Dorothy wanted to sleep on her floor this weekend

The Sunday Funnies

We attended a bike-around-the-block birthday party that ended with popsicles in a yard.  As we left, Dorothy proclaimed, "This was the best birthday party I've ever had!"

Dorothy was eating a store-bought dill pickle.  She commented, "Mmm, Mama, it still has a hint of cucumber."

I told Dorothy that she had to wait 10 minutes before I helped her with something.  "What?!" she whined.  "Ten sets of sixty seconds?!"

I opened my YouTube channel, and Dorothy looked at my screen and observed, "All of these videos feature me."

Dorothy watched YouTube videos made by children and families who are acting out different sketches.  Although she has been watching these videos for many months, she just told me, "I'm noticing that all the men characters in the videos have the same voices as the dads in the videos."

Dorothy and Willa were playing "wedding" (or, as Dorothy says, "whetting").  "You know what you can do as soon as you get married?" Dorothy asked Willa.  My ears perked up.  "You can get divorced," Dorothy informed her.

I said, "I'm going to watch the school board meeting today.  They're talking about school this fall, which will probably be virtual.  Do you know what that means?"  Dorothy replied with dread, "Freezing computers."

I was explaining to Dorothy that when I was a teenager, you couldn't talk on the house phone and use the internet at the same time.  "But that's not good," she said, "because what if you were on the phone and you needed to buy a dress before it went out of stock?"

We give that tooth a few tugs every day, but it's not ready to come out.

We got up at 6 a.m. and headed to the beach. This sleeping picture was taken on the way home.

Dorothy's dolls are busy

Willa says that if you close your eyes and hold your breath you will remember where your lost item is

Picture of grace (that's a tiara)

Swimsuit swap (they are so much happier in each other's clothes)

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy and Willa were absorbed all day in playing pretend, and I kept popping into the bedroom to check in on them.  Dorothy told me, "You're like Jack the Narrator in The Stinky Cheese Man.  You keep popping into stories where you don't belong!"

We watched fireworks on the Fourth of July, and Dorothy commented that she likes "the ones that sizzle."

Dorothy's book showed pictures of mice doing naughty things.  One mouse had broken a piggy bank and coins were spilling out.  "Oh, this mouse busted the piñata at the party before it was time," she reasoned.

(I found some drafts of Sunday Funnies that I never published -- enjoy some old ones below!)

Days after her ballet recital, Dorothy dressed-up in the full costume and did a living room performance.  She nailed the moves, until the third verse of the song.  Then she froze and looked at me in confusion and said, "I forgot.  I forgot the moves."  That's when I remembered that the ballet teacher fades the song and offers a shortened version for the little ones!

Dorothy is into dramatic whines nowadays --

You never buy me strawberries anymore!

Dorothy whined that her friend got balloons for her birthday, and we reminded her that we took her to Disney World for her birthday.  "You took me to Disney World but the only thing I liked was the teacups!" she cried.

Dorothy is into offering solutions lately --

Mom:  My throat hurts, so I don't want to eat anything scratchy.
Dorothy:  How about you could eat a banana because those are smooth?

Mom:  I don't want to think about how dirty this Taco Bell is.
Dorothy:  Maybe you could just not think about it?

More scenes from strawberry dress day

Ahhh! We're in the same dress!

"Mom, you hung it upside-down."

2 hats

Frozen II

Dorothy and Willa are playing together again. We missed her!

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy likes to drink ice-cold water.  I told her that when we get a new refrigerator we are going to get an ice maker.  She asked, "Can we get one of those kinds that has ice, water, and lemonade that comes out of the door?"

Dorothy watched a live game show that celebrated the launch of her favorite podcast's new book.  After it ended, she explained excitedly to Brian, "We won a theme song at the end of the show, and we also won a book that you can buy at the stores!  You couldn't buy it yesterday, but you can buy it today!"

Dorothy was playing dangerously, and I said, "Be careful!  If you slip and fall, you'll really get hurt...but it might make you lose your tooth!"  And Dorothy quipped, "I'll have to put it under my hospital pillow!"  (She swears she made this up.)

We were reading Blueberries for Sal and the story talks about canning the berries.  Dorothy asked what that meant, and I explained the process, using words like can, jar, winter, and jam.  "Oh," Dorothy said, "You mean preserve?"

We were reading an American Girl book which talks about WWII.  Somehow Dorothy ended up referring to the sides of the war as "teams".

Scooter decked out for the 4th

Neighborhood fireworks

Like an afternoon at the Cracker Barrel

Found her wiggling her tooth