Build a better mousetrap

 Flashback to the marble run:

https://youtu.be/shiQL9sTL-o

The Sunday Funnies

I assured Dorothy that when I was out-of-town with my high school friends last weekend, she didn't miss anything.  "We went to a furniture store," I told her, "so there was nothing fun for kids."  She asked, "So the store didn't have any of those little tables with pencils for legs?"

Dorothy was talking about various American Girl characters, such as Mollie from WWII and Kit from the Great Depression.  Again and again, Dorothy referred to the characters from "different time zones."

Camp Pink Axolotl (Dorothy's summer dream come true)

Nickname tags

Rubberband bracelets

"Great People of History"

Dorothy read aloud about Faith Ringgold

The kids colored a quilt, as Faith did

Pizza and popcorn

Oobleck!

More oobleck

Camp song (how it started)

Camp song (how it ended)

 

Ukulele class at the library

Waning days

After many hours of online research, Dorothy bought the kangaroo Polly Pocket purse

Christmas in July

Unofficial 25th high school reunion

Sapna, Ellie, Sarah, Arathi, and Margaret

(Tiffany couldn't make it!)

Dorothy says Daddy made her look permanently angry

 

Lazy summer mornings

Periodicals must be read in the library

Marble run

Afternoon at the mall

 

Margaret visited and Dorothy told her a lot about her various toys

Hammy on the wheel

Moonscape at the mall

Twinning now & 2 summers ago

Mary Claire, Maggie, & Dorothy

 

Visitors!

The Sunday Funnies

We heard a Taylor Swift song in a movie, and later another song of hers in a commercial.  "Taylor Swift is getting really, really famous!" Dorothy exclaimed.

We've been enjoying the Who Is/Who Was book series.  Dorothy mentioned that she has a copy of Who Was Anne Frank that she got in the school book swap, but she hasn't read it yet.  "I don't want to read it," I said, "because it's so sad.  She died really young."  Dorothy countered, "Well, it's as long as any of the other books, so she still had a lot of interesting events in her life."

Dorothy watched a movie years ago in her first grade class and came home talking about it.  We couldn't find the movie she described online, but by looking at the stills on YouTube we found and enjoyed its sequel, Rabbit School:  Guardians of the Golden Egg.  Today, Brian was flipping through movies available on our current streaming service, and Dorothy ran to me.  "Mom!" she said.  "I finally found out the name of the movie that I liked in school, the first one before Rabbit School:  Guardians of the Golden Egg.  It's called Rabbit School."

I stitched an embroidery kit that reads "Coffee, please."  The packaging was printed in both English and French.  "Do they think the people who need the French words can read Coffee, please?" Dorothy asked.

Latergram: Tybee

 

Hammy-o

Puzzles with neighbor Alice

We managed a little fun on this record-hot day

Celebrating the 50th state

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy is very exact with her language.  I pointed out that she has a tan where she wears her watch; she corrected that she had a "non-tan" where she wears her watch.

Dorothy asked, "Isn't it funny that 'I am' is a sentence, but 'I'm' is not?"

She was reading aloud the poems children submitted to Ranger Rick magazine.  "I can always tell when the kids are running out of rhyming words," she observed.

Dorothy had a blister on the back of her heel, and I asked her which shoes she was wearing the day before.  "Whichever ones are strewn across the floor," she replied.

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