Interview with a Four-Year-Old

Mom thought it would be fun to get some thoughts from our newly turned four year old. Here is the "interview".

What is your name?

Ben McCullough

How old are you?

4

What is your favorite color?

Red and blue and gold

What is your favorite toy?

Trains

What is your favorite TV show?

Phineas and Ferb (Mom wants to clarify that he does love this show, but the results of this interview were skewed because we had just finished watching an episode.)

What is your favorite food?

Strawberries

Who are your friends?

Kelsey

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Fireman

What is the best present you got?

Go Diego Go car set

Tell me how you celebrated your birthday.

I celebrated by having a dinosaur cake.

How tall are you now?

4! Is that “so big” Mom?

What can you do now that you are four?

I can do my shirt by myself. (Before the question was fully understood, Ben’s answer was that he now knew the meaning of the word “nocturnal” because he was four.)

What is your favorite part of school?

Playing outside with Kelsey.

Is there anything else you want to tell me about being four?

I like being four!

Race for the Cure 2010

The kids did great at Race for the Cure this year. There were lots of "prizes" aka giveaways at the tents that were exciting and Ben "won" the McCullough Family altered Fun Run route. You can't beat that! It was all due to his special bandana. He told us that fast people wore their bandanas like that and cool people wore there bandanas like that and that he was both!

E's 18 Month Checkup

When the kids were off of school and we were between vacations, we took Elizabeth to the doctor for her 18 month appointment. She is doing great and is now 21 lb 8 oz (11%) and 32.25” long (64%). Her percentages are staying right on track from previous appointments so she is continuing to grow well. The doctor said that she looks great and we will go back when she turns two! She did have to get one shot that day, so that wasn’t super fun, but she was a trooper.

Elizabeth has more words every day. She wants to “walk” everywhere herself and go “(out)’side” as often as we will let her. One of her favorite words is “cheese” whether smiling for a picture or asking for a snack. She is starting to name people more and often follows the name with mama sounds. So we have dada-mamamama, grandma-mamamama and grandpa-mamamama. Ben/Brother sounds mostly like Bubby or Bobby. Elizabeth enjoys all of her accessories always wanting to wear “hats”, “shoooes” and “socks” – probably so she can go “’side”.

She still firmly believes she is the princess in our house and at school. She doesn’t leave the teachers’ sides and often goes on errands with them to the school office the same way she follows Daddy around at home. At the same time, she is very independent and as her brother says “wants to do what she wants to do”.

She is still a great eater. She runs to her booster seat as soon as we get home from school ready for dinner. We check her care sheet to make sure she ate lunch and it normally says she ate double servings of everything – she is just hungry again! When you move that much, you must just need a lot of fuel! She eats a good variety too. She definitely out-eats her brother when it comes to vegetables.

She is quite the wonder and we are enjoying watching her soak in the world around her!