Birthday Interview: Leah is 8!

I almost forgot about the birthday interview until Nana Jana reminded me today! Leah started off strong but had to be prodded a bit to finish it. 

1. How old are you? 8
2. What is your favorite color? Spring Green (breaking Orange's long run!) 
3. What is your favorite toy? Hmmmm. Green Tea. It's a squishmallow cat. 
4. What is your favorite game? Hmmmm. I know what it is, but I don't really know what it's called. Can you describe it? It has to be on a windy day. You stand at one side of the yard & when the wind starts blowing in the opposite direction, you start to run forward & when the wind stops blowing, you run backward, and you try to see if you can get all the way across the yard before the wind stops blowing. Did you learn this from Bluey? No. Where did you learn it? I actually made it up, but when I told other people at school about it, they said somebody had already made it up. Do you play it at school? Yeah. 
5. What is your favorite song? "Beep Beep, I'm a Sheep" 
6. What is your favorite animal? Fox
7. What is your favorite book? Wings of Fire
   

   
8. What is your favorite movie? BFG 
9. What is your favorite TV show? I don't really know. Mark Rober videos
   

    
10. What is your favorite thing to eat? Salmon!
11. Where is your favorite place to go? Cosmo Park  
12. Who is your best friend? Frankie 
13. What is something you learned last year when you were 7? Last year I learned about sea dragons What are those? It's a type of slug that lives in the sea that kind of looks like dragons
    

    

    
    
14. What is something you'll learn now that you're 8? How to ride a bike without training wheels definitely
15. What is your favorite part of school? Probably reading & writing 
16. Who is your favorite teacher? Ms. Bashem
17. What is hard for you to do? (long pause) Thinking of things like this 
18. What is your favorite thing to do? Crafts 
19. What do you like about Me (Mama)? (long pause)  I do but I can't think of anything! (after another pause) You help me with stuff
20. What do you like about Dada?  He usually makes our dinner
21. What do you like about Amelie? Oh! She lets me borrow pretty much anything 
22. What do you like about Jim? He's good at music
23. What about Spark? He always wants to play with us
24. What do you like about yourself? I get back up again when I fall down. Is that literal or metaphorical? It's kind of both. The recess that I spent the whole time playing my favorite game, I fell down, got a bandaid and then started playing again. 
25. What do you want to be when you grow up? A chef!

Links:

7th birthday interview: https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2024/03/birthday-interview-leah-is-7.html 

6th birthday interview: https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2023/03/birthday-interview-leah-is-6.html

5th Birthday Interview: https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2022/03/birthday-interview.html 

4th birthday Interview: https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2021/03/leahs-first-birthday-interview.html

Pierced Ears

Leah's been asking to get her ears pierced & we said she could do it for her 8th birthday. Aunt Holly & I took her to Claire's in the mall and made an outing of it. 

She was looking a little nervous at first: 

But she was an absolute champ - it didn't faze her at all. 

It was also buy 3 get 3 plus 20% off since we did an ear piercing, so Holly & Leah had fun looking at every item in the store to pick out some things - including some earrings to look forward to for when she can change them in 4-6 weeks and this flower clip. 

Turns out it's kind of hard to take a picture of a tiny earring! 

Aunt Holly was skeptical about going to Claire's but we changed her mind!   

Drum Debut

Sam & Jim played at church - they'd done this before with Jim on the ukulele, but this was his debut on the drums. 

 Here’s the video (Sam wrote the song): 
It was during the burning of the grudges, and thus pretty noisy! You can see the flashes of light when the paper goes up in flames reflecting against the wall.