btw if you grew up without cousins significantly younger than you a key fact to know about them is that toddlers are Eminently Throwable. Nothing makes them happier than a good (CONTROLLED AND SAFE) yeet. The Children Yearn For The Skies.
I'm about six inches taller than a friend of mine and his two year old daughter has digested this and she'll run up to him and say "up" to get picked up high, then run up to me to say "higher". She even got to touch the ceiling one time.
my uncle used to launch us into backflips into the pool and we thought he was basically a god, all while our parents tried not to have visible heart attacks lmao
We rented a giant inflatable slip n slide for our daughter's third birthday which is to say I spent the entire day yeeting small children down it until my shoulders died
I used to greet my youngest cousin by flipping her upside down until my mother quietly suggested she might not be enjoying herself, but Annie is a fight choreographer now and I claim at least partial credit for this.
When my cousin was little I grabbed his left ear, put my right hand below his arm and lifted him "by his ear", he is still telling me that once in a while, he is 22 now...