Happy Birthday Malcolm!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALCOLM!

If we reach three score and ten we feel we've made the grade

So anyone who's eighty absolutely has it made!

To be healthy is a bonus that not everyone achieves;

We feel they must have some important secret up their sleeves!

Well, today Malcolm is eighty, so we wish him all the best.

It's a really important milestone and we're suitably impressed!

Happy Birthday Malcolm, though you don't want any fuss.

The very best of wishes from every one of us!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy Birthday Max!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX!

What does this expression tell you?

Sweetness with a hint of cheek?

If it does then you've guessed rightly,

'Specially since he's learned to speak!

Max is our communicator,

A 'people-person' through and through.

Max is three and growing nicely!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX to you!

Happy Birthday Blake!

TO BLAKE!

Blake is our Numero Uno! He's growing up so fast!

And we have happy memories of the days that are now past.

His babyhood in Quirindi still lingers in the mind,

But that's eleven years ago; babyhood's left behind.

He's growing-up so nicely: almost 'teen' for goodness sake!

And so we're happy to say to him

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAKE!

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Happy Birthday, Greg!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREG!

It isn't every day a son

Turns 'a good bit more than twenty-one'!

A whole lot more, ain't that the truth!

But to me he'll always keep his youth.

Whatever years he may enjoy

He'll always be my little boy!

(I know for a fact he'll hate this verse

But it could have been a great deal worse!)

And the preceding poem is, by coincidence, Greg-related too!

An early Greg incident here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/06/38-toddler-translation.html

Happy Birthday Harry!

HARRY IS FIVE YEARS OLD!

Happy Birthday, Harry!

Five years old today!

I know you like

Your brand new bike!

Hip hip hip hooray!

Once upon a time Harry was only four here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/01/footnote-little-boy-logic.html