An Interview with SEVEN Year Old Dawson

When Dawson turned three I started the tradition of doing a yearly "interview" with him.  He thinks this is pretty neat to sit in a chair and have me ask him questions and write down all his answers.  It's fun to see how some answers change and others stay the same from year to year.  He's really growing up! Here are the same questions I ask every year and their responses from my blue-eyed seven year old!

1. What is your favorite color?  every color...blue, orange, red, green.
2. What is your favorite toy? LEGOS!

3. What is your favorite fruit?  grapes, strawberries, apples

4. What is your favorite tv show?  Curious George

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Mac n Cheese

6. What is your favorite outfit or things to wear?  Golf Shirts and khaki or blue shorts

7. What is your favorite game?  Candy Land
8. What is your favorite snack? Yogurt
9. What is your favorite animal?  Tiger, monkey, and our lizard Slinky
10. What is your favorite song? Pete Squirrel

 11. What is your favorite book? Clark the Shark

12. Who is your best friend?  Carson, Evan, Alexa, Tipton, Jamiah

13. What is your favorite cereal? Lucky Charms

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play on the playset or on the Gator!

15. What is your favorite drink? juice, sprite, or lemonade
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Panda
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Biscuits, and remember sometimes you make cinnamon rolls and strudels...I like those too!

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Candy and Water (HAHA!)
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer and a strawberry picker

And for the sake of comparison, here are his past years interviews...

AGE SIX

1. What is your favorite color?  Orange and blue
2. What is your favorite toy? Outside:my bike! And inside: my workshop!

3. What is your favorite fruit?  Grapes and pineapple
4. What is your favorite tv show?  Curious George
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Grilled cheese!
6. What is your favorite outfit or things to wear?  My short sleeve button down and my pants with a belt and a hat and my workin’ shoes.
7. What is your favorite game? HedBanz and I Spy
8. What is your favorite snack? Goldfish and candy
9. What is your favorite animal?  A dog and river otter
10. What is your favorite song? Ain’t No Bugs On Me

 11. What is your favorite book? Every book and the Eye Spy book.
12. Who is your best friend?  Carson, Colt, Charlie, Bailey, Evan, Rowan.

13. What is your favorite cereal? Fruit Loops

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Pick up the yard and stuff and do yard chores
15. What is your favorite drink? lemonade
16. What is your favorite holiday?  Halloween and Christmas and Valentines

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Panda
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Biscuits

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  CANDY!!  And s’mores that you get from the fire not that you make inside…I like to burn them to make them taste better
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer I’ll have all kinds of things like tractors, dog, and stuff like all vegitables and apples.  And I hope my squirrels won’t eat my apples!  And a lot of cows, goats, chickens, and pigs!  And 2 cats and 3 dogs

BELOW Shows his answers at ages 5, 4, and 3:

1. What is your favorite color? at 5 years old: BLACK, BUT I WILL SWITCH TO ANOTHER COLOR SOON
at 4 years old: Green
at 3 years old: Green
2. What is your favorite toy? at 5 years old:MY JOHN DEERE GATOR 
at 4 years old: My Gator, Mower, Trailer, Campfire (we had a fire in the firepit the previous night and he calls this campfire), and my horse hospital-a new birthday gift. 
at 3 years old: My trailer and my John Deere!!
3. What is your favorite fruit? at 5 years old:GRAPES-BOTH COLOR GRAPES!
at 4 years old: Red and green apples
at 3 years old: strawberry
4. What is your favorite tv show? at 5 years old:BANANAS IN PAJAMAS and BUSYTOWN MYSTERIES
at 4 years old:Word World!!!
at 3 years old: I don't know!
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? at 5 years old:GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH
at 4 years old:Macaroni and Cheese
at 3 years old: Chicken Salad
6. What is your favorite outfit or things to wear? at 5 years old:SHORT SLEEVES AND SHORTS
at 4 years old: My Ninja Turtle Shirt from Target (we purchased this the day before), shorts NOT PANTS, I really like khaki and white shorts the best!
at 3 years old: Gym Shorts, boat shoes, bow ties (hopefully he doesn't want to wear these three together!)
7. What is your favorite game? at 5 years old:CANDY LAND
at 4 years old: Candy Land and playing Temple Run on Mommy's Phone
at 3 years old: playing ROWDY with Daddy (laughing!)
8. What is your favorite snack? at 5 years old:GOLDFISH and PIRATES BOOTY
at 4 years old:Goldfish
at 3 years old: Suckers!
9. What is your favorite animal? at 5 years old:ELEPHANT
at 4 years old: Kittycat
at 3 years old: owl
10. What is your favorite song? at 5 years old:JINGLE BELLS
at 4 years old:Wagon Wheel
at 3 years old: Veggie Tales
11. What is your favorite book? at 5 years old:MR POPPERS PENGUINS
at 4 years old:The Cat in the Hat and Charlotte's Web
at 3 years old: The Three Little Pigs by Dr. Seuss (any book title he talks about right now, he always says it's by Dr. Seuss)
12. Who is your best friend? at 5 years old:BAILEY!  SHE'S MY FRIEND AND SHE'S A GIRL! 
at 4 years old:Wait a second, Mommy, I'm trying to tell you something about working in the yard and you asked me another question!  -proceeds to tell me about how he needs to mow the grass, then answers the question:  Colt, Charlie, Carter, and some more like all the ones that were at my party
at 3 years old: Charlie Gibson, Daddy, and Jude
13. What is your favorite cereal? at 5 years old:CHEERIOS
at 4 years old:Lucky Charms
at 3 years old: I don't know!
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? at 5 years old:RIDE MY GATOR, PLAY IN MY NEW PLAYHOUSE, AND WORK IN THE YARD, AND PLAY IN THE POOL 
at 4 years old:Swing and ride the John Deere Gator
at 3 years old: Ride mine John Deere and chase the birdies
15. What is your favorite drink? at 5 years old:APPLE JUICE and THOSE KOOLAID SQUEEZES I GET AT THE GAS STATION SOMETIMES
at 4 years old:Apple juice
at 3 years old: Juice
16. What is your favorite holiday? at 5 years old: CHRISTMAS! I LOVE ADVENT GIFTS!!!!! AND I LOVE CHRISTMAS TREES!
at 4 years old: Christmas!  Hey, do you think Charlie the Elf will hid in our house again at the next Christmas?
at 3 years old: I don't know!
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? at 5 years old:TIG THE TIGER, PANDA, AND TIP TOP THE GIRAFFE
at 4 years old:Panda
at 3 years old: Panda! Panda Doggie and Panda Turtle and BBB (big brown blanket)
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? at 5 years old:SAUSAGE IN A BISCUIT
at 4 years old:Cereal
at 3 years old: Biscuit with the butter not melted (??)
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  at 5 years old:MEAT MUFFINS (this is what Carter and Dawson started calling the mini-meatloaves I've been making lately from turkey and oatmeal-I am so glad they like these because they're healthy-and easy!)
at 4 years old:Corn (?!)
at 3 years old: Mac and Cheese
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? at 5 years old:A FARMER!
at 4 years old: I'm going to be a farmer!
at 3 years old: Bentley!

Dawson's 7th Birthday Party

This year for Dawson's birthday we gave him several choices of party locations other than our backyard.  We figured since he had never had a party anywhere other than our house he would pick one of those choices, but in the end he asked specifically if we could have a Lego themed party, in our backyard, with an inflatable, a piñata, and cake and ice cream...this was totally doable, so he got those requests!  This year Dawson's birthday actually fell on a Saturday which worked out perfectly for his party.  He has 19 other kids in his class at school and wanted to invite them all, so we did...along with his other friends from outside of school.  The weather was perfect for being outside-not too hot at all!

Dawson was thrilled to have LOTS of friends be able to come to his party.  I think I've got everyone one this list:  Lolly, Pop, Nana, Grandad, Daddy, Mommy, Carter, Nora Kate, Clayton, Carson, Harper, Jessica, Casey, David, Sarah, Alexa, Connor, William, Bailey, Tanya, Kyle, Jack, Ella, Brynn, Braia, Jillian, Carolyn, Skylar, Andrea, Freddie, Charlie, Olivia, Colt, Nora, Charlie T., Violet, Dylan, and Abigail.  Lots of friends to help celebrate!  

Happy 7th Birthday, Dawson!

Our big 7 year old!

Everyone had fun in the inflatable!

Playing corn hole.

Lego themed party with Lego shirt!

Since we had lots of friends, it was the perfect time to pull out the parachute!

A real party animal right here! Haha! Clayton relaxing during Dawson's party!

Dawson had requested a game, so we played pin the head on the Lego man!

The kids enjoyed this!

The end product of the game!  It was hard to tell who won!

The Lego man cake I made for Dawson's birthday.

Pinata as requested by the birthday boy!

Ready to hit the piñata!

Dawson opening gifts after the party!

Here's the invitation we sent out.

For the blog, I covered our address with the white box.

Dawson was so excited about the Lego invitations.

Dawson had a great birthday, and we are so thankful for all of Dawson's friends and our friends who came to help us celebrate our sweet boy turning SEVEN!

Clayton's 7th Week

Clayton's 7th Week began with celebrating his Pop's birthday.  We went over there for pizza and of course cake!  Also, this week he went to (a friend) Jackson's birthday party where he slept almost the whole time in the carrier I was wearing.  Then on Sunday I celebrated my first Mother's Day as a mother of FOUR, thanks to sweet Clayton. 

I don't want to be redundant in these weekly updates, but not too much has changed from last week.  Clayton is STILL such a good baby!  He's eating about every 3 hours, going a 4 hour stretch at night.  He LOVES bath time.  His baby acne is FINALLY starting to clear up!  His siblings still LOVE him...to the point that I have to say, "Give him space." "Let him breathe!" quiet frequently because they are always right in his face! They love to hold, cuddle, kiss, and talk to him.  Clayton has become even more generous with his sweet smiles this week, which we all love!

Looking like a big boy propped in his crib.

Nora Kate is never far from "our baby" as she calls him.

LOVE his smiles! My baby boy!

When Nora Kate wakes up in the mornings she always requests Clayton to lay in her bed with her. 

Clayton fell asleep propped in his boppy pillow like this.  Next thing I know he's laughing and smiling in his sleep!

My first Mother's Day as a Mother of FOUR!!

Feeling very blessed by the four precious kids!