For Tobin's Fifth Birthday

                                     For Tobin's 5th Birthday

                        Dear Tobin, Sasha's nephew, and our precious grandchild,
                                 Greetings for the fifth birthday,
                                       We send your way.
                           A bird's song, the presents, a flowers's bouquet,
                           Flying over the regions of your imagination wild.

                              Remember, in Novi Sad Tobin did venture?
                                So much happened, a great adventure!
                            After an ice-cream, popcorn, and a lemonade,
                          Tobin was ready, on his horsy, for an escapade.

                             And in the Danube, what's that splashing?
                                Our Tobin's gone fishes a-catching,
                             Under the bridge, who's cars are buzzin'?
                            Tobin's and Oli's, the two nearest cousin'.

                            But the winter spell's luring children out,
                          Exit the winter slumber and onto the snow route.
                           So Tobin took off with his brother on a sledge,
                    Like Bodhi, down the snow-covered slopes and to the woods' edge.

                            Not far are the faithful companions of Tobin,
                            Nino maca and the dinosaurs, ready to roll in,
                            To follow our celebrant even further on a whim,
                    To the places near and far, where his imagination may take him.