First real summer

That beautiful morning,
I looked out the window to see what I heard Mom storing
I raced and I rushed- Dashed down those stairs
Outside in my pajamas- I totally didn’t care

There it was, so lovely, so red
With a big bow ribbon placed on its handle-bar head
Jumping and whistling drooling all about
~Hip hip hooray!~ was all there was to shout
My neighbour looked over the fence and saw me
Dancing and prancing and giggling with glee
He was so very jealous of me

Finally dad opened the back of the truck
I climbed up and got my shirt stuck
After wiggling and figgling myself free
There it was: the shiny new bike before me!

He put it down in the driveway,
I unloaded the bags from the truck
I put on spokie-dokies, streamers and a spongebob horn
Adding a flisher flicker sticker to make noise and adorn
Mom came out with the camera and took pictures
of me and my bike - the best company

The training wheels have finally come off
It’s been 2 years and a week since that day
Dad came outside with the coolest of cool helmets
And mom had the video camera ready to roll
We were all so excited to see me
graduating to a double wheel bike
Until I fell off and down the hill - that I did not much like

The bike got scratched and the wheel came off
Down I tumbled, down the hill with no stop
Now I’m in the house, my arm in a sling
And my nosy neighbour hasn’t stopped laughing
But that’s okay, I really don’t mind
Because behind his mom’s van, his bike he’ll find!