Abigail's Top Twenty

I saw something on Pinterest (yes, I am now pinning all over the place) to do with your children to make a record of their "favorite things," be they bright copper kettles or mac n cheese. Here is what it suggested:

Starting at age 3, every year on their birthday you ask the same questions and see how their answers change over the years! Add a pic and make a book out of it. 20 questions: 1. What is your favorite color? 2. What is your favorite toy? 3. What is your favorite fruit? 4. What is your favorite tv show? 5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? 6. What is your favorite outfit? 7. What is your favorite game? 8. What is your favorite snack? 9. What is your favorite animal? 10. What is your favorite song? 11. What is your favorite book? 12. Who is your best friend? 13. What is your favorite cereal? 14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? 15. What is your favorite drink? 16. What is your favorite holiday? 17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? 18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? 19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? 20. What do you want to be when you grow up?

I changed #18 to "What is your favorite movie?" I didn't get to start this when Abi was 3, but I asked her some similar questions when she was 3 1/2. I decided to get her answers for her 4-year Favorite Things. Then when she turns 5 this summer we'll be all caught up! Here's her 4-year Top Twenty!

1. What is your favorite color? Rainbow, pink, and white (in that order)

2. What is your favorite toy? B the Goat (for the 4th year running!)

3. What is your favorite fruit? Bananas

4. What is your favorite TV show? Word Girl (funny, she JUST discovered this show on PBS Kids and it is now her favorite!)

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

6. What is your favorite outfit? Her Hello Kitty dress with striped leggings

7. What is your favorite game? Princess Chutes and Ladders

8. What is your favorite snack? Apples and peanut butter

9. What is your favorite animal? Goats and sheep!

10. What is your favorite song? You're My Little Girl (by Go Fish)

11. What is your favorite book? The Three Billy Goats Gruff (of course!)

12. Who is your best friend? B the Goat was her first answer. After some prodding she delightfully declared that her mommy was her best friend and that her family was her next best friend. LOVE.

13. What is your favorite cereal? Multi-grain Cheerios and Kix

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride tricycle and go to the park

15. What is your favorite drink? All kinds of juice

16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

17. What do you take to bed with you? B THE GOAT!

18. What is your favorite movie? Beauty and the Beast

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Lasagna and cake

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? An artist! And I never influenced that decision, but I can't say I'm surprised. She loves to draw :)

I love my oldest girl. She's so sweet, innocent, pure, intellegent, clever, beautiful, fun, and brave. She's my one-of-a-kind Abi :)

Lucie's got a Funny Bone!

Here are some of my toddler's greatest hits as of late! This kid keeps me laughing!

* Lucie walked out into the living room with a big pouty lip holding her hand after pinching her thumb in the closet door. "Oh Lulu, do you want mommy to kiss your thumb?" Mommy asked while taking her hand. "Yeah," she wimpered pitifully. Then she added cautiously, "Don't bite it!"

* Lucie looked around herself suspiciously. "I smell sumfin," she said. Then she seemed to realize something and stated, "It's my toot."

* Lucie dumped the bag of barettes out on the floor. "Oh Lucie," said Mom, "you're going to get a consequence." Lucie thought for a moment then responded, "I don't want a consequence. Moses got a consequence inna Bible story and HE DIED!" (my personal favorite!)

* "I don't love orange. I love pink and rainbow. I love brown and purple and cupcakes. And I love birds that fly with me like this," (flap, flap) then she squawked a bit. "That's what a bird says."

* Dora: "To go slower we need to say 'espacio.' Say 'espacio!'"

Lucie: "MARSHMALLOW!!"

* After a breakfast of Cream of Wheat, Abi and Lucie decided to play princesses. Abi declared she was Princess Belle. Lucie decided she would be the Queen of Wheat.

* Lucie was trying to get Daddy to eat her Cheerios.

Daddy: "No thanks, that's Lucie's Cheerios."

Lucie: "No this Cheerio is for Mommy and for Daddy."

Daddy: "No thank you,"

Lucie: "But it's got bacon in it! You like bacon?"

* Lucie: "My mouth tastes funny,"

Mommy: "Why does your mouth taste funny?"

Lucie: "Because I ate a rock!"