Thirty-Six Months of Preschooler Chandler

And then there's this kid:

• What is your name? "Chanler."
• How old are you? "Free."
• Who do you live with? "Me, Frances."
• What is your favorite color? "Owls, pink and blue."
• Who do you like to spend time with? "Mimi." [That would be my mom.]
• What do you like to do with your family? "Dada." [Sure.]
• Where do you like to go? "With you." [So sweet.]
• What makes you sad? "Falling down." [She took a serious tumble the other day and rebounded really quickly.  She was a little unsettled by the skin peeling off her hands, but was less upset by it than I would have been.  She's a trooper that way.]
• What is your favorite toy? "My 'puters." [Translation: "my computers," which she doesn't have.]
• What is your favorite fruit?  "Ice cream." [She will eat clementines four at a time, but apparently doesn't know those are fruit.]
• What is your favorite TV show? "Scooby doo doo."
• What is your favorite lunch? "Ice cream." [She's never had ice cream for lunch, or at least never solely ice cream.]
• What are your favorite clothes?  "Thomases." [Her zip-up Thomas the Tank Engine pajamas.]
• What is your favorite game? "George's."  [No idea.]
• What is your favorite snack?  "Pretzels."  [She was eating pretzels at the time.]
• What is your favorite animal?  "Giraffes."
• What is your favorite song?  "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh."  [She sung this, of course.]
• What is your favorite book?  "Charlotte's Web." [We listen to a Charlotte's Web audiobook frequently.  We've all got parts memorized.]
• Who is your best friend?  "Peanut." [The youngest Linfoot.  He has a name, only nobody knows it.]
• What is your favorite sport?  "Blue." [In her defense, we haven't really sat down and taught her what sports are.]
• What is your favorite thing to do outside?  "Play with Ronan." [Upstairs neighbor boy.]
• What is your favorite drink?  "Blue milk and matching blue milk."  [No idea.]
• What is your favorite holiday?  "Eggs."  [We had just been on an Easter egg hunt when I asked.]
• What do you like to take to bed with you at night?  "Some toys and some hamburgers, not hamburgers, forks."
• What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  "Ice cream."  [Oatmeal, the child eats oatmeal for breakfast.]
• What is your favorite dinner?  "Ice cream."  [Just to be clear, when I do serve her ice cream, she eats about two bites.]
• What do you want to be when you grow up?  "A witch."
• What is daddy's name?  "Mahk."
• What is mommy's name?  "Mogan."
• What is sister's name?  "Frances."
• Where do you live?  "With you and with dada."