Asher is Three (Birthday Interview)

Asher is three years old now, and a certified Big Boy. 
Since he can't keep his mouth shut like, ever his language skills are pretty impressive, (meaning: he speaks in full sentences with an average-sized vocabulary.  I'm not pretending to have a future President Kopans on my hands.  Or am I?) I decided to take a cue from Beth over at I Should Be Folding Laundry, who does a birthday interview with her kids every year.

(showing us how old he is)

Hi, Asher.  Hi, Ima.  Hey, Ima?
Yes, Asher?  It's my birfday, and I have fireworks on my birfday, and I'm fwee years old.

Okay.  I'm going to ask you some questions, can you answer them?  Um, maybe, so....okay.

What big boy things can you do?  I have fireworks on my birfday!!!
Uh huh. Are you excited? Yeah.  Why? Where did my Saba and Uncle Steve go?
What are your favorite foods? Chocolate milk!

What else? Pasta! Ima cheese! (that's what David calls Parmesan because I like it so much) Pickles!

You don’t like pickles! I DO like pickles.

What else? Uh...uh....uh...maybe…orange juice! (David: “That’s not food!”) That IS food, Abba!
Big eggs (trans: scrambled eggs,) pizza, edamame, pizza, bah-ka (babka).” I do like chock-it (chocolate). Ima, I need some wah-dder (water).

What letters do you know? I don’t know. Ima, so…maybe. I know the letter A.
What’s the letter A for? …and B for bear, and bat, and…and…blue, and black, and and so, maybe, S, and maybe, hmm…
Do you know any other letters? Um, maybe. Um, no! Not sure.
What’s the letter A for? Asher!
What else? Abba and Auntie Al. I’m eating my pizza, Ima! (note: this interview largely took place during dinner because that's the only way I could get him to sit still for more than two minutes.)

(blowing out candles with a little help from Abba)

Where is your favorite place to go? The Zoo. The farm at Kansas City.

What’s your favorite animal? “Oh-fant(elephant)!   Hippo, too. They march in the wah-dder and hippos open their mouth in the wah-dder. And ken-winns (penguins) too, Ima!!! And, hmm…what’s Rami’s fay-vit animal?
What is Rami’s favorite animal?  Tigers!  What’s your fay-vit animal?
I like turtles.  Oh. No, your fay-vit animal is a shark!  Savta likes giraffes. And Saba’s fay-vit animal is a zebra. Aaaand Uncle Steve’s fay-vit animal is a…mmm…only…Uncle Steve’s fay-vit animal is a polar bear! And Saba’s fay-vit animal is a brown bear. No, Rami’s is brown bears. (Looks at Rami) Rami, eat your food you got!

(Loving on his very own Woody toy)

What song do you like best? Diego.
Diego? You don’t like any other songs? No.
What is your favorite game to play? Oh-fants!
How do you play elephants? Drink water!
Um...okay.  What about Latkes (trans: tackle)? Make-oo lah-kah! Like-iss! (Flops flat on the floor)

What’s your favorite color? Buh-lue. Cachol. Blue, Ima. Blue’s my fay-vit color. What’s your fay-vit color?
Pink  Oh! Pink. What’s Rami’s fay-vit color?
I don’t know. What is Rami’s favorite color? Gween.  What’s Auntie Al’s fay-vit color?
I don’t know.  It’s gray.
No, I think it’s pink.  No, it’s gray. And Saba, he likes, Saba likes gween and oh-wange. And Rivky likes black, and Boone likes black, he likes black and white, and Shadow likes orange. And Boone’s face is white, and…and…and…Rivky’s toes are black.  (Rivky, Boone, and Shadow are the family dogs.)
Who is in your family? I don’t know.  Ashi, and Abba, and Baby Sister, and Ima, and RAMI!!! and Savta and Auntie Al and Saba and Uncle Tad and Uncle Steve too!
Is anyone else in your family? Uncle Tad. And what else? What else, Ima?
What else?  I don't know. Savta too, Ima.

(cupcakes and candles with the Ohio crew via Skype)

What’s your favorite time of the day, daytime or nighttime? “I don’t know, the sun is awake! It was dark osside, I was at the zoo, the sun came out now, behind the giwaffe. I poiting wite there, the sky. See!”


What song do we sing in the morning? Uh, I don’t know. Our modeh.
 What song do we sing at night? Our Shema!


Who loves you? Saba! Savta! SABA!
Does anyone else love you? Savta! Auntie Al! And Uncle Tad…and Uncle Steve!

Look what I made for you while you were sleeping. “Pukkycakes (cupcakes)! I’m not going to drop it on the floor. It was an accident.

(Custom-for-Ashi Toy Story Cupcakes)

Okay.  Ashi, thank you for talking to me on your third birthday.  Yeh-kkum. (You're welcome.)
Happy Birthday, sweetie.  Thanks, Ima.