shows

• captain star
• recess
• doug
• pepper ann
• boy meets world
• sabrina
• you wish
• teen angel
• dexter's lab
• rugrats
• power rangers
• arthur
• pokemon

books

• amelia bedelia
• tiggy
• this one book at nan's that talked about unexplained phenomena. we were terrified of it but also obsessed with it

video games

• harvest moon: back to nature
• spyro: year of the dragon
• battle arena toshinden
• pokemon snap
• one of those "1001 games" cd-roms that had this one pirate board game we were obsessed with

general activities

• drawing pictures and selling them to our relatives to finance our trips to the store
• basketball
• road hockey
• playing "college" (decorating a room we called our dorm room and then reading books in it)
• splitting their lego table into sections and trying to make our respective section the best
• once all the adults would fall asleep: spending literally all night setting up domino rally all over the damn house and then knocking it down when we heard someone's alarm clock go off
• weird al on repeat
• making blueprints for incredibly intricate snow forts we wanted to build (and then getting too frustrated with the realities of building with snow)
• cutting furniture out of the sears catalog to design our dream bedrooms
• borrowing their pop's video camera and making "james bond movies" (unclear if we had ever seen a bond movie to base it on)