Kids' Questionnaire

This little questionnaire has been floating around my extended family for a few weeks. You can get pretty hilarious answers from kids when you ask them questions about their mom. Anyway we finally took the time to ask Seville the questions. She's a little young for this, and we skipped some of them, but some of what she said was pretty cute. Jared did the asking, while I was sitting there:


1. What is something Mommy always says to you?

“Um.... [gasp!]... that’s MY chair!!!” [she made me get out of her chair before we continued]

2. What makes Mommy happy?

“I make mommy happy.”

3. What makes Mommy sad?

“The bunny makes mommy sad.” [there was this Easter Bunny in the room we had been playing with. I think she was just searching for something to say, since obviously I'm NEVER sad.]

4. How does Mommy make you laugh?

“...um... yeah..”

[Asked again, in different ways]

“...um... the bunny... [laugh]... um... tickle me on my tummy.”

6. How old is mommy?

Uh.. 2

7. How tall is mommy?

Seville addressing Daddy: “Um... you make mommy taller and taller.”

Daddy: “Oh really?”

Seville addressing Mommy: “Mommy... do you... daddy makes you taller and taller?”

8. What is your mommy's favorite thing to do?

“She likes to do me if I will be gone in the toilet.”

Mommy: “...uh...what was that, will you say that again?”

Seville: “you won’t put me in the toilet.”

Mommy, laughing: “That’s true. I won’t.”

11. What is your mommy really good at?

“Mommy is really really good at to me.”

12. What is your mom not very good at?

“Um... She...She’s not getting the bunny.”

13. What does daddy do for work?

“Um... he drives.”

13. What does mommy do for work?

“She drives too.”

14. What is your mommy's favorite food?

“Um... salad.”

17. What do you and mommy do together?

“Um... we are gonna make things.”

20. How do you know that mommy loves you?

“She loves somebody.”

[Daddy asks the question several ways, trying to get a response, and eventually Seville, understanding that we must want her to say something different, gets creative:]

“She bites me in the morning.”

Easter & Fake Easter

So I got this hat at an estate sale last summer. I thought it was to die for, and it fits Seville, so it was to be her Easter Hat for this year. The rest of her outfit was made to match, including the organza silk shawl.

Here she is enthusiastically running around looking for Easter goodies.

And taking a break to devour a peep.

And swinging, as she is wont to do every time we step foot out of doors.

The funny thing is, none of these pictures is really of Easter. We staged a fake Easter today (which was beautiful) because actual Easter Sunday was a day of torrential rains and cold. After taking Seville's dress off for her nap last week, I couldn't bear to make her wear it again for the hunt afterward, lest she freeze. We used the same easter eggs (she's 2. She doesn't know the difference ;). We even used the same real, dyed eggs. Are those edible after a week? I'm scared)

Here are the rest of our pictures, for those interested: