Reflections on Turning 10 for their Champagne Birthdays

 Each year, usually the night before their birthdays, I ask both minions a bunch of questions to find out a bit about them.  Along with their annual birthday photo this helps both them and us look back on who they were and who they are becoming.  It amazes me how some things stay very consistent while others change drastically. We are officially into double digits tomorrow. Where did the time go! I love how big and capable they are yet at the same time I am dreading the attitude that is coming as we approach the tween/teen years. If I could freeze them at this age I probably would, just for a little while.

Molly Age 10

What is your favourite colour?

Red

What is your favourite toy?

Stuffed animals (Specifically Beary and Slothy)

What is your favourite food?

Crab Sushi, Wendy's (chilli and burgers), and Subway

What is your favourite song?

Cloud 9 by Beach Bunny

What is your favourite movie?

Trolls and A Fault in Our Stars

What is your favourite animal?

Foxes and cats

What is your favourite book?

The Babysitter's Club Graphic Novels

What is your favourite drink?

Milk (and I also love pop)

What do you sleep with at night?

Still blankie

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Artist or a teacher.

Jack Age 10

What is your favourite colour?

Green

What is your favourite toy?

Jabbe the hut collectible from 1997

What is your favourite food?

Pepperoni Pizza, Tuna Sushi and Salmon Sashimi, hot dogs

What is your favourite song?

Ocean Man by Ween

What is your favourite movie?

Python, Deep Blood, Star Wars, and King Kong

What is your favourite animal?

Shark

What is your favourite book?

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Series

What is your favourite drink?

Pop (Root beer & Coke, all of them)

What do you sleep with at night?

My weighted blanked with a radio and the fan on

What do you want to be when you grow up?

A movie maker and writer: I want to make the following movies: Killer Beach Ball, Crabalanche, Metal Man vs. The Amazing Bulk

Reflections Before Turning 8

Each year, around their birthday, I ask both minions a bunch of questions to find out a bit about them.  Along with their annual birthday photo this helps both them and us look back on who they were and who they are becoming.  For whatever reason Molly in particular couldn't wait for me to ask her birthday questions this year.

Molly Age 8

What is your favourite colour?

Today it is purple, but it changes every day.

What is your favourite toy?

Barbies like Wonder Woman and my Anne of Green Gables  Doll

What is your favourite food?

Sushi, Shepherds Pie, and Mashed Potatoes (but not together).

What is your favourite song?

Castle on a Cloud (from Les Miserables)

What is your favourite movie?

Mulan, Tangled, and Frozen

What is your favourite animal?

Sharks

What is your favourite book?

The Harriet Hamsterbone Series

What is your favourite drink?

Chocolate Milk, pop & tea

What do you sleep with at night?

Still blankie

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a vet, have my own store, and be an artist and a teacher.

Jack Age 8

What is your favourite colour?

Green


What is your favourite toy?

Lego Dr. Strange


What is your favourite food?

Pizza


What is your favourite song?

Radioactive by Imagine Dragons 

What is your favourite movie?

Spiderman Far From Home
 (to read our review on the movie click here)


What is your favourite animal?

Green Ants because they are cool.


What is your favourite book?

Dog Man For Whom The Ball Rolls
 (note that at the time of these questions this new Dav Pilkey book had not been released yet, he just really, really wanted it for his birthday)


What is your favourite drink?

Pop - All of them.


What do you sleep with at night?

My Captain Underpants Stuffy


What do you want to be when you grow up?

A Filmmaker. I am going to make a lot of films like sequels to Coraline, a Mysterio Movie, Coraline Meets Para-Norman, Malice Man, and Captain Underpants Two, the Second Epic Movie.

To read about Molly & Jack at 4 click here.

I Don't Want to Grow Up - Reflections on Turning 7

Each year I've written a little bit about Molly and Jack on their birthdays. I started this tradition on their third birthday, when they were old enough to answer some questions themselves, so I started asking.  Along with their annual "night before birthday" photo, I've added this annual list of questions to the many traditions we want to enjoy with the minions.  Here is what they had to say this year.  I can't believe they turn seven tomorrow!  Where does the time go?

Cooling off in Halifax last summer

Molly Age 7

What is your favourite colour?
Rainbow.  Can I say that? Is that a colour?

What is your favourite toy?
My stuffed animals that are really alive.  So Slothie, Knuffle Bunny, and Donkey.

What is your favourite food?
Shepard's pie.

What is your favourite song?
Hello by Adele

What is your favourite movie?
Rapunzel

What is your favourite animal?
Shark

What is your favourite book?
Alligator Pie, because it was the first one I learned to read.

What is your favourite drink?
Lemon Fizz, that Grandma Joy makes me, also milk.

What do you sleep with at night?
Blankie

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A swimming teacher

The Sword & the Stone at High Park

Jack Age 7

What is your favourite colour?
Green

What is your favourite toy?
My Super Mario action figures

What is your favourite food?
Sushi

What is your favourite song?
The Chicken Dance

What is your favourite movie?
Captain Underpants

What is your favourite animal?
Salamander

What is your favourite book?
Anything by Dav Pilkey

What is your favourite drink?
Root Beer

What do you sleep with at night?
My Deadpool nightshirt

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Astronaut, but only if dad trains to become one too.

Hanging out at James Gardens

To read their answers from age three to see how much has changed click here

I Don't Want To Grow Up: Reflections On Turning Six

Each year I've written a little bit about Molly and Jack on their birthdays. I started this tradition on their third birthday, when they were old enough to answer some questions themselves, so I started asking.  Along with their annual "night before birthday" photo, I've added this annual list of questions to the many traditions we want to enjoy with the minions.  Here is what they had to say this year.  I can't believe they turn six tomorrow!

What happens when you ask your children to pose nicely

Molly Age 6

What is your favourite colour?
Pink

What is your favourite toy?
My favourite toys are Barbies.  I love my Ariel Barbie and the two Barbies I got with daddy at the garage sales this spring.

What is your favourite food?
Mashed potatoes and Caesar salad.

What is your favourite song?
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Each time I hear it I feel proud and kind.

Molly was so proud to walk Lola all by herself this spring

What is your favourite movie?
Tangled

What is your favourite animal?
Bunnies because they are so cute.

What is your favourite book?
The Princess In Black Series and Captain Underpants Series

What is your favourite drink?
Milk

What do you sleep with at night?
Blankie and my stuffed donkey from the Donkey Sanctuary

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A delivery girl for food and toys like Lego for children.

Jack Age 6

What is your favourite colour?
Green

What is your favourite toy?
Lego Scorpion

What is your favourite food?
Chocolate Ice Cream and spaghetti with spaghetti sauce and pizza, cheese

Daddy and Jack enjoying a moment at an Outdoor July Talk Concert Last weekend

What is your favourite song?
The metal version of the wheels on the bus (we've been watching this YouTube video daily since he discovered it - to check it out click here)

What is your favourite movie?
Star Wars

What is your favourite animal?
Jupiter (a corn snake that Jack 'met' at his visit to Reptilia Zoo)

What is your favourite book?
Captain Underpants, basically anything by Dav Pilkey

What is your favourite drink?
Fruit punch

What do you sleep with at night?
BB8 the big one and books so I can read when I'm not tired.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a space man



To read their answers from age three to see how much has changed click here

I Don't Want to Grow Up: Reflections on Turning 5

Each year I've written a little bit about Molly and Jack on their birthdays.Since their third birthday, when they were old enough to answer some questions themselves, so I started asking.  Along with their annual "night before birthday" photo, I've added this annual list of questions to the many traditions we want to enjoy with the minions.  Here is what they had to say this year.

Molly Age 5

What is your favourite colour?
Purple and pink and blue

What is your favourite toy? 
My favourite toy is my princess Barbies because I can always make them dance.

What is your favourite food?
Rice and meatballs.

What is your favourite song?
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Because there is a diamond in it and that's my favourite part)

What is your favourite movie? 
Tangled

What is your favourite animal? 
Butterflies because I saw butterflies everywhere at the zoo.


What is your favourite book? 
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee

What is your favourite drink? 
Milk

What do you sleep with at night?
"Blankie, but I don't suck my thumb with it anymore." (This is a lie and I make a skeptical face.)
 "Fine, well I didn't suck it last night."

What do you want to be when you grow up? 
I want to own my own restaurant and be a Chef and serve people.  It will be called Minnie's Circus.

My big hikers at the Scenic Caves this past June

Jack Age 5

What is your favourite colour?
Blue and Green

What is your favourite toy? 
BB8 Toy.  Is he a droid?  Or my Jack in the Box, because it scares daddy.

What is your favourite food?
Ice cream, popsicles, freezies, and cupcakes.

What is your favourite song?
Jack"That song by ACDC where Angus is shirtless and playing guitar."
Me "Isn't that all of them?"
Jack (in rock star yell) "YEAH!!!!"


What is your favourite movie? 
Star Wars Episode Seven, but I don't like Kylo Ren.  I want to kill him.

What is your favourite animal? 
Horsey

What is your favourite book? 
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems

What is your favourite drink? 
Cranberry juice

What do you sleep with at night?
A stuffy, like a teddy bear.

What do you want to be when you grow up? 
I want to wear a dinosaur mask and I'll fight Bigfoot.  Bigfoot is real, right?

At least this year he recognizes that he can't become a dinosaur, that's progress?

To read about Molly and Jack on their fourth birthday click here.


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I Don't Want to Grow Up - On Turning 3

Each year I've written a little bit about Molly and Jack on their birthdays.  Now that they're turning three, they're old enough to answer some questions themselves.  Along with their annual "night before birthday" photo, I'm also going to add this list of questions to the gambit of traditions we want to enjoy with the minions each year.

Here's what Molly had to say:

 Molly on her 2nd birthday

What is your favourite colour?
Pink

What is your favourite toy? 
Bunny/Blanket.  I like them both.

What is your favourite food?
Watermelon

What is your favourite song?
Once Upon a Dream - From Sleeping Beauty

What is your favourite movie? 
Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

What is your favourite animal? 
Elephant

What is your favourite book? 
My Little Pony Storybook Collection.

What is your favourite drink? 
Water
Neither Chris or I are buying this response.

What do you sleep with at night?
Blanket

What do you want to be when you grow up? 
A Doctor
I guess we better step up our RESP savings for Molly's education.

Here's What Jack had to say:

Jack on his 2nd birthday

What is your favourite colour?
Purple

What is your favourite toy? 
Candles

What is your favourite food?
Popsicles

What is your favourite song?
Let it Go - From Frozen

What is your favourite movie? 
Tarzan

What is your favourite animal? 
Cats, our cat Pan.
This one pretty much broke my heart, it's been two weeks since we lost Pan.

What is your favourite book? 
We Share Everything by Robert Munsch

What is your favourite drink? 
Water
Again, neither Chris or I are buying this response.


What do you sleep with at night?
Plugs
I know I've mentioned this before, but Jack has a series of lids, plugs, candles and rocks that he likes to carry around with him and put in the corner of his bed before he goes to sleep.  Chris has commented that Freud would have a field day with this current fixation.

What do you want to be when you grow up? 
Momma.
I am fairly certain that the boy was pandering to me, but I'm just going to enjoy this one.


To read about Molly and Jack on their second birthday click here

To read about Molly and Jack on their first birthday click here