a little kid still somewhere inside?

[pomtzu]

I still like stuffed animals, and will buy one if it really tickles my fancy. I especially like the fluffy dogs and cats. The window seat in my bedroom is piled high with an assortment of different ones, and there are some smaller ones in a basket on the nightstand.

And I still love to ride the ferris wheel - the bigger the better!

[catnapper]

I LOVE to swing on the park swings. We got a swing set this summer and I was bummed because the plastic seats are molded to fit kids' butts, not mature adult butts

And I kid you not -- I want to do cartwheels in the worst way. I just will not do it for fear someone sees a slightly overweight woman falling in a not-so- graceful manner

I was at the store last week and bought Circus Peanuts for Cameron because he's obsessed with the color orange. I ended up eating every last one BEFORE they even got home. Hubby was laughing at me in the car -- I kept making yum-yum noises and repeating "tastes like childhood"

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I still like stuffed animals, and will buy one if it really tickles my fancy. I especially like the fluffy dogs and cats. The window seat in my bedroom is piled high with an assortment of different ones, and there are some smaller ones in a basket on the nightstand.

And I still love to ride the ferris wheel - the bigger the better!

I still like stuffed animals, too! Before Lyra was born, I wouldn't buy too many because I don't do anything with them...they just sit there, which is kind of a waste. But now I can get whatever I like and give them to Lyra. (She has quite a collection already). There is a really cool store nearby that is shaped like Noah's Ark (it's HUGE) and is just filled with stuffed animals of all kinds. It's really fun- we are going to take Lyra there every year and get her a toy.

I like lots of kid-ish things, (and so does my husband) but I'm not really embarrassed by it (probably why I enjoy teaching). Before we had kids, we would often take my nephew all kinds of places and all have fun (we still do), and now it's fun to go with Lyra, too.

[Karen]

My "inner child" is not very deeply hidden, or well-disguised, frankly. I have a bunch of children's books that I keep, stuffed animals that I name and treasure, boxes of crayons enough to share, I take delight when I see animals out and about, even cool bugs or a snail in our yard, I have a well-maintained sense of wonder ...

I'll never forget, when I was in college I lived with a mom and daughter and took care of the little girl - kind of like a nanny. The little girl and I were going somewhere one day with another girl that we took care of a couple days a week, and some stranger was talking to us on the train. The stranger referred to me as a "grown-up" and the little girls burst into giggles, with "my" girl then explaining to the stranger "She's not a grown-up, she's just a really BIG kid!"

Kinda fits, even still!

[Catherinedana]

My "inner child" is not very deeply hidden, or well-disguised, frankly.

Me either. I love children's books and there are some that I still enjoy immensely. I am delighted that they made a movie out of "Where the Wild Things Are" since that was one of my favorites as a child (and I suppose still is!) I'm looking forward to seeing what they did with it.

I have been know to fall into helpless giggles when feeding squirrels that climb on you (they used to do that in Homosassa State Park) and I absolutely ADORE little pygmy goats and have no qualms about getting on the ground with them for snuggles (however, getting up is a whole other story now that I'm forty-five-ish and, well, "plump").

I recently discovered the mini-rubber ducks that have become so popular so I use them in the bird toys that I make - otherwise they would simply be all over my house. I also give them away and bring out the inner child in other folks (they come in "biker", "hippie", "angel", etc. They are sooo cool!)

Cathy

[CountryWolf07]

I'm 25 years old, and I still like chocolate milk, swing sets, cartoons, play board games I used to play when I was little.. On the other hand, my boyfriend, I call him a man-child because he is really a big kid and he is also 25 years old.