Birthday Quiz for Your Kids

My son Bennett celebrated his 6th birthday this week. We did our usual birthday traditions (see a recent post with those ideas here)—including having Bennett complete an annual "Birthday Quiz." For the past few years, I've sat my boys down on their birthdays and asked them the following list of questions. These quizzes are always just plain fun to do, but my loftier longterm goal is to compile their respective quizzes into books that I'll give them after their 18th birthday. I like to imagine them all grown up, and how reading their old birthday quizzes will help them remember their little-boy selves, when the important things in life were idolizing LeBron James and loving sausage pizza.

Yes, a picture says 1,000 words. But sometimes words capture more than a picture ever could.

Here's Bennett's quiz—if you can think of "favorites" that I forgot to ask, I'd love to hear your ideas so I can incorporate them into future quizzes. Thank you!

Your Favorite Things at age 6

Friend: Jack and Ryan and Ruby

Restaurant: Buffalo Wild Wings

Movie: Megamind cause it’s so funny

Toy: My car that I got from McDonald’s playland (in his Happy Meal today)

Sport to watch: Basketball

Sport to play: Basketball

Athlete: LeBron James

Favorite shirt to wear to school: Football jersey

Pizza topping: Sausage

School lunch: Pizza

Kindergarten activity: Play the computer

Book: Curious George at the Baseball Game

Toothbrush: Spiderman one

Lunch dishes: I don’t care but I really like pink

Color: Blue and orange

Song: Dynamite and Break, Break Your Heart (by Taio Cruz)

Number: 110

Favorite thing to do as a family: Go out to eat

Breakfast: Pannekookins [His word for pancakes]

To play with Nicholas: Play against him on the Wii, on 2K11

To play with Grant: Quiet time I think

About Grant: Cause he’s always funny

About Nicholas: Cause he loves to play basketball and me too

About Rowan: That I always sing to RoRo, “RoRo’s song” and I call her Rosie

Pjs: T-shirt and shorts

Word: "Basketball!"

Thing about Jesus: That I love him in my heart

After-school snack: Dunkers

Show: Curious George

Second favorite show: Berenstain Bears

College football team: Minnesota and Iowa State

Favorite friend in kindergarten class: Jack, but I don't know his last name 

Thing about Mrs. Fairchild: Mrs. Fairchild is always smart

Candy: Skittles

Ice cream: Chocolate

What do you want to be when you grow up: Basketball player

Store: Target

Board game: Chess

Car: Hot Rod