Annika and the Year of Birthdays

Annika had a birthday and from what I’ve heard folks tell,

The ice cream was delicious and the birthday cake as well.

The party was a big success, leading Annika to say,

This year I’m going to have a birthday each and every day!

The next day she turned 7 and the next day she turned 8,

And all her friends brought presents and came help her celebrate,

And everything was wonderful and all the parties fun.

Already, April Fool’s Day, she was turning 21.

On the 17th of May, she celebrated 67.

By the 30th of June, she turned a hundred and eleven.

The presents all piled up until, no matter how she tried

She couldn’t fit them in her room and had to sleep outside.

And so the parties go each day, and all the fun goes on

And there’ll be fun and games until the birthday year is gone.

And every day a birthday cake, and every cake a bean,

And every day a crown and every crown a king or queen.

So Happy Birthdays, Annika, I hope for next year, you

Can still blow all the candles out, when you’re 372!