- "watch me!!"
- always talking so much about how much he liked music and sharing new songs with me even though it was never a genre i liked listening to on my own
- being absolutely obsessed with my barbie jeep when he was a baby
- collecting ygo cards together
- getting all of the local department stores christmas catalogs every year and sitting with him in the living room and circling the things we wanted together
- going to the convenience store behind the apartment complex to get candy, drinks, and ice cream all the time growing up
- having a very long conversation with him over the phone after i moved away from home for the first time
- helping him with his algebra homework in middle school
- him always excitedly showing me his ear piercings to show progress on how his gauges were coming along
- him always offering me One piece of his beef jerky before devouring the entire rest of the bag in one sitting
- him as a child running to the front of the boat and very exuberantly shouting "LAND HOY!" (by accidentally combining "land ho" and "ahoy")
- him constantly talking about how much he loved my car and showing it off to his friends and saying how he wanted one just like it when he could drive
- him offering me one of the necklaces in a 3 set he'd purchased for himself
- him still in diapers trying to put his feet into our mother's high heel shoes and walk around in them
- holding onto one of his feet in the shallow end of the pool and giving him as big of a boost as i could to help him do back flips
- how he'd twirl his fingers in our mothers hair to help soothe him to sleep when he was a baby
- how i kept track of his grades in school because our mother is worthless and his digital design teacher sending me an email telling me how good he was doing and how he always helped out other kids in the class who were struggling
- hugging me so hard it would hurt
- never being ashamed to hug me or say he loved me in front of his friends at any point growing up
- putting a pillow on my knees or feet so he could lay on it and holding him in the air so he could pretend he was flying/riding on a magic carpet
- sitting with him and our older sister after trick-or-treating sorting all of our hallowe'en candy and trading each other for things we didn't like/liked
- soaping up the trampoline and sliding across it for hours
- taking him over the state line to see snow for the first time and how much he loved it
- taking him to skateboard parks so he could spend time with friends
- taking him to the mall so he could get new shoes every christmas/birthday
- that he specifically called me at home when he was out with friends to ask me what my hogwarts house was despite giving me absolutely no context why until i found out he'd gotten me a necklace
- that the nickname he used for me based on my birth name wasn't one that anyone else used for me
- walking around the iga with him and my mother when he was very little and him very innocently and without judgement saying "why does god make people so fat?"
- him extremely confidently going into the cinnamon challenge then promptly spewing cinnamon over the entire kitchen and choking over the sink for several minutes laughing really hard because of how confident he had been and how he absolutely played himself
dec 3 2022 ∞
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