* When I was a kid, I would stand in the corner of a room when I was moping about something. I would stand facing the wall and wait for my mom, dad or brother to come get me. When heard their steps getting closer, I stuck out my arm behind me to make sure they saw me. My complete inability to be discrete began here.
* When I was a kid, I was madly afraid of the police. My dad and my brother would team up and as soon as the opportunity showd itself, one of them would make siren noises and the other would pretend to call the police and tell them to come get me. It worked everytime, I used to cry more than when they passed by my arm in the corner.
* When I was a kid, I wanted to be older than my brother. I was always looking forward to the day when I would finally pass him and be the biggest!! But as soon as I turned one year older and moved one step closer to my goal, he'd go and do the same 8 months later. One step forward, two steps back.
* When I was a kid, the sand box was my favorite place on the whole playground. My best friend in the world, Henrik, and I used to quickly throw the sand that was in the sun over to the sand that was in the shadow to see if the sun-sand would glow in the shadow-sand and vice versa. We would sit there for hours, but it never worked.
* When I was a kid, Henrik, Anna and I (the three musketeers at our kindergarden) started a club called "No teeth". Basically you had to loose your baby teeth before all the other kids. Our technique was to wiggle all the teeth that weren't loose until they were, and pull out all the was that were already loose enough. Henrik set the record by loosing 4 teeth in a day, and I was a close second loosing 3.* When I was a kid, I would often call my mom after I went to bed, so she'd come and tuck me in. But if she was with me when I went to bed, I wasn't allowed to do that. One time I did it anyway cause I had something important to tell her. When I heard steps in the hallway I had forgotten what it was, but luckily I was a quick thinker as a child so I peed in my bed so she'd have something to do when she came.
* When I was a kid, I was a super hero. When the commercials came on, I would put my blanket on (think super-man cape) and stand up on the coffee table. And so the super hero in me took over! I even had an intro to my super hero profile, it went something like this: From couch to couch! from edge to edge! From mother to brother! it's JUMPING BEAN! Then of course I would jump between sofas, armrests and family members.
*When I was a kid, I had an asian boy in my class who's name was Nam. I thought he was very cute, until one day when we were on a field trip with another class and I fell for Nam's cousin instead, Viet. (true story)
*When I was a kid, I took the school bus home by myself once. Two stops before I was
supposed to get off, and let me just say that I was pretty new to the area, I hear a girl screaming my name in the back of the bus. She runs up to me and says "Hi yasna, can we play at my house today? Im megan". When we got off the bus her mom came to pick us up and before I got a chance to introduce myself, she goes "Hi Yasna!" We were best friends for three years after that but I never understood or asked how they knew me.
* When I was a kid, my favorite movie was problem child. Imagine my surprise when I came home one day and found my mom had taped the third and last movie; the only one I hadn't seen!! I still remember that feeling of pride after having seen it six times in one day. I also remember that after that "incident" I had to sit no more than 2 meters away from the tv to see anything and a week later I got my first pair of glasses. Long story short, thanks to my amazing fashion sense at age 7, I had an awesome hiding place everytime we played hide and go seek.
* When I was a kid, Kevin McCallister was a big boy.
// Yasnaeatchildhood
