Dorothy was hoping that a particular Lego design would be unveiled in her Lego calendar that day. "You have a 1 in 16 chance," I told her. "A 1 out of 16 chance," she corrected me.
I walked by Dorothy's room. She looked up and said, "Mama, I'm actually cleaning-up!"
Dorothy was learning to jump rope. She's much better now. But on the first day, after rhyming "Cinderella dressed in yellow..." many times, she complained, "I always mess up at Cinde-!"
Dorothy is obsessed with Legos right now. She likes to build the set according to the directions one time, but mostly she is interested in designing her own creations. For this reason, she gets excited about useful unique pieces. When she opened the 10th day of her Lego Advent calendar, I saw an adorable moveable elf station for decorating tiny cookies; Dorothy exclaimed, "Yay! A hinge!"
Dorothy was excited when I picked her up from school because she had received coupons for free food at Wendy's. We read the coupons, which included a frosty and French fries, and Dorothy asked, "Is the French fry coupon just for French fries, or for ketchup, too?"
Chelsea on Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures must have made a big stack of pancakes, because Dorothy wanted to make chocolate chip pancakes after watching the movie. I served her pancakes, and she requested that I stack them up, and then that I add syrup, and then that I make the syrup dribble over the sides. The next day, she requested again to make chocolate chip pancakes, and this time requested all the same presentation, plus a big pat of butter that she had apparently forgotten the day before.
I asked if Dorothy would like a quesadilla for dinner, and she said, "Yes, but only if Daddy makes it." "You liked the one I made yesterday," I said. "You gave it two thumbs up." "Yes," Dorothy explained, "but that was with ketchup on it. Daddy's is two thumbs up just by itself."