You Know You’re Growing Up When...

You Know Youre Growing Up When.You cant fit in the baby swing at the park.Kirsten Gunderson, eightYou manage to squeeze yourself into your old hiding space but you cant get back out.Rachael Pavelko, twelveYou can go on the roller coaster because you pass the height mark.Kelsey Gunderson, tenYou realize the world does NOT revolve around you.Lindsay Carlson, fourteenYou start getting more phone calls than your mom.Kim Riddle, elevenInstead of getting up at the crack of dawn to watch cartoons on Saturdays, you sleep until noon.Lauren Aitchison, elevenFood tastes just as good with a lot less ketchup.Amanda Long, tenYou realize its YOUR underwear that your mother is hanging on the clothesline for all the neighbors to see.Janelle Breese-BiagioniYou go to the movies and you can see something not made by Disney.Alex Blake, nineBoys and girls no longer have cooties! (I dont know if Im there yet.)Amaelia Macoritto, twelveThe goofy-looking neighbor kid who plays football with your brother comes over and asks if youre home, not your brother, and he has suddenly transformed into a handsome prince!Ashton Howe, thirteenYou stop giggling at the word “kiss.”Katy Coleman, thirteenYou no longer crawl in bed with your mom and dad during thunderstorms.Annie Bark ley, thirteenYou tell your mom that youre too old to be holding her hand while walking in the mall.Emily Skees, thirteenYou wont take a bath with your younger sibling anymore.Keley Katona, fifteenThe waitress no longer assumes you want crayons and a kids menu.Kaleigh Cronin, tenYou are trying on thousands of clothes just to go to the skating rink (acting like your big sister).April Randes, sixteenYou are asked to say the blessing at a family gathering.Craig Lee Watrous Jr., tenYour daily vitamins switch from Flintstones to vitamin C.Jennifer Luptak, elevenYou get grounded instead of getting a “timeout.A/lie Thrower, fifteenYou start spending an hour in front of the mirror.Erin LeSavoy, tenYou totally flub your first kiss, and you still think that it was wonderful.Ellen Lloyd-Reilley, twelveYour friend who is a boy becomes your “boyfriend.Kendall Nixon, eightYou have to watch your younger brothers so that your mom can get her first real rest in twelve years.Gregory Neel and Morgan Neel , twelveYour mom says shell give you s