Sunday, July 17, 2016

Emma's 10th Birthday

Well, better late than never, right?!?!  Here we are finally getting around to posting and actually interviewing.


Here is the Birthday Interview (in July):
How old are you today?  10 Years old
Do you have a nick name?  No, except when mom calls me "Mah"
What do you enjoy doing most?  Going to the lake house with Tessa and tubing!  What do  you enjoy in regular life the most?  Reading Harry Potter
What is your favorite book?  Harry Potter 2 or Princess Academy
What is your favorite animal?  A fox cub
What is your favorite color?  Majorca pink
What is your favorite food?  Swedish Meatballs
What is your favorite treat?  Apple pie with icecream
What is your favorite movie or show?  Mr. Peabody and Shermon
Where is your favorite place to go?  To the Lakehouse with Tessa
What is your second favorite place to go?  The farm
What is your favorite toy?  I don't have a favorite toy....because I don't play with toys anymore.
What is your favorite sport?  Soccer
What is your favorite time of the day?  Evening.  Why?  Because that's when Daddy comes home.
Who is your best friend?  Emma Vaughn.
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Zoo Keeper.
Are you going to go to college?   Yes.
What would you like to study at college?  Animals.  What kind?  Carnavors.  Why?  Because they are cool.
What's your favorite talent that you have?  Playing the piano.
What have you learned in your years of experience so far?  That my Mom doesn't like clothes on the floor and Dad likes everything spic and span.
What grade are you in?  4th.
How was school for you, this year?  Good.
What are you going to do to make it better?  Have my desk in my room.  How will that help?  I won't have all the little kids bothering me.
What do you like most about school?  I don't know...recess.
What was your favorite project or science experiment so far this year?   I don't know.
Does Mom do an excellent, incredible or awesome job homeschooling?  All Three.
What would you like her to do differently?  Let me do some history on my own.
Are you a mammal, an amphibian or a reptile?   What do you think, Dad?  Grants a reptile, Dad's an amphibian, Mom is reptile, Kate is an amphibian, Arianna's an amphibian, Benson is a reptile and I'm a mammal.
If you encountered a chicken crossing the road, please describe what you would do first: Call 911.  Get all the Police there to stop traffic and then rescue the chicken.
What was been special about your birthday?  Mary came over.
What does Dad do for work?  He manages tractors to make sure they can do all the work on their own so that people don't have to sit in them to do all the work for hours and hours.
What does Mom do for work?  She stays home and takes care of the children.
How are you liking Georgia?  I like my friends, but the bugs have to go!
Do you miss Kansas?  I guess.
What do you miss most?  My friends.
What do you like most about Georgia?  Our house and yard.
Emma, how would you describe yourself?  Pretty, dazzaling, and beautiful.
What would you like to accomplish this next year, before you turn 11?  I want to be able to send my relatives a cd with 10 songs which I have written.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?  I'll be on my mission, knocking on someone's door and they'll let me in.
What will the world be like when you're 30?  Probably the same?  Will cars fly?  My car will.  Will people talk more or less?  Emma V. will talk more and Dad will talk less.
Any last words for your Birthday interview?  I'd like a phone before I turn 11, or a Kindle.

Arianna's 8th Birthday

What a special birthday!  

Here is the Birthday Interview:
How old are you today?  8 years old.
Do you have a nick name?  yeah- Anna.
What do you enjoy doing most?  Playing with the bunnies
What is your favorite book?  Harry Potter
What is your favorite animal?  Bunny, no, no, no, dog
What is your favorite color?  yellow
What is your favorite food?  Ice cream
What is your favorite treat?  Ice cream.  Do you want to change the first one?  Nope
What is your favorite movie or show?  Rio and Rio 2
Where is your favorite place to go?  The mall
What is your favorite toy?  Legos
What is your favorite sport?  Soccer
What is your favorite time of the day?  Afternoon.  Why?  Because. . .then I’m finished with all my school and chores and I can watch a movie and play with the bunnies.
Who is your best friend?  Sunny (the bunny)
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A farmer, no a cowgirl.  I thought you wanted to be like Joe- retired with horses.  I did, but I changed my mind.
Are you going to go to college?  Nope.  Why not?  Because I don’t want to.  Do you know what you do at college?  Nope.  What if you get to eat lots of candy?  I would go.  What if you get to explore and play with animals?  I would go. 
What would you like to study at college?  Dogs, no cats.  You can learn about cats.  How much?  Everything!!! 
What's your favorite talent that you have?  Building Legos
What have you learned in your years of experience so far?  Nothing.  Are you sure?  Yup.  Sure?  Yes
What grade are you in?  3rd grade. 
How is school going for you?  Bad.  Why?  Because.  I don’t like it.  It’s hard to like school. 
What are you going to do to make it better?  What would you like to do?  I would like to skip it.  You don’t want to learn anything?  No.
What do you like most about school?  Reading
What was your favorite project or science experiment so far this year?   I don’t know.  The Archimedes Screw
Does Mom do an excellent, incredible or awesome job homeschooling?  Incredible.
What would you like her to do differently?  Nothing.  What?  I thought you don’t like school?  What do you want be to do differently?  Be nicer.
Are you a mammal, an amphibian or a reptile?   A reptile
If you encountered a chicken crossing the road, please describe what you would do first:  I would catch it!
What was been special about your birthday?  I got cowgirl boots and a cowgirl hat and a cowgirl shirt and a cowgirl belt- but it was too small.
What does Dad do for work?  He’s an engineer.  So, he designs tractors. 
What does Mom do for work?  Stay home.  Who’s job is harder?  Mom’s. Why?  Because it’s hard staying home. 
How are you liking Georgia?  Good. And bad.  Why bad?  There are too many bugs and bugs and bugs and poison ivy and poison oak.
Do you miss Kansas?  Nope.  Why not?  Because it had too many bugs.
What do you miss most?  So you don’t miss anything about Kansas?  Nope.  Do you miss anything about California?  Nope.
What do you like most about Georgia?  Animals.  What animals?  Lizards and toads and frogs.
Do you treat your siblings well?  Everyone except Grant.  Why?  Because.
Do you love them?  Everyone except Grant.
What do you think about having a new brother?  Good. 
What will be the first thing you teach Benson?  To eat
Arianna, how would you describe yourself?  I don’ know.  Can you please try? Yup. Right now.  Western.  Anything else?  Nope.
What would you like to accomplish this next year, before you turn 9?  I’d like to work at an animal shelter.

Any last words for your Birthday interview?  Nope.  Are you sure?  Actually there is.  Why do we do Birthday interviews?  So you can get a kick out of reading this when you are older.

Grant's 6th Birthday

Grant Birthday Interview

Here is the Birthday Interview:
How old are you today?  Six
Do you have a nick name?  No, {emma] Granty, No, Ant.
What do you enjoy doing most?  I don’t know, no, don’t do that.  Playing legos.
What is your favorite book?  I don’t know.  MOM: think of the ones we just finished.  Oh, Fudge.  Which ones, Super fudge, Fudge, .  All of them.
What is your favorite animal?  Camodo Dragon.
What is your favorite color?  Blue
What is your favorite food?  Pizza
What is your favorite treat?  Umm, Ice-cream in a cone
What is your favorite movie or show?  Diego
Where is your favorite place to go?  To the Stream
What is your favorite toy?  Remote controlled train
What is your favorite sport?  Soccer!
What is your favorite time of the day?  I don’t know.  Please think about it.  Is it breakfast time, is it snack time, school time, resting time, bedtime, when Dad comes home? Yes.
Who is your best friend?  Jacob Ellsworth
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Bird.  Why?  Because then I could fly around.  I want to be a bird like Fudge.
Are you going to go to college?  Maybe
What would you like to study at college?  Catching lizards
What's your favorite talent?  What are talents?  The things you can do well.  Shooting my bow and arrow.
What have you learned in your years of experience so far?  Umm umm umm, I don’t know, there are lots of thinks.  Ummm catching lizards.  What have you learned about catching lizards?  You have to be quiet to sneak up on them and they you can grab them.
What grade are you in?  1st grade
How is school going for you?  Not good.  Why?  Because, it’s just not.
What are you going to do to make it better?  Umm, not do any school.
What do you like most about school?  Art
What was your favorite project or science experiment?  Doing the volcano in California
Does Mom do an excellent, incredible or awesome job homeschooling?  All of them.
What would you like her to do differently?  Do more science projects

Grant opted out of finishing the birthday interview this year.  We decided it wasn't a battle worth waging.

Are you a mammal, an amphibian or a reptile? 
If you encountered a chicken crossing the road, please describe what you would do first: 
What was been special about your birthday? 
What does Dad do for work? 
What does Mom do for work? 
How are you liking Georgia? 
Do you miss Kansas? 
What do you miss most? 
What do you like most about Georgia? 
Do you treat your siblings well? 
Do you love them? 
What do you think about having a new brother?
What will be the first thing you teach Benson?
Grant, how would you describe yourself? 
What would you like to accomplish this next year, before you turn 7?

Any last words for your Birthday interview?