Beatrice's Sixth Birthday Interview

Another year, another birthday interview. (You can find last year's birthday interview here.)

1. Summer: What is your favorite food?
    Beatrice: My favorite food is probably ice cream.

2. S: What is your favorite animal?
    B: My very, very favorite animal is a kangaroo. [She had never mentioned this once before today.]

3. S: What is your favorite movie?
    B: My very, very favorite movie, which I have watched, is The Wizard of Oz.

4. S: What is your favorite thing about school?
    B: That I stayed there for 180 days – that's a lot of time.

5. S: What makes you the happiest?
    B: That's an easy one – when I'm around people who know me.

6. S: What makes you sad?
    B: I'm really sad when I see someone who doesn't like me in even one tiny part of their heart.

7. S: What makes you scared?
    B: I'm really scared, as you know, because I'm running back from the bathroom, because I think there are ghosts in there. Blue ghosts.

8. S: What is one new thing you learned to do this year?
    B: I learned how many bones you have.
    S: How many?
    B: Over or about 300 bones. Is that right?
    [We look it up.]
    B: Oh, okay, I learned it is 206.

9. S: What is one new thing you want to learn next year?
    B: Oh, I want to learn how to use my pliers.

10. S: What would you like to be when you grow up?
      B: A philosopher, like Socrates.

11. S: What is your favorite holiday?
      B: My birthday, because I get to pick my own theme.

12. S: What is your favorite color?
      B: My favorite color is probably blue-violet, it's such a beautiful shade.

 

13. S: What is your favorite song?

      B: Well, my favorite song is probably rock and roll.

      S: Rock and roll isn't a specific song, it's a kind of music.

      B: Okay, then the blues music.

 

14. S: What is your favorite toy?

      B: Well, my favorite toy to play with is probably the colored wooden Mexican toy that Nani gave us.

 

15. S: What is your favorite book?
      B: The Odyssey.

 

16. S: Who is your favorite character?
      B: Odysseus and Polyphemus.

 

17. S: What is your favorite thing to do?
      B: Well, I really liked going to Disneyland, even though it was a really long time ago.

 

18. S: What do you like learning about?
      B: I really, really, really can't wait to get into ancient Rome [now that we're finishing up our Greece unit]/

 

19. S: What is your favorite place to go?
      B: The Getty Villa.

 

20. S: Can you name some of your friends?
      B: Well, my best friend is Arthur... also Emma, Melanie, Miller, Donovan, and David. I also like Emmy, she's really into princesses, and Amyah, who plays with me.

 

21. S: What is your birthday wish?
      B: That I could stay with you for my whole life and never move away.