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Lilly's Teddy Bear Picnic

Lilly wanted a teddy bear, so her Mom FunkunDilly gave her one. Lilly kept telling me how she loved it, and was having so much fun. Though strangely, she was keeping it, at Grandpa Troll’s bridge. I couldn’t seem to, understand this at all, not even a small smidge. She didn’t bring it home at night; she didn’t even drag it around. She only visited it under the bridge, when Grandpa Troll was around. Finally I ask her why she didn’t bring it home, to tuck it in at night. She said it was a fragile thing, that couldn’t leave it mama’s sight. This itself, should have told me it was better, to leave well enough alone. But I was not the brightest thing, to reason out, what was being done. So I invited Lilly, and her teddy bear, and all the Trolls, to come on a picnic lunch. FunkunDilly ask for honey, lots of sushi, cookies, and baby bottles by the bunch. Grandpa Troll laughed and said he’d come along, to see how this was done. Sure enough the teddy bear was there… and his mama had ALSO come along. Gurgling noises came from my mouth, and my hands had a life of their own. It wasn’t long before I found myself on the ground, as I fainted with a groan. When I awoke Mama bear was saying ‘how high strung these human creatures are!’ She won’t hurt my little one? Is she crazy, do you think? OH, is that a chocolate bar? I tried to regain my composure… as I passed the honey to put on the chocolate bar… So yes, we had a teddy bear picnic as Lilly’s Teddy and his mom became the stars. We all discussed the weather, daytime soaps, and how honey works with crumbs, Plus how to stop, our precious little ones, from constantly sucking on their thumbs. Grandpa Troll was laughing about Lilly’s Teddy Bear Picnics for years to come. And he thought I had handled it very well… even though at first I had succumbed. In the end, leave it to a Baby Troll... to have a real Teddy Bear to love and hold...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 1/15/2013 9:21:00 AM
Love this imaginative kid stuff. I'm just an old, old kid myself. Love, daver
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Date: 1/10/2013 7:29:00 PM
hey, how great to see you do a troll/ teddy bear poem combined. Love the part about the honey on chocolate bar. I think leonora will be so pleased to see this in her contest. And thanks for your cat story.
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