Interview with my 7 year old Ally

Me:  What's your name?
Allison:  Allison

Me:  Do you like it better when people call you Allison or Ally?  Why?
Allison:  Ally because I don't like getting called my real name.  I like my nickname better.

Me:  How old are you?
Allison:  7 and you already know that

Me:  What do you like to do?
Allison:  Play the Wii and read and watch movies.

Me:  Do you like school?
Allison:  YEAH!  Because we get to learn new things every day.

Me:  What's your favorite color?
Allison:  yellow and blue and gold

Me:  What's your favorite food?
Allison:  pizza and pasta and tacos and salad and hamburgers and cheeseburgers with pickles and chicken nuggets and fries and what else?  I like nachos and cheese.

Me:  Who's your best friend?
Allison:  Daddy!  And he's in Phoenix which I don't like.  I wish I could have came with him.

Me:  What do you want to be when you grow up?
Allison:  A teacher just like Miss Daehnke.

Me:  What about being a teacher like your mom?
Allison:  Uh, sure.

Me:  What makes Miss Daehnke a good teacher?
Allison:  She's really nice.

Me:  What's your favorite movie?
Allison:  Narnia
Me:  Which one?
Allison:  All of them.

Me:  Is there anything else you want in your interview?
Allison:  Um, no, not that I can think of.

Peytie's Interview as a 4 Year Old

Me:  What is your name?
Peyton:  Um, Peyton.  Mommy, you know my name!

Me:  How old are you?
Peyton:  4

Me:  What do you like to do?
Peyton:  Play and watch TV

Me:  What do you like to play?
Peyton:  Um, Polly's, baby dolls, and cooking and um, doing puzzles and playing games.  That's as much stuff I can think about.

Me:  What's your favorite color?
Peyton:  purple and pink

Me:  What's your favorite food?
Peyton:  pasta & pizza

Me:  Who do you like spend time with?
Peyton:  You.  No, um, I meant you Mama.

Me:  What do you like to do when you spend time with your mama?
Peyton:  Play games, play the Wii, play Polly's, and snuggle.

Me:  What's your favorite movie?
Peyton:  Dora and um, Princesses

Me:  What do you want to be when you grow up?
Peyton:  Uh, a police girl

Me:  Why do you want to be a police girl?
Peyton:  I mean not that, Mama.  I want to be a doctor.
Me:  Why do you want to be a doctor?
Peyton:  Cause that helps their blood and stuff like that.  You get to check their heart and give them shots.

Me:  Why do you like your lamb so much?
Peyton:  cause
Me:  Cause why?
Peyton:  I just like to snuggle him and slobber him and that kind of stuff.

Ally:  Peytie, do you like spending time with Ally?
Peyton:  Uh huh, I like spending time with my big sissy.

Me:  Ok, Peyton, is there anything else you want to tell us?
Peyton:  Um, no.  That's all I want to tell you.

My Girls

I took the girls to have their birthday pictures taken today.  Allison turned 7 on April 1 and Peyton will turn 4 on May 18. Once again they did such a great job that mommy had trouble deciding on favorites!  Here are a few of them...

Sweet sisterly love

This shows their personalities perfectly.  Sweet with a bit of sass and mischief, especially Peyton!

So grown up

Looking like a big girl

Smart Scientist

Tonight I was helping Allison with her science homework.  They have been studying liquids and their various characteristics.  When I took a look at the paper she brought home to work on, I thought it looked simple enough--draw a picture of the bottle your liquid is in, write the name of the liquid and circle the characteristics.  THEN I read the list of characteristics and thought...uh, where's the dictionary?  However, my smart little first grader didn't miss a beat and told me what all of the words meant including viscosity, transparent and opaque.  She is like a sponge the way she absorbs information and she LOVES science!

Lost Lambie

A few weeks ago Peyton couldn't find her lamb when it was time to leave for daycare.  Now you should know that this child is almost never separated from her lambie.  She received this stuffed lamb as a gift from Great-Grandma Eileen when she was born.  So here's how the morning conversation went....

Peyton:  Mommy, I can't find my lamb.
Me:  What do you mean?  You just had him.
Peyton:  He's lost.
Me:  Lambie is lost?  I'll help you find him.
Peyton:  Ok.  He has yellow fur and ears.

I couldn't help but laugh.  First, at her cute description of her lamb and second, at the fact that she thought she needed to tell me what her lamb looked like...as if I haven't seen this lamb every day for the past three and a half years. :)

Snow What Fun

Who doesn't love a snow day???

Ally and I both had school canceled on Wednesday and we took full advantage of the day.  Beginning with staying in our jammies until after lunch.  The girls and I watched a few videos in the morning including Disney Princess Sing-A-Long and Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.  After lunch we bundled up and headed outside to play in the snow.

We got about 6 inches of fresh snow and a new sled that was just calling our names.  We had hoped to build a snowman, but the snow didn't pack very well, so we ditched that idea.  Instead I pulled the kids around the yard in the sled, they made snow angels and we threw snow (not snowballs) at each other.  Our neighbor Kalie came out to join in the fun with us. I think the girls would have stayed out all day if I let them, but an hour was more than enough for mom.  It was a good fun time!

Ally's Snow Angel

Peyton's Snow Angel