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| She really did rake that whole pile behind her |
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| There was a motivation for all that raking |
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| Love this photo! |
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| We had a lot of fun burying one another in the leaves |
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| This one is super sweet, too! |
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| Oh, silly face! She's doing pretty good for a girl with a fever! |
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| Her signature shoes... I'll have to hide them soon! |
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| They had fun burying me |
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| For her haircut--I brought her to the salon that I go to, and she repeatedly told her stylist how beautiful everything at the salon was! So cute! |
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| They had lip gloss samples and she looks pretty fancy here! |
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| At a local park today |
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| She was doing some pretty serious poses |
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| Scout took this photo |
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| Yep, WAY too big for the baby swing |
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| Much better |
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| Why do I even bother trying to take photos of them together? |
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| Seriously? |
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| We did discover "leaf angels" |
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| Pretty good angel, wouldn't you say? |
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| All of her wild poses, and this one actually turned out! |
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| Not sure about this one, though |
There once was a girl named Dorothy who lived on a farm in Kansas with her Auntie Em, her Uncle Henry and her lovely dog, Toto. One day, a mean old lady named Mrs. Gulch came to the farm and demanded to take Toto. Mrs. Gulch claimed that Toto bit her, and she said that Toto should go to the Sheriff's to be destroyed. Uncle Henry and Auntie Em didn't see how they had much choice, so they let Mrs. Gulch take Toto. Dorothy was very sad. Mrs. Gulch biked away with Toto in her basket, but Toto was a clever dog and he escaped. Toto came running back to the farm and found Dorothy. Dorothy just knew that Mrs. Gulch would come back for Toto, so they had to leave the farm. She packed a bag and they ran away from home.
Dorothy and Toto traveled along the road and they met a carnival man named Professor Marvel. Professor Marvel guessed that Dorothy was running away from home. Then, he looked in his crystal ball and described what he saw: a woman clutching her chest, crying, falling back onto the bed. Dorothy knew that it was Auntie Em and that she was crying because Dorothy ran away from home. Immediately, Dorothy knew that she and Toto must return home. They thanked Professor Marvel and headed back to the farm. Just then, a storm was brewing. They got back to the farm just as everyone had already locked themselves in the storm shelter. Dorothy and Toto went into the house and a twister blew the house around. Dorothy hit her head and when she woke up, she realized something very important: They weren't in Kansas anymore.
Instead, they were in a beautiful, colorful world. A large bubble came down from the sky, and a beautiful woman emerged from the bubble. This woman asked Dorothy, "Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"
Dorothy was confused, "Why I'm not a witch at all. Witches are old and ugly."
There were soft snickers as she said this... The woman said, "The munchkins are laughing because I AM a witch--I'm Glinda, the Good Witch of the North."
"Well, if you please, what's a munchkin?" Dorothy asked.
"There the tiny people who live in this land. Come out, come out, where ever you are, to see the young lady who fell from a star!" Glinda sang.
Dorothy met many people in Munchkinland, like the mayor and the lollipop guild and the lullabye league. She also learned that her house had fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East, and Glinda told her, "You are the heroine of Munchkinland." Suddenly a puff of red smoke appeared, and out came another witch. This witch crowed, "WHERE IS MY SISTER?"* And one of the munchkins said, "Yonder she lies." Then the witch asked, "Who turned her into a house?" The munchkin said, "Not into a house, under a house." The Wicked Witch of the West was very upset, but none of that mattered, she was forgetting something--THE RUBY SLIPPERS!* But before she had a chance to take them, Glinda had already placed the slippers on Dorothy's feet.
"There they are and there they'll stay," said Glinda. The Wicked left as quickly as she had appeared, and Dorothy was left wondering: How do I get home? She asked Glinda, and Glinda said that Dorothy should ask the Wizard of Oz for help. He lives in the Emerald City, she explained. "How do I get there?" Dorothy asked. Glinda said, "Just follow the Yellow Brick Road."
So, Dorothy said goodbye to the munchkins and headed off on the Yellow Brick Road. She soon came to a crossroads and she didn't know which way to go. She heard a voice from the cornfield, "That way is an awfully nice way to go. That way is also a very nice way to go. Of course, people do go both ways." It took Dorothy a moment to realize that it was a scarecrow saying these things. The Scarecrow explained that he was born without a brain. He asked if he could join Dorothy on her way to see the Wizard. She agreeed. They both set off to see the Wizard. They walked into a woods and saw a Tin Man that was frozen in place. Sitting next to him was an oil can, so they oiled him. The oil loosened him up and now he could tell them that he had been chopping wood when a rainstorm came and rusted him into place. Dorothy and the Scarecrow explained that they were off to see the Wizard of Oz. The Tin Man said that the tinsmith hadn't given him a heart, and he asked if he could join them on their journey to see the Wizard. They agreed.
So Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man continued on the Yellow Brick Road. They reached a jungle, and the Tin Man told them that they might encounter wild animals. The Scarecrow asked, "The kind of animals that eat straw?" The Tin Man told him," Yes, but mostly lions and tigers and bears." Dorothy and the Scarecrow responded with, "Lions and tigers and bears, OH MY!"* They continued on and they did meet a lion. The lion threatened them and even made a move towards Toto, but Dorothy stopped him* The lion backed off, and he started crying. You see, he wasn't a brave and scary lion at all, he was the Cowardly Lion. He explained to Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man that he didn't have any courage at all. They told him that they were off to see the Wizard of Oz, each of them asking for something: Dorothy wanted to go home, the Scarecrow wanted a brain and the Tin Man wanted a heart. The Cowardly Lion was welcome to come along and ask the Wizard of Oz for some courage.
They set off again--Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion. On their journey, they came to a field full of poppies, and suddenly everyone was feeling sleepy. What they didn't realize was that the Wicked Witch of the West was watching them, and she didn't want them to finish their trip to Oz. She wanted to stop them! Fortunately, Glinda the Good Witch was also watching them, and she sent down some snowflakes to wake everyone up. *We're outta the woods, we're outta the dark, we're outta the night. Step into the sun, step into the light.* They got up, continued on and soon they spotted the Emerald City. The Wicked Witch was furious. "Someone is always HELPING that girl!" she cried.* At the door of the Emerald City, there was a man who asked them a few questions. He explained that no one saw the Wizard of Oz. Then the group explained that Dorothy had the Ruby Slippers. He agreed! "Why didn't you say so! That's a horse of a different color!"*
Inside the Emerald City they got shampooed and fixed up, and then they went to see the Wizard. The hallway was long, and eventually they went before him. A mighty voice said, "Who dares to come before the great and powerful Wizard of Oz?" They introduced themselves and asked for his help. The Wizard said he would help, but they had to do one thing: "Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West!" The Scarecrow stammered, "Butttt ifff you want us to get the broomstick, weeee'lll have to kill her to get it!"* The Wizard was firm, "Bring me the broomstick! Now GO!"
The left in a hurry and set off to find the Witch's castle. On their way, they entered some spooky woods. All this time, the Witch was watching them. She and her flying monkeys set out a plan. She would send something into the forest to scare Dorothy and her friends.
"Who's that hiding? In the treetops? It's the rascal! The JITTERBUG!" **
"Did you just hear what I just heard?"
"That noise don't come from an ordinary bird!"
"It may just be a cricket or a critter in the tree."
"It's giving me the jitters in the joints around the knees!"
"I haven't got a heart, but I feel some palpitations!"
"As monarch of the forest, I don't like the sitch-i-ation!"
WHO'S THAT? WHO'S THERE? BEWARE!
The Witch's flying monkeys take Dorothy away and lock her in the castle. Toto is a clever dog, and he sets off to find the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man so that they can help Dorothy. The Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man follow Toto and arrive outside the castle. The Witch's guards are everywhere, and they are not sure how they can make it inside to save Dorothy. Just then, they are jumped from behind by three of the Witch's guards. Dorothy's friends are strong and clever, though. The Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man manage to fight off the guards AND steal their uniforms. When the guards march back inside the castle, the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man sneak in without anyone noticing. Toto leads them to Dorothy and they rescue her from a locked room, but before they can escape the castle the Witch's guards surround them. They run, the guards follow. They run again, and this time they're cornered. The Witch closes in on them, and she lights her broom on fire. She says to the Scarecrow, "What's the matter, don't you like my old flame?" She lights the Scarecrow on fire. Dorothy was thinking fast, and she quickly grabs a bucket of water and throws it on the Scarecrow to put out the fire. However, much of the water lands on the Witch. Dorothy didn't realize is that the water would kill the Wicked Witch of the West! The Witch screams, "I'm melting, I'm melting. Who would have thought that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?"*
The guards look at Dorothy, and they say, "You killed her." Before she has a chance to explain, the guards are down on one knee chanting, "Hail to Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead! Hail to Dorothy!" Dorothy and her friends ask the guard if they may take the Witch's broomstick. The guards give it to her, and Dorothy and her friends set off to find the Wizard of Oz and give him the broomstick.
They return to the Emerald City and go to the Wizard of Oz. Before they have their audience with the Wizard, Toto pulls the curtain back and reveals an old man talking into a microphone. "Who are you?" they ask. "Why I'm the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz!" But the truth comes out, and the man confesses that he's really just an old Kansas man himself, a hot air baloonist. But he agrees to give the Scarecrow a diploma, the Lion his badge of courage and the Tin Man his heart. For Dorothy, he plans to help her travel back to Kansas in his hot air balloon. Everything is set up, and the Wizard, Dorothy and Toto are all waving goodbye to their friends when Toto spots a cat and hops out of the balloon. Dorothy can't leave him behind, so she goes to fetch him. While Dorothy and Toto are out of the balloon, the balloon lifts off and the Wizard has no idea how to make it stop--he doesn't know how it works! Oh, this is terrible! How will Dorothy ever get home?
Just then, a bubble emerges from the sky and it's Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Dorothy explains that she'll never get home, and Glinda has good news: Dorothy has always had the power to go home. She has to click her heels together three times and say, "There's no place like home." Dorothy does as Glinda instructs, clicking the heels of her Ruby slippers together, saying, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home." Next thing she knows, Dorothy wakes up in her bed in Kansas, with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry nearby. She tries to explain, but Auntie Em just shushes her, "There, there, you're all right. You've just has a bad dream is all."
Dorothy tries to set them straight, "No it wasn't a dream! It was a real live place! And all I kept saying was that I want to go home, and they helped me get home. Oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home!"
The End
*These are all things that we have to emphasize for Scout and Ruby because they're their favorite parts. Usually, we say these parts in unison, and sometimes we sing these parts (if appropriate). Alternatively, there is a part in the movie where Dorothy slaps the Cowardly Lion away from Toto and tells him that he "should be ashamed of himself," but we're NOT allowed to mention that per Scout's request. When Scout re-tells the story herself, she avoids that part entirely.
**The best part of the story, for Scout, is the "Jitterbug song," which she calls the "Cheetahbug song." It's from he Broadway musical, and it appears on the soundtrack, but it's not a song in the movie. Scout can sing this song by heart, and she requests it everytime we're in the car.
