Childhood Bliss Seeker Gifts

"I love wearing a sleeper. It's like I can walk around tucked in."

"Don't worry, dear. You'll grow."

"His first out-of-body experience."

"My political platform focuses on more ice cream and more frisbee chasing, with less chores and fewer baths."

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

"That's not you talking, Justin, that's the sugar talking."

Ricky discovers only cartoon cats can fly.

"Holy cow, Kenny, look at the size of that thing! It's huge, I tell ya'! And the teeth! The teeth!"

"You know who's tougher than all your little superheroes? The fossil fuel industry."

Swinging

Tree house.

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

Girl to boy: 'If flowers could fly, they'd be butterflies.'

'The school. My counselor told me to make the most of it...'

Children's Dreams on Christmas Eve

'As you can see, it's a boy and he seems to be doing just fine.'

Sigh … They grow up so fast, don't they?

'Don't let them know you're a prodigy. If they find out, they'll take away your teddy bear.'

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

He wanted a different one.

"Have your parents sign this waiver concerning violations of personal space. . . then you guys can play tag."

"I'll have the usual."

Monsters looking for a new bed to move under.

"Better to have had ice cream and lost it than never to have had ice cream at all."

'I can change! I swear!'

'I don't think re-living your childhood means you can go apple scrumping in next doors garden.'

He smiled to himself, enjoying his victory in hide and side. But soon, the next activity would start.

Curtsey

"You give the tooth fairy your teeth, and she gives you some money. It's called reverse mortgage."

'Now, Billy, why don't you tell the class why you want to be a pirate when you grow up.'

Sparkler

Cocoa. Make it a double. Sure, Myles. Coming up. Here ya go. Double today; everything okay? Oh yeah, sure. What's not okay about realizing 3rd grade means a whole bunch of homework and Sally Anne Peters wanting to talk about feelings? Tell me all this weirdness ends soon. Triple on the house.

'I thought you wanted him to have all the things you never had.'

"At least the anti-public education folks haven't started to try to dictate what we can have for lunch."