Three Little Favorites

Mackayla

What is your favorite color? orange

Favorite food? Corn dog and hot dog

Least favorite food? chicken

Favorite toy? Monkey (no idea what this even is), and a whale

Favorite movie? Dora

Favorite song? Shake your booty

Favorite animal? puppy

Favorite thing to do? Play in the boxes outside and inside

What are you scared of? Monsters

Mackayla - Day Two

What is your favorite color? green

Favorite food? Hot chocolate and toast

Least favorite food? Chicken

Favorite toy? monkey

Favorite movie? Dora Explorer

Favorite song? Giggo

Favorite animal? Deers

Favorite thing to do? Playing with toys, choo choo train

What are you scared of? Dinosaurs

Favorite person? Grandma

A "list" of hers

Mackayla is subtle. People don't know how sharp she is unless they make a point to notice her.

The kids have told her she is shy but I tell her that some kids know how to talk to others and some kids get to learn but she'll be just fine.

Everyday the cross guards at Cody's school wait to hear her cheerful "HI!!!" as we pass by. And she usually updates them on whether or not she has on shoes.

Because she is such a chill child you would never guess that she can chatter NONSTOP in the car. Half the time she says the cutest funniest things but I can't remember them because as I'm trying to stash them in my brain she's yelling, "OK mom?! Ok mom?! Mom!" nonstop.

She loves to interrupt the other two kids when they're excitedly telling me something.

Once she has my attention she'll repeat exactly what they said.

One of her Favorite things to do is draw.

Intricate little pictures that she explains to herself as she draws them.

If Ben isn't home she almost always asks where he is and then says, "Is he at work?" or "Is he at scouts?"

She decided to change right before Cody's baseball game.

Then at the game I realized she was flashing the whole world with her bare bum sticking out of her skirt.

She had taken off her underwear and didn't replace it:)

Luckily I had extra.

 Macey

Favorite color? Pink

Favorite food? Blueberries

Least favorite food? Types of chicken

Favorite toy? My pink dolphin with a heart on it

Favorite movie? My little pony

Favorite song? Shakeable you (from ballet class)

Favorite animal? Cat

Favorite thing to do? Snuggle with mom. Watching tv.

What are you scared of? Dragons. [But really?] Lord Garmedon? (I'm going to add: Flushing the Toilet!)

She puts so much detail and effort into every single paper she does in preschool. 

 One day we were discussing "hobbies."

If you ask me right now, I am going to require my kids to have at least one extra curricular activity to do when they're junior high/high school age. One music and one sport, depending on the dynamics of the kids and how things pan out. I don't know, I'm not there yet.

I asked Macey what she wanted to do for her hobby when she grew up.

She said "school," in this voice that sounded like it would be the coolest thing on the planet if I would let her. So ironically cute. 

Tonight she told me she had decided the earth was a boy. There is a song that talks about the earth, it's a primary children's song but I can't pinpoint it right now, and it says "she" for the earth.

But, she reasoned, the earth is made in boy colors, so it must be a boy.

This girl really wants to be understood. 

She goes to great great lengths to explain things and make sure she's understood.

Cody

Favorite color? Green, blue and black

Favorite food? Cooked tortillas with jelly and peanut butter

Least favorite food? Rice

Favorite toy? All of them

Favorite movie? Imaginext

Favorite song? Radioactive by Pentatonix and Lindsey stirling

Favorite animal? Alligator

Favorite things to do? play legos, chess, Sudoku, baseball, handball

What are you scared of? being lost.

We have hundreds of these drawings.

We always let the kids brings stuff to draw with at church and Cody fills papers with guys, beasts, volcanoes, tornadoes, sharks, you name it.

This is a school project for mother's day. First he used pencil, then crayon, then watercolor. I love it!

Cody's school talks to them about eating healthy.

They must be pretty convincing because one day I put a cookie in Cody's school lunch and he didn't eat it because it's not healthy (that's a big deal for my little food inhaler.)

The kids were discussing Cookie Monster and Mackayla said "I love cookie monster"

to which Cody answered

"Oh, he is so not healthy."