7-12-14 (Annual Kiddo Questionnaire)

CORA

Nicknames:  Coco, Cor

How old are you?  That's easy! 7

What is your favorite color?  Aqua and pink

What is your favorite animal?  kittens

What is your favorite book?  The Magic Kitten

What is your favorite TV show?  Nina Needs To Go (a short cartoon series)

What is your favorite movie? Malificent

What is your favorite song? Timber (by Kesha)

What is your favorite food?  Cotton Candy (later she told me to change it to Sweet Corn)

What is your favorite drink?  Sprite

What is your favorite breakfast food? Waffles 

What is your favorite snack? Banana

What is your favorite outfit?  My new pink skirt that Meme gave me (pink eyelet ruffle skort)

What is your favorite game?  Kinectimals

What is your favorite toy? Stuffed penguin from the zoo

Who is your best friend?  Sophidene

What is your favorite thing to do?  Play with my friends

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play with Boomer

What is your favorite holiday? Memorial Day  (??)

What do you like to take to bed with you at night?   My bear (white one)

Where is your favorite place to go?  To a indoor pool at a hotel

What is your favorite restaurant?  Chili's

Where do you want to go on vacation?  Adventureland

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A vet

What do you want to do on your birthday?  Go to the zoo

What do you like about Mommy? That she hugs me and keeps me warm

What do you like about Daddy?  That he keeps me safe

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MILLY:

Nicknames:  Milly Moo, Mills,

How old are you? Um 4

What is your favorite color?  Purple

What is your favorite animal? Giraffes

What is your favorite book?  The God book (a little Golden book)

What is your favorite TV show? all the Bubble Guppies

What is your favorite movie?  Malificent

What is your favorite song?  Rude (by Magic)

What is your favorite food?  Pizza!

What is your favorite drink? Juice

What is your favorite breakfast food?  Cereal

What is your favorite snack?  Poptarts

What is your favorite outfit?  Blue/white/floral dress from H&M (she pointed to it)

What is your favorite game?  Duck Duck Goose

What is your favorite toy? Barbies

Who is your best friend?  Maddison Peebles and Tinley H

What is your favorite thing to do?  Play with the dog (Boomer) 

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Swing

What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

What do you like to take to bed with you at night?   Dead animals (I hope to God she means stuffed animals)

Where is your favorite place to go? To Nana and Papa's

What is your favorite restaurant?  Hy-Vee (the Market Grille)

Where do you want to go on vacation?  To the Zoo

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A sister

What did you do on your birthday?  Eat the cake!

What do you like about Mommy?  Playing!

What do you like about Daddy?  Painting my fingernails!

6-19-14

Cora just selected a career path. She informed me she wants to invent flying cars for a living. This led to a discussion of college, majors, venture capitalism, and factories.

5-29-14

This morning, when I came down from getting dressed, I was greeted by Miss Milly wearing her nightie... and swim goggles. She told me, for the 1 millionth time, that Miss Emma was going to bring her swimming suit today and they were going to go to the water park. When I asked her to get dressed she was much distressed to find out I had not set out her swimsuit as a choice. I explained it was too early in the morning to put on her swimsuit - that the pool didn't open until after lunch and she would want to play outside until then. She very forlornly told me, as she was getting into her shirt and shorts "But sometimes you just hafta follow your heart mommy - and I think following my heart would be wearing my fwimmingsuit."

Oh and also.....

5-25-14

My youngest child is outside, in the sprinkling rain, in her rainbow zebra shorts-pajamas, with her fairy rain boots on, wearing her fuzzy white jacket, inside out, carrying the umbrella from the sand table around. *sigh*

5-23-14

This morning Ryan was yelling from upstairs for Milly to come brush her teeth. To which she yelled back "Daddy! I will give you ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS if you just let me sit here and eat my breakfast!"

5-18-14

Cora to Milly: You can use this for 3 seconds ok? I'm going to count to 10 three times and then that's three seconds.
Me: .......

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I was sitting on the couch when I heard the back door open and a little tiger-painted-face (Milly) comes in. I said "Where's your sister" to which she replied "Back at the birfday party". I said "Honey did you walk back here all by yourself?" She said "Yes because I needed to ask you if I could have these." She had walked all the way back home from the party to ask if she could have the fruit snacks that came in her goodie bag.  Sometimes the words that come out of my mouth DO stick.

5-5-14

Cora was not feeling the morning today. I went in to help get her out of bed and she was grumbling about wanting school to be over. Then this happened:

Me: You know babe, I know how you feel. Mondays are hard. But you know what I said to myself this morning. I got up and said "I choose to be happy today." Because being happy IS a choice. It's not something someone does to us or for us ya know. Some people don't know that.

Cora: *stretching* Today, I choose to be... grumpy.

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Cora is clearly not owning my super insightful mother-of-the-year platitudes. Tonight at dinner we were talking about Native Americans so I told the girls the old tale of the two wolves inside each of us. I ended by saying:

Me: So basically, whatever you look for, you'll find it. If you look for anger and hate, you'll find it. If you look for kindness and love, you'll find it.

To which Cora responded

Cora:  I'm looking for chunks of gold.

#andIamdone