Uploaded on May 29, 2012

Everything’s been different
All the day long,
Lovely things have happened,
Nothing has gone wrong.

Nobody has scolded me,
Everyone has smiled.
Isn’t it delicious
To be a birthday child?

—Rose Fyleman
Favorite Poems Old and New
edited by Helen Ferris


05.29.2024: We had a lovely time celebrating Jack’s birthday this year.