Interviewing Cairo

Me: Cairo, I am going to interview you.

Cairo: What? What Mommy?  Why do you have to inter-do me?

Me: Cause I want to remember what you think when you are three?

Cairo: Are you going to make it into a movie?  [starts singing] Helter Skelter, helter skelter dance...

                 Where did that come from? Has she been listening to the Beatles?

Me: Cairo, what is your favorite color?

Cairo: PINK! My favorite color is pink.  Cotton candy pink and real pink. Both colors of pink.

Me: What is your least favorite color, the one that you think is the most yucky?

Cairo: Green. Because blue and green is the color I don't like and that's why I don't draw with blue and green.

Me: What is your favorite food?

Cairo: STRAWBERRIES.

Me: What is your favorite thing to wear?

Cairo: Pink and Purple.

Me: What is your favorite book?

Cairo: Tip Toe Ballerina and the one with skates on it [Pinkalicious].

                    Notice a theme?

Me: What do you want to be when you get bigger?

Cairo: Um, ballerina and even a soccer player.  I want to be up in Monrovia and up at our house.... because it is so beautiful around here. [starts singing] It's beautiful around here, it's beautiful around here...

Me: What are you most scared of?

Cairo: Monsters.

Me: Anything else?

Cairo: Ah, ghosts. I'm scared of ghosts.  Are ghosts real?

Me: No.

Cairo: Well, then I'm not scared of ghosts... and I'm not scared of lady bugs because they are so beautiful.

Me: What do you call your brother?

Cairo: Jonah Bear

Me: What do you like best about Jonah Bear?

Cairo: When he hugs me and kisses me.  That's nice.

Me: What bugs you the most about Jonah?

Cairo: When he wakes me up when I am sleeping in the night?

M: What is your favorite thing to do with Jonah?

C: Play with him and make sure he doesn't get hurt... and, um, play ball with him... and make sure he gets to sleep.

M: What do you think Jonah should be when he grows up?

C: A doctor. Jonah should be a doctor.

M: Why?

C: Because he is a boy.  Boys and girls can be doctors.

M: What is heaven like?

C: Heaven is where people go when they are old... really, really old, when they were sick.

M: What is one thing that makes your family special?

C: When they all love each other and when they all stand together for a picture.  That's what a family does.

M: Where is your favorite place to go?

C: To Mei's house and to Ba Chan's house!  I'm a little sad I'm not going to Ba Chan's house today.

M: Are you a good friend?  Why do you think so?

C: [Nods her head] Because Mei plays with me and we play together.

M: What is the hardest thing about being a kid?

C: I can't reach the things that are up high that I want.  We can't drive.

M: Tell me the five best things about you.

C: I'm big, I go to school, and I love everybody that plays with me.  I'm a good dancer and a good singer.

M: Are you smart?

C: Yes I am smart!

M: What is the best thing about being a girl?

C: Um, they have girl colors.  Because I'm a princess. And I have girly everything.  Pink- that's the color of my crocks and my boots.

M: What colors are boy colors?

C: White and, um, blue.  Red is a little boy color.

Bapa: Are you going to cook me dinner when you're bigger?

C: Of course not! I'm going to grow babies!

M: What is Daddy's job?

C: Cooking. Cooking is his job. 

M: What's mommy's job?

C: To watch us a little when Daddy's doing something.  You play with me.

M: What do you think of worms and bugs?

C: Yucky!

... and at that, I've completely lost her attention.