What mildly childish things make you disproportionately happy?

[Nocti]

I just had some chocolate milk and it was ace Ridiculously so.

What slightly childish things make you really, really happy?

Swings at the park

Lego

Enid Blyton books.

Stationery! 🎨📒✏️✒️🖍️🗂️🖌️📌🖇️

Bubbles
Coloured pencils

snow

Boiled eggs with soldiers

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Green Knowe books by Lucy Boston

I have a mug with a shark on it that reads "You're Jawsome." Love it love it love it

Haribo Tangfastics

Toasting marshmallows

New pens

Ankle socks with lace trimmings

Sticking my fingers up (once they've turned their backs) or mouthing "fuck off" or "dickhead" after conversations with people I don't like. Not mildly childish but VERY childish.

Bubblewrap

Oh yes yes to stationery and Haribo!

I want to like swings, but they don't like me.

Pippi longstocking books.

Sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

Colouring in (proper colouring in, not adult colouring books with such tiny detail you're not properly colouring in at all!)

Running through the sprinkler in really hot weather.

Plus pretty much everything else above!

Nibbling round a jaffacake, eating the sponge bit off carefully so the orange bit is left and then licking off the chocolate and eating the orange bit whole.

Hiding from my husband and then jumping out at him or him spotting my (usually rubbish) hiding spot

Sparklers

Strawberry laces. I always order them for our home sweet shop and then hide them so the kids can't snaffle them.

Getting on a double decker bus and getting the front seat above the driver. As a child I use to pretend to drive the bus, as an adult it makes me smile and feel like today’s going to be a good day

top front seat of bus, or front seat of DLR
swings
riding bikes
running down a hill
rolling down a hill
paddling
rockpooling.

Sitting in a paddling pool

Eating ice lollies

Shrieking “Snap! You owe me a Coke!” When another person says the same word at the same time as you..

Kinder chocolate

Seeing farm animals- ooh look, cows!

Pom pom bears

Wearing a bow in my hair

I'm making a Lego VW campervan atm, kit passed on from my lovely niece. So absorbing! Also read and re-read a lot of children's books.