Twins 2nd Birthday Party, Take 1

The theme: Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat
The location: Our home and backyard
The occasion: Bailey and Kennedy's Birthday/ Our housewarming Party!

Here is a poem that I wrote in Seuss style. This was at the party in a photo album with "before" pictures of our house.....

The sun did not shine
The market was not a fun game to play
So we put offers on houses
For what seemed like day after day

I sat there with Jeremy
We sat there, we two
And I said, “How I wish
We’d find a house that would do!”

Too far out of our price range
That seemed like them all
So we sat at the in-laws
We did nothing at all.

All we could do was to
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
And we did not like it
Not one little bit

And then
Something went Knock!
How that Knock made us flock!

We looked
Then we saw him at the front door
We looked!
And we saw him!
A neighbor we’d known before
And he said to us,
“There’s a home that you just can’t ignore”

“I know it is small
And it needs lots of work
But to pass up this neighborhood
You’d have to be be-zerk!”

“I know a real good agent”
Said our home teacher one day
“A real good agent that
will help you on your way
Here is her number
I will give it to you
She’s my daughter and
Will not mind at all if I do.”

Then Jeremy and I
Did not know what to say
It looked as though our luck
might just turn around that day

But our bank said “Wait! Wait!
This home’s a short sale
How long will that take?
Well, no one can ever tell
They usually are not short
In fact they are often long.”
And every month we waited
Seemed really lame and wrong

“Now! Now! Have no fear
Have no fear!” Said our agent
“The right home will come
Even if this ones not meant
Why we can place offers on
any other home – place a bid.”
So we looked and we looked
And that’s exactly what we did

But our bids were being outbid –
It was no fun at all
So we stopped looking all together
And wanted to curl up in a ball

Then December came a call
What could this mean?
They had accepted our offer!
Could this be a dream?
But before we knew it was done
And we signed our papers with a grin
Then with a sigh we looked at our house
And thought where to begin?
So we ripped off the front of the house-
Put up new windows and a door
Took down the popcorn ceilings,
torn down a wall, scrubbed the floor
Put in a nice laundry room,
new carpets and all new lights
Retextured and painted the walls and
cleaned the house will all our mights!

Now our house is a home
Although there is still much to do
Oh well…
At least it is done enough
to have this party with you!

2ndly, I had some Dr. Seuss's trivia, that proved to be kinda hard:
- see if you could take a crack at it! (without cheating! try it!!!!)

1. In Oh the THINKS You Can Think!, how is Schlopp served?
a) over toast
b) with a cherry on top
c) with a skip and a hop

2. What delicacy is created by mixing together applesauce, oysters, and lemonade?
a) Oysters McGurkus
b) Glunker Stew
c) Katzen-stein Soup

3. Identify the last thing the Grinch took from the home of J.P. Who.
a) tree
b) the log
c) their pop guns

4. Which of the following characters is named in the title of two Dr. Seuss books?
a) Mr. Brown
b) Marvin K. Mooney
c) Bartholomew Cubbins

5. In Horton Hears a Who!, how many clovers does Horton search before finding the one with the Whos on it?
a) 1001
b) 1,000,001
c) 3,000,000

6. The last sentence in Oh, the THINKS You Can Think! Is written as a:
a) square
b) circle
c) spiral

7. What does Gerald Mc Grew want to run?
a) a marathon
b) the zoo
c) the school

8. Name the unhappy, dissatisfied king of Sala-ma-Sond.
a) King Derwin of Didd
b) King Birtram of binn
c) Yertle the Turtle

9. In Oh Say Can You Say?, what term best describes Mr. Blinn’s violin playing children’s relationship to one another?
a) twins
b) triplets
c) quadruplets

10. According to Happy Birthday to You!, what would happen if we did not have birthdays?
a) you would stay young forever
b) you would never get cake
c) you wouldn’t be you

BONUS QUESTION:What is Dr. Seuss’s real name?