The child at the end of the tunnel

The Sunday Funny

I (Brian) was playing Aaron Copland, and when Fanfare for the Common Man came on, I thought, "This is a teachable moment."  So I went over to Dorothy and said, "Hey, this music is a fanfare. And you know how generally they play trumpets and a fanfare for royalty? Aaron Copland wrote this for everyone - all people, because everyone is worth celebrating."  I told her the title.  Dorothy thought for a moment and replied, "Why didn't he use the word 'people' instead of 'man'?"

"Take a picture of me"

Dorothy is into pancakes

The streets were so hot today that the puddles turned hot

It took 5 minutes to find this hidden egg

Oatmeal cookies on the way

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy had a bad dream that someone cut the bangs on her LOL Hair Surprise doll.  "It was just a dream," Brian consoled her.  "We can go to the living room and look at the doll, and you'll see she's fine."  "But I don't have the one that was in my dream," she said.

Dorothy asked me what a guppy looks like.  "You know, I'm not sure," I said.  Then I remembered that she watches a cartoon called Bubble Guppies, and I said, "But you know because you've seen them in Bubble Guppies."  I don't watch the show too closely, I guess, because Dorothy countered, "But those are mermaids."

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Dorothy came up with this pose

Sometimes the dolls walk with us

At first they were Leia braids

Proud of her pigtails

Always with the skinned knees

The Sunday Funnies

The fairy house that Brian and Dorothy built now includes a high enclosed perch for the fairies.  Dorothy, for some reason, calls this "Fairy Cabin Number One", and always refers to it by its entire name, "Fairy Cabin Number One".

In a worried mood, Dorothy complained that she doesn't like that we are sideways and upside down on the earth, because what will happen if gravity stops?

A podcast explained that Antarctica used to be desert-like.  Dorothy asked me, "Did somebody in Antarctica pray to God that it would get cold, but it got too cold?"

Dorothy relayed to me a joke she had heard:  How do dinosaurs pay their bills?  With Tyrannosaurus Checks!  "What's funny about that?" the modern girl then asked.

Dorothy is getting personal with our Google Assistant.  "Hey Google," she requested, "tell me a story while I eat dinner."

"This the best pizza I've ever had"

Happily doing a workbook? Or bribed?

Umbrella for Stella

Checking out a neighbor's backyard chickens

Engine Engine Number 9