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!