It's a little late....but here are the answers to the 20 questions I asked Tucker and Tatum when they were on the verge of their birthdays...THESE are the answers to the SAME questions, but from Haily and Paige, both NINE years old, a week AFTER their birthdays......made me chuckle and made me proud. They are so very different from each other!
Haily first. Because she's 6 minutes "older":
1. Who are your heroes?
God, my mom, Paige and my dad.
2. What is the biggest thing that has happened during your life, so far?
Probably getting to fly to Tennessee for my eighth birthday. It was my first time on a plane.
3. What do you think is the biggest problem in our country today?
That people think they aren't being treated right, so they are always fighting to get more and make other people do things THEIR way all the time.
4. What famous person would you most like to meet?
Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Paul Frank.
5. What sets you apart from other people your age?
I am unique. I have a twin sister, but we look nothing alike. We are our own people even though we are twins.
6. What do you want to do as an adult?
I want to own a pet store or be a doctor. I might want to be a police woman. I would like to be a billionaire and a governor.
7. How do you want to be remembered?
That I am someone really different and unique. As someone who wants to help the world, by making it a better place and trying to help people with needs. And as someone who wants to help people who are hurting so they won't hurt anymore.
8. What brings you joy?
Cuddling, collecting seashells, talking with my close friends and joking around.
9. What makes you sad?
Being lonely, not having anyone to play with. When people don't let me play a game or leave me out.
10. What things do you want to improve about yourself?
I can be more involved with making things happen. I want to be better at helping people stop fights. I want to help people without being bossy.
11. What do you like most about yourself?
I like being alive and being a person who can do lots of different things. I like being a kid, because I know I have a long life ahead of me to live and do lots of things.
12. If you could go back an relive one day from your life, what day would you pick?
I want to change the day we moved to Florida. I would like to make it that we always lived in Georgia and never moved.
13. What kind of family do you want to have in the future?
I want to have 12 pomeranians. And a husband who is sweet, caring, loving, cute and skinny--and two or three kids.
14. What angers you?
When I don't get things I want. When someone is mean to me. When I get in trouble.
15. What do you know is true?
I believe we can all make a difference and be involved in making everything better than it is for ourselves and for other people. We can help others who are going to be here after us, like babies and people who haven't even been born. Everyone can make a difference.
16. What is confidence?
Confidence to me, is not being self-centered, or being sad and worried all the time. It's about living strong and treating people the way they want to be treated, but being strong about how you feel and what you believe.
17. If you were President, what would you do?
I would pay and help people who don't have much money or homes. I would pay their taxes for them. I would hire good policemen to fight crime and make sure there is justice.
18. If you become a mother, what will you be like?
I will be nice and caring. I will be strict too, but not when they are babies, because it would make them cry like crazy. I would be strict when they are not babies and make sure when they disobey, they are taught what to do. I would be just like my mom.
19. If you could write a book, what would it be about?
I would write one that would be turned into a movie. It would be about Sock Monkeys and Barbie. It would have Webkinz and toys, but not like "Toy Story." It would be real life, not animated. They would come to life and turn into real people.
20. What is important to you?
1. Life
2. sock monkeys
3. my parents
4. Paige and Tatum and Tucker (my siblings)
5. computer time
6. books
7. school
8. children
9. basketball
10. Having friends
Paige's answers:
1. Who are your heroes?
My mother, my father and my family.
2. What is the biggest thing that has happened during your life, so far?
I think every day is big.
3. What do you think is the biggest problem in our country today?
Drugs.
4. What famous person would you most like to meet?
Bridgette Menler (from "Lemonade Mouth" and "Good Luck Charlie" on Disney)
5. What sets you apart from other people your age?
I have curly hair. I love, love, love to draw.
6. What do you want to do as an adult?
I want to be a fashion designer and a model. Be an art teacher or dance teacher or famous singer. And last, but by no means least, a Superstar!
7. How do you want to be remembered?
I am not boring. I want them to remember me as someone who was fun, and I want them to think I am kind and I am a good sport. I want them to remember that I say good things to people and encourage them when they lose, and even when I lose.
8. What brings you joy?
When other people are happy. When I am a part of making someone happy. I know someone who is very sensitive, and she cries at school sometimes. I put my arm around her and make her happy. It makes me happy to make her happy and keep her form crying.
9. What makes you sad?
When other people are sad. I feel like them. I feel what they feel. I feel it too.
10. What things do you want to improve about yourself?
Stop being a bit bossy. I do get called that sometimes. I want to improve pretty much all the ways that I act. But lots of parts I want to keep like they are.
11. What do you like most about yourself?
The freckle on my left hand. It makes me feel pretty. I like my skin. My hair and my nails. And the kindness of my heart.
12. If you could go back an relive one day from your life, what day would you pick?
The day I flooded the girl's bathroom in school. I would make sure I didn't do it again.
OR
My birthday party from this year. My luau. I really enjoyed it.
13. What kind of family do you want to have in the future?
A kind family. I want my husband to be handsome with blue eyes and brown hair. I want to have three kids. 2 boys. 1 girl.
14. What angers you?
When people get on my nerves. When people tell me what to do. When people yell at me.
15. What do you know is true?
My family is always by my side no matter what. Especially my mommy and my daddy.
16. What is confidence?
When you don't have fears. When you don't stop from doing what it is you are supposed to do. When you do what you want to do and know you are supposed to do. You aren't afraid.
17. If you were President, what would you do?
I'd make the country a better place to live in, by constructing more houses and more safe neighborhoods and more places where people could go to get food for less money.
18. If you become a mother, what will you be like?
Strict. Patient and kind. I want to be kind, and be sweet to take care of them. I want to be strict because I need to teach them what they are supposed to do. It's a part of life to learn what you need to do in life and I think being strict teaches them about life better.
19. If you could write a book, what would it be about?
It would be the story of my life. But I would change the names in it.
20. What is important to you?
1. my family
2. drawing
3. good sportsmanship
4. school
5. being alive
6. having friends
7. getting to have a roof over your head
8. having clothes to wear
9. having food
10. God being by my side no matter what
