Ivy’s Favorite Things at Five Years Old

A little over a year ago I tried to ask Ivy as many questions as she asked me. I never succeeded in my efforts to even out the question asking but I wrote down some of her answers and you can find them here: Ivy’s Favorite Things.

A year later and Ivy is still full of insatiable curiosity. Lately it’s been questions about books and songs, lots of questions. Recently we were listening to Great Big Sea, she was happily singing along and then…

“Mom what does corpse mean?”

“Mom, what does bore mean?”

I started thinking that I’d better put in a different CD before I had to answer trickier questions than explaining that there was a dead guy floating on a piece of wood. Then I got distracted…

“Mom, why did she give him a baby?”

Oops!

Personally I didn’t think about the words of the songs I was listening to until I was about 25. Apparently Ivy’s a bit more precocious than that.

In any case, I thought it was once again time for a little score settling on the question asking, so I pulled up our list from last year.

Ivy, what is your favorite…

Color- pink/purple

Animal –unicorn -giggle, giggle – horse

Food – grilled cheese sandwich

Clothes – blue stripy dress (the one in the picture)

Dog – Trip

Cat – Fiona

Person – Katie (Way to go Katie Sal!)

Thing to do – Play with Joe. (Umm… Katie it’s possible this answer moved you from the category of favorite person to favorite mom of the friend I’d like to play with right now – sorry about that!)

Thing to do inside – take a nap (and to that I say – HA!)

Chore- “I don’t like doin’ chores.”

Time of day – noon

Place to go – museum

Thing to do at the park – swing

Book – Walter the Baker and Pancakes Pancakes!

Thing to do with Clara – play

Thing to do with Jane – lay (as in lay on the floor next to her)

Friend – Natalie

Meal – “I don’t like breakfast.” (Me: “Yes, but what do you like, what’s your favorite?” Ivy: “Pancakes.” )

Movie – Milo and Otis

To do in the car- read books with you