Starting at age three, I've asked Finn 20 questions around the time of his birthday. I chose NOT to direct or influence his initial answers. Here are his responses:
20 questions: answered by Finnegan on 1/26/2019
1. What is your favorite color? Blue (and black is a close second)
2. What is your favorite toy? Minecraft Legos
3. What is your favorite fruit? Apples, no actually blackberries
4. What is your favorite TV show or You Tube channel/movie? Unspeakable Gaming / Karate Kid
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Anything spicy
6. What is your favorite outfit/thing to wear? Under Armour stuff
7. What is your favorite game/video game? Monopoly Jr / Minecraft
8. What is your favorite snack? Nutella with pretzel sticks
9. What is your favorite animal? Cats and Gryffindor Lion (after the fact, he mentioned caterpillars, too)
10. What is your favorite song? Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
11. What is your favorite book? Harry Potter books
12. Who is your best friend? Paxten, Xavier and Justyn
13. What is your favorite cereal? I don't eat cereal
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play football
15. What is your favorite drink? Root beer
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas, because we get to spend time with people
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Kiki
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Belvita Chocolate breakfast sandwich bar
19. If you could pick anything, what you would eat for dinner on your birthday? Potstickers
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? I don't know yet, a gamer
Bonus Questions:
21. What is your favorite sport/activity to play? Football
22. What is your best/least favorite part of school? Best: gym Least: music
My two cents (for what they're worth, which isn't much! LOL):
3. He seemed not to know what fruit was a first...any berries are his favorite NOT apples.
4. I added "YouTube channel" to this question this year because he doesn't watch TV shows. Like ever.
7. I added "video game" to this question this year because board games and video games are very different and he likes playing both.
9. Not sure who's kid he is but he's definitely on a cat kick lately. And Gryffindor Lion is from Harry Potter.
10. He's liked Imagine Dragons for a long time now. He has good taste ;)
11. We finished the last book in the series on Friday, Jan 25 and were both a little sad to leave them behind. So much fun to read them with him. Next year is Korri's turn (she only half listened half the time!).
12. He really doesn't have a best friend, so I tried to push a little on which ONE was his best friend, but he couldn't answer. That's not a bad thing! He definitely is everybody's friend, just like his momma was (no best friend, but friendly to all).
14. The boys play football at recess...but he seems to love/hate it, but today, I guess he loved it! LOL
20. He really had a hard time coming up with anything for this answer. I think he's going to be an architect or engineer or something like that. I, however, do NOT think he'll be a professional gamer, but only time will tell, I guess. Dream big!
22. Could his answers be any more cliche?!?! LOL
If you are curious as to what his responses were last year, click here to link to that post!
Here is the last picture of my nine year old before he went to bed and turned 10:
For his birthday this year, he and Korri decided to do a joint friend party at Dojo Karate in Buffalo instead of getting to have one friend over ON their birthday. This was the first time we've done a friend party and it was very easy and the kids were great. ON his birthday, he "got" to go to church since it was a Sunday this year:
So stinkin' handsome, even with the long hair! Side note: he has agreed to cut it "short" for the summer, so I just have to hold out a few more months! For his cake this year, he picked BB8 from Star Wars.
And maybe one of the best birthday presents over...Sasha came for a visit!
Ten is going to be a great year, I can just feel it. We struggle a bit with Finn's strong emotions and reactions. But we are working together to find a solution that works for everybody and I see him maturing each and every day. He really is a sweet, smart and helpful boy. I need to remember that when times are tough. Time keeps on going and he just keep on getting older. Here's to an awesome year!
