Flashback to a very rainy day

Who wore it better?

 

24-hour Challenge

Dorothy and Brian attempted the "24-hour challenge" to stay outside for a whole day and night.  Dorothy learned about this on YouTube.  They did pretty well.  This tent is in our backyard.

The Sunday Funny

Dorothy's teacher read Little Red Riding Hood, which included the mother's warning, "Don't linger and don't talk to strangers."  Halfway into the story, Dorothy's teacher asked the students, "What is Little Red Riding Hood doing that her mother told her not to do?"  She continued, "That's right, she's talking to a stranger."  Dorothy unmuted herself:  "And she's lingering!"

As soon as Dorothy lost that front tooth, I booked our photographer friend

Dorothy with her doll Lloyd, who also lost a tooth

So this happened

Soccer and spring

 

Frog pond

Yardwork helper

The Sunday Funnies

We were watching Enchanted, and there's a cute scene where a little girl is talking with the fairytale princess, and she says something along the lines of "boys only want one thing," and the princess asks what that is, and the girl says, "I don't know, my dad won't tell me."  So Dorothy asked me what it is, and I said that I don't know, because the movie didn't say.  "Can you Google it?" Dorothy followed.

Dorothy likes to sneak-read my People Magazine, although I tell her not to.  She showed her guilt when she fussed at me, "You didn't tell me that Katie Perry had a baby!"

I handed Dorothy a chapter book and told her to look through it and see if it was at her level.  She brought it back to me and said, "I'm not sure this book is for me, because the sentence doesn't end on the page."  (She meant that the sentences continue onto the following page; I had never noticed that her books' sentences end on each page, and I checked, and, in fact, they do!)

Outside is magical right now

Dorothy made a "nature crown"

Dogwood blooms then and now

Half-birthday blooms

Six-and-a-half!  https://youtu.be/yRixWsvFNzQ

The Sunday Funnies

Brian made some delicious waffles and I gave Dorothy one to eat while she was watching t.v.  I didn't dress it up because she was on the couch and it was already so tasty.  I checked-in on Dorothy and she hadn't touched it.  "Don't forget about your waffle," I told her.  "I haven't ate it," she said.  "It has no other things."

Dorothy likes to use the word succeed in its transitive way, such as playing a game and saying "If I succeed four, it'll be the best I've done!" and "Do you think I can succeed five?"

We were reading a book explaining how things work, and Dorothy wasn't interested in hearing a few of the grosser pages.  I told her to let me read it to myself, and then we'd move on.  "I didn't know you could read so fast," she told me when I turned the page.

Dorothy's class was studying fairy tales.  They learned that many fairy tales begin with "Once Upon a Time."  "What words are at the end of many fairy tales?" the teacher asked, and called on Dorothy.  "The End," Dorothy answered, and after a pause, added, "but before that, they often say 'And they all lived happily ever after.'"

Dorothy was playing with the tassels of a blanket which she referred to as the "bristles."

Dorothy picked up a book to read and I said, "Come with me.  I'm going to sit on the bench outside and read my book, and you can bring your book and sit with me."  "Okay, but I'm going to read out loud," Dorothy warned me.

Leisurely Saturday

Our dogwood is soon to bloom

Secret Talent

Video link:  https://youtu.be/QQymOeVv53o

So we're playing Clue now

No strategy yet, but we understand the rules.  Oh, and the mystery is "Who captured the unicorn?"

Dorothy is into secret codes

The Sunday Funnies

An online school assignment showed Dorothy three pictures:  a shattered dinner plate, a glass of spilled milk, and a burned piece of pizza.  She was supposed to talk about which one sounded the worst to her.  She identified the images as:  "a broken glass plate, milk spilled on a wooden floor, and getting mold on your pizza."

One of Dorothy's podcasts talked about the concept of unconscious bias.  Dorothy brings this up about once a week in her own way, such as, "The way I put this leprechaun over here and that leprechaun with the shamrock over there is an example of unconscious bias."

We were discussing the Pledge of Allegiance, and Dorothy noted that it's boring to say the same thing over and over in school every day, "Plus, I didn't even know that a pledge was a promise, so I didn't know that I was making a promise."

I ordered a random chapter book at Dorothy's level from the library, and I was surprised that she wasn't diving into it.  Then one night I saw her reading chapter ten intensely.  I said I didn't realize that she had been reading the book at all.  "I haven't read it," she said.  "The first chapter looked boring.  So I read the best-looking chapter to see if it's good, and it is good, so I'm going to read the book now."

We were kicking a soccer ball, and Dorothy complained, "I want to kick it straight, but I keep kicking it diangular."

Dorothy likes to play with her words and create spoonerisms, where you transpose the first sounds of two words.  This makes us giggle when she crosses words like "slime" and "putty."

Dorothy told me that Aaron is her favorite boy at school.  "He's my favorite boy friend," she said.  "What do you like about him?" I asked.  She answered, "He laughs when I try to do funny things."

Brian took a book off the shelf and said, "Dorothy, you might like this book.  It's called Questions Children Ask."  "And answers?" Dorothy offered hopefully.

Dorothy dressed as Sally from "The Cat in the Hat" -- the pink Sally from the computer game

Still snaggletoothed

I like these faces DJ drew

Green Eggs & Ham Day

 

Fox in Socks Day