An Interview with Peyton

Peyton has recently moved to his new Pre-K classroom at school.  Unlike a lot of daycares, Peyton's daycare moves all of the kids up at one time according to their school age, rather than moving a kid up to a new room whenever he turns a certain age.   Last year, he had a bit of a rough time with the transition, but this year he seems to be doing pretty well.  He already knew his teachers and had started talking about moving to their classroom weeks ago. 

Many of his friends are in his new class, but there are a pretty good number of new faces too.  They have spent the first week or so getting to know each other.  When I would pick him up from school, they would often have a sign on the door listing a question they asked each kid and each of their responses, such as:

If your Dad were a superhero, who would he be? 
Peyton's response:  Captain America (we were like, really?  How does he even know who that is? Still not actually sure that he does.)

Where do you want to go on vacation?
There were a lot of Disney World and beach vacation ideas.  Peyton?  California.  I laughed -he first started talking about this with Aunt Rez when she visited a couple of months ago.  They read a book about California and the dream was born.  He thinks he's going to California to visit Cupcake (my cousin Maddie) and they are going to ride their bikes across the Golden Gate Bridge.  Maybe one day it will happen.  Thankfully, "tomorrow" is anytime in the future to Peyton, and he seems satisfied with going to CA sometime in the future. 

The questions at school, and Peyton's interesting answers, inspired me to sit down with him and ask him a bunch of questions and write down his answers.  He had a book with a list of questions, so I used those. Here's a peek at some of his responses:

Favorite meal: grilled cheese; bananas
Favorite movie: Monsters, Inc. (only because I think that's what he most recently watched.  Given any movie in the world to watch, I think he might pick Horton Hears a Who or Bug's Life.)
Best Book I've read:  Learning book (its a book we do a few pages in each night - kindergarten concepts like matching, letters, numbers, etc., but he apparently enjoys it.  I would actually say that he's really into Dr. Seuss books right now.)
Favorite thing to do:  waiting for the bus.  (the bus?  What bus?  At the zoo, of course.  That we rode once a few months ago)
Favorite color: Red
Favorite TV Show: Baseball (really?  Do we watch that much baseball on TV?  I don't think so.  But he sure does like Word World)
Best animal I've known.  Zebra (yeah, I don't know about that either)
Song I can't stop singing:  ABC's
Interesting place I've been: Hamburger Place (I'm guessing this is Char Grill, a retro burger joint with awesome milkshakes)
Favorite holiday: Trick or Treating
Funny thing I've done: Funny faces

It was fun to take a snapshot of what he was thinking on that particular day.  I"m pretty sure that if I asked him these same questions again, he would come up with a whole other list of answers :)