Brielle Turns Eight

 

Brielle’s Interview

What's your favorite food? Watermelon and pizza
What's your favorite thing to play with? Barbies
What's your favorite movie or show? Barbie
What's your favorite song? Frozen 2 songs
What's your favorite book? Maggie and the Unicorn
What's your favorite color? Pink, purple, blue, and yellow
What's your favorite Bible story? The one where David takes down the big giant with a slingshot
What do you like to with Sophie? Talk about Minecraft
What do you like to do with Lyla? Play Whig Out
What's do you like to do with Violet? Playing with magnets
What do you want to do when you get older? Be a hair salon and nail salon person
What's your favorite animal? Cheetah, elephant, cat, and dog 
Who are your best friends?  Blake
What makes you happy? Playing with Lyla 
What makes you sad? When Sophie’s mean to me
What are you really good at? Figuring out directions

For Brielle's birthday, we had a strawberry angel food cake and went to the Build-A-Bear workshop. She loves gymnastics and got a gymnast leotard and a camera as gifts.

Sayings:

- (While driving) "Whoa, there was a dead deer back there!... or maybe it was a dead kangaroo!"

- "Well, I'm not happy that no one's happy!"

- "I like beautiful books."

Loves: People, gymnastics, make-up, dance, babies, watermelon, pizza

Violet Turns Four

Violet’s Interview

What's your favorite food? It’s really hard because I like every kind of food… let me think… watermelon! That was easy now!
What's your favorite thing to play with?  Babies… baby dolls
What's your favorite movie or show?  Chip and Potato
What's your favorite song? "Little Bunny Foo Foo” and “Let it Go”
What's your favorite book? Peppa Pig
What's your favorite color? Purple… easy
What's your favorite Bible story? Jesus  
What do you like to with Brielle? Play outside… there’s so many things I can think of with Brielle 
What do you like to do with Lyla? Play babies
What's do you like to do with Sophie? I do not like anything with Sophie  
What do you want to do when you get older? I want to be like you (Mom) 
What's your favorite animal? Baby horse 
Who are your best friends? Easy… Lawson and Georgia
What makes you happy? Nothing really makes me happy… (think of something you really like)… Oh, easy to think what I like. Bike. 
What makes you sad? Sophie… she always makes me sad
What are you really good at? Mostly I’m really good at handstands. I’m pretty good at handstands but not cartwheels. I gotta keep trying.

For Violet's birthday, we had a fun day at the zoo and celebrating at home with family. 

Sayings:

- (At Salamonie waterfall) "Oh my gosh! That! I'm gonna climb that!"

- "I like purple. It's my best."

- "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Fig Newton" "Fig Newton who?" "I like Fig Newton."

- "The hat will get my hair all smoothie."

- V: "Are you making good? Will you save some for us for the morning?" Me: "Yes." V: "Good, 'cause we gonna love it!... what are you making?"

- "You're my best mom in the whole world."

- "Jesus is up in heaven. Mom, why can't Jesus put his head down and his hands down?"

- "Even when I got bigger, I still cute."

- "I love you so much, I'm gonna throw up!"

- "The song on the radio just said, "I will stand by you forever," but I wouldn't do that because I'd get tired."

Lyla turns Six

 

Lyla’s Interview

What's your favorite food? Macaroni and cheese 
What's your favorite thing to play with? Baby dolls
What's your favorite movie or show? Everly
What's your favorite song? “Yellow” by Audrey Assad
What's your favorite book? Snowy Day
What's your favorite color? Rainbow colors 
What's your favorite Bible story? Noah’s ark
What do you like to with Sophie? Play with Legos 
What do you like to do with Brielle? Play Whig Out
What's do you like to do with Violet? Play house with her
What do you want to do when you get older? Nail salon person
What's your favorite animal? Bunny and an elephant 
Who are your best friends?  Layla and Jace and Blake and Braxton and Iris
What makes you happy? Playing outside when it’s summer 
What makes you sad? When Sophie and Brielle and Violet hurt me
What are you really good at? Riding my bike and popping my wheels

For Lyla's 6th birthday, we had a laid-back day. We went to the zoo and to our neighbor's pond and hung out as a family. 

Sayings:

- L: "What's that colorful stuff called up in the sky?" Me: "You mean the sunrise?"

- (While carving pumpkins)

L: "Mom, is this a time where we can say poop?" Me: "Yes honey. It's just at the dinner table I don't want you saying things like that." L: "Okay... poop. Poop. Poop." (Proceeds to add poop to the end of every sentence for the next 5 minutes.)

- "And when we told each other our names, we got to friend really much."

- "The mucher I eat, the grosser my burps go."

- "We really need to find a mom for David to marry."

- L: "We need to find a girl husband for David. B: "Who will it be?" L: "Maybe a blonde."

- "Thank you that our house didn't fall down and make us die." (teaching Violet to pray)

Sophie Turns Nine

Personality: Sophie likes to be organized and take charge. She loves to have a plan, and she likes to do her best and succeed. She loves books though still prefers audiobooks and being read to reading a book herself. Sophie loves animals and has a sensitive heart, especially toward animals. She has a heart for justice. She hates having to do her hair and prefers to wear comfortable dresses.

School: Sophie loves school, especially when it involves books. She could sit and be read to all day long... books on every subject. She doesn't love math as much, though she does well at it. She likes to write stories though usually loses stamina before finishing them. She loves singing and has really improved with recitations this year. 

Birthday: For her birthday this year, she had planned to have a more laid-back birthday with just family and to go to Build-A-Bear. Who would have thought that those plans would be impossible? With Covid-19, all stores closed a couple weeks before her birthday, and we were unable to go to Build-A-Bear or do anything else for that matter. We did have a nice day though. We ordered take-out from her favorite local restaurant, I blew up a bunch of balloons for her to wake up to in her bedroom, and we had a nice day together as a family.

Loves: Animals, My Little Pony, Hatchimals, little collectible toys, books, audiobooks, blankets

Sophie's Interview:
What's your favorite food? Banana and pizza
What's your favorite thing to play with? My little hatchimal
What's your favorite movie or show? White Fang
What's your favorite song? "Silence" by Naomi Scott
What's your favorite book? Barry the Bravest Saint Bernard
What's your favorite color? Blue and pink
What's your favorite Bible story? Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego
What do you like to with Brielle? Jump on the trampoline
What do you like to do with Lyla? Jump on the trampoline
What's your favorite thing to with Violet? Jumping on the trampoline
What do you want to do when you get older? Like a farm petting zoo type thing
What's your favorite animal? All animals
Who are your best friends? Khloe
What makes you happy? When I get to see friends that I don't get to see very often
What makes you sad? When we're going somewhere and I have to wait like two more hours and it feels like two more years
What are you really good at? Talking

Brielle Turns Seven

Personality: Brielle has a sweet and motherly personality. She always wants to help and runs to care for her sisters when they get hurt or need help. She loves adults and often chooses to be with them over other kids when in group settings. She doesn't have a lot of toy interests and prefers to just be in the presence of people and to do what they like to do. She is brave and often is up for trying new and scary things.

School: She learned how to read this year. She prefers math, and she also enjoys copywork. She really love fairy tales and fables.

Birthday: For her birthday this year, Brielle wanted to have a little party. 

Loves: People, people, people. Literally, what Brielle loves is people. Oh, and she loves makeup and doing hair.

Brielle's Interview:

What's your favorite food? Pizza and watermelon

What's your favorite thing to play with? Bella, my goat

What's your favorite movie or show? My favorite movie is Equestria Girls and my favorite show is Polly Pocket

What's your favorite song? My favorite song is Nothing can Separate Me (Lullaby Hymns)

What's your favorite book? My favorite book is Ballet Shoes

What's your favorite color? My favorite color is blue, pink, and purple

What's your favorite Bible story? The fish and bread one

What do you like to do with Sophie? My favorite thing to do with Sophie is play games

What do you like to do with Lyla? My favorite thing to do with Lyla is play house

What do you like to do with Violet? I like to go down the slides with her

What do you want to do when you get older? Be a police

What's your favorite animal? Horse

Who are your best friends? Sophie, Lyla, Violet, and Mommy and Daddy

What makes you happy? Playing house with Lyla and Violet

What makes you sad? When people don't want to play with me

What are you really good at? Making friends