Interview with Anna, Age 5

Interview with Anna, age 5

Here is an interview with Anna, age 5.

What is your:
1) Favorite color? All the colors in the world.
2) Favorite book? The one with Prince Aidan and Shiver.
3) Favorite movie? I think all the movies I can watch.
4) Favorite food? Spaghetti and MacNCheese
5) Least favorite food? Ummmmmmm....I don’t like peppers and mushrooms.
6) Favorite fruit? Apple.
7) Favorite vegetable? Pear.
8) Least favorite vegetable? Squash. I don’t like squash.
9) Favorite TV show? Dino Dan
10) Favorite song? Alejandro (Lady Gaga)
11) Favorite thing to do with mom? Snuggle
12) Favorite thing to do with dad? Snuggle
13) Favorite game to play with friends? I don’t know. There’s still more games waiting for me.
14) Favorite store? The one that I can push the cawts.
15) Favorite sport? Basketball
16) Favorite bible story? Joseph and Mary
17)Favorite place to go? To the library.
18) Favorite restaurant? Red Lahmsters!
19) Favorite toy? I don’t renember.
20) Favorite thing to do with Elizabeth? Play!
21) Favorite drink? Hot chocolate with marshmallows!
22) Favorite thing to do at school? Play with Cayden.
23) Favorite thing to do outside? Play spirit (horse)
24) What do you want to be when you grow up? I don’t know yet.
25) What can you do now that you are 5? I can do more big girl stuff.  Cause I’m 5, I know there’s more things I can do than 4 year-olds.  
26) Who is your best friend? All my friends that I can even meet.
27) What is mom's job? Going to work.
28) What is dad's job? Going to work.
29) What does mom always say? I love you!
30) What does dad always say? I don’t know.
31) What is your nickname? Anna Banana
32) What makes you laugh? When daddy plays silly stuff with me.
33) What makes you sad? When somebody hits me and when I have to go from Mya’s and Sophie’s and school (when Courtney does mean stuff to me)
34) What are you thankful for? Of you and the world and even people I don’t know. I’ll give up some of my money for the poor people.
35) What does mom love about you? My smile.

Then I asked if she had questions for me:
Why do you ask me questions a lot?
Why don’t you want to have a haircut?
Why is Mya’s dog named poop?

Sleep Happenings

So the girls can be funny sleepers! Observe:

 It was Anna's turn with the "Friendship Book" for school.  She fell asleep ON it!

 When Elizabeth was too quiet for a bit, I went in to find that she tucked herself into Anna's bed and was helping herself to Anna's "night night water."

I guess it's more interesting than her bed, where her only entertainment is zippers.  

Sometimes even friends snooze when they are over.  Here is Mya, the neighbor girl, who can't quite keep up with Anna!

Boo!

 Elizabeth was not a fan of the goop!

 Guess who was?

 At Anna's school party.

 Two Minis and a Princess Leia trick or treated at Miss Kim's house.

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

(P.s. Anna's joke for the year: "Where does the mummy take his mail?  To the GHOST office!")

A Page From her Big Sister's Book!

Now that she's got her own personality, turns out Elizabeth can be just as much of a ham as Anna!

Here she is "turning on" music with her zebra and rocking out:



And who could resist this sweet video of my big girl earlier in the summer:

Elizabeth's Accomplishments!

Says:
Mama (MahMah)
Dada
Lily (YiYi) or (LeDo)
Anna (NaNa)
Thank You (Tee Too- with sign)
Ah-Oh
Yuck (kkkkugh with pointing)
Hi (hiyiiiiii)
Grandma (GiGi)
Her only two-word sentence: Uh-Oh DaDa.  We aren't sure why she says it or what she thinks Dad did, as she says it all the time! Uh-Oh Daddy!

Signs:
Please
Thank You
Kitty
Doggy
All Done
More
Apple
Baby
Bye Bye

She can point to most body parts.
She can clasp the clasps on her car seat and high chair

She loves to brush her teeth and is very indiscriminate about whose toothbrush she uses.  (kkkkugh!)
She will still point to her tummy for using the potty but doesn't seem to catch on that it needs to be BEFORE the deed is done.  We'll keep working on that one!

Enjoy these pics!:

She likes chocolate! 

She's a very helpful mover!

She's very curious!

She loves her sister!

(MOST of the time)

She's a big fan of banana splits bigger than her head.

And her sister is, too!

Anna Silliness

Anna has been so completely wonderful lately.  She has adjusted to the move nicely.  She got over her heart break that her beloved teacher from last year will not be her new teacher and is counting down the days until pre-k starts.

She plays so well with Elizabeth and generally has the patience of a saint with her.  She LOVES doing her new nightly chores because now they involve throwing clothes down a laundry chute.  Maximum excitement.  She still loves the television wayyyyy too much but she appears to learn certain skills, like teaching dance lessons.  Observe:

She still has her cute little kid sayings that she messes up:
"What a heck?"
But mostly she sounds adorable using grown up speak.  Things I heard out of her mouth lately:
"Ohhhhh definitely."
"Huge"
"You have NO idea"

She is as "in charge" as ever and has loved lately reminding me that I don't know everything.  When I claim that I do, she'll counter, "You don't know about GOD!"  (She's stuck on the God thing lately.  Not a bad thing.)

She still is obsessed with her princesses but will play pretend with a stick if necessary.  She could REALLLLLYYYYY use a fenced in yard and a play gym; however, as shown by the following pictures:

Mud Swimming!

I gave her permission to use the water hose to water plants (about the only toy in our new yard at the moment).  When I noticed the water had been on for a while I went out to find this.  The sheer extent of the mud does not come across well in the pictures, but you get the idea.

Regarding the asking for permission thing, despite her strong will, she asks permission for everything.  Even things I wouldn't have thought she needed to.  She is very respectful about checking with me first for things.  I love it!

New Happenings!

Okay folks,
In the past few months, we've moved, sold furniture and are in the process of cleaning out our home.  Oh, and don't forget keeping our two kiddos healthy, happy and silly as ever.

Here's the good news! The Macbook Fairy left a present under my pillow (with a little help from Kipp and Kylie and an little laptop who needed a home).  So once this crazy week is over, look forward to more wonderful and instructive posts on our Hip Happenings!