All In A Day's 'Play'

What are wrinkles?  he asks searching my face for an answer with his toy detective-glass

While his baby sister deposits her cucumber slice down the front of my shirt

And I struggle to find words and cucumber

What is steam? he questions as I ask him to 'close the fridge because the steam means we are losing

cold air', so he does and the steam disappears, and I never knew how hard it was to describe in 3 year old smallness, words I never give a second thought and he really wants to know, what is steam?

What is this bird’s name?  he wonders and when I say Bluebird he wants to know its ‘real’ name because anyone can see it’s a bluebird and he knows I’ve never told him that the other birds are red bird, yellow bird, brown bird etc…

Jacket, diaper, drink and shoes

Picnic basket, peek-a-boo

Books and trucks and dollies too

Blocks and missing socks

Help me, push me, hold me, tug

Please and fank-you, look, a bug!

Nighty-night and wakey-hug

Worlds unrushed by clocks

Inside, outside, upside down

Pat-a-cake, and sing a song

Garden-helper, happy-brown

Dreamer-dappled yard

Fairy tales and pirate ships

Messes, crumbs and sticky drips

Laughter tickling hearts and lips

Innocence unmarred

Learn to listen, learn to share

I can't find my teddy-bear

Sing and jump and run, no care

But one, is it lunch? 

Lie beneath the sky so blue

Pick a flower-bunch or two

'I love you', 'I love you too'

 ...fresh tugged carrot-crunch

God is great, KD is good

Thank God for our yummy food

Tummy full and diaper too

Piggy games with toes

Crayon colors, count the jars

Nursery rhymes and dinky cars

Pick up toys and play-doh stars

Kiss that crinkled nose

Trip around the world, oh my

On a magic quilt we fly

Rock-a-bye and hush, don’t cry

Wings the while away

Wipe and tuck, zip, button, tie

Bubbles bobbing to the sky

Apple snack and why, why, why

All in a day’s ‘play’

© Janet Martin

 Well, we're off to do some more 'playing';-)

Picnics and mittens, he is learning, has its challenges:)