Favorites:

Cereal - still Honey Nut Cheerios
Vegetable - peas
Fruit - plum
Drink - milk
Toy - Lucy and Unicorn Pillow Pet
Show - Curious George
Game - Guess Who
Book - Princess stories
Restaurant - "Orange Mexican"
Holiday - Christmas
Animal - baby giraffe (third year in a row!)
Way to spend time - outside
Friend - Audrey


If you could change your name, what would you choose?
Pam


What do you love about each person in our family?
Daddy - Playing in the lake
Mommy - Swimming
Evan - Playing dominoes
Mason - holding him


Where would you like to go on vacation this year?
Grammy's


What was your favorite thing we did last year?
Played in Nana and Papa's basement


Noelle is 5 this year! If I had to choose one thing this year has been about for her, it would be treasures. The child will pick any little thing up from any place at all and deem it a treasure. We started out letting her put her things in a few tiny boxes, but it became too much of a mess. When Mason was born, Grammy bought Noelle a sewing box to store all her treasures in. It goes in the hall closet, and can only come out when Evan is napping. Sometimes I go through and throw away things I'd rather her not have, like broken rubber bands, rusty bolts, and things I have no idea when she picked up like thumbtacks. Most of it is just tiny lost items that no one but her would have any use for.

One of her notes from her teacher this year said she overheard Noelle picking up a tiny something from the ground and muttering under her breath "this will be perfect for my collection!" When I roll my eyes at her, my mom is quick to remind me that I too collected tiny things when I was a girl. It makes her happy, so I try to let her enjoy it as much as I can!

I tried to get Evan to answer interview questions but he just wasn't interested. Next year!