COLIN
1. What is something mom always says to do?
Obey, clean up
2. What makes mom happy?
Obeying
3. What makes mom sad?
Disobeying
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Jokes
5. What was your mom like as a child?
I don't know
6. How old is your mom?
You tell me, I'm not guessing
(Smart boy!)7. How tall is your mom?
Really big, a little bit big as my daddy, but a little bit close
(Translation: Almost as tall as Daddy!)8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Clean up at night, put us to bed, read stories, make food for us, out of the house for a while, all that stuff
9. What does your mom do when you’re not around?
Clean up
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
I don't know
11. What is your mom really good at?
Reading books
12. What is your mom not very good at?
You tell us.
(Hehehe, he really doesn't like hurting my feelings!)
13. What does your mom do for a job?
Help people, clip nails, you're good at cutting cake, scooping ice cream, wrapping presents, all that kind of stuff
14. What is your mom’s favorite food?
I don't know
15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Getting some stuff like my robot dog, which I really wanted, and my robot
(The robot dog was from Grandma and Grandpa Rodgers, the robot was from me)16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
You could be, well, I don't know. I don't know!
(Comes from not watching a lot of cartoons. And I'm so glad he didn't say something like one of the Backyardigans!)17. What do you and your mom do together?
Sometimes when it's closer to somebody's birthday or when it's closer to Christmas, we wrap presents
18. How are you and your mom the same?
Because we have white skin
19. How are you and your mom different?
I don't know. I just want to paint.
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Because Jesus loves us and He made everybody to love each other
21. Where is your mom’s favorite place to go?
Aquarium, book store, Walmart, the thrift store, the Aquarium, the zoo, all that stuff
BRENNAN
(he did most of this at the same time as Colin, and repeated some of Colin's answers. And, because he's Brennan, a lot of his answers don't make sense, or he refused to answer.)
1. What is something mom always says to do?
Clean up
2. What makes mom happy?
Telling the truth
3. What makes mom sad?
Disobeying
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Playing with toys and doing puppet shows
5. What was your mom like as a child?
A baby
(I'll take that in the literal sense, which is, I think, how it was meant!)
6. How old is your mom?
Big, very big, all the way up to the sky
7. How tall is your mom?
26
(After I told them how old I was in relation to the last question)
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
If somebody stays dry, they get a treat
9. What does your mom do when you’re not around?
Be happy
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Be happy
11. What is your mom really good at?
Cleaning with us
12. What is your mom not very good at?
Not reading books
13. What does your mom do for a job?
Clipping nails
(Clipping nails has, for some reason, become the favorite activity. What makes this even odder is Brennan chews his nails to the point I can't clip them.)
14.What is your mom’s favorite food?
These!
(We were eating bread sticks from Papa John's. Definitely NOT my favorite food! Still, I like the garlic sauce.)
15.What makes you proud of your mom?
Hugging
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Clean all of the characters- the toy characters
17. What do you and your mom do together?
I don’t know
18. How are you and your mom the same?
You’re big, I’m little
19. How are you and your mom different?
You’re big, I’m small
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Refused to answer/I don't know(He'd reached his limit at this point, after two separate days of me trying. Maybe I'll revisit these later, maybe not.)
21. Where is your mom’s favorite place to go?
Refused to answer/I don't know