Here's an updated list of current likes (and some dislikes), though for the first time many of these remain the same for the kids:
Bud
Book: Animal Orchestra; Olivia; nonfiction about dinosaurs
TV show: Imagination Movers; Fresh Beat Band; Olivia
Movie: Brother Bear
Song: "Hardware Store Song" aka Madonna's "Ray of Light" (which they recognized at the hardware store one day); "Lord of the Dance"; Jai Ho (from Slumdog Millionaire); favorite Christmas carol was "Little Drummer Boy" ("the ox and yamb kept time")
Musician: Smitty the bass player of Imagination Movers
CD: Imagination Movers
Color: blue
Number: 4 (because that's his age); or 88
Food: "snoodles", mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, olives, as well as lychees, strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, apples, mango, "burritos" (i.e. Dorritos), strawberry yogurt, soup, ice cream/popsicles, juice, lemonade, spaghetti sauce with meatballs (unfavorite: beans and anything made of potatoes, including mashed, french-fried, baked, boiled, whatever)
Flavor: strawberry
Animal: penguins, wolves, and dinosaurs
Day of the Week: pajama days because of tv or family days or babysitter days
Ice Cream: strawberry shortcake ice cream bar on a stick or just plain strawberry
Candy: skittles, marshmallows, Pez, cherry tootsie rolls
Restaurant: "Chip" restaurant (Tex-Mex) with Spanish rice
Toy/Thing: Tango, his penguin from the Central Park Zoo; his drums and other musical instruments; Yankees blanket; Hot wheels Dinosaur Racetrack; marble run; plastic marine life animals; pink tutu
Thing to do: "cuddle"; talk about or identify letters (and a few sight words like "pop" or "penguin"); play the drums; dance; set up and run racetrack and marble runs; play hibachi with fake food; make aquariums out of blocks and plastic animals; building fairy houses; having a "deli picnic"; play aquarium; go to school (unfavorite: on certain days, take a bath)
Place to go: any aquarium, Bronx Zoo, "dinosaur museum" (AMNH); "museum with a building within a building" (Met)
Saying/Words: to Sis, "Wait for me!"; "Mommy, come play with me"
Happy thoughts every night: baseball, Mommy, Mama, Sis, Gommie, Pop, NY/Norwalk/Mystic Aquarium, penguins, Kenai/Denahi/Sitka
What he wants to be when he grows up (the list from tonight): fisherman (!), rock star, scuba diver (!), pizzeria man, teacher.
Sis
Book: Christmas stories about Baby Jesus; Clifford books (Magic Tree House was very popular about a month ago)
TV show: Imagination Movers, Olivia, Max and Ruby
Song: anything sung by Mover Dave, and the Imagination Movers's Happy Birthday song
Musician: Imagination Movers
CD: Imagination Movers
Color: pink (and red, in a pinch, "because it's like pink")
Number: 4, her age
Food: CHOCOLATE! chicken fingers, gingerbread cookies, fish balls, cha siao bao (bbq pork buns), khanom toy (custard cups), fried rice, chicken dumplings (like wontons), mango, carrots, cinnamon raisin toast, chocolate yogurt, "anything crunchy", or anything orange such as carrots, mangoes, sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, pumpkin (unfavorite: basically, Bud's favorites list such as mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers, but also anything that has sauce or cheese or layers. Or beans.)
Flavor: CHOCOLATE
Animal: bunnies! bears
Day of the Week: weekends with Mama, school days
Ice Cream: chocolate
Candy: M&Ms, Tootsie Rolls, Hershey bars
Restaurant: Chinese, especially at the restaurant for the lunch special with soup; Bertucci's (esp the rolls) and "chip" restaurant which both have "crunchy" chicken
Toy/Thing: Shirt, Amy the bunny, fake food, little pieces (like Playmobil or dollhouse bits), new treehouse-like dollhouse
Thing to do: paint and arts and crafts; cook and bake (esp cookies); build fairy houses; talking to Gommie on the computer; having a "deli picnic"; play hibachi with fake food; play camp out; play birthday party; play in the snow
Place to go: "dinosaur museum" (AMNH); "museum with a building within a building" (Met); also Trader Joe's
Saying/Words: To Bud, "Wait for me!"
Happy thoughts every night: Mommy, Mama, Bud, Gommie, Pop, Amy
What she wants to be when she grows up (the list from tonight was her idea): animal doctor, people doctor, mommy, painter in a museum/mural painter, teacher.
Mommy
Book: Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran was so eye-opening, both about life in Iran as well as how to read a novel; all my vegetarian cookbooks
Movie: hmmm, haven't seen a movie since Harry Potter this summer but want to see Young Victoria
TV show: just not watching any tv right now
Song: "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. Reminds me of dancing with Mama
Musician: as always, Indigo Girls
CD: Imagination Movers (I know, it's kids' music but I like it)
Color: purple, rainbow
Number: 12
Food: I love lentils, as always! But also chickpeas and almost any vegetable roasted. And yogurt with marmalade or jam.
Flavor: Chocolate, cardamom, rose; and for savory, sweet curry powder
Animal: sea otters, groundhogs, hedgehogs, cats, koalas, pandas, owls
Day of the Week: Saturday
Flower: rose
Ice Cream: pumpkin
Magazine: Saveur; Archaeology; Brain, Child; Mothering
Restaurant: Bloodroot and Bertucci's (talk about polar opposites)
Toy/Thing: my laptop! breadmaker, iPod
Poet: not currently
Author: I'd like to read the new book by Nafisi and the upcoming book by Karen Mazen Miller
Thing to do: blog, weaving, cake/cookie decorating
Place to go: craft store, bookstore, Starbucks, OSV, I want to go to NYC again soon
Saying/Words: well, it's not my favorite, but I find myself counting "One . . . Two . . . Three" a lot (more than I like!)
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