We finally made it to Chandler's actual birthday, after a lot of preamble. It was a Tuesday and Frances had school, so we didn't have too much time to work with, but I did want to do something. So we went to the local ice cream shop and we brought along our 4 candle.
Chandler isn't actually an ice cream fiend, but she humored us.
The Four Year-Old Interview
- What is your name? " C-h-a-n-d-l-e-r." [She spelled it!]
- How old are you? "I'm four."
- Who do you live with? "I live with Frances, Morgan, Dada."
- What is your favorite color? "My favorite color is purple." [After saying this, she looked at me, hard. She knows my favorite color is purple.]
- Who do you like to spend time with? "Uh, Dad. Hmmm, and, what's next?" [She wasn't really enjoying this experience.]
- What do you like to do with your family? "I like to play in my room. I like to go where they want to go with my family. I like to go to Toys-R-Us and that's it."
- Where do you like to go? "I like to go to Toys-R-Us and buy stuff." [The girls got very generous gift certificates from their Uncle Eric at Christmas. It has taken a couple trips to Toys-R-Us to spend them.]
- What makes you sad? "Sad? Who screams at me. Who's mad at me." [She gets really upset when she thinks people are mad at me. She's taken to wailing, "Everyone is mad at me!" Luckily, these bouts of wide-reaching calamity are short lived.]
- What is your favorite toy? "My favorite toy is my big red car." [It goes with a doll house. It doubles as a picnic table. It is actually cool.]
- What is your favorite fruit? "Fruit? Frances." [I guess I need to try harder. Poor kid. She ate a pound of strawberries recently. It's not like she's never seen a fruit. She just can't identify it.]
- What is your favorite TV show? "My favorite tv show is new movies."
- What is your favorite vegetable? "Grapes." [Closer!]
- What is your favorite lunch? "My favorite lunch is spisacios." [Known to the rest of us as "pistachios."]
- What are your favorite clothes? "My favorite clothes is Elsa dress." [Also what she happened to be wearing when she was asked the question.]
- What is your favorite game? "My favorite game is How to Train Your Dragon II." [Chandler and Frances run around hissing at each other, as dragons are wont to do. I won't pretend to love it, but I know it could be so much worse.]
- What is your favorite snack? "My favorite snack is peanut butter."
- What is your favorite animal? "My favorite animal is anything."
- What is your favorite song? "My favorite song is No One Knows How Far I Go." [That's Chandler's take on the Moana song."
- What is your favorite book? "My favorite book is any book, any book from the library [laughter]." [The laughter seemed to indicate that the library stipulation should be obvious.]
- Who is your best friend? "My best friend is Peanut."
- What is your favorite sport? "My favorite sport...I don't know what sport means."
- What is your favorite thing to do outside? "My favorite thing is run around in the flesh air."
- What is your favorite drink? "My favorite drink is apple juice."
- What is your favorite holiday? "My favorite holiday is watching movie." [Maybe I should have given examples.]
- What do you like to take to bed with you at night? "I take anything i want to sleep with for five days and five nights and seven days and five nights."
- What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? "My favorite thing is noodles." [She gets the meal names confused.]
- What is your favorite dinner? "My fav...I'm getting tired." [She also rarely eats dinner.]
- What do you want to be when you grow up? "I want to be...I want to go back to my fort." [She was pretending to be asleep in a pillow fort when I roused her to ask these questions. Too many questions for a sleepy four year-old, clearly.]
- What is your daddy's name? "Mark."
- What is your mommy's name? "Morgan."
- What is sister's name? "Frances."
- Where do you live? "We live in a big house."
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