Girls' opinions

I have been anti-inflaming myself for a week now, and it's going well. Things I have eaten: bushes of blueberries, a whole thing of olives, lots of salmon, many walnuts and pistachios. Things I have not eaten: ice cream, bread, pastries, beer, chips. I will stick with this, rather than progressing to the Korean Acorn Diet, which is so wildly popular that Korean uni students are becoming vigilante Acorn Rangers, popping out from behind bushes to chastise dieters who are collecting acorns in Seoul's parks and decimating the local squirrel population. I don't really like squirrels but don't want to starve them.

While Facebook is full of lame memes, a decent one is to ask your kids random questions. Here's what the girls had to say.

What is your name? Zadie; Tova; Sophia; Aurora
How old are you? Two; Five; Seven; Eleven
How old is your mama? She's just not old enough; I don't know...twenty? sixty-three?; Thirty-five; Thirty-five
What is your favourite colour? Blue; Purple; Purple; Blue
What is your favourite food? Granola bars; Pasta; Mmmmmm mango?; You know that stuff where they have maple syrup and they dip it in snow?
Who is your best friend? Mimi; Layla; Ava Eva and Erine; mmmmm that's hard...I'll say Flopsy
What is your favourite animal? All of my animals; Tiger; I don’t know. I like snow leopards; I don’t know! I’ll say umm I’ll just say bears even though that’s not really true
What is your favourite song? Zadie Frida; Let It Go; You know already! Let It Go!; Friday I'm in Love
What is your favourite video? Daniel Tiger; Frozen; Frozen; I don't know that one either
What makes you happy? Going to the rainforest; Nothing; Mama and you; I'll just say climbing, not mama's scary smile
Where's your favourite place to go? All of my places, just all of them; To the chocolate shop; Canada or Antarctica; Huuuu khakhakha! That was a mistake. What was the question? What is mama doing?! I'll just say Questacon
What do you want to be when you grow up? All of my animals; A police; Someone who - are there penguins in Antarctica? Someone who watches the penguins in Antarctica; A scientist
Who loves you the most? No one; Layla; You and mama; I don't know how much people love me! Mama obviously thinks it's her
What does your mama do all day? Gives me baba; Drives; I dunno, I'm at school; I'm not with her! Takes care of Zadie I guess?
What are you scared of? Nothing; Dragons, but I like playing dragons; Oh, I know this, spiders!; Yeah, spiders
Where does money come from? We have some!; Banks; The mint; Trees! No, I actually was planning on staying the mint. I actually was.
Where do you live? In hotels; In Canberra; In Canada; Kingston! Canberra! Australia! Earth! The Milky Way! The universe!
What's your favourite number? All of it; Eight; Eight; Heeeyy!! Eight!!

I would post pictures but Tova is howling joyfully in the spare room while Aurora and Sophia crack up. So I'd better join in!