100 Things that make Carter happy

I recently discovered this list that Carter wrote.  I thought it was too good to pass up the memory.

100 Things that Make Me Happy

By Carter

1. Cake
2. Key Lime Cove
3. Odyssey Fun World
4. P.J.s
5. Nerf Gun
6. Remote Control Alligator Car
7. Presents
8. Beach
9. Stuffed Animals (and next he names his favorites:)
10. Turkey
11. Dolphin
12. Snuggly (his baby blanket)
13. Parrot
14. Medium huge Mater
15. Enormus Dino
16. Little Dino
17. Steve (yes, he's referring to his stuffed dog, not to daddy...that doesn't come until #98!)
18. Freddy (Steve's little puppy)
19. Birthday Parties
20. Buffalo Wild Wings (ewww gross, but he really likes it...I think for Magic Steve, the balloon animals, and the free ice cream bar.  I must admit, Wednesday Night Kids Nights ARE a good deal.  But please, may I never go back)
21. Jump Sky high
22. Ms. Jensen!  (yes, including the exclamation point...his kindergarten and first grade teacher)
23. Ipod
24. Wii
25. DS
26. 3DS  (should I mention we don't own numbers 23-26 but it still made the list before me?)
27. Parking Tunnels (garages...so clever!  Yes, we do love the engineering of parking garages.  They ARE fun!)
28. Planes
29. Ranger Rick
30. Book-It (reading incentive program at school)
31. Rameez 
32. Balloons
33. Lukas (Rameez and Lukas have been in his every year class since preK)
34. Mario and Sonic (yes, the video game characters)
35. Jolie (another dear friend who has been in the same class since PreK...and from church, too)
36. Ashton
37. Abby
38. Andrea (Neighbors)
39. Secret Key
40. Race Cars
41. David
42. Playing with Friends
43. somehow this number got skipped...
44. ...so did this one....oh well
45. Wiggly Tooth
46. Swimming
47. Running
48. Slip 'n' Slide
49. Pool
50. Park
51. Brookfield Zoo
52. Lincoln Park Zoo
53. My Monkey (cuz, see, there is this one ape that had fun copying Carter's every move one time we went, so he feels there is this bond, this connection.  So we always go visit "his monkey".  Somehow, I don't think the guy on the other side of the glass remembers.)
54. Doughnuts
55. Pop gun
56. Sonic (there he is again...and that's how it happens at home, too: these characters tend to show up several times a day!)
57. Antarctica
58. Sports
59. School
60. SCHOOL (yes in caps)
61. Eating
62. Hot Dogs
63. Sleeping
64. Pancakes
65. Ice Cream
66. Blueberry Hill Restaurant (gross.  I thought we, as a family, decided it was gross when we went?)
67. The Touch Lamp (at school, the reading corner has a lamp that you touch the shade and it becomes brighter or dimmer.)
68. Computer Lab
69. Gym
70. Brownies
71. Tag
72. Reading Lamp
73. Video games
74. Hotels
75. Candy
76. Chocolate
77. Candy Bars
78. Drawings
79. Elmer and the Dragon (book)
80. Rostam (neighbor)
81. Library
82. Jokes
83. Crazy glasses
84. My family (Awww!  THERE we are!!  Holding tight in 84th place!)
85. Museum of Science and Industry (oh, if the MoSI is at 85th, then I KNOW this list is in no particular order.  Otherwise it -- and us -- would have been WAY up at the top!)
86. Books
87. Magazines
88. Me (I'm glad he has that in there!)
89. Space
90. Universe
91. Thunderstorms (a kid after my own adrenaline heart)
92. When it rains very hard, thunders very loud, and lightning is very bright!
93. Ticket To Read (computer reading incentive program)
94. Getting Panther Paws (reward/compliments at school)
95. My Disney Uno Game
96. Mom and Baby (THERE I AM!!!  AGAIN!  Number 96!)
97. Addie
98. Dad
99. Alana
100. (FINALLY!) Jupiter and Saturn and Running