When you are five…

–You can tie your own shoes.
–You get your first pair of roller skates.
–You ask for a birthday trip to the hair salon with your mom.
–You are emphatic that your cake must be pink and be decorated with flowers. You explain that this requirement can be satisfied with either pink icing and white flowers or white icing with pink flowers. But it must be pink, and it must have flowers.
–You can play board games.
–When you need to vomit, you make it to the toilet in time (we learned this during a recent stomach bug).
–When other people in your family are also vomiting, you understand that your birthday party needs to be moved to the following weekend.
–When you are done vomiting, you realize there are certain foods you cannot eat for a while.
— You can read, sort of (but not when vomiting).

–You are a real kid!