Entries from November 2007 ↓

I told the magic genie
I wanted to be a pirate
And sail the seven seas.
I knew the magic genie
Wanted very much to please.
He knew that I’d return him
To his little genie bottle
If he didn’t grant my wish.
His bottle was quite crowded
With two monkeys and a fish.
So he tweaked his genie nose,
And he did a genie dance
With [...]

We raced out to the old tire swing,
It had hung there through the summer.
For him to beat me for first swing,
Had really been a bummer.
But when he jumped into the swing,
I laughed so hard I could have cried.
A swarm of wasps had found the tire
And built their paper nest inside!

Grandpa said he saw a house fly,
That’s the silliest thing I’d heard.
Grandpa likes to tease us kids,
Sometimes you can’t believe a word.
When I told him a house can’t fly,
He said he saw a horse fly too.
I know that when he teases me
The things he says aren’t always true.
I told my dad what Grandpa said,
About the [...]

Some grown-ups put up warning signs
To try and scare bad guys away.
When it is dark, they can’t be read,
And bad guys aren’t out when it’s day.
Dad says bad guys drop out of school,
So warning signs have little need.
If bad guys are drop-outs from school,
They probably can’t even read.

“It would eat us out of house and home!”
Is what my mother said.
“Besides, I think I read somewhere,
That all the dinosaurs are dead.”
“It would eat us out of house and home,”
My mother said to me again.
“We wouldn’t know what to feed it,
Or even how we should begin.”
“Our back yard isn’t big enough;
A dinosaur needs room [...]