Monday Muses: A Memory From When I Was Little

A Memory From When I Was Little

Alexi Bonfils

When I was little I loved to play dress up, family, and vet. I would play dress up with my Dolls, family with my brothers- if they said yes, and vet with my stuffed animals. Being a little girl with two brothers, no one ever wanted to play with me, so I had to play by myself most of the time. Of course once in a while someone would agree to play- because who can turn down a cute little girl saying, “Will you pway dwess up with me pwease?”

I would always want to be the person in charge. In dress up I was the stylist, but I didn’t know what that was called so I would say dressing up person. In family I was the mommy, and in vet I was of course the vet. I still have notepads from when I would play vet that say Mr.Froggy was at the vet because he was having a hopping competion with Ms.Froggy and slipped on a rock and broke his leg. I also have little drawings of x rays of the bones that were  broken.

I am 13 now and I haven’t played these games in my house for a while, but in North Carolina I have a five year old cousin named Caroline who loves these games. Everytime I go down there she asks in her cute voice to play with her, and like said before It’s basically impossible to turn down a little girl asking you that, so I mostly always say yes.

I understand why my brothers would never want to play with me, because it gets really annoying being the same character everytime. She always wants to be the mommy! Although it gets annoying I want my cousin to grow up saying “My big cousin Alexi always used to play with me!’ instead of “My big cousin Alexi never used to play with me.”

Overall I think you should take advantage of being a kid, because when you are older you have to pay bills and all that yucky adult stuff. Think about one of your memories from when you are little, it is a great way to let out your inner child.