Annelise’s three-year birthday interview:

1. What is your favorite color? Pink
2. What is your favorite toy? Princess toy
3. What is your favorite fruit? Pineapple
4. What is your favorite TV show? Stellaluna
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Cantaloupe
6. What is your favorite outfit? These clothes [new princess birthday outfit]
7. What is your favorite game? Stellaluna
8. What is your favorite snack? Fruit snacks
9. What is your favorite animal? Zebra
10. What is your favorite song? I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon
11. What is your favorite book? Stellaluna 
12. Who is your best friend? Carson
13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey Nut Cheerios
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play in the backyard
15. What is your favorite drink? Hot chocolate
16. What is your favorite holiday? My birthday
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Cuddle Bear
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Cinnamon Life
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Pizza 
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Missionary [“mish-a-mary”] 

Carson and Annelise arguing over whether a truck they saw was a garbage truck or a recycling truck:

Carson: Annelise, it was a garbage truck.

 

Annelise: No, it wasn’t!

 

Carson: You have to trust me that it was a garbage truck. Do you trust me?

 

Annelise: No.

 

Carson: We’ll talk about this later.

Note from Paige: Last summer we took a huge road trip to Utah and Colorado for a couple family reunions. Carson got his own hand-me-down digital point-and-shoot camera on the car ride up, and he was obsessed with taking of pictures. Here’s some of the ones from his camera. (The ones of him and Annelise were taken by other people.)

This is what happens when I’ve had a busy day and Annelise is sick so I have to rock her and lay down with her to help her fall asleep.