Weekend Assignment #155-Childish Thing I Did

Weekend Assignment #155: Recount a distinctively childish thing you did (or your children did) when you or they were children. Because things like painting your hands pink, or trying to make chocolate milk with mud, or arranging a marriage between your stuffed animals? Not something you're likely to do when you're older.

Extra Credit: The name of your favorite stuffed animal growing up.

When I was younger, there was an older neighbor that lived across the street, that I would bother now and then.  I don't necessarily know why; may be it was because I thought this older man was lonely?  I don't know.  I remember ringing his doorbell and telling him that I "found this near the house, and I think it belongs to you.."  It could be a number of items I would find..from buckets to garden tools.  Each time I would know that it didn't belong to him and it was left at the front of the house by my father or someone else, but each and every time this old man would say, without fail:  "Oh, thank you!  I've been looking for that!"  And he would smile, and close the door, and I would leave his door thinking I did him a great service of some kind. 

Mr. Catini was his name.  He drove a shiny aqua marine Ford pickup, and he would grow zucchini in his garden.  He would come over and give us zucchini.  I don't remember my mother making anything made with zucchini at home, so I'm guessing my mother just smiled, said thank you and wondered what to do with it.  He was a very sweet old man who lived alone who, according to the Avon lady enjoyed buying many of her men's products; perhaps just to make her happy?  Now that I look back, I think it would be safe to say that he probably must have thought I was a very strange, and lonely child. 

Extra Credit: The name of your favorite stuffed animal growing up.  I don't remember one particular stuffed animal that I would call my favorite, but I had this plastic poodle dog that I particularly loved.  Apparently, when I was younger I had bit into it, and there was a mark on it from my tooth.  It was yellow, with a pink mouth and pink ribbons on each side of it's ears, and it squeaked.