Birthday Interview: Leah is 9!

 

Birthday Interview: Leah is 9!

I interviewed Leah right after cake on the night of her birthday.

1. How old are you? 9
   
   
2. What is your favorite color? Green 
   
   
3. What is your favorite toy? Um. Trumpo. (I searched back through and he was a gift from Joe & Jenn in 2020! She still sleeps with him, though he’s lost some of his stuffing.)
   

    
4. What is your favorite game? Um. Hm. Battleship! 
   
   
5. What is your favorite song? "Roar" by Katy Perry (and that's exactly how she said it, too - "Roar ... by Katy Perry.")
   
   
6. What is your favorite animal? Panda
   
   
7. What is your favorite book? The BFG 
   
   
8. What is your favorite movie? Descendants. (I asked about K-Pop Demon Hunters & she said) It's a tight competition. 
   
   
9. What is your favorite TV show? Steven Universe.
   
   
10. What is your favorite thing to eat? Um. Salmon. 
    
    
11. Where is your favorite place to go? Dino Park. 
    

    
    

    

     
12. Who is your best friend? Franklin.
     
13. What is something you learned last year when you were 8? Hm. I learned about leafy sea dragons! (You put that last year! What did you learn when you were 8?) You said last year! (I said last year when you were 8! Meaning the time period when you were 8!) Division & Cursive. 
    
    
14. What is something you'll learn now that you're 9? The Uppercase letters in cursive! (Last year she put that she was definitely going to learn how to ride her bike without training wheels & she did! So that's pretty cool!) 
    
    
15. What is your favorite part of school? Reading & Writing ... and cursive!
     
16. Who is your favorite teacher? Hm. Bashem. 
    
    
17. What is hard for you to do? (long pause) Um. Hmm. Umm. Writing fast with the cast on. 
    
    
18. What is your favorite thing to do? Hm. Riding my bike, but I can't really do it right now.  
    
    
19. What do you like about Me (Mom)? You read books to me. 
    
    
20. What do you like about Dad?  He can play a bunch of instruments. 
    
    
21. What do you like about Amelie? I can talk to her about Wings of Fire and stuff.  
    
    
22. What do you like about Jim? He can come up with insults pretty quickly, but all he really says is I'm short. (And that's something you like about him?) *laughs*
    
    
23. What about Spark? He always wants to play usually. 
    
    
24. What do you like about yourself? Hm. Hmm. I usually like to play with Spark. 
    
    
25. What do you want to be when you grow up? Hmm. Um. Umm. An artist. 

Links:
8th birthday interview: https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2025/03/birthday-interview-leah-is-8.html

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

Leah's Room

Leah wanted to redo her room for Christmas. We bought paint & wrapped it up under the tree & apparently on the day over break that the kids were fending for themselves, she was trying to figure out what the gift was & couldn't make it out. Ha! 

I didn't 100% get a "before" photo, but this gives the idea. Beige on beige! 

She wanted it to be "seafoam green." She also requested that we pack up the dollhouse furniture (sob) & she's going to use the dollhouse that my Grandpa Bob built for me as a bookcase (& put her own stickers on the back wallpapered bit of it). 

She was helpful! 

We moved her furniture around while we were at it!

Jim's up next, but can't decide on a paint color. When we were first talking about it he wanted black (!) but now he's being somehow even more ornery & says he wants to re-paint it beige. 

Talent Show

 Leah had signed up to participate in the Ridgeway Talent show before she broke her wrist. She was set on making a costume & doing a dance routine!

She was also pretty excited about the makeup aspect. 

She made up the choreography- I think she left out a spin in the middle & the over exaggerated facial expressions are part of it that might not be as visible on the video! 

 

Updated with super nice photographs from one of the teachers who was there! 

Up on the Rooftop

 It was super nice yesterday, so Sam got up on the roof with the leaf blower and cleaned out the gutters, and trimmed some branches back from our neighbors tree that is overhanging our garage. One of the things we wanted to do was too clean out the dryer vent, but it is a fixed in such a way we can’t take the cover off without disturbing the shingles.