Today my baby girl turns five years old. That is a big deal. Five is (in my mind anyway) officially the age when kids turn into big (little) kids. That is, they are no longer babies, preschoolers, or whatever other term you use; they are now actual little kids. Which is why I wanted to be sure to properly celebrate her birthday this year, even though I knew I’d be 38+ weeks pregnant and our second child could arrive at any time. Thankfully, we were able to pull it off and our baby boy cooperated and waited to be born. His big sister was able to have her birthday party this past Saturday amongst many friends and family. Today, she gets a second celebration with her preschool classmates. She’s a happy five year old girl!
My husband and I thought it would be fun to ask our daughter some questions in order to get inside the mind of a five year old. After all, she’s been talking about turning five for a really long time and has set some pretty high expectations about it. She has been commenting for a few months now how she’ll be able to do this and that when she turns five: “I can’t do that now, because I’m only four. But, soon I’ll be five. Maybe I can do it then!”
So, this morning, we sat down and asked her these questions. Of course, in true kid form, when you try to record the answers and save the memory, is when they decide not to talk. She wasn’t as talkative this morning and did not provide very detailed answers as I know she would have normally, but nevertheless, here are her thoughts:
- Do you think turning 5 years old will change what you do each day? No.
- What do you want to be when you grow up? A baby doctor.
- Why are you excited about turning 5? Because, I’m turning 5 and tomorrow the baby’s coming out!
- How long did you wait to turn 5? Like, almost 100 years. I wish every day was my birthday.
- Anything special you want to tell me about turning 5? I’m excited about being a big sister for the baby.
We plan to ask some of the same questions next year and see how the answers differ. Hopefully, we’ll be able to build a nice scrapbook for her of each year’s answers, so that when she gets older she can read through it.
What humorous moments or thoughts have your children shared with you?
What a wonderful idea — to build a scrapbook to progress her thoughts through the years! Precious!
And, I pray that you have an easy and safe delivery!
Lord bless you and thank you so much for visiting my blog today to share parranda memoried!
Lord bless you!
What a wonderful idea — to build a scrapbook to progress her thoughts through the years! Precious!
And, I pray that you have an easy and safe delivery!
Lord bless you and thank you so much for visiting my blog today to share parranda memoried!
Lord bless you!
Thank you for this wonderful idea! Love it love it love it! My son turns 6 on Wednesday and I will ask him the very same questions and post them. They do something similar at kindergarden (about the what you want to be and stuff) but I am really interested in what he thinks about being a year older. What that really means to a kid! So thanks again! Varotica from http://www.farewell-welfare.de.vu