Sick days (school germs?)

Too hot to go outside, except when it rains

The Sunday Funnies

"Mama," Dorothy asked, "do you think that babies' cheeks are so big because they don't have any teeth, and when they close their mouths, there are no teeth to stop their mouths from closing, and their cheeks keep puffing out bigger?"

I told Dorothy that I got a wasp bite, and she asked, "How is that different from a wasp sting?"

Dorothy has been wearing some new, unpilled pajamas.  "Soon these will have those soft, warm little balls on them," she said with anticipation.

Mama's current favorite dress

The year for multiplication facts

Float popped, replaced

Prism in the window

Home Depot Kids Workshop

The Sunday Funnies

We were preparing for an evening pool birthday party when a thunderstorm popped up.  The mom sent a text that the party would be rescheduled, and Dorothy was upset that she would not be able to make the rain date.  "But it's a glow party!" she sobbed.  "I don't even know what that means, but I wanted to find out!"

Dorothy and Willa disappeared to her bedroom and played dolls for hours.  Dorothy eventually emerged, arms overflowing with baby dolls, and announced, "We're fast-forwarding 7 years, so I need to trade these for bigger dolls."

A sweet kid at school named Owen has had a crush on Dorothy for years.  His name was on her third grade class list, and she grumbled, "If I get another heart on my desk..."

Dorothy's teacher gave her a fun all-about-me sheet, and my very literal daughter had trouble filling it out.  After agonizing for two days, she said she had only one question left.  "What is the question?" I asked.  She answered, "It says, Which celebrity would you want to have in your class at school?"  She continued, "The problem is, I don't know any third grade celebrities."

We stayed at the pool 'til the lights came on

Dorothy wanted wavy hair for the first day of third grade

 

Dorothy met her teacher, Ms. Stephens, at open house

Dorothy and her balloon dog, fishing

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