scared."  "I don't have to look scared," Dorothy answered.  "I am scared."

Dorothy picked-up a pack of my cinnamon gum and asked if she could have a piece; I said yes.  "Isn't there gonna be an 'if' in there?" she sassed.  "Like, if you put on your shoes?"

The instructions on Dorothy's worksheet read:  Draw an X on the triangles.  "I didn't know that Xx is a vowel," she said.  "What do you mean?" I asked.  "It says an Xx," Dorothy explained.

Dorothy asked me why mama birds can eat food on their own, even though, like their babies, they don't have teeth.

Art imitates life

I Spy: what's the scariest thing in this yard?

Children in the witches' brew

Spraying aphids on the lemon tree

 

Working on a collage for art class

The Sunday Funny

 Dorothy was pretending to be a frog and I was teasing her and doing a funny dance to act like there was a frog in my pants.  She begged, "Let's play that game again.  Say all those same things again.  That's the funniest thing you've ever said to me, Mama."

Before school, after school

(bright-eyed and ready to go)

(chocolate on her mouth and a far-off stare)

Dorothy made a map of our house

 

The bike path has a small creek

The Sunday Funnies

 I mistakenly called Dorothy's first day of in-person school her "first day of virtual school."  She said, "Not virtual school.  In-person school.  Virtual means 'not close.'"

I gave Dorothy a pear which had a fruit sticker on it.  "Hey, this has a receipt on it!" she said.

I was watching ND football, and yelled "Shoot!" when they fumbled.  Dorothy told me that I said a bad word, and I told her that shoot is not a really bad word.  "What is the really bad word?" she asked.  "It sounds like shoot, but with the short Ii vowel sound," I joked, because she is studying vowel sounds at school.  "Dang it?" she asked.

When Shutterfly has a special, you have to take the Christmas pic

First day of in-person school

 

Neighborhood soccer started today

 

I turned around and they were on the car

 

The Sunday Funnies

"Why does yellow have a silent Ww at the end?"

I was writing a list for Dorothy which included some toys, and she watched over my shoulder:  "You put a Bb, but it's a Pp.  Paton."

I told Dorothy the story of The Gift of the Magi, and at its end, Dorothy said, "I thought that they were going to buy each other the thing they got rid of.  So, like, he was going to buy her the wig of her own hair."

Dorothy woke me up in the morning.  "I'm so excited.  I don't know why I'm excited.  What are we doing today?" she asked.  "Well, we have a Zoom birthday party for your cousin Erik today," I said.  "Oh, I didn't know that.  You didn't tell me that!" she said.  "That can't be what I'm excited about, because you didn't tell me about it.  What else are we doing today?"

Dorothy takes an allergy medicine, and she confidently checks the amount in the cup:  5 "mill-e-a-tors."

Dorothy's 6th birthday party

 

We started out the day making a rainbow cake.

There were 8 layers.

Dorothy demonstrated the Six/Nine spinning sign to Georgia because it was a shared birthday party for the two girls.

The kids were introduced to the horse.

Protection everywhere

Dorothy got on the horse stoically.

Each child got to ride around a course in the barn.

Then we ate cake.

And a video:  https://youtu.be/yN93xljBNX4

The remains of the cake (party pictures to come)