i've discovered something.

My siblings are really freaking funny.

I love talking about my childhood, and the things I used to do with my siblings when we were younger. But I've realized, when I talk about my childhood, the stories I end up talking about always end with us getting in trouble, or us making someone else cry, or us doing stupid things. Like, going out to the desert every day during summer and catching lizards and snakes in an abandoned pool that was filled with big cement blocks, trash, and beer bottles? Probably not the best idea. But we did it. I LOVED catching lizards. It wasn't so much about having pet lizards, but it was about the whole catching experience. We had strategies catching these lizards. We'd stand on the ledge of the pool, look 13 feet down into the pool til we found one, then stalk it for a little while, get in the pool, corner it, and catch it with a littered cup. Then, we'd ride our bikes home with it, name it, and put it in our big glass aquarium my mom got from DI or something. Then when it would escape overnight, which they always did, we'd go the next day and do it again. I caught so many different kinds of lizards. i had two identical geckos once, one was named George and the other was named Clooney. I could never tell them apart, and I don't know why I named them George Clooney. Once I caught a big lizard with a red stripe on its back, and another one just like it but the stripe was blue. The red one bit my finger real hard. I never caught that kind again. And one time we found a big snake, went home to get a 5 gallon bucket to put it in, caught it, brought it home, and showed our parents. My dad was pissed. Haha.

One time, Kimo, Kendric and I were playing outside in the front yard. Sometimes we would take a skateboard and "bobsled" down the driveway and see who could go the farthest down the sidewalk. Sometimes we would play HORSE or Around the World. Well, one time, for whatever reason, Kendric decided to climb into Aleigha's red and yellow Fisher Price car. This thing:

Notice how in the picture there is a child no more than 3? Well, Kendric was a little more than 3 when he decided to play in this thing. I was about 15 or 16, so that would put Kendric at about 10 or 11? He thought he was so funny scooting around in this car on the driveway. But he was actually stuck inside. Kimo and I were doing something else on the driveway, who knows what, but then Kimo whispered to me, "I dare you to push him down the driveway." So I said, "Okay." So I went and shoved Kendric, and he started plummeting toward the road. Kimo and I started laughing, but when I realized he was going pretty fast and was going to hit the curb, I started running after him to try to stop him. I couldn't. Kendric hit the lip of the curb, and flew into the road. All this, while he was still in the car. He landed face first into the road, and his face slid across the road. All I heard next was a yell. It wasn't a scream like most kids would do. It was a yell. Kimo and I were so scared. Mom was going to be so mad at us. We helped him up, shimmied him out of the car, and snuck him into the bathroom to try to clean his wounds. Obviously Mom heard the wailing. She came in, Kimo and I told her what happened, and then the weirdest thing happened. Mom grabbed KENDRIC by the ear and told him he was so dumb for playing in that car and blah blah blah. Kimo and I just looked at each other like, did Kendric really just get in trouble for this? And that was that. Kimo and I never got an ounce of punishment. Kendric got it all. We felt bad, and of course we ended up laughing about it later. Well, everyone but Kendric. Kendric still gets mad at Kimo and I whenever we bring it up.


Then there were the times where me, Tallen, Jael, and Kimo would play roller hockey on our patio in the back yard. Tallen played hockey one year, and after that we all got hockey sticks for Christmas. We taped the bottoms with electrical tape to make them look legit, then we would get our rollerblades on and play hockey forever. Either til Tallen pushed me or Jael too hard into the wall and made us cry, or until we hit the puck at the window one too many times and mom made us stop.

I'm bummed Maile is so young compared to the rest of us, and didn't get to grow up with us. Maile is seriously one of the funniest people I know. And she's only 7. She is witty, she's crazy, she's hilarious. Sometimes she tries to be, and that usually works, but she is funniest when she doesn't mean to be. For example, the other day, me, my mom, Maile, and Aleigha were waiting in the parking lot at the Excalibur hotel for the tow truck man to come pick up my car. We had to wait foreverrr. So we finally went inside Excalibur and looked around the gift shops. We ended up buying a mini CatchPhrase game, to pass some time. We went back out to the car and started playing it. It was Aleigha and I versus my mom and Maile. My mom was trying to describe to Maile the movie "Men in Black." Maile had guessed two words, "Black Men," but my mom was trying to get her to reverse the order and to throw the "in" in there, so she says, "Maile, flip those words and put a small word in between." So Maile says, "Black AND Men... Black THE Men.... Black OF Men!" And then the timer went off and Aleigha and I got a point. And by that time, me, Aleigha, AND my mom were all rolling off our chairs laughing. Maile is so funny. If you want to laugh, hang out with Maile for a couple hours.

I dunno why I'm thinking about all this. Kimo called me today from boot camp or basic training or whatever it's called. Maybe that's why. Kimo was always my LITTLE brother. Not my younger brother going off to the Air Force. It's crazy! Kendric is a senior this year, Aleigha is starting high school. What happened to childhood! I'm not homesick, I think it's just that I miss hanging out with all my siblings. They're all hilarious, we always just tell stories and make fun of each other's awkward stages. Tallen's wedding was the last time we were all together, but it was only for a couple days. Buuuut I guess that's part of growing up. The end.