When Kacie was a little girl of about 5 or 6 years old she was amazingly strong for such a little kid. She just couldn't resist pulling little boys' hair. We never saw her pull a little girl's hair. Well, one evening we invited our friends, the Goldman family, to our house for dinner. Their little boy was about Kacie's age and we had a talk with her about the hair issue before they arrived. The evening was going very well and then we heard a scream from another room. All of the adults present ran into the room and there was Kacie gripping the poor boy's hair with both hands and she just couldn't let go. The boy's mother panicked and started pulling Kacie's hair and I had to release her fingers one by one. What a night!
Up until about the age of 10, Kacie would spill her drink every time we took her to a restaurant and I mean every time. The most amazing spill occured at the Dough Roller on Ocean City's boardwalk. She managed to soak herself and three adults and shattered her dinner plate in the isle which was shut down until a cleaning crew arrived.
Even up to the time that Kacie became an adult, she could never tell you anything about current events. There was a good reason for that. From the time that she was an infant until she died she could not stand the touch of newspaper. To her it was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Kacie loved the cold. When she was just a little kid and we were living on a windy hill in Woodbine, I would often go into her room after she had fallen asleep. It could be the middle of winter with a howling wind and temperatures below freezing and Kacie would have the windows wide open without so much as a sheet covering her. Even as an adult, she loved to drive around in the winter with her windows down and her head hanging out of the car.
When Kacie was about 11 months old she took her first step which a friend of mine filmed. I had invited a buddy to visit me and had just purchased a video camera. I asked him film my dog chasing a ball. When I threw the ball, the dog took off and Kacie quickly stood up and followed him. I couldn't believe it at the time, but it's on tape. Prior to that, I had never seen her even attempt to walk.
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The spilling definitely didn't stop at 10...I've been witness to many-a-Kacie-spill.
I think that Kacie was the messiest eater I ever saw. It's no secret that she loved food, and I think she'd just get so excited when she actually had something delicious in front of her, that she couldn't control herself...there would be crumbs everywhere!!
and on the topic of food...Kacie once challenged me to a hot-wing eating contest. I was talking a lot of trash about how I love spicy hot food, so she told me to put up or shut up. She demolished me!!! The wings didn't even phase her! She just went right on eating while I was in the kitchen frantically trying to find some ice or some bread to cool my mouth off! That girl had super-human taste buds.
the newspaper thing.... wow do we all know about that? well the time that the whole fear of newspaper really came as a handicap to kacie was when it was moving time. As you all know Kacie moved around A LOT (as I do ha) we were designated "movers for life" we often joked about starting our own moving company.... anyways getting back to the newspaper... when it came time to wrap any of her dishes or glass anything... that would be my job.... although sometimes we didnt even wrap things we just put them in dresser drawers with towels. Although i do recall one time she went out and bought rubber dishwasher gloves to wrap her fragile knicknacks in newspaper. Although she had the rubber gloves on her facial expression was still absolute disgust and the crinkling noise of the paper. haha
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