365- WadaWada

21.  WadaWada

                               This is Liz, my WadaWada cousin. What does that mean? It means we're cousins who will stick with each other to the end, through thick and thin. How did that name come about? When I was about 9 we went to visit my Hayes cousins', Jess, Liz, and Maddie, they live in MO. Like the adventurous kids we are, we decided to sleep on the trampoline. It was totally awesome we played all those sleeping bag games, where you locked someone in a sleeping bag and jumped up and down till they screamed or got sick. Everything was going great, that is until it actually got dark. Their trampoline was at LEAST 50 yards from the house, and right along the edge of the woods. So you know what that means, scary story time. The more stories about disfigured green hands and possessed barbies that got told, the more scared us girls got. And since we had the fathers we did, and Poppy, our grandpa, we knew all about being scared. Our dads ALWAYS tried to scare us, it ran in the family. My dad and Uncle Tim grew up with Poppy constantly jumping out at them from closets and behind doors. So when they had kids of their own, they proceeded to do the same to us. We've been growing up watching our every move; and this was a perfect time for them to scare us,
Oh here are some rules for survival, in case you have a father or uncle like this, or even an Aunt.

             1. If your dad asks you to get some milk out of the downstairs fridge, that means your Uncle is hiding behind the door just waiting to scare you so bad you pee your pants.
             2. If you wish to enter a dark room, do NOT GO IN ALONE. Take a cousin, sister, or brother with you. The more vulnerable the better, you will feel like the strong one and won’t be so scared.
             3. Don't stick your hand out the window to check the straps on the roof when your dad asks, because he will most likely snap your arm in the window. I know this from experience.
             4. When watching a scary movie, do not hold spill able items, such as a bowl of popcorn or a cup of ice in your hands, because your uncle will come up behind you and scream like a banshee causing you to jump so high your head hits the ceiling and it rains popcorn and ice. Alex learned this the hard way.

                 So as you can see, we were expecting to get scared. My cousin Liz, was telling one particularly scary story about a bunch of little goblins. Some of the younger kids, Cady my sister and my cousin Maddie, ok fine, and me, were getting a little freaked out. That’s when Liz started chanting, “I’m not afraid wadawadawada, I’m not afraid wadawadawada” We all took up the chanting and pretty soon we were jumping up and down yelling it. And that’s when the world was suddenly filled with a white glowing light and a chorus of unearthly screams. Those screams were soon mingled with the screams of five little girls.
                 “Just wanted to make sure you guys were doing ok!” Chuckled my Poppy, our eyes adjusted to the light, and we saw my dad, Uncle Tim, and Poppy holding one of those big industrial lights. Ever since that day we’ve been using that wadawada phrase. It’s just latched on, it’s sort of become a part of me. When I think of Madi Hayes, I think Madiwadawada. I’m a wadawada cousin and proouuuuuuuud of it!

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