Interviews with the Kids

One of the blogs I follow, Havin' Fun Yet, posted an interview with her son yesterday. I thought it was so cute to read his answers, and was inspired to do the same with my kids. Evan answered all questions for both parents...Gracie got tired of answering after the mommy questions, so there are only a few questions about daddy answered by her. :) To make sure they gave original answers, I asked Gracie while Evan was at school, and then asked Evan when he came home.

(keep in mind all answers are direct quotes!)

1. What is something mom always says to you?
Evan's answer(E): be good
Gracie's answer(G): um, I don't know

What is something dad always says to you?
E: be good

2. What makes mom happy?
E: when i do chores
G: pee-pee in the potty

What makes dad happy?
E: taking a shower
G: pee-pee in the potty

3. What makes mom sad?
E: not obeying
G: pee-pee in my pants

What makes dad sad?
E: not obeying
G: say "I don't love him" (it's a game they play, & daddy fake cries)

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
E: being funny
G: tickle me

How does your dad make you laugh?
E: tickle me because he tickles me all the time and it's funny and makes me laugh

5. What was your mom like as a child?
E: she was bad

What was your dad like as a child?
E: he was good

6. How old is your mom?
E: 47 (we're 27...)
G: um, 3

How old is your dad?
E: 47, the same as mommy

7. How tall is your mom?
E: large to the ceiling
G: this tall (stretching her arm as high as she can)

How tall is your dad?
E: a little bit close to the ceiling
me: so mommy's taller than daddy?
E: yep

8. What is mommy's favorite thing to do?
E: clean up the house

What is dad's favorite thing to do?
E: clean up all of the places in the house and daddy likes to vacuum

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
E: do computer
G: um, I don't know

What does your dad do when you're not around?
E: clean up the house

10. What is your mom really good at?
E: playing computer
G: at my matching game

What is your dad really good at?
E: playing outside

11. What is your mom not very good at?
E: swinging outside
G: i don't know

What is your dad not very good at?
E: sliding on the slide

12. What does your mom do for her job?
E: cook supper
G: work at home on this computer (pointing to the computer)

What does your dad do for his job?
E: cbp, officer
G: officer

13. What is your mom's favorite food?
E: chicken nuggets
G: pork chops, but I don't know what the rest are

What is your dad's favorite food?
E: corn off the cob

14. What makes you proud of your mom?
E: playing at the park
G: play my games much,I'm so proud of you do that. do you wanna play my games much?

What makes you proud of your dad?
E: playing at the park

15. What do you and your mom do together?
E: play games on the wii
G: play my game, go at the stores together (shopping)

What do you and your dad do together?
E: play wii games, bowling and lego batman

16. How are you and your mom the same?
E: smile like her
G: just talk alike, i look like mommy with no sunglasses (meaning my glasses)

How are you and your dad the same?
E: we have short hair

17. How are you and your mom different?
E: because i'm short and she's tall
G: um, sunglasses

How are you and your dad different?
E: because i'm short and he's tall

18. How do you know your mom loves you?
E: because she hugs me and kisses me
G: hugs me, kiss me

How do you know your dad loves you?
E: because he hugs me and kisses me on the cheek and the nose

19. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
E: mark's feed store
G: um, at the store shopping, and see santa claus

Where is your daddy's favorite place to go?
E: to the theater

Evan's Basketball Season is Over... :(

Well, I can't say I'm super sad, but I am a little sad. I've coached his team for two years now, and although I can't promise that any kids know a whole lot more about basketball, we've all had a lot of fun. I get attached to the kids and am sad when I won't get to see them anymore. I finally remembered to take my camera with me the last game! Here are some pics of our team playing their last game.
Getting ready to play defense

Playing defense

Evan taking the ball away from the opponent-I'm so proud!

Pics from the awards ceremony:

Here's most of our team...from left: Coach Nick, Ha'lle, Devon, Jason, Addisyn, Luke, Kaylee, Kaitlyn, Evan. Not pictured is Keelan and Tyler.

Here's our whole team-

We sure are one good-looking team!! :)

My Little Miss Priss

The scenario at Grammy & Papaw's house the other night when Gracie was staying the night:

Since it was bedtime before Papaw got home, Gracie was told that Papaw would come up and kiss her goodnight as soon as he got home. It hadn't been too long after she went to bed when Papaw went up to kiss her. She was still awake, watching her movie (one of the privileges of staying the night at the grandparents!). Anyway, she didn't act very interested in Papaw wanting to kiss her goodnight; she actually wouldn't kiss him and told him not to kiss her. Papaw said "Well, can I at least kiss your hand?" To which she responded "only one time." He got the same response when he asked if he could kiss her forehead. It was very unusual for her to act like that, and of course, Papaw Phil was heartbroken.



The next day, after hearing the story, I asked Gracie "Why wouldn't you kiss Papaw Phil night-night last night?" To which she responded "I didn't want him to mess up my lipstick"!

I had put lip gloss on her before school that morning, and more than 12 hours later she didn't want him to mess it up...



After telling Dad (Papaw) that story, he responded, "we need to let her keep that up, especially when she wants to start dating"-I TOTALLY agree!!!

Another Field Trip

This time we got to go to the KY Derby Museum!

I was in charge of Evan & his classmate, Jonah for the day. While at the museum, we got to go on a tour of the track, rome around the museum and see all the exhibits, watch a movie about the derby, and learn about jockey silks. It was a lot of fun!

Here are some of our pictures from the day.
Evan & Jonah learning about the parts of the horse

Here the boys are listening to a race

We were standing in the Winner's Circle (for every race except the actual Derby race)

Evan got to "ride a horse during a race"-the race is played, from the jockey's point of view on a TV screen in front of the horse

This is Evan and Jonah with Evan's friend Abigail (he specially requested to get is picture with Abigail, and was nice enough to let Jonah be in it with them!)