- Getting SUPER excited for back-to-school shopping 
- Getting donuts at Sunday school 
- Playing roadset with Neal 
- Stealing Blue Bunny from Eric 
- Making paper money with Neal only to find out years later that MOM had been throwing it away 
- Making cardboard creations with Neal 
- Neal teaching me how to draw 
- Breaking my arm 
- Waking Eric up on Christmas morning 
- Playing stuffed animals with Neal 
- Going over to Jadra's house 
- Passing levels in skating 
- Synchro memories 
- Collecting stickers 
- Marshmallow bunnies with Grandma 
- Sharing secrets with Lauren Batmen at Y Care 
- Jadra and I pretending we were glued together and couldn't be separated when our parents would come to pick us up 
- Asking Mom to "put my hair in a muffin" 
- Taking Dad's shoes off for him 
- Trying to walk around in Dad's shoes 
- Riding on Dad's foot 
- Snuggling with parents 
- Mom or Dad would always hear me if I woke up crying in the middle of the night 
- Dad treated me like royalty when I was sick (and sometimes even when I wasn't) 
- Saved By the Bell was a cool show 
- Hanging out with the adults at Grandma and Grandpa's farm 
- Playing Princesses at recess 
- Ordering pizza and cinnastix from Pizza Hut on snow days 
- Teaching my friends to "ice skate" on icy spots on the blacktop 
- Begging with my eyes for my friends' cinnamon rolls at lunch 
- Collecting Beanie Babies 
- Working with Grandma at the El Paso library 
- Running and jumping into Grandpa's lap the second we got to their house 
- Having a really difficult time falling asleep on Christmas Eve 
- Watching Disney channel movies 
- Making bead lizards 
- Counting Dad's pennies 
- Being accused of cheating on a second grade spelling test 
- Scholastic book fairs! 
- Being indecisive when trying to pick out only 2 books in the library 
- Bill Nye the Science Guy 
- Walking home from school 
- Being afraid of dogs 
         oct 17 2011 ∞
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