First homework

First grade starts today

 

First piano lesson

First grade open house

The Sunday Funnies

I checked-out an audiobook from the library, and Dorothy listened to much of it, but it was too scary-mature for her.  She told me, "When I listen to that book, it makes my stomach feel like it's carsick, even though we're not riding in the car."

We were watching a show where the soloist in a children's chorus loudly sings off-key.  Dorothy asked, "Why does he sing off-course of it?"

Dorothy has read dozens of Rainbow Magic books, which follow a strict formula involving goblins stealing something for the goblin leader, and human girls working with fairies to retrieve the purloined object.  But recently I checked-out a few chapter books from another series, which Dorothy read voraciously, and then announced, "I think I'm tired of Rainbow Magic books.  I'm enjoying these new books."  I asked why.  "They're about different things," she answered.  "They talk about different things, and different things happen."

Dorothy made up a joke:  What state has the most pencils?  Pennsylvania I laughed, then recommended that she ask, "What state needs the most erasers?" "That's not as funny," she explained to me.

We were watching the crew races in the Olympics.  "They're pedaling backwards!" Dorothy giggled.

Recently we made a code maker/breaker where a number corresponds to a letter, but the first iteration was too complicated.  When I gave Dorothy a message to decode, she returned it and wrote on the answer line, "This is too hard!"

I mentioned that we were going to watch Jeopardy.  Willa asked what that was, and Dorothy explained it, and Willa said it sounded boring, and Dorothy said, "I much prefer a grown-up show called The Wheel of Spin."

Willa brought some regular Oreos to our house, and we had some Golden Oreos.  I suggested that the girls make half-and-half Oreos.  Instead of untwisting them, they broke them in half and put the two flavors together like half moons.

I heard a big thump.  Then I overheard Dorothy tell Willa, "The gymnasts in the Olympics make it look so easy!"

Always building

Window display

Christmas in July

BOOK IT! pizza

Outbound and inbound

 

This day six years ago (July 26, 2015)

 

This day five years ago (July 25, 2016)

 

This day four years ago (July 24, 2017)

 

This day three years ago (July 23, 2018)

 

This day two years ago (July 22, 2019)

 

This day a year ago (July 21, 2020)

 

Flashback to lemonade stand day

Gram & Big Daddy visited: videos and bubbles

 

With friends passing through town and a roof cat

Snorkel girl

 

Camp Sunshine: Lemonade Stand Day

 

Pie in the face game

Playing "wedding guest"

 

Pool party

The Sunday Funnies

A character on tv was eating from a gigantic heaping pile of bacon.  Brian asked Dorothy, "Is she just eating bacon?" Dorothy replied, "I don't know the meats."

Dorothy complains about having to go on walks around the neighborhood with Brian and me.  I told her that we'll be able to leave her home alone while we walk around the block when she's 7.  She didn't like that idea.  "How about when I'm 10?" she suggested.  "10 is officially a different age."

Morning pool

Cake on the way

Dorothy and her friend drew a bed

Dorothy's painting of our backyard garden

 

Friends in our backyard & fireworks in the sky

 

The Sunday Funny

We were getting ready to have friends over to our patio, and Brian asked Dorothy to make signs for our trash and recycling buckets.  After drawing the recycling arrows for one bin, Dorothy moved on to the garbage, and asked, "So does trash have a technical symbol?"

Big weekend

It was obstacle course week at Camp Sunshine.

Willa slept over and brought her wonderous galaxy.

Ladies Liberty

Neighborhood 4th of July parade

The parade ended at the playground

Snow cones after the parade

And the goats from Dorothy's school who are summering with a teacher in our neighborhood showed up at our playground.

Stomp rockets for the win

Reading in bedhead