Sep 24, 2017

Surveying Anna as She Turns 9

Anna turns 9 first thing tomorrow morning!  I almost forgot to squeeze in her birthday survey, so she and I quickly cranked this one out just in time...  
  1. What are your strengths?  Things I am really good at?  Art, reading, writing, exploring, cooking, and I think that's it.  And gardening.
  2. Who do you talk to when you have a problem and how do they help?  Usually I talk to myself or Lasa and Lasa helps me because she gives me fun little answers like a baby noise makes.
  3. What are things you worry about?  Usually stuff in school like if I will fail on a test or do good or something.
  4. What do you wish your parents knew about you?  I thinkinggggggggg...I sort of wish they knew how stressed I feel on school mornings.
  5. What do you wish your friends knew about you?  What life having an older brother and younger sister is like.
  6. If you could have one wish, what would it be?  For Noah to stop annoying Lasa every second of the day.
  7. If you weren't afraid, what would you do? Survival Camp.
  8. Where do you feel safest?  With you, Daddy, or Piggie.
  9. How do you cope when you feel like a failure at something?  Just try and know to do better next time.
  10. How can you tell that you're getting angry? How does your body feel? I start sort of breathing a little hard.  My muscles just sort of cringe.
  11. How are you different?  Ummmm, I am the only one of Noah and Lasa that was born from you.
  12. What's something that people say to you that's really stuck with you?  That I am a really good artist.
  13. What do you do when people don't seem to like you?  I just sort of feel sad and not be near them.
  14. What is your proudest accomplishment? Becoming an older sister.
  15. What are some goals you have? I want to become a farmer when I am older and go to Survival Camp.
  16. What do you like about your school?  That sometimes I don't have to get dressed!
  17. What do you dislike about school?  Everything is homework.
  18. What do you like about homeschooling? That you are my teacher and we can take as many breaks as we want.
  19. What do you dislike about homeschooling?  That you can yell at me if you like.  Cuz public school teachers can't yell at kids.
  20. What do you do when you're stressed out?  I sort of just go as fast as I can on something.  Start rushing.
  21. What's something nice you could say to yourself?  There is not really anything nice I say to myself really.  Well, I do sometimes say that I am a bookworm.
  22. What is your happiest memory?  When we heard that we get to keep Lasa forever.
  23. What do you do when you are feeling downIs it ok to cry or yell?  Not ok to yell, but ok to cry.  I just go off and be on my own.
  24. What is your favorite movie, tv show, song, book, color, animal, food, and friend?  Descendants, Bunk'd, no favorite song, American Girl books, magenta, chicken, hot dogs, Luci.
  25. What are you grateful for and hopeful for? Grateful that I have a home with air conditioning.  Hopeful that I can get a dog.
  26. What do you think you might like to be when you are all grown? Probably a farmer.

3 comments:

  1. What a hoot this one is!
    I'm so grateful for a/c too.

    Happy 9th Birthday to this charming, lovely, quirky, unique and beautiful young woman.

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  2. A/C. 😂 I have no idea where that one came from. But she has a point!

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