Teenage Adventurer Gifts

'I'm trying to get my competence and my confidence in the same place.'

"Look Mommy, hat!"

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"I still plan to be a cowboy when I grow up. If I'm going to service my share of the national debt, I might as well have fun doing it."

'I don't know what 'peer pressure' is, but it makes a GREAT excuse!'

"Can you make me look like Wolverine?"

"Would you like some wings?"

Child driving a toy car

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

October 11, 2009: History is made when 8-year-old Tommy Wurtner becomes the first child to enter space.

Only a penny! A sensible and ingenious toy for children.

'So Kyle - have you considered the challenges of van driving?'

'You know they've reached puberty when they're more interested in Dr. Ruth than Babe Ruth.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

Kids with Fish Balloons

Mistaken baby ducks.

'I know he followed you home but you can't keep him.'

"I've always wanted to live on a lake so I can go boating and fishing. Since we don't live on a lake, I thought I'd make my own."

Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry trip.

"Why did I start the story with 'Twice upon a time?' Because it's a sequel."

"This is crazy! We've been here only 10 minutes, we've spent all our money, and we've got nothing to show for it!"

'You must all promise never to divulge what you are about to see.'

"If nothing else, school has prepared me for a lifetime of backpacking."

Childhood

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

"Kids."

Swinging on the Chandelier

Local, free-range bug juice.

'It's all right, miss, I'm only loking for our cricket-ball!'

The First National Sand Bank.

'Can we skip to the part where I charge with a light saber?'

Emergency Slide Height Limit.

"If you wear these caps backwards, they keep the sun out of your eyes."

"I haven't been in a playpen yet that could hold me."

Somewhere in France - John O'Dowd jests away his junior year abroad