Yesterday’s inauguration had plenty of notable moments: John Roberts fumbling the Oath of Office, Ted Kennedy’s health scare at the luncheon, Aretha Franklin’s hat upstaging Aretha Franklin. Mostly, the coverage lent even more lucidity to my dreams of a White House slumber party with Sasha and Malia Obama (at which we’ll play dress-up and prank call Piper Palin and try to get the three-legged poodle to run in circles). One thing’s evident: the new First Daughters are a pleasure after the Bush twins, who somehow managed to further mar their father’s legacy, like a tribal tattoo on the administration’s lower back.

While I’m waiting for my ice cream social invite, I’ll recount my favorite First Kid moments of all time:

Susan Ford holds her prom in the White House: Gerald Ford’s daughter was allowed to host her high school’s 1975 senior prom in the East Room of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Can you imagine if your prom date were the President’s daughter? Mine was in the band, and basically abandoned me all evening. I bet it’s a lot like that.

Ron Reagan drops out of Yale to join the ballet: President Ronald Regan’s son was always a rebel. He was expelled from high school, mocked his father on Saturday Night Live and now hosts a show on liberal satellite radio station Air America. But his most awesome act of rebellion was the choice to eschew an Ivy League education to pursue a dance career with the Joffrey Ballet while his father was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination.

Chelsea Clinton’s makeover: Chelsea was the most composed First Kid to date, even though her awkward adolescence was mocked by everyone from John McCain (in this tasteless joke from a 1998 fundraiser) to Garth Algar (who declared her unable to incite a schwing! in a 1992 Wayne’s Word sketch on Saturday Night Live). So it was a frivolously wonderful moment when she arrived at a Paris fashion show with a surprisingly sexy look, courtesy of Donatella Versace, that launched a thousand Babe-raham Lincoln jokes.

Amy Carter reads a book during a state dinner: Carter moved into the White House with father Jimmy when she was 9, and was immediately noticed for her precociousness. She famously offended a few foreign dignitaries by bringing a book to a state dinner and reading mid-meal. The dinner table antics continued into her teens, when she invited crush John Travolta to sup with the First Family. Travolta, when he’s on (Danny Zuko, Vincent Vega, approximation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors) is probably the best dinner guest in the world. Wait a few years, though, Sasha–like fashion, Travolta is cyclical.

Susan Ford ditches the Secret Service: Ford ditched her security detail (a move that supposedly inspired the Mandy Moore film Chasing Liberty), only to realize she had plans to attend a Hall & Oates concert later that night…and her agents had tickets too. John Oates’s mustache: always keeping America’s kids safe.

Caroline Kennedy inspires Neil Diamond: In 2007, Diamond finally revealed the inspiration behind “Sweet Caroline:” an image of young Kennedy on a horse, surrounded by her family. What? The lyrics make less sense now.

Everything Alice Roosevelt ever did:  Teddy’s daughter regularly crashed the Oval Office to offer her political advice, had a pet boa constrictor named “Emily Spinach,” convinced a Congressman to jump off a cruise ship with her, buried a voodoo doll of First Lady Nellie Taft in the White House lawn, and considered herself an “honorary homosexual” for her civil rights advocacy in the 60s (which easily makes her a cooler lesbian than Mary Cheney).