“I was two and a half, and my little brother walked into a pool using his walker.”

— Meagan Vestal, Halloween express employee, Tonganoxie

“This is weird, but my sister and I used to put sand in our hair and then pick it out.”

— Megan Hadley, Leavenworth Cooperative Association employee, Tonganoxie

“Moving into my old house and seeing the fort in the backyard. I was probably four.”

— Trey Swan, eighth-grader, Lawrence

“When I went to visit my grandmother in the hospital for the last time when I was two and a half.”

— Domenico Idoni, historian, Baltimore