Chinese New Year!

      Vol 1  Chap 49               

                        Chinese New Year!

            Hey, Hey, My Name is Audrey Mae!

            Guess What?  It's Chinese New Years Day!

            And Though You Might Think It Funny,

            This is the Year of the Bunny!

            Four Thousand, Seven Hundred, Nine ...

            As New Years Go, This Year's Divine!

            They Taught Me at the Y and School

            Why Chinese Celebrate So Cool?

            While Many Colored Dragons Twirl,

            Costumes Adorn Each Boy and Girl!

            I Hear the Drums Beat!  There's a Kite!

            Those Evil Spirits Flee in Fright!

            When All Those Fire Crackers Crack!

            No Evil Spirit Dares Come Back!

            Confetti's Falling Everywhere!

            Confetti's In In My Sister's Hair!

            'Fore Long, a Panda and a Dragon

            Team to Pull Kids in a Wagon!

            Some Throw Real Far!   Others Toss Near!

            It's Candy!  Wow!  "Happy New Year!"

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa                (Feb. 5, 2011)

My Best Friend!

Vol. 1  Chap. 48

               My Best Friend!

         Of All the Things I Love to Do,

         And You Know Me, That's Quite a Few!

         One Favorite in This Whole Wide World

         Is Spending Time With My Main Girl!

         

         Hey, Hey, My Name is Audrey Mae!

         I Had a Play Date Saturday!

         With Best Friend Faith, We Watched the Court!

         Hoops is Faith's Sister, Loren's Sport!

         How Awesome is Sister Loren?

         She Stops!   She Pops!   The Ball Goes In!

         Then Back to Faith's House!   It's Not Far!

         That's Where We Drive Her Plasma Car!

         

         We Ride on Scooters, Share Her Toys!

         I'd Guess We Make Our Share of Noise!

         But Her Mom Never Seems to Mind!

         Like My Mom, Hers is Really Kind!

         We Never Fight!   We Always Laugh!

         It's Like Faith is My Better Half!

         I Know When We Are Old, Like Ten,

         That Faith Will Still Be My Best Friend!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa                        (Jan 29, 2011)

Being Big!

Vol 1  Chap 47

                    Being Big!

            What I Love Most 'bout Being Big

            Is Those Days When I Get the Gig

            Of Taking Care Of Isabelle!

            My Isabelle Likes It Just Swell!

            I Give My Mother Time To Breath

            As Long as Iz and I Don't Leave

            Mom's Sight!   I Teach Iz to Dance Some!

            She Squats Her Knees and Shakes Her Bum!
                   
               

            Hey, Hey, My Name Is Audrey Mae!

            Right Now I'm Teaching Iz to Play

            With Barbies!  This Much I Can Tell!

            She Undresses Them Really Well!

            I Take Her Little Hand In Mine

            And With My Mom, Set Out to Find

            The Smallest Swings in Our Huge Park!

            We Swing and Slide Till Almost Dark!

            Tonight, I'm Her Favorite Teach'a!

            'Cause Class is, "How to Eat Pizza!"

            Next Week I'll Add to What Iz Knows!

            When We Dissect Bean Burritos!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa                    (Jan. 22, 2011)

My Snow Day!!!

Vol 1  Chap 46  

                 My Snow Day!!!

        Where Grampa Lives a Blizzard Hit!

        That Blizz Brought Tons of Snow With It!

        So Now As Far As He Can See

        The Earth is Draped In Snow's Beauty!    

   

                  

        Three Thousand Miles From Grampa's Place

        My San Diego School Kept Pace!

        You Should Have Seen My Classmate's Eyes

        When Snow Appeared to Our Surprise!

        Hey, Hey, My Name Is Audrey Mae!

        At School, I Had My First Snow Day!

        Huge Trucks, Laden Down With White Stuff,

        Came To School To Dump Their Cold Fluff!

        We Dressed In Boots and Strange, Warm Clothes!

        We Had To, Or We Would'a Froze!

        In Minutes Snowballs Filled The Air!
        Kids Running, Screaming, Everywhere!

        

        Some Sledded Down Our Killer Hills!

        I Did!   And I Survived the Spills!

        San Diego Snow Day's Intense!

        For Kids Who Were ... In Attendance!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa                (Jan 15, 2011)

Tangled!

Vol. 1  Chap 45

                                   Tangled!

                      Last Night My Family Went To See

                      The Movie Tangled In Three D!

                      Rapunzel With Her Long Blonde Hair

                      Stuck in a Tower Way Up There!

                      Hey, Hey, My Name Is Audrey Mae!

                      I Fell Asleep Late Yesterday

                      And Dreampt a Dream So Real, Of Course,

                      I Rode on Maximus, the Horse!

                      With Pascal, My Cameleon,

                      Armed With My Caste Iron Frying Pan,

                      We Make a Pretty Brave, Tough Pair!

                      Just Ask Flynn Rider's Dented Hair!

                      At Snuggly Duckling, Those Pub Thugs

                      Look Mean!   But They Just Need Some Hugs!

                      Hook-Hand and His Friends Help Us Hide

                      From Palace Guards!   Then Off We Ride!

                      That's How It Went For Me All Night!

                      As Rapunzel, I'd Run or Fight!

                      I Wake, Exhausted, Gasping Air!

                      Who Stole My Super Long Red Hair?

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa                    (Jan. 8, 2011)

Happy New Year!!!

Vol. 1  Chap. 44          

                Happy New Year!!!

              

       
       Us Left Coast Girls Party Hearty!

       Start At Noon So We're Not Tardy!

       Sister Iz, That Little Rock Star,

       On New Year's Eve, She's Best By Far!

       Our Chinese Food, It Does Arrive

       About a Quarter After Five!

       Who Knows What "Moo Goo Gai Pan" Is?

       But Just the Sound Sets Sister Iz

              

       To Laughing Fits, So Contagious,

       She Gives Her Laugh to All of Us!

       It's Hard to Do the Simplest Thing

       Bent Over, Red-Faced, Knee Slapping!

       Iz Made Me Drop the Egg Drop Soup,

       Before My Mom Could Get a Scoop!

       But 'Fore It Ever Hit The Floor

       I "Moo Goo Gai" Iz Just Once More!

       Mom Catches Iz' Laugh!   No Tee Hee!

       Best Not Laugh and Eat Chop Suey!

       'Tween Belly Laughs, I Clearly See,

       Iz Laughing Means ... More Food For Me!

       Happy New Year Everybody!!!

Your Grampa Sure Loves You!

Love~Grampa      (Jan. 1, 2011)

It's Christmas Day!!!

Vol. 1  Chap. 43                     

              It's Christmas Day!!!

                       

            It Seems Like There are Two Christmas!

            In One, There's Toys for All of Us!

            Sweet Iz and Me Do Love This Part!

            But It's Not Toys That Swells Our Heart!

                                              

            Hey, Hey, My Name is Audrey Mae!

            All Year We Wait For Christmas Day!

            Twas Christmas Day So Long Ago

            Jesus was Born!   We Love Him So!

                       

            Three Wise Men Came to That Manger!

            They Brought Gold and Two Things Stranger!

            When They Beheld the New Born King,

            All Heard a Choir of Angels Sing!

            In Bethlehem the Hopes and Dreams

            Of All Mankind Blossomed It Seems!

            Now When We Think 'Bout Jesus Birth,

            We Feel the Love and Peace on Earth!

Merry Christmas To All!!!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa               (Dec. 25, 2010)

Cramming to Make "The List"! Vol 1 Chap 42

                       Cramming To Make "The List"!

                           

                            
                       The Harder I Try To Be Good,

                       The More That I'm Misunderstood.

                       Like When I Tried to Help, Sweeping.

                       The Crashing Lamp Woke Mom's Sleeping.

                       I Filled the Sink. Loaded Dishes.

                       Right Now, If I Had Two Wishes,

                       I'd Wish That Phone Had Never Rung

                       And I Could Make the Flood Undone.

                          

                            
                       Hey, Hey, My Name is Audrey Mae!

                       Still on His "Good Girl" List?  I Pray!

                       Despite My Less Than Perfect Stretch,

                       Like When I Taught My Bonez to Fetch!

                           

                       I'm Tossing Hot Dogs with No Buns.

                       How Could I Know He'd Get the Runs?

                       Who Knew Raw Hot Dogs Would Go Through

                       Big Ol' Bonez, Into Mom's New Shoe?

                           

                       Everyone Sees Isabelle's Good.

                       Sweetest Girl In Our Neighborhood!

                       Mom's Got Me Sitting On Each Fist.

                       Oh Man, I'll Never Make "The List!"

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love-Grampa                 (Saturday Dec. 18, 2010)

Pacific Beach Christmas Parade!

Vol. 1  Chap. 41

               Pacific Beach Christmas Parade!

                   

                   Mom Slathered Us Girls With Sun Block!

                   I'm Keeping One Eye On the Clock!

                   We're Due On Garnet Avenue,

                   The Very Spot Santa Rides Through!

                    

                   Pacific Beach Christmas Parade's

                   Where We Show Santa We Obeyed

                   More Times Than Not, We Will Insist!

                   And He Can Check It On His List!

                   

                         
                   Hey, Hey, My Name Is Audrey Mae!

                   Is There a More Exciting Day

                   Than When Santa Rides 'Neath Palm Trees

                   And Winks And Smiles to Iz and Me?

                   He's Big and Jolly, Sunburned Red!

                   A Little Sweat Drips Off His Head!

                   But When He Waves and Ho, Ho, Ho's

                   He's The Real Santa!   This Much Shows!

                   

                   Tonight's Sleep-Over At Faith's House,

                   We'll Both Be Stirring Like a Mouse!

                   What Kid Could Ever Find Slumber

                   The Night That Santa Waved To Her?

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa                   (Dec. 11, 2010)