(In jump rope chant rhythm, slowly. Lloyd didn’t get it, so I’ve bolded the words on the beat.)
(Jump jump jump jump)
One. Two. Three. Six.
Four more numbers join the mix.
Seven.Fourteen. Twenty-One
Factors are such mathy fun
End the string with Forty-Two.
Watch the birthday girl boo-hoo.
It’s your turn to write a line.
Doesn’t even have to rhyme.
(jump jump jump jump)
Brad says
Happy Birtday, Lauren dear.
Forty-two is a great year.
It’s the answer, good or worse,
To Life, the Universe
And Everything.
(Dang. I couldn’t make the last part work. Consider it free verse. Maybe I’ll try again when it’s not so early, but who’s kiddin’ who? Early morning is when my mind is the sharpest.)
Lauren's dad says
HAPPY FORTY SECOND BIRTHDAY, LAUREN!
Mary Ellen says
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Hip Hip Hooray
It’s Miss Lauren’s Special Day
Skit Skat Skootle Doot
Flip Flop Flee
Next Year She’ll be Forty -Three
Happy Birthday Lauren!!!
Amused Lurker says
You don’t know me,
Nor I you.
But have a Happy
42!!
Lloyd says
I know today
I’ll have to do
Everything
You want me to.
But before
Your fun begins
There is one chore:
State surplus auction.
Mark says
You were once a little girl
And in your dress you’d spin and twirl
Now you are but forty-two
So Happy Birthday, Sis, to you!
Kristi says
Hope your day is full of fun.
Say good-bye to forty-one.
Go ahead and eat some cake.
Then a nap you shall go take.
Lau-ren, Lau-ren, For-ty two,
Looks so very good on you.
Happy Birthday, Lauren!
Peggy says
It’s your birthday,yabba dabba do,
The birthday girl shall not boo hoo,
Fabulous and marvelous is the age of forty-two,
Instead jump and shout, Hooray--Woo hoo!!
For I was once that spry forty two,
Now my bones creak & wail oh poo,
Slightly deaf & brain failing too,
Rejoice I say, in being forty two!
Lauren's mom says
Oh, dear! You mean I have to write?
I’d really rather fly a kite.
Happy Birthday to my Lauren!
Hope your year is full of fun.
Lauren says
Today I had a lovely time,
shopping, eating, reading rhymes.
From North to South to East to West
I think you guys are just the best!
Mom says
Lloyd said “Happy Birthday
I’m sending this your way
don’let the smiles stray
Enjoy the day your way.
Jill says
Happy Birthday, Now you know,
What it’s like to be that old!
Happy Happy Birthday. Too bad I reached it before you!