Interview with each child

I haven't blogged in a while, but I really want to get back to it regularly. I try, but then I forget!

Well, I came across this and wanted to do it with each kid, so here ya go....partly for you to get some giggles and also for my own records. :)

You have to keep in mind as you read these that my younger two boys, Jack and Joe, both have genetic abnormalities with learning disabilities and speech issues. Thankfully nothing serious, but that will help you understand some of their answers a little better.

What is your name? Jack

How old are you? 9

How old is mom? 15

What is your favorite color? Yellow

What are you doing? playing on my tablet

What is your favorite food? cereal

Who is your best friend? Simeon

What is your favorite animal? elephants

What are you scared of? nothing

What is your favorite show? Blue's Clues (first show he ever watched)

What makes you sad? When I get in trouble.

What makes you happy? When someone tickles me.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A balloon guy.

What does love mean? Like in I love my wife when I get older.

What's your favorite drink? Chocolate milk

Where is your favorite place to go eat? Taco Bell because it have burritos.

Where is your favorite place to go to play? Chick-A-Fla  (he says it like this)

What's your favorite movie? Narnia

What's your favorite toy? a little elephant

What's your favorite holiday? Sukkot

Where do you want to go to college? Home

What's your favorite song? Speak Life by TobyMac

What is mommy good at? Singing a song.

What is daddy good at? Cleaning the toilet (I agree!)

What's Mommy's job? Cleaning your room (Ha!)

What's is Daddy's job? Hobby Lobby

What's your favorite season? Winter because you can make snowmen, and you can have a snowball fight.

***

What is your name? Jessi

How old are you? 6 (she's 4, lol)

How old is mom? BIG!

What is your favorite color? Rainbow (I can see she's my rebel)

What are you doing? Playing on my tablet (we have a problem)

What is your favorite food? Beef stew

Who is your best friend? Jayla

What is your favorite animal? A goat! (too much Goat simulator)

What are you scared of? the dark

What is your favorite show? Paw Patrol

What makes you sad? an onion (ROFL!)

What makes you happy? Rain

What do you want to be when you grow up? a mama!

What does love mean? Heart

What's your favorite drink? Water

Where is your favorite place to go eat? THIS PLACE!

Where is your favorite place to go to play? Chick-A-Fla (she copies Jack)

What's your favorite movie? I only like Paw Patrol.

What's your favorite toy? A giraffe

What's your favorite holiday? Sukkot

Where do you want to go to college? At the sun. <giggle>

What's your favorite song? Jump song!

What is mommy good at? the bathtub (taking baths)

What is daddy good at? work

What's Mommy's job? Watching a movie (rarely do that)

What's is Daddy's job? work

What's your favorite season? Winter

***

Jacob - 12

What is your name? Sneaky Squeaky Cheeks

How old are you? 5

How old is mom? 0

What is your favorite color? Blue

What are you doing? sitting here

What is your favorite food? (evil sounding voice) Spinach pizza from Cici's

Who is your best friend? Daisy (the goat)

What is your favorite animal? Daisy

What are you scared of? nothing

What is your favorite show? Person of Interest

What makes you sad? Saying good-bye to someone I won't see again for a very long time. (Wow.)

What makes you happy? A lot of things.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A pilot and welder.

What does love mean? It means you can fart around someone and not feel embarrassed.

What's your favorite drink? Water

Where is your favorite place to go eat? Cici's

Where is your favorite place to go to play? Sukkot

What's your favorite movie? Jurassic World

What's your favorite toy? My tablet.

What's your favorite holiday? Sukkot

Where do you want to go to college? Home

What's your favorite song? Speak Life

What is mommy good at? sleeping

What is daddy good at? working the remote control

What's Mommy's job? Making meals

What's is Daddy's job? Hobby Lobby

What's your favorite season? All the same.

***

What is your name? Joe

How old are you? Um, I don't know. (Counted Jayla's fingers...) Yeah, 6!

How old is mom? I don't know.

What is your favorite color? Orange

What are you doing? I want to play on Jack's tablet.

What is your favorite food? cereal

Who is your best friend? Jack and Jessi

What is your favorite animal? Giraffe

What are you scared of? When Jacob acts like he's going to get me, and the dark.

What is your favorite show? Uncle Gadget (Inspector Gadget)

What makes you sad? Taking the tablet away from me.

What makes you happy? Someone give the tablet back to me.

What do you want to be when you grow up? to play on a new tablet that you can get me.

What does love mean? loving

What's your favorite drink? Dr. Pepper

Where is your favorite place to go eat? Taco Bell

Where is your favorite place to go to play? Chick-A-Fla

What's your favorite movie? Paw Patrol

What's your favorite toy? A toy house.

What's your favorite holiday? Sukkot

Where do you want to go to college? At Taco Bell.

What's your favorite song? Paw Patrol theme song

What is mommy good at? working

What is daddy good at? I don't know, I can't do it this long. (haha!)

What's Mommy's job? This take forever!

What's is Daddy's job? work

What's your favorite season? Winter

***

What is your name? Jayla

How old are you? 14

How old is mom? You don't want to ask me that. lol

What is your favorite color? Purple

What are you doing? sitting

What is your favorite food? Potatoes

Who is your best friend? Sarai and Jessi

What is your favorite animal? horse

What are you scared of? heights

What is your favorite show? Person of Interest

What makes you sad? Emotional things. lol

What makes you happy? More emotional things.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A mother.

What does love mean? Um....(laughter)....um......

What's your favorite drink? Apple Mansana

Where is your favorite place to go eat? Chick-fil-A (she says it right, lol)

Where is your favorite place to go to play? My room.

What's your favorite movie? The Parent Trap, new and old.

What's your favorite toy? My tablet and clay.

What's your favorite holiday? Sukkot

Where do you want to go to college? Home

What's your favorite song? Love With Your Life by Hollyn

What is mommy good at? Being the Mama!

What is daddy good at? Driving a forklift.

What's Mommy's job? Being a Mama!

What's is Daddy's job? Driving a forklift.

What's your favorite season? Spring

***
Jonathan - 16
What is your name? Mama, please, no.
How old are you? Please, just let me go.
How old is mom? I can't count that high.
What is your favorite color? I am above such petty things.
What are you doing? Trying to control my anger.
What is your favorite food? Plant life scraped from the top of Lake Thunderbird.

Who is your best friend? Silas and Becca

What is your favorite animal? Hamburger

What are you scared of? I can't even think of anything sarcastic. I'm not scared of anything.

What is your favorite show? Person of Interest

What makes you sad? No tacos.

What makes you happy? Tacos.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Isolated.

What does love mean? Well, when a man and woman love each other very much.....

What's your favorite drink? Water from Lake Thunderbird.

Where is your favorite place to go eat? The Oval Office.

Where is your favorite place to go to play? About 5 feet outside the Oval Office.

What's your favorite movie? Inception

What's your favorite toy? Tickle Me Elmo

What's your favorite holiday? Pi Day

Where do you want to go to college? El Paso

What's your favorite song? Um. Um. Um. Um. Um. (this continued for a while).....Heart of Gold by Johnny Cash

What is mommy good at? Sucking the fun out of everything. (I do my job well then!)

What is daddy good at? Preventing me from fun in the first place.

What's Mommy's job? To let me know when I need a shower.

What's is Daddy's job? Waiting to be told by you to take a shower.

What's your favorite season? Open.

Jessica-isms!

My "baby" turned THREE on 1/1 of this year. Where has the time gone?!? I wish I had more photos and videos of her, but being the youngest of 6, yeah, statistics stink. :P But seriously, I'm determined to get some great photos of her very soon!

Just this morning she's already made me giggle several times at some things she's said, so I want to get them recorded here before my "permanent pregnancy brain" takes over. My memory is BAD these days.

I was playing a game on my tablet when she woke up, so she watched me finish. When I told her it was over and I won, she said, "Yay! Now I'll give it a shot." Ha!

We were talking about twins (we have new neighbors with twin baby boys), and I was explaining to the younger 3 what twins were, and what they are called when there are more than two: triplets, quadruplets, etc. Jessi held up 2 fingers and said, "Two-pul-ets, (then pointing at me) you-pul-ets, (continuing to point at the appropriate person......) Joe-pul-ets, Jack-pul-ets, Jacob-pul-ets...." Maybe she'll get it one day. :)

The other cute/funny thing she said this morning was when I told Jayla to come and get her from my bedroom. She didn't want to go, so she told me, "No, I'm fine."

Another of her new phrases that she has already used several times relates to cookies or candy! My feet have been hurting some lately, so hers have too, and apparently "Cookies feel me better." It works, too! A cookie really does make her feet feel better.....until it's gone, and then she needs another.

Kids really do say the darndest things! 

Kid-isms Roundup!

These are starting to pile up on my FB account, so I thought I'd round them all up and put them on here, lest I forget them! Some of these are funny, some only funny to us, some not funny but I just wanted to remember!

Jacob: Wow, the wind is blowing in my eyes! If I was the wind, I wouldn't blow in YOUR eyes!

Jonathan asks the strangest questions? I mean, this is constant, all day long, every day. Well, I just helped him estimate how many miles of intestines there are in the whole world. Yep. Exciting stuff.

11/15

My boys ask the strangest questions sometimes. Jonathan often informs me that being weird (because he asks weird questions) is the whole point of being a 10-year-old. Now Jacob is asking "silly" questions and has informed me that being silly is the whole point of being a 6-year-old! I am learning so much! :)

11/10

Ah, ha! I just figured out another word of Jack's! "Bye-bye ah na-na" means that he wants to go bye-bye in a minute!

11/09

Every time we talk about labor/birth, Jayla refers to the cord as the "vocal cord".

10/30

Jayla just told me, "Mommy, you're getting some WHITE hair! You're turning into an OLD GIRL!" LOL! Well, at least I'm still a girl! :)

10/28

The kids were asking me about the big light pole in our front yard that we haven't used in years. I was telling them it belongs to OG&E (the electric company), and we would have to pay for it to use it. Jayla didn't even get her sentence out because we started laughing, but she said, "Well, if it belongs to a genie......" :)

10/28

It is so difficult to get Jacob to help out with any of the chores, but he is LOVING ripping up the floor! LOL! I should just look for the more destructive jobs for him to do. ;)

10/26

Jayla and Jacob are pretending to be a mother and son. I think he is being more obedient to her than he normally is to me.

10/19

474-774-44747474447.....Jack's favorite number to call. 

10/14

We were out for a bit tonight and just got home. As we were on the front porch about to come in, the kids were being LOUD, laughing, singing and talking. I said not to be so loud because they'll wake up the neighbors. Jayla (8) said, "That's what happens when you have 4 kids!"

10/13

Jacob is always grumpy for some reason when he first wakes up. Always! But just now his "alarm" went off, and he's in a better mood now. (See 10/9)

10/11

Jonathan is singing "I'm Not Cool" again. He is belting it out, and he doesn't sing on key either. I love it! :)

10/10

I love that Jonathan is mowing now......and enjoys it! :) He wasn't quite tall enough last year, so it was hard and frustrating. This year he is asking to mow!!!!

10/9

Jacob's latest thing: He passes gas and tells everyone his alarm went off.

10/5

I love Jack's word for apple juice. He says, "Bapple doo!" :)

9/29

We were at a park. There were rails on the bridge, but Jacob slipped through them. He is always climbing on top and outside of where he is supposed to be! That little stinker is a dare devil! lol

There was never a "panic" moment (for me, at least). It was only a few feet drop. He could have gotten hurt, but not bad. Thankfully he was fine. He was laughing the whole time he was dangling while a friend was hanging onto him! Quite the little turd! lol

9/26

Jacob (5) is making an experiment. He mixed apple juice, Mt. Dew, milk, water & ketchup. He said it is supposed to keep the flies away. 

9/23

Jayla decided to change clothes again. Jonathan was getting impatient, while waiting for the bathroom, and he told her she didn't need to change her pants too!

Her reply, "Do these pants look like they match this shirt?!"

Jonathan, "You have a point."

9/19

Jack is saying, "More bee-ba!" which means "more pizza". Earlier he asked me, "Eat bee-ba?" :) This kid is really starting to talk a LOT more clearly, putting up to 3 or 4 words together!

9/12

Jacob (5) is all boy and loves being gross. He made up this song, "If someone breaks wind, I will buy more oxygen." Hey, it rhymes!

9/9

Jacob just told me that Jonathan stole some of his pennies the other day, and then added "but before I tell on him, he put them back."

9/8

Jayla says, "Mommy, can we go to the store sometime and buy something?" That's it! She just wants to go shopping! She finally did say that she wants to buy something for the baby. :)

9/3

My kiddos are making up new "Minute to Win It" games. :)

8/29

My kids have been singing "Big House" lately. Jack's version is, "bee bee owe, la-la-la-la, bee bee owe, la-la-la-la" So cute! It's not *quite* as cute when the older kids imitate him though.

8/25

Yesterday Jayla said "Shoot!", then Jacob asked me, "Mommy, are we allowed to say that?" So I told him it was not a bad word. Then he asked me, "Can we say 'burn it'?" It took me a couple of seconds, but then it clicked.

Get it? "Dad burn it!"

8/15

Jack peed in the potty for the first time on Thursday!!!!! He went twice that day and then FOUR times on Friday! (I think we were out more yesterday, so he didn't have as many opportunities.) He is telling me when he needs to go! I think I underestimated him. Maybe he'll be completely in underwear before baby is born after all! :)

7/27

Well, it was positive! Jack has a confirmed case of Pertussis! Jacob and Jayla are sounding pretty bad too now, and Jonathan is also starting to cough. :( As I look back over the last couple of weeks, I think I may have had a light case of it, and I really think Myles may have been the one to start all of this mess!

7/22

Jack was SWEATING yesterday!!!! After he had the THIRD seizure yesterday afternoon, Myles put him in a cold bath. :( Afterward, they both fell asleep on Jayla's bed, then Myles woke up and left Jack there for a bit longer. Her bed still has the plastic on the mattress and didn't have a sheet on it at the time, so when I went to wake him up, his back and head were covered with sweat! Seriously, this is the first time we've ever seen him sweat, so did something change?! I hope that means no more seizures.....but I won't hold my breath on that.

(and he still continues to sweat!!!)

7/15

Jonathan and Jayla spent the night with friends last night (missing them!), so Daddy was in charge of Jacob and Jack. When I got home, Jack was only in a diaper, and I noticed he had flecks of green paint or something all over his chest and tummy. Jacob said that Jack got into Jayla's nail polish. Sounds believable. Then I noticed how neatly each and every one of his fingernails were painted. Hmmm.....I didn't know Jack could do such a great job on his own nails, on both hands!!! He finally fessed up this morning!

6/27

Today is my "baby's" third birthday!!! He had a visit from Grandma on Friday, was sung to by some great friends last night and got to blow out a candle on his birthday brownie, then we had a small family party today, complete with cupcakes, ice cream and presents. Jack just loves hearing that song with his name in it! :)

6/14

I was reading several books with the kids earlier. Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman was one of them. After noticing how HUGE the egg is, on the 3rd page the mother bird leaves to go find the baby bird some food since he is about to hatch. She referred to the baby as "he", so I asked, "Now how does she know it is a boy?!" Jonathan and Jayla, without hesitation and at the same time, as serious as could be said, "Ultrasound." Hmmm.....I wonder what's been on our mind so much lately?! :)

5/31

Jack and Jacob woke up while it was still dark because of the storm and came in to our bed. It was very loud and flashy, I'm surprised they weren't all 4 in there! Jacob tells me that he knows what lightning is. I asked him "What?" and he said, "It's electric in the sky. I learned it from Postman Pat." I guess the many conversations we have had about weather didn't matter, he learns from cartoons instead!

5/17

heard the heartbeat for the first time today! It never gets old!!!! ♥

5/8

Jonathan just asked me, "Mommy, how do astronauts scratch themselves?"

3/10

‎"No one can have too many friends.".....wise words from my 7yo daughter, Jayla. :)

2/24

Tonight for the 3rd night in the last week or so, Jonathan asked me if he could stay up and study the bible. OF COURSE YOU CAN!!! I am so proud of him. It is so awesome watching my children grow in their knowledge and understanding of and love for Christ! :)