Me: What’s today?
10 year old: My birthday
Me: How do you know it’s your birthday?
10 year old: Because we have stuff like calendars and computers and stuff and also I know because I know when camp ended and I knew certain days after that and blah blah blah.
Me: How does it feel to be a ten year old?
10 year old: Same as it felt to be a nine year old.
Me: How did you spend your birthday?
10 year old: Playing with laser tag, playing on the computer, and sorting Magic cards.
Me: By yourself?
10 year old: With friends. Well, laser tag with friends.
Me: Was it a good birthday?
10 year old: Yes.
Me: What do you like to do these days?
10 year old: Go on the computer. Play on the computer. Animate.
Me: Can you be more specific?
10 year old: Animate stuff, play Minecraft, code, do stuff on the Web.
Me: How do you animate and code?
10 year old: I use Komodo Edit for coding and I use Blender for animation.
Me: What are you coding and animating?
10 year old: Animating movies and coding just random projects.
Me: Like?
10 year old: I don’t know.
Me: What are your favorite books?
10 year old: I don’t know.
Me: What have you been reading lately?
10 year old: What have I been reading lately? Books. The Secret Series. House of Stairs.
Me: What are you listening to?
10 year old: Kiss 108.
Me: But who?
10 year old: The popular artists, I guess. Macklemore. Eyal Golan.
Me: What are your favorite things to watch?
10 year old: Phineas and Ferb. Mad. Lab Rats.
Me: What do you want to be when you grow up?
10 year old: Computer programmer.
Me: What do you want to program?
10 year old: Stuff that will get me a lot of money.
Me: What are you looking forward to in 5th grade?
10 year old: Going on all the outings, like going to a sleepaway camp [science camp] and going to Canobie Park.
Me: What are your goals as a 10 year old?
10 year old: To… to… to… I don’t know.
Me: You can do better than that.
10 year old: I’m sure I can, but I don’t know. To fart less.
Me: Really?
10 year old: Fine! To code more stuff! To animate more stuff! Is that good?
Me: Any grand pronouncements?
10 year old: I am awesome.
Me: That’s the first year I didn’t have to tell you what a pronouncement is.
10 year old: Actually I still don’t know what it means. I just said that. It’s my default answer for anything I don’t know.
Me: We’ll buy you a dictionary. Happy birthday, Doodlebug!
OMgosh, he’s looking so much older!! Crazy!
He sounds so much like my son with all the computer lingo, lol. I don’t understand half of what my boy does on it. He “leased” his own server this summer, and I was like, “What does that even mean?” Lol. Funny, we both have computer-geek sons, and Diva daughters 😉
For his birthday we bought he a bunch of Minecraft “extras.” The boy is a certified addict. Too bad you don’t live closer, Angela!!