This is just a bit of fun (I try not to take myself too seriously) written with my son Michael’s voice – it’s 4 sleeps now.
Do you remember your 10th birthday?
I remember when my brother, two years older than me, turned 10 and I thought it was the biggest thing ever.
Michael’s Birthday Countdown
Five sleeps to the day
when I go from single
to double digits
10
this is big
it’s huge
ginormous
splendiferous
extraterrestrially phantasmagorically
out-there
it’s hard to sleep
with the anticipation
I’m tingling inside
with vibrations
of expectations
an exclamation
marks the spot
!
Gabe Feathers McGee 
How do they grow up so quick!!!!!! I’ll let him turn 9 at his next birthday.
It is so beautiful that you wrote this. The excitement is palpable and I can envision the smiles. You are so special.
Pearl
🙂 thank you Pearl
“it’s huge
ginormous
splendiferous
extraterrestrially phantasmagorically”.
Don’t kids just love those words! I wish you a great Michael’s birthday too!
Michael is lucky because his birthday is always in the school holidays 🙂 thanks Stafford
happy happy birthday Michael,
have a great day,
a great year,
a great life,
de gros bisous du Canada pour toute la famille.
Thanks Ben and gros bisous d’Australie à votre famille 🙂 (used Google translator – haha, cheating and probably incorrect). Michael has been making paper balloons all morning (draws them, colours them and cuts them out to pin on the wall) – he cut the ‘string’ off one accidentally and said ‘that’s ok, it is now a ball’ 😉
perfect google translation, (usually it is a pretty funny result0.
Michael is a true artist, making something of a mistake, great idea the baloon becoming a ball!
It was a great idea Ben and a big leap for a kid who hates making ‘mistakes’ – but it’s not a mistake if you can morph it into something else.
What a fun poem…you captured the voice well.
It was fun, thanks slpmartin (I must admit I occasionally talk like that myself 😉 )
just full of that feeling, remember? just bursting with excitement! ‘sleeps’ made me laugh, thats how time is measured ha ha, great one gabrielle!
Thanks tipota. I remember one birthday when I was little, saying to my Mum and Dad about 20 times ‘it’s my birthday tomorrow’ – drove them bonkers.
Lovely poem by a wonderful mum for a splendiferous nearly double digit boy of ten! Happy Birthday Michael, make the biggest wish and eat lots of cake! 🙂
Cake, cake and more cake 🙂 thanks Val, I will pass on your birthday wishes to the boy.
Happy Birthday, Michael! And what a fun way for mom to celebrate it!
🙂
Happy b’day Michael! For my tenth we had a party and my brother, aunty and a gril who lived behind us all dressed up like kiss and we mimed a concert. The photos of that still make me smile! For the record, I was Peter Criss.
Bwahahahaha – My husband is a big Kiss fan – those photos must be a hoot Graham 😉
Well happy birthday early! I hope those sleeps go quickly and are easy to slip into.
Thanks Storm Dweller 🙂
Yeah I remember my 10th birthday and it was pretty much the way you described it. Thanks.
Thanks Cocoyea 🙂
I remember that time too!
I remember some birthdays, just a bit vague on the ages.
It’s true there is a tingling when that second digit arises. I remember it well.
A tingling indeed Squirrel 🙂
Wonderful!
10 did feel like a very big year – that single to double digit is a big change!
I think my 10th birthday was spent at a Pizza Hut birthday party – you know, back when they still had a dine-in restaurant – all the kids had their parties there. 🙂
I loved the dine-in Pizza Hut experience Tracey – we had one up the road at Indooroopilly when I was about that age.
I felt very important when I turned 10. It is such a grand-sounding age. And the double digits make you feel very significant as a kid. I hope Michael has a fantastic day!
It is now the day after the birthday – we had a grand old day and I am very full 🙂