• Begin potty training (yet again!) Improve my aim by 50%.
• Answer the door without pants on (if potty training is going well.) Lead anyone that knocks to my parent who is in the shower.
• Diet—eat less dirt.
• There will be no more secrets in this house! Tell every stranger about my dad’s hemorrhoids.
• Discover the meaning behind the phrase “we were just wrestling.” What’s really going on behind that bedroom door?
• Embrace my inner child.
• Rage quit any game, for any reason, at any time.
• Booger or lint? The taste test continues in 2023.
• Add snot stripes to my parents’ favorite clothes. They are very boring, time to embrace a new look!
• Which parent do I prefer: A field study.
• Have my artwork published on the fridge.
• Explore the joys of sleep regression. (include the family as much as possible.)
• Try coffee for the first time. My energy levels need a boost.
• Figure out mom’s phone password, order everything I see on YouTube. You only live once.
• Learn one new fact today. Today’s fact: everything I touch is mine.
• Lick the cat.
• Lick the handles in public bathrooms.
• Lick the tiles at the grocery store. Basically, step up my licking game.
• Pick up baby brother, then get bored and drop him. Have to toughen him up.
• Quit candy cigarettes. This is the year I do it!
• Organize my stuffed animal collection. Take over the living room to increase storage.
• Guilt mom for not volunteering enough in all of my 3,000 activities.
• Live, Laugh, Love, and stuff marbles up my nose.
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