Isaac David: 5 Years & 20 Questions

When Isaac turned three years old, I started interviewing him on his birthday.  I asked him the same questions again last year for his fourth birthday.  As his mom, I think it's fun to see which themes keep popping up in this answers each year:  he loves dinosaurs, he loves horses, and he hates tomatoes and cilantro.  (Isaac is the best eater ever, but he gets nearly panicky if a food contains cilantro or tomatoes! Ha!)  

Also, Isaac loved answering all these questions this year.  Even after we were finished, he came back to my bed twice and asked if we could play questions again.  :)

1.  What is your favorite color?  green 

2.  What is your favorite toy?  dinosaurs

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  every fruit but not tomatoes or cilantro 

4.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  hot dogs--that's what we sometimes always have at Mom-o's house for lunch 

5.  What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? pancakes

6.  What is your favorite thing to eat for supper?  meatloaf

7.  What is your favorite thing to drink?  apple cider

8.  What is your favorite snack?  cake

9.  What is your favorite show?  Blue's Clues

10.  What are your favorite clothes to wear?  dinosaur jamas 

11. What is your favorite animal?  horses 

12.  What is your favorite song? "O God is good....America...the soldiers of the king" (He started improvising words to the tune of "America, the Beautiful".)

13.  What is your favorite book?  Bible cause God is in the Bible.  That's why it is. 

14. What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?  ride on Bilbo the horse...that was a long time ago.  I wish I could ride on my favorite horse.  I miss my favorite horse.

15.  What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy?  read books 

16.  What is your favorite thing to do outside?  play pterodactyls with Landrie 

17.  What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

18.  What is your favorite thing to take to bed with you each night? my horse

19.  Where is your favorite place to go?  to the beach

20.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  a scuba diver

Isaac started PreK two days a week in September.  I had been working with him at home, but enrolling him in PreK was the best decision since I've been on bedrest.  We were shocked at how much he absolutely loves school!  (He's very disappointed he doesn't get to go this week due to Thanksgiving break.)  Isaac knows that Dave and I are praying about where he'll attend kindergarten, and he's asked me if he can just keep going to his same school (which is a wonderful option).  We're so thankful he has adjusted so quickly during this time of transition. 

first day of PreK at Messiah Lutheran Classical Academy

His favorite things about school are recess, the turtles in his classroom, music class with Mrs. Dam, and playing with his friends Abbey and Larsen.  His teacher came to our house so I could participate in Isaac's conference.  She told me that when she passes out worksheets Isaac usually says, "I'll just do these at home with my mom.  I'm going to go play now."  Of course, it doesn't work that way.  :)  Since I enjoy working with Isaac so much on his learning, it's fun to talk about what he learned each day at school.  I may have teared up when I saw how he wrote his name at the top of this paper--how can my baby boy now do this?

Isaac and I have spent many, many hours snuggled up and reading together since I've been on bedrest.  He has many questions about the baby--how big baby is this week, whether or not the baby will have hair at birth, and how baby will come out of me/  He asked, "Is your tummy like a dino egg that will crack open so the baby can get out?"  He often kisses me and says, "I love you" and then gives the baby a kiss with a peck on my stomach and says, "And I love you, too."  Isaac felt the baby kicking for the first time this week, and his smile couldn't have been brighter!   

The two funniest things Isaac has said lately:

Isaac: Why aren't we going to Colorado for Thanksgiving?  (This was our Thanksgiving to go to Steamboat to be with Nana & Papa, and we'd all been looking forward to it until I was put on bedrest.) 

Mom:  Because I have to be laying down because of the baby, and so Papa and Nana came here.

Isaac: We could still go, and you could stay here by yourself.

Mom:  But then I'd be alone, and that would be pretty sad.Isaac:  Nah, you wouldn't be alone.  Remember, Jesus is always with you.

And, one night Isaac did something wrong to Emma (I don't even remember what).  It had been one of those days where I'd been training, retraining, and encouraging constantly (which is much harder when you're on bedrest), so I asked Isaac to please go upstairs and talk with Daddy (who was working on the bathroom remodel) about what he'd done.  Isaac went upstairs--or so I thought--but was soon back downstairs.  Isaac said, "Well, I started to go upstairs and talk with Daddy like you said, but I just really don't want to disturb him in his work on the bathroom."  It was very hard for me to keep a straight face that time!

What a difference a year makes!  We love this smiley, talkative, curious, energetic boy!