Josiah Dodge: 5 Years Old

1.  What is your favorite color?  silver 

2.  What is your favorite toy?  Mighty Twins (Paw Patrol gift from the Davises for his birthday)

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  apples

4.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  grilled cheese (Mom-o makes him grilled cheese nearly every Wednesday that he's at her house.  He says she has a "secret ingredient" - the secret ingredients seem to be using both shredded cheese and sliced cheese, as well as using one piece of wheat bread and one piece of white bread!) 

5.  What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? an egg patty thing at McDonald's

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

7.  What is your favorite thing to drink?  Sprite and root beer together 

8.  What is your favorite snack?  french fries 

9.  What is your favorite show?  Mighty Pups

10.  What are your favorite clothes to wear?  my jacket, a sweatshirt, my colored socks and my Paw Patrol underwear 

11. What is your favorite animal?  rhino 

12.  What is your favorite song? "Jesus Loves Me" and the Goliath Song

13.  What is your favorite book?  Indiana Jones comic books 

14. What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?  have a daddy night

*I'm writing this during quarantine, and Josiah is missing Daddy nights!  Daddy night is usually a Wednesday night when I take Emma and Isaac to choir, and Josiah gets to stay home by himself with Daddy!  He loves playing the Richard Scarry game with Daddy and also reading books. 

15.  What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy?  do kiss and nose rub 

16.  What is your favorite thing to do outside? sit in the tree

17.  What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas 

18.  What is your favorite thing to take to bed with you each night? big white bear 

19.  Where is your favorite place to go?  Oklahoma where the trains are 

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

  

Emma Victoria: 8 years old

8 years old - how can it be?

At 8 years old, Emma is 45 pounds and 47 inches!

1.  What is your favorite color?  purple

2.  What is your favorite toy?  Scrunchies-making kit 

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  raspberries

4.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  corn

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

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

7.  What is your favorite thing to drink? root beer

8.  What is your favorite snack?  Goldfish 

9.  What is your favorite show? Tom & Jerry 

10.  What are your favorite clothes to wear? pajamas (She likes long nightgowns the best!)

11. What is your favorite animal?  giraffe

12.  What is your favorite song? "Ariel" (I think she means "Under the Sea" or "Part of Your World")

13.  What is your favorite book?  "Anne" (I think she means an Anne of Green Gables child book we have.)

14. What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?  date

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

16.  What is your favorite thing to do outside? scooter

17.  What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

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

19.  Where is your favorite place to go?  Sonic

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

(She also recently told me she wants to be a baby nurse when she grows up, and she said she will "look for Randy and Fabian" when she's a nurse.)

Emma lost so many teeth this year!

One of my favorite times of the day is when we read and snuggle together at bedtime.

sweet girls in coordinating Matilda Jane 

looking at samples for customers with Daddy on a Saturday morning

Emma's 8th Birthday

We celebrated with a #8 pancake for breakfast!  Pop and Mom-o joined us that weekend for a birthday dinner with homemade ice cream cake.  She put all the sprinkles on top herself.

We had a balance the ping-pong ball game at Emma's party!

 We celebrated with some of Emma's friends a few weeks later!  Dave and Isaac were at Frontier Camp, so it was a perfect weekend to have a house full of girls.  Emma woke up early and wanted to wear this dress from the Daddy-Daughter Dance.  She wanted to write out out signs for her cupcakes!  The girls played a relay game and painted initial canvasses.