New Year's Kids Interview Questions

Every year on New Year's I ask my kids the same questions, it is fun to see how their answers change over time.   At the bottom of the post, I have shared the questions without any answers, feel free to copy and ask your kids these same questions.

This year's answers are in Blue, last years in red

Name: Lucas

 Age: 11 (age 10)
 Height: 5' 2" (4' 11")
 Shoe size: 7 1/2 (5 1/2)

What is your Favorite:
  Cereal:  Captain Crunch Berries (Captain Crunch Berries) 
  Vegetable: Cauliflower  (Crinkle Cut Carrots) 
  Drink: Rootbeer (Rootbeer) 
  Toy: Carmel (his stuffed dog)  ((Video Games))
  TV Show:  How do they Do It (How Do They Do it) 
  Thing to do: Play Minecraft (Play Minecraft)
  Game: Sorry (Minecraft) 
  Book: The Percy Jackson series  (That's a hard one- just say all of them)
  Restaurant:  In & Out (Fudruckers) 
  Place to go:  Knotts Berry Farm (Knotts Berry Farm)

If you could change your name what would you change it to:  Bobby (SuperLukenator)
What is something mommy says:  Turn Your Game off  ("Go to Your Room" ok "You're Cute")

What do you want to be when you grow up:  Something space related  (something science related)
What are you going to do different this year than last:  be cooler  (do better at my chores)
Who are your friends?  Steven, Henry and Mateo- those are my best friends from school  (Steven, Mateo)
What is one wish for the New Year?  That I will be a billionaire  (that I get a million dollars)
If I gave you $100 what would you do with it?  trade it for a million/billion/trillion dollars  (I need $200 to do something useful. Umm a rank on Mineplex")
What are you afraid of?  the dark  (Do I have to? -Giggles-- Um I don't know)

Name: Alexandria 

 Age: 9  (8)
 Height:4' 9" (4' 6 1/2")
 Shoe size:  4 1/2 (3 1/2)

 What is your Favorite:
  Cereal:  Rasian Bran (Honey Nut Cheerios) 
  Vegetable: Broccoli  (Broccoli) 
  Drink: Root beer and fizzy cider  (Root Beer)
  Toy:  Stella (a stuffed dog) ((Stuffed Animals)) 
  TV Show: "Can I just pick a movie?  Star Wars" (My Little Pony)

  Thing to do: I like to do art (Play) 
  Game: Sorry (Sorry)
  Book: any kind of mystery book (Magic Tree House Series) 
  Restaurant:  Farrells  (Fudruckers) 
  Place to go:  home and school (Knotts Berry Farm) 

If you could change your name what would you change it to: I would just keep it the same (Lana)
What is something mommy says:  go to your room  (while giggling) ("Hmm trying to think- go to your room")

What do you want to be when you grow up: a teacher  (A teacher) 
What are you going to do different this year than last:  going to learn new things at school (try to read my scriptures every morning) 
Who are your friends?  Scarlett and Prohbleen (can I just say one? Isabella.")
What is one wish for the New Year?  that the drought will end this year (A stuffed creeper- I want a stuffed creeper) 
If I gave you $100 what would you do with it?  first I would pay tithing, then I would just spend it on whatever I wanted (Help the poor)
What are you afraid of?  spiders and bees  (spiders) 

Name: Ryder 

 Age: 5 1/2 (4 1/2) 
 Height: 3' 8 1/2"  (3' 5") 
 Shoe size: 11 1/2 (11)

 What is your Favorite:
  Cereal:  Pops  (Captain Crunch) 
  Vegetable: Broccoli  (I don't know, I like carrots and broccoli) 
  Drink: Rootbeer  (rootbeer) 
  Toy:  Greyy (his stuffed dog) ((Creeper))
  TV Show: "This is a hard one, Mighty Machines"  (Every TV Show)
  Thing to do: Play (Build with blocks)
  Game:  Tag (Minecraft) 
  Book: The Cow Loves Cookies  (I don't know any of my books) 
  Restaurant: Five Guys  (Farrells) 
  Place to go: Knotts Berry Farm  (Knotts Berry Farm) 

If you could change your name what would you change it to: I don't know  (Mr. T) 

What is something mommy says: Let's go to Krispy Kremes on Yes Day  (Me: 'Do I say you're my baby?" R: "I am NOT a baby!")

What do you want to be when you grow up:  a firefighter  (Store Worker) 
What are you going to do different this year than last: hmmm? (Go to school) 
Who are your friends?  Jack  (Aubrey and David) 
What is one wish for the New Year? Getting the toys I want  (I don't know... a toy)
If I gave you $100 what would you do with it?   Buy everything I wanted  (buy a new bike)
What are you afraid of?  uh-nothing  (bats) 

My thoughts: 
   I always take each kid aside, one at a time, to ask these questions, as I don't want them influencing each other's answers. It floored me this year when they all said their favorite toy was a stuffed animal.   Some answers over the years stay the same, and others seem to rotate between years, it is always so fun to go back and compare.

This Year's Christmas Eve Pictures 

Last year's Christmas Eve Pictures

See the past years lists here:
  2015//2014//2013  

Feel free to copy this list to ask your own kids. 

Name:

 Age:
 Height:
 Shoe size:

What is your Favorite:
  Cereal: 
  Vegetable:
  Drink:
  Toy: 
  TV Show: 
  Thing to do:
  Game: 
  Book:
  Restaurant: 
  Place to go: 

If you could change your name what would you change it to: 
What is something mommy says: 

What do you want to be when you grow up: 
What are you going to do different this year than last: 
Who are your friends? 
What is one wish for the New Year? 
If I gave you $100 what would you do with it?  
What are you afraid of?