In which I interview my little man, age five, because I love this age so much that I can’t decide if I’d rather dip it in vat of chocolate or deep fry it in a vat of peanut oil, though now that I think of it either option would be equally delicious:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
“I want to be a daddy.”
No, I mean, what kind of job do you want to have?
“I JUST WANT TO BE A DADDY.”
Okay. Well. Where do you want to go to college?
“Um, I think I will go to Mississippi State for college.”
Where will you live after college?
“Um, I would like to live in the house with you and Daddy after I get married. I will still call you ‘Mama’ and ‘Daddy,’ but the girl I marry will call you ‘David’ and ‘Sophie.’ I don’t know how to pay for things, but that’ll be okay because she will know how to pay for things.”
[alarmed] You want to get married right after college?
“Oooh, yes, because I want to grow up. I’m growing up like a flower. ‘Cause flowers grow.”
What’s your favorite place in the whole wide world?
“Um, good question, Mama. I say our house.”
Besides that?
“Well, CiCi’s Pizza. But I love our house because it has Wii stuff.”
What’s your favorite thing to do with your daddy?
“Play Lego Star Wars on the Wii.”
What about with me?
“When we make presents for Daddy and go to the grocery store.”
What are your favorite books?
“The Go Go Dogs, Chicken Little, Max’s Chocolate Chicken, Rolie Polie Olie’s Big Time Olie.”
What are your favorite toys?
“Buzz Lightyear car, Batman sword / light saber and my spinny light saber. And my Star Wars people.”
What’s your favorite thing to do outside?
“Ride my bike. And goin’ down the hills.”
What’s your favorite song?
“‘You can go / I’m gonna stay’ by Dave Barnes. ‘We can change the world’ by Dave Barnes. ‘He’s Alive’ by Travis.”
[Note: those would be "A Lot Like Me," "Brothers & Sisters," and "Alive Forever, Amen" - he's not so big on the titles.]
What are your favorite movies?
“Say this: Star Wars. Curious George.”
What is your favorite game?
“Sorry and Mouse Trap. ‘Cause that thing? On the crane? That’s my favorite part. That big bad guy goes up and traps somebody.”
Do you know why we help Sharon in Africa?
“‘Cause we have to, Mama. Because people don’t have much money, and we can help to take care of them. Jesus wants us to help take care of people.”
What do you know about God?
“That He always takes care of everybody. He helps people to feel better. He loves us. He made us. He made the whole wide world. He made the earth. And Jesus is in my heart.”
What do you think about kindergarten so far?
“I like going to P.E. I like going to music. I like going to the playground. My favorite part of the playground is sliding and swinging. I like playing and painting. I love my teacher.”
Anything else you want to say?
“I’ll say something after we play football, Mama.”
Well. Fair enough, then.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Holy Cow! I’m the first to comment!
So sweet — I need to interview my dd, never thought of doing that before!
September 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I love his answer about his favorite movies. :-) Who, except for a five-year-old, could list those two as their favorites?
Also, I say that you dip it in a vat of chocolate and *then* deep fry it. Kind of like a deep fried candy bar. Mmmmmmm.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
“I JUST WANT TO BE A DADDY”…adorable.
He picked a noble profession :)
September 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I’m tellin ya Sophie…just eat him up and treasure every ounce of this time with him…
He is ALL boy and simply beautiful at heart. A fabulous combination!
Hugs,
Fran
September 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Yeah, I’m thinking that if you were going to dip it in chocolate, it would have to be a fondue party and all of us would have to be invited.
Too stinkin’ cute!
Hugs,
Melinda
September 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Oh, what a cutie! “I just want to be a Daddy.”
He sounds like he’s on the right track!
September 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
What a sweet interview!!! I’m tabling this idea for when my little man is older. ( :
September 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I want one… :)
September 8th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Oh so precious! I think when my 5 yr old niece is about 20 years older, we’ll need to introduce them to each other.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I’d say stop watering that flower and keep him five forever. What a sweet little guy. You are doing yourself proud as a parent.
Kate
September 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Loved this post.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
SWEET, SWEET, SWEET!! I want to scoop him up!! Hugs and Kisses!!!
September 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Sweet, and yes, it is a wonderful age :)
September 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
You make me wish so much that I had a blog to record things when my little people were five and a little more deep-fryable than they are now.
I could still eat them up, I love them so much, but the conversations wouldn’t be quite so entertaining. And they’d have more eye-rolling and “Can we be done yet”s in there.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
You play football? I have girls, we play hair-do.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
That is the best thing I have read today. I think I’m going to interview my five year old as well. And very likely use your questions, if that’s okay.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
That is priceless.
Deep fried,dipped in milk chocolate, on-a-stick priceless
September 8th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
that was priceless!
September 8th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Football?!?!?!
Your son is already a catch! Good job, Mama! :)
September 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I might just borrow this idea from you some day.
I’ll totally give props to you to my 13 readers.
I know.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Too precious!
~Luke
September 8th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I might just steal this idea and interview my 3 yo. Something to go in her baby book.
Your little guy sounds like a keeper. So precious!
September 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
How sweet. My sister has three kids – ages 5, 4 and 2. Her oldest was asking about what does she do after college and my sister said she could do anything she wanted.
She said – “I’m going to be a mom – its really fun.”
My sister asked her – “who told you it was fun?”
She said – “well no one told me – but I see you and it looks like you are having a lot of fun.”
September 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
He is precious. I love the part about how he won’t know how to pay for anything but his wife will. So funny!
September 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I know that dropping small children into vats of scalding oil seems like a tasty idea, but they’re chewier than you’d imagine.
Seriously, you should do an interview like this every year and see how life changes. One day you WILL feel like boiling him in oil. Naw.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Tell me that’s already cut and pasted into his scrapbook. What.a.doll!
September 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
We just did this interview and then I read her Alex’s answers. She says, “How cute is that? What is that boy’s name? Can we invite him over?”
I promise I’ll teach her to pay for things if you let her marry Alex. :)
September 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Oh. I have a tear. Forget chocolate dipped or deep fried, I wish you could can that in a jar like summer tomatoes. So you can pop it open later and taste that sweetness all over again. So, so stinkin cute.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I hope your parents turn on the blog for that one, that was sweet.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Well, “He’s Alive” by Travis is one of my favorite songs too…
I knew I liked that little fella’
Funny you posted this today… my post yesterday was about deep conversations with my little one. here is the link.
http://lanarightnow.blogspot.com/2008/09/deep-thoughts-by-four-year-old.html
September 8th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
fun! i can’t wait to try this!
September 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
This is absolutely precious!
September 8th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Brought sweet memories back….like when my now 16 year old liked to have these little discussions with me! We had these wonderful little conversations all the time….now we do the eye rolling, the “how long is this gonna take”, and the famous one or two word answers!! You know what is funny? I would sit with my little sweetheart and think when people would say things like what I just said, “That will NEVER happen to us….we have such a great little relationship!” Little thought did I give to the word “hormones”!!
Enjoy the sweetness while it is so young and innocent!! :)
September 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Is there really such a book called “The Go Go Dogs” or is he referring to “Go, Dog, Go”?
September 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Sweet little man!
And thank you for my Hymned Again CD–it arrived just fine the other day. And I’m already LOVING it.
Think I could be a country-western, folksy, big band kinda singer when I get to heaven. Till then, I’m just a joyful noise. But that’s okay, cause I just turn up the stereo nice and loud to drown myself out.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
That is just plain adorableness!
September 8th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Oh, Sophie! He sounds just adorable! (Like his Mama :-))
September 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Precious. Just precious. And here I was getting all sad that my two-year-old is almost 3…I had completely forgotten how adorable 5 is…thanks for the reminder!!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Brilliant!!!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
this is hands down, absolutely THE best thing I have read in a long time. Simply wonderful.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Adorable! I loved when my girls said they wanted to be a mommy! (They don’t say that anymore.)
Did you know (I’m sure you did) that Travis Cottrell is going to be in town on 10/5? FBC, Trussville, AL
http://www.fbctrussville.org
9:15 AM, 10:15 AM, and 6:00 PM Worship Concert
I would love to go see him!! (Might be a good Siesta reunion!)
September 8th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
He is wise beyond is years:-)
September 8th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
He loves his teacher! After only a few days! My first=grade-teacher heart is blessed…
September 8th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Seriously Adorable!!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Awesome! What a sweet boy
September 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Age 5 is just about when I START to like my children.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
PRECIOUS!!!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I personally think you should deep fry “five” and then dip it in chocolate…or maybe you should freeze it so you can keep it forever—cause he’s ADORABLE! :)
September 8th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
That is one smart boy you are raising mama! Keep up the great work. He sound like one terrific kid. Don’t forget to serve a side of cheese with which ever one you choose to do, chocolate peanut oil, everything is better with cheese.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
He is so stinkin’ cute. I vote for the peanut oil.
I love just about everything he said, but CiCi’s pizza makes me want to throw up just a little bit. Maybe if you drown it in queso…