10 November 2009

Now We Are Six

The A. A. Milne poem titled The End is obligatory upon becoming six:
When I was One,
I had just begun.

When I was Two,
I was nearly new.

When I was Three
I was hardly Me.

When I was Four,
I was not much more.

When I was Five,
I was just alive.

But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

Happy birthday, clever little goose.

22 comments:

  1. Lovely! Happy birthday.

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  2. Happy little birthday. We're six too. It's a lovely age. Not that they all haven't been (theirs, I mean. For mine, I'd have to think it over a little more extensively. I remember thirty-four and a half being a bitch).

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  3. Happy birthday, Miss M! Six is indeed wonderful (like bibliomama, I like them all so far).

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  4. Indeed, Happy Birthday Miss M! Six is a wonderful, and at times wild new world.

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  5. Happy birthday!

    I too have purchased that book for every six-year-old I know's birthday. That punctuation and grammar is completely wrong.

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  6. I love that book! Happy birthday to your six-year-old.

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  7. I love Milne.

    Happy birthday, stylish Miss M.! You are certainly a clever one.

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  8. Sweet, sweet baby girl! Happiest of birthdays!

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  9. happy birthday, for ever and ever!

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  10. In other words of A.A.Milne:
    "HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA
    BTHUTHDY." to Miss M!

    Ah, six. I remember 6. Wish SC was 6 and JR 2 again!

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  11. Happy Happy Birthday, sweetie!

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  12. AW! I love Milne's poetry! I was just reading from Now We Are Six to my six year old the other day. We like "Has Anybody Seen My Mouse?"

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  13. Love that poem. Many many many happy returns to Miss M!

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  14. 6 is fun! Happy birthday, M!

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  15. A very, very happy #6 to Mir!!

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  16. A very, very happy #6 to Mir!!

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  17. Love it, and a little sniffly that it's been so long since I've read that poem to my boys....

    Happy birthday to the girlie!

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  18. Happy Birthday to your little girl!

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  19. Happy birthday to your sweet girl!

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  20. I hope she had a fantastic birthday.

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