An Interview with 4 Year Old Clayton

Clayton's 4 Year Old Interview

Last year when Clayton turned 3 years old he got to take his first "birthday interview."  With each of the children I have started asking them the same 20 questions on their birthday each year starting at age three, and it is so fun to see how the answers change each year.  Now the big three kids love for me to read their old interviews to them and laugh about the answers they gave at younger ages.  So, here are Clayton's questions and responses to his birthday interview at age four, and I've included the answers from age 3 too so we can see how his preferences have changed or not.

1.  What is your favorite color? age 4:  blue and black

     age 3: green
2.  What is your favorite toy to play with? age 4:  LEGOS, Darth Vader Lego guy, Spiderman, Batman, my batman mask

     age 3:trucks and dump trucks and fire trucks

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  age 4:  GRAPES and little oranges (he loves little cuties so much he would eat them all the time.  His siblings tell him he should enter an orange eating contest! Hah!)

     age 3:grapes

4.  What is your favorite show? age 4:  Spiderman

     age 3:Octonauts

5.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? age 4:  grapes and apples and bananas! (apparently we were still on the fruit kick from question 3)

     age 3:Chicken

6.  What is your favorite thing to wear?  age 4:  my batman shirt! (I have to hide this shirt sometimes just like I typed last year about the Dollywood shirt! This boy has his favorites and I think he would wear only those items all the time if I allowed it.)

     age 3:My digger shirt from my birthday party and my Dollywood shirt (this is so true-he wears his Dollywood shirt all the time!  Sometimes I have to hide it in the laundry room after I wash it to keep it out his sight for a few days, but he always goes looking for it.)

7.  What is your favorite game to play?  age 4:  Riversurvival (a Wii game that he likes to play with his older siblings because 4 can play at one time so it's perfect!)

     age 3:Sharks 

     Me: What? Sharks? What game is that?
     Clayton: Haha (laughing) I actually like to play Kerplunk (he loves to use the word actually)
8.  What is your favorite snack?  age 4:  APPLES (again with the fruit!, he does love fruit)

     age 3:Snacktime I like snacktime

     Me: Yes, you love snacktime.  But what is your favorite thing to eat at snacktime?
    Clayton: Crackers!
9.  What is your favorite animal? age 4:  Oreo (Oreo is Aunt Emily's dog that the kids LOVE) or a giraffe

     age 3:Donkey (HAH! I have no idea where this came from, but he gave this response without hesitation!)

10.  What is your favorite song? age 4:  Who Let the Dogs Out, Crazy Train, or Fear Fear Get Out of Hear! (Can you tell he has a wide taste in music?!)

     age 3:Who Let the Dogs Out AND the Dollywood Song that I dance to (translation: You don't know you're beautiful--he heard this song at Dollywood in September and danced to it and loves to watch the video of himself dancing to this.  Now he regularly asks Alexa to play this song)

11.  What is your favorite book? age 4:  my Superhero book or my Spiderman book from the library 

     age 3:My Trucks Book...with all the trucks in it

12.  Who is your best friend?  age 4:  "no one...just our family!" (As a disclaimer Clayton has lots of friends-probably his most played with friends are Ruby and Cooper, however, Clayton really does love playing with his siblings so I can see why he would respond this way)

     age 3:My birthday cake friends (I think he means the friends who came to his party last weekend?) Then he said "RUBY!"

13.  What is your favorite cereal? age 4:  Green Cheerios (translation apple cinnamon cheerios...they come in a green box)

     age 3:Lucky Charms

14.  What is your favorite thing to play outside? age 4:  driving the princess car or riding my bike or laser tag

     age 3:play on my scooter

15.  What is your favorite drink? age 4:  Gatorade or Sprite or (super silly, sly laugh) Coke (laughing because he knows he is not allowed to have Coke)

     age 3:Sprite (sprite is a special treat and he knows it, he smiled so big when he said sprite...so sweet)

16.  What is your favorite holiday? age 4:  uhhhh I don't know

     age 3:Easter Eggs

17.  What do you like to take to bed with you at night?  age 4:  Blankie Spankie

     age 3:(Smiling mischievously) My blankie spankie (laughs) Then says more seriously, "My blanket"  (he's been being silly lately and calling his blanket his blankie spankie haha)

18.  What is your favorite food to eat for breakfast?  age 4:  waffles and oranges

     age 3:Eggs and waffles and strudels and eggs

19.  What do you want for dinner on your birthday? age 4:  cake!

     age 3:A Cheezits in a BIIIIIIIG box! (Haha, I have no clue)

20.  What do you want to be when you're a grown up? age 4:  "nothing. OR I would work at Polaris."

     age 3:A digger or a space man or a dump truck