Mr E's Birthday Interviews

I've been meaning to write a post about Mr E's birthday interviews. I started making little videos of the kids talking or telling a story when they were very little because I remember being a teenager and listening to a recording of myself singing as a very young kid, or watching home videos from when my siblings and I were all kids, and being so intrigued by this strange other self I was being exposed to, and thinking that it felt a little like time travel! I wanted that for our kids. I copied the exact birthday interview idea from elsewhere -I honestly don't remember where- and started doing those when the kids turned 4 or so. You know, when they seemed old enough to communicate their thoughts. Or when I got the idea from somewhere? Haha. Whichever came first. The birthday interview idea is really very simple: you try to ask the same questions over the years, and see how they answer them differently as they grow up. It seemed like a fun thing to do! They are both now 7 and 9, so there's not a whole bunch of them yet, especially Mr E, since if you think about it, he hasn't been talking for that many years, but at least we have a a few interviews for each of them.

The super early ones might still be in one of those expensive memory things we bought back in the day, especially early ones of Miss E. I think there are a few interviews with Miss E on this blog... I'll look for the link... 

Click here to see all the posts with Miss E's Birthday Interviews.

I think there might be one more interview I haven't found in one of those memory blocks, from when Mr E was 3yo. 

The interview I did find is from when he had just turned 4 years old! 

Here it is:

And while I was at it, I found a couple more videos from that year (he was 4 or 5 years old in these, since they are from 2018. These are not interviews, but are "talking videos" in which I have a short conversation with him, so you can hear his little kid speech. Very very cute!

Mr E forgives me for making his dinosaur fall. And gives yummy oatmeal to the "fallen" hero.

And one more.

Mr E has a very complex dream involving a TRex and some jello.