Four Year Old Questionaire

I asked the twins a series of questions to reflect on their age and personalities.  I asked Sophie first, because I knew she would be excited and cooperate.  :)

Here are her answers:

Can you tell you your name?  S-O-P-H-I-E (she spelled it for me)

How old are you?  Shows me four fingers, and decides it's five.  After counting, we settle on four.

What is your favorite color?  Pink and Purple!

Who is your best friend?  Bekka!(No deliberation there...she has decided Bekka is the only friend she needs!)

What is your favorite animal?  Butterflies

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A ballerina

What is your favorite movie?  Care Bears

What is your favorite book?  The Barbie and ballerina books

What makes you happy?  When I get presents and it's my birthday.

What makes you sad?  When I don't get anything.(I really thought she was going to say when Jack is mean to her.)

What is your favorite food?  strawberries and kiwis(she loves fruit!)

What is your favorite song?  Funny songs

What is your favorite game?  Candyland

What is your favorite toy?  La-la Loopsy

What do you like to take to bed with you?  Loveys and ballerina bear

What do you like to wear?  Ballerina Costume and Ballerina Shirt(This girl cries unless I put her in a dress.  She tells me people won't know she's pretty unless she wears a dress.)

What is your favorite thing to do at school?  Make cubes.(Their teacher taught them to make cubes out of special blocks.)

What is your favorite thing about Daddy?  When he plays La-la Loopsy with me.

What is your favorite thing about Mommy?  When she makes me yummy food.

What is your favorite thing about Jack?  When he doesn't hurt me.(ah...there it is!  Not that Jack hurts her a lot!)

Next, I called Jack upstairs.  He flipped his lid, and cried and complained about how it was going to take FOREVER to answer the questions, and he didn't want to do it...he's dramatic when he doesn't want to do something!

Here are his answers:

Can you tell me your name?  Jack(in that fussy way he says something when he knows he's trapped.)

Can you tell me how old you are?   I don't know(he always says this, even though I know he knows!)  after talking he figures out it's 4.

What are your favorite colors?  Blue and red.

Who is your best friend?  Dax

What is your favorite animal?  um...What animal is red?  I like elephants because they are blue.

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A scuva diver.

What is your favorite movie?  Cars 2 and Star Wars(I have to add here, that he has not in fact seen Star Wars, but rather, several clips on YouTube that Matt has shown him.  He knows it is a more "adult" movie, and that's why I think he gets so excited about it.)

What is your favorite book?  Do I have a Cars book? (yes) Then that's it!

What makes you happy?  When I get presents.(really?  both of them?   I need to work on what's really important in life...)

What makes you sad?  When I get a time out.

What is your favorite food?  pepperoni and bacon!

What is your favorite song?  The Star Wars Song(a Weird Al song on our Satellite Radio) and Cars 2

What is your favorite game?  The Sorry Cars 2 game I got for my birthday.

What is your favorite toy?  Star Wars and Cars 2(Seriously, this kid plays with his Duplos, making "ships" every single day, all day long...so I am interjecting here, that it really is Duplos!)

What do you like to take to bed with you?  Toys that don't make noise.(I think he is reciting a rule here, because I won't let them take noisy toys to bed)

What do you like to wear most?  Cars 2 clothes.(He loves sweats and comfies, which his Cars outfits are.)

What is your favorite thing about school?  Playing with play dough, but I never do, I forget!

What is your favorite thing about Daddy?  When he builds me ships.

What is your favorite thing about Mommy?  When she plays with me.

What is your favorite thing about Sophie?  When she does something nice to me.

These kids are downright goofy...I hope I am able to keep asking them this every year, to see how their answers change!

Fourth Birthday

On Sunday, we had a family birthday party for the kids.  We kept it really simple and hung out, had dinner, and opened presents.  We had bought an ice cream cake, but never got around to even singing "Happy Birthday."  The party the day before made me more exhausted than I can say!  Eight months pregnant, plus birthday party, equals a tired mommy.  Thankfully, the twins just love hanging out with their family, and the undivided attention that their Grandparents and aunt and uncles give them.  We worked really hard to make sure the twins didn't think their birthday was all about presents, but they were really excited for that part of the day.  Truth be told, I think their grandparents like seeing them open presents!  :)  We didn't take a lot of pictures that day for some reason, but I liked this one of the excitement of it all.  And Jack insisted on wearing his "comfies."  That's what we call sweats around here.

 Monday was the twins actual birthday, and Matt and I were beginning to loose a little steam by then.  ;)  Of course, he made them his traditional pancakes.  Last year, it was Mickey and Minnie Mouse.  This year they got the first letter of their names.  Of course I made bacon, because Jack is addicted to it.  I hear this is a pretty universal Anderson thing, although, my dad is addicted too!  Who doesn't love bacon, right?  In the second picture, you can see Sophie wearing her shoes.  She got the most crazy pair of pink sparkled shoes ever from her Grammy, and insisted on wearing them as soon as she woke up.  Also, don't mind the chairs...I was too tired to put our real kitchen chairs back!

 Matt and his spatulas...he makes such a mess in the kitchen when he cooks!  ;)

After breakfast, the kids went to school for a couple of hours.  They got to celebrate with their class, and their teachers made it really special.  They got stickers that said it was their birthday, a little apron with a green frog on it, which is their class name, and a little card with their classmate's finger prints.  I made them each their own kind of cupcake.  Once again, by Sunday night when I was working on these, I was exhausted.  So they turned out alright, although Matt mercilessly made fun of them.  ;)

Cars for Jack(sorta looks like Lightning) and butterflies for Sophie.

After school we took the twins to McDonald's, which we only do on special occasions, because Matt and I hate that place!  HA!  It was their choice though, and they liked the little toys they got, and playing in the playplace.

We came home, hung out for a little bit, had cake and ice cream cake, and watched a movie downstairs.  The most relaxing way to spend a busy, busy weekend!

So thankful to be able to celebrate four years with the little guys.  I said lots of prayers that weekend(and almost every day) that I get to be their mommy.

Movie Theater Party

 On October 1st, we celebrated the twin's fourth birthday with friends.  We had planned to do an outdoor movie with our projector, but the weather spoiled our plans.  It was rainy and ugly that day!  We moved the party to the basement, and we were nice and cozy inside.  The party started at 6:00, and by the time the first guests arrived, Jack and Sophie were stirred up into quite the frenzy of excitement!  Here they are making sure that Daddy gets the projector right.  They love to dance in front of the screen when the movie turns on.  You can see that we picked "Curious George" as the movie.

 These are the kid's cakes.  I decided not to make the cakes this year, and could not have been happier.  Jack and Sophie loved them!  We managed to keep them a surprise until their party, and they were pretty excited to have their own cakes!

 Jack set up his toy projector by the real projector.

Singing Happy Birthday, and checking out the cakes while we waited for a few guests to arrive.

 Jack needed help blowing out his candles, so all of his friends blew together.  Sophie's little smile shows just how excited she was!

 Eating the cake.  Matt cute HUGE pieces!  HA!  Those cakes are so sugary, that not much actually got eaten.

 We bought movie theater candy boxes of candy, juice boxes, and we popped popcorn.  We thought we went overboard on the candy, but it was good we bought extras, because some of the kids ate three(yes three!) boxes of candy.  Those poor kids didn't have a chance at sitting and watching a movie!  :)

 Watching the movie.  The girls all cuddled in a line, and it was really sweet.  The boys didn't really make it through the movie, and Matt entertained them by having them chase flashlights around the wall.  Boys are nuts!

 We really did have a good night, and it was fun watching Jack and Sophie interact with all of their friends.  They were excited to give their friends favors on the way out the door.  It was a lot of work, but it felt great to make them feel so special for their special day!