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> > > After my little brother learned the alphabet but before he learned to spell, I tried to teach him that "B-R-A-T" spelled "Ryan." My stepmother stopped me before I could make it stick. I really wanted him to go to school and write "Brat" at the top of his paper.
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> > Okay. I thought this was really funny. I must be the only one I crack up. At least I do it a lot. I still think this is funny. And my brother still brings it up!
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> My sister was born when I was about 3, and had just started reading. Soon after Sara's birth, I told one of my adult relatives that I could spell 'sister'. They didn't believe me, and when asked to prove it, I proudly replied "S-A-R-A"

hmm.... people are giving me ideas. this is BAD!!! I have a baby brother (not actually related to me, but lives with us, and my parents might adopt) who is 18 months, so he's just starting to talk... I;ve already begun to slightly mess with his mind, although I love hmi dearly... see, at my youth group all the guys in my grade are obsessed with being "dawgs", which is just really funny (they're all suburban maryland boys... since i'm from dc and "dawg" is years old, i'm about the only one who really really finds it funny). anyway, "the dawgs" just recently declared that one of my friends and i could be "dawgs" (which is quite a large step, we were proud of ourselves(although one of them was like, but that meand they're FEMALE dawgs)). so, i discovered that eric (my baby brother) barks if you say, "eric, does a doggie say woof woof?". so, my baby brother was with my family at a youth service where several of the guys were, and i got him to bark for them, which means he's now one of "the dawgs".... no, wait, i guess that isn't really messing with his mind. it was just funny and adorable. but enough with the pointless ramblings about my life.

uni"when he's my age, i'll be 29! aagghhh!"peg