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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

Feast of Tabernacles 2016

Howdy, friends! I was going to post some pictures from Sukkot, but we have over 200 photos and over 20 videos (which I still need to upload), so it'll be easier to just share the >>>link to the album<<<. Enjoy!

Here are a few of my favorites though.....

 Jacob made it to the center, a.k.a. "King", in 9 Square!

 We had to put the rain fly / tophat on....quite amusing.

 Joe broke his arm just 3 days before we left, so we got the cast during camp.

 The girls rode around on this golf cart a lot with their friends.

Alex was amazingly patient when teaching chess to some of the children and teens!

 It's nice to only have a few dishes to wash!

 My chocolate cake mix turned into brownies (on purpose, lol) turned out great!

 It was hard to get them all together at once, but this was some of our neighbors. Awesome people! We're going to visit their congregation soon in Tulsa!

 Some other awesome people we met! This is Joey and Krys and their beautiful children.

From the sunglasses on head, left to right.....Annie, Jason, Mark and Reanee. Fun and loving people!

 Jessica is getting so big! She looks 12 here! Okay, maybe not *that* old.

 Jacob turns 12 in 3 more days, and he is now taller than his 14yo sister! He's trying to hide from the camera here.

 

 Jack's favorite color is yellow. :)

 Jonathan actually joined in a dance! 

 And posed for a picture! 

We didn't get many pictures of Jayla because we didn't see her much, so this one and the golf cart are about the only ones. Here she is playing a Minute to Win It type game. lol

I just wanted to post another pic of Joe. This one was actually before camp, right after he broke his arm but before he got his orange cast on. I love his smile! He doesn't look like he's in pain at all, does he? lol

That's all for pictures, but please click on the link above and take a look at all of them! I'll write more about Sukkot later and share the videos. It was a very blessed time.

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! 

Still here.....

Just a quick update.....I am still looking for a good alternative to this particular host that meets all my requirements. I think I have one. I'm checking it out today. I haven't forgotten to blog, I am actually DYING to get some new content up (even if no one reads it, HA!), but I really want to find a new host first. So keep checking back. I'll hopefully have a new link to share soon! :)

In the meantime, here's a picture of my girls about a week ago. I made this mei tai for a friend. Jessi loves being "worn" like this. The pictures are horrible quality because our really nice camera is having issues, but I'm about to send it in for repairs. Anywho, here they are! Jayla is 12 1/2 and Jessi just turned TWO! She's at such a fun, adorable stage. :) Oh, just thought of another pic I need to share here too, (which includes Joe from the side. lol (His hair is shorter now, too.) This was about a month ago.

The front carry.

The back carry. It's reversible!

SpiderBaby!! Is this not the most adorable little super hero you've ever seen?!?