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 1/08/2020
1. What is your favorite color? Blue and green
2. What is your favorite toy? BeyBlades
3. What is your favorite fruit? Berries
4. What is your favorite TV show/YouTube channel/movie? TV Show: Pokemon; YouTube Channel: Popular MMOs; Movie: Star Wars Last Jedi
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Home: Adult lunchables; School: pizza rounds; Restaurant: burrito
6. What is your favorite outfit/thing to wear? Under Armour
7. What is your favorite board game/card game/video game? Board Game: Monopoly Jr; Card Game: Uno Attack; Video Game: Minecraft
8. What is your favorite snack? Nutella and pretzels
9. What is your favorite animal? Arctic fox and a lion
10. What is your favorite song? RadioActive by Imagine Dragons
11. What is your favorite book? Anything by Rick Riordan
12. Who is your best friend? Ryker, Xavier, Isaiah, Paxten and Martin
13. What is your favorite cereal? Fruit Loops
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play football
15. What is your favorite drink? Rootbeer
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas, because we get to spend time with family and get gifts from Santa
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? KiKi
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Skinny pancake burritos
19. If you could pick anything, what you would eat for dinner on your birthday? Ice cream, mint chocolate chip cookie dough
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? I don’t know, author, drawer and comic book illustrator
Bonus Questions:
21. What is your favorite sport/activity to play? Golf and football
22. What is your most/least favorite part of school? Best: Social Studies/History; Least: Band, it’s too hard
My two cents (for what they're worth, which isn't much! LOL):
In general, I feel like he had a hard time picking just one answer for a lot of the questions. Not sure why, but there's definitely a theme or pattern!
5. Adult lunchables are the Hillshire Farm Snacking Small Plates. If you haven't had one yet, they are pretty fabulous!
12. It used to bother me that he doesn't have one "best friend" but it doesn't bother him and really, it is probably better that way. When you list five boys as your best friend, you always have somebody to hang out with! Plus, I know three of the boys well and they are really good kids, which helps, too!
17. KiKi is his "lovey" from when he was a baby. It is a small blue blanket with a Winnie the Pooh head that rattles. I've had to buy several extra ones from China over the last 11 years. Hopefully he doesn't need any more new ones!
18. Skinny pancakes are a Thomas family tradition and are a cross between a pancake and a crepe. We just started putting bacon, egg and salsa or hot sauce inside and rolling them up and they are amazing!!!
19. Hey, the question said "anything!"
20. He ALWAYS struggles with this question. One year he said "a boat." Really?!?! I really made him stay with this one and think about it. Eventually I did start to list some professions as well as tell him things he's really good at. Eventually he came up with these. But was very adamant that a drawer is different than a comic book illustrator!
22. I would argue that his favorite part of school is ACTUALLY getting two food choices for lunch every day! Seriously, every day he comes home, tells me what the two choices were and then I guess which one he picked!! Hey, you connect with your middle schooler anyway he lets you! And for the record, Band is NOT too hard...he NEVER practices, which might make it SEEM hard.
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 ten year old before he went to bed and turned 11 (at 5:25am the next morning):
And I want to thank Jim for taking it, as I was already in bed, on my way to being sick for Finn's entire birthday, which was a huge bummer for me. Finn handled it with grace and rolled with the punches. Every year instead of a big friend party, they get to pick one friend to get off the bus with them, play and then go out to dinner with us. He picked Paxten from #12 above. Also, because I was so sick, they did NOT get to go out to eat, but Jim grabbed some Pizza Hut for them, which I think they thought was a fine substitute. Jim also picked up a Dairy Queen Blizzard cake for him since, for the first time, I didn't finish a cake on time, which totally wrecked me. Again, Finn was very gracious.
For his cake this year, he picked R2D2 from Star Wars and we compromised to R2D2's head, as his whole body would have taken a LONG time (I've done it before, so I know!). Even though Finn celebrated ON his birthday, we celebrated again the next night so I could participate.
For his cake this year, he picked R2D2 from Star Wars and we compromised to R2D2's head, as his whole body would have taken a LONG time (I've done it before, so I know!). Even though Finn celebrated ON his birthday, we celebrated again the next night so I could participate.
I was well enough for him to come into my room (please don't judge the dirty clothes in the background in the pictures...I was sick!!) to open his presents on his birthday right before bed. He got a BeyBlade Metal Fusion set including Beys and a new stadium (refer to question 2 above!) and new Under Armour pants (refer to question 6 above!). But the REAL birthday present was a letter from Hogwarts inviting him to go there! Which he didn't understand until Jim explained that we would be taking him to Hogwarts in Florida (The Wizarding World of Harry Potter) in Feb! He's beyond excited. Oh and the best part (for me!) is that Sasha and Sonia (Jim's cousins) are joining us!! I mean, come on!!
Eleven is going to be great. I FEEL like Finn is starting to outgrow some of his behavior issues that we struggle with (compliance, listening, over-reacting, showing remorse, etc.). He seems to really understand what respect is and even if he doesn't act that way all the time, he seems to be respectful more often than not. Oh, and now that he's 11, he can babysit Korri and Mac!! Which he has done twice (as of me typing this on 1/19 and had done a great job!). He's honestly growing up. He is rocking middle school and gets excited about projects and things going on at school. He's started identifying his emotions and expressing his feelings to us which, if you know him at all, is HUGE for him (and makes parenting him easier!). But as with every year, I'm a little sad that he IS growing up so quickly. I love all my baby birds in my nest and needing me. But I know eventually you must set them free and if you've done a good job raising them, they will fly! I know with every fiber of my being that one day (too soon for me!) Finnegan is going to fly and fly big, whatever he does in life!! (as long as it isn't "being a boat!) Love you to infinity to the infinity power, Buddy Boy!!!
Eleven is going to be great. I FEEL like Finn is starting to outgrow some of his behavior issues that we struggle with (compliance, listening, over-reacting, showing remorse, etc.). He seems to really understand what respect is and even if he doesn't act that way all the time, he seems to be respectful more often than not. Oh, and now that he's 11, he can babysit Korri and Mac!! Which he has done twice (as of me typing this on 1/19 and had done a great job!). He's honestly growing up. He is rocking middle school and gets excited about projects and things going on at school. He's started identifying his emotions and expressing his feelings to us which, if you know him at all, is HUGE for him (and makes parenting him easier!). But as with every year, I'm a little sad that he IS growing up so quickly. I love all my baby birds in my nest and needing me. But I know eventually you must set them free and if you've done a good job raising them, they will fly! I know with every fiber of my being that one day (too soon for me!) Finnegan is going to fly and fly big, whatever he does in life!! (as long as it isn't "being a boat!) Love you to infinity to the infinity power, Buddy Boy!!!
