Report Card for Our Kid

Anya, if you're any thing like us you'll some day wonder what you were like as a kid. We'll do our best to capture your personality for posterity so you can see how you change over the years.

We took a Meyers-Briggs Test for you just for fun. Based on our guesses gleaned from observing your behavior, you are an ENFP...or an ESFP (we both took the same test)

Here are some of our other observations of you.

You're very empathetic. You're always worrying about whether or not a kid in a book is sad, and why. If you make anyone mad, you instantly walk over and try to soothe them.

You show little or no respect for altitude, you're a bit of a daredevil. But interestingly enough you almost never get hurt. You're very careful in the very dangerous things you do. You look both ways before crossing the street (usually), and criticize those who don't.

You march to the beat of your own drummer. When you're in group play you are often the only child running around by yourself, doing your own thing, climbing the monkey bars when all the other kids are listening to a teacher. But you're not anti-social. Quite the contrary. If, for instance a circle forms for a lesson you will jump in the middle like it's your own personal theater-in-the-round.

You're very well behaved for a a 2 1/2 year old. Sure you're a pain, but so far your terrible twos have been pretty wonderful (mom edit: that's because you're at work all day, Chris ;-) ). You play by yourself very well. Just this morning you work up early and mom and dad didn't want to get up. So you went back into your room where you "read" books and sang to yourself for another 1/2 hour.

Your favorite things to do are climbing and jumping on Brian and Monica's trampoline down the street. You love the zoo and the farm that Grandma and Grandpa Lodwig take you to. You often talk about feeding the ducks up there.

Every night you want to talk about animals (for some reason you almost always talk about eels, elephants, and Tico the Squirrel from Dora the Explorer.) Although you like mom to make up special naptime stories, usually about going to Don-Don & Grangie's, Grandma & Grandpa B's, Cousin Mia & Cole's, or Cousin Alivia's house (since you don't get to see them very often).

You love Beatrix Potter stories (though your parents-I must say-do not. I've read the ethically dubious "Ms. Tittlemouse" some many times now I want to scream, but you'll never know that until you read this when you're older).

You sing all the time, and you are already making songs up. Often they narrate your day, or are non-sense words you make by replacing letters in words from other songs you know: "Hair Fuzz a barmer nad a hog and Mingo was her game-o"

You're contrary but not in the I'm-2-stomp-my-foot-and-yell-No! sort of way. You will say, "No it's not" and chuckle when ever we tell you something. Example: Be careful honey that knife is really sharp!. "No it's not," you'll laugh.

That's all I can think of for now. Mom's calling me to dinner and you're at Grandma and Grandpa's tonight.