With the re-release of Beauty and the Beast, or as we call it at our house… BATB, we had a few moments to snap a few pics with the Lorax, the Chipmunks and Pirates.
If you haven’t seen BATB, it’s pretty good, I think it may stick around for a bit. 
What if it were mandatory for every politician to write a book report on Dr. Seuss’ The Zax?… weekly!
One of my favorite people and best friends of all time. Tom Lehmann.
A magnificent person, who’s never forgotten. When he passed away it was so sad, but there are so many who can’t stop and probably will never stop telling stories about him.
So loved that his friends wrote songs (see below, I also have a song of my own about Tom written many moons ago).
So loved that the special needs apartment complex he dreamed, gained support for, fought for, and lived in, renamed their complex “Lehmann Gardens.”
So loved that his friends created a site to remember him by. http://www.tomforever.com/
Below is a beautiful song by Joe McKay, a friend who happens to be a top-notch songwriter.
Enjoy!
“pen” has just been added to the site. (click here to go to the poem pen)
This is a simple poem that touches on how much you can do with a pen and your imagination.
I hope you enjoy!
Chris
remember iggy piggy? this new kids poem details the dangers of not hiding 
your extra stuffed animals well.
enjoy! iggy piggy poem
Julia and I were watching Scooby Doo tonight,
she loves Scooby Doo. So I asked her, “hey sweetie, why do you like Scooby Doo so much?” Keep in mind that we have seen the wax phantom episode every day this week.
Now, when I asked this I expected her normal… “I don’t know”… or maybe “because it’s scary”… or “Scooby is so funny.” What I hadn’t expected was for Julia to look at me and without any hesitation say, “because dad, there are two girls.”
Duh, it was right in front of me the whole time. A show that looks and feels like a show that was targeted at boys, but has two girls.
Secret to the Fulfilled Life (cold side of the pillow) has just been added to the site. I know, that’s some title – not really brief. Well it’s a different type of poem. This poem is really more for adults, but it is absolutely appropriate and an excellent lesson for kids.
To date it’s one of my favorites. I think because it walks through some of my own experiences and it also highlights one of my core philosophies – appreciate what you have.
Princess Me
I was stuck on this plane on the way to St. Louis when I got on a poem writing kick. I found myself writing a bunch of new ones and even updating a few oldies. Here is a new and improved, twice as long, Princess Me.
I just added the kids poem Me to the site. This poem was written 
with the intention of getting the reader to act out the parts of the poem, while rewarding Daddy with a kiss at the end (of course).
So, my crazy wife (and I mean that in the most endearing way), in preparation for our twins 2nd birthday party decided to make a zoo themed birthday cake. Her plan was to build 12 cages for her hand made shortbread cookies. Each cake was going to be a 2 layer cake. Ambitious, I know.
Well, when we put it all together, we needed a little more height. 2 layers became 3 layer and 27 (that’s right, 27 ) jars of frosting later it was ready.
36 layers of cake, 27 jars of frosting. Yikes. I wonder what she will do next time.
Sometimes it’s just best to tell a story, so here goes.
Julia my 4.5 year old told everyone at the dinner table last week (which included a very special 12 year guest who shall remain nameless) that she wanted Justin Bieber to come to her birthday party.
A quick aside: Justin if you are in the Central PA region in June and would to stop by a happening birthday party… email me.
Now back to the story.
The 12 year old guest chimed in that she had recently sent Justin Bieber a letter. Well that got my attention. “So,” I said, “what did your letter say?” She went on to say that a lot of her friends were mad at Selena Gomez, but not her. She said that she liked Selena and that unlike some of her friends she didn’t want to hurt Selena.
Oh to be 12 again!
In our house we play a lot of Duck, Duck, Goose. It’s amazing how much easier those kids pop up from a sitting to a standing position.
Now, every once and a while it gets a bit too rough – we call that Duck, Duck, Mongoose.
Tonight it was just the Twins and me hanging out all day, normally before bed we would watch half of Sesame Street and once Abby’s Flying Fairy School is over (~7:30) we go upstairs to bed.
Well, tonight being a Saturday means that all bets are off with regards to TV’s schedule. So I threw on WITF (our local public broadcasting station) which was playing a marathon of Lawrence Welk – it was like being thrown back in a time to the Catskills during the 70′s.
So the clip below came on and the twins both stopped and just stared until the song was over. It was really weird, I think they realized that this was so very different from what we normally watch and listen to.
As for all of the other acts, it was like looking at a car wreck. I’ve never seen so many powder blue suites in all my life.
Speaking of Lawrence Welk, below is my favorite parody. SNL does a great job here.
On a side note, if you watch closely you’ll notice that when they say “my boyfriend, my husband, my fiance” they all put their hands out to show their rings but nobody’s wearing any.
Cheers
Julia is ecstatic, the twins are having a great time, but last night Julia’s mash-up of Christmas and Disney had me rolling. She was playing with our children-friendly nativity scene, she had the wise-men, shepherds, animals, baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and two fairies. “Julia” I said “are you sure that those aren’t angels?” and she said “no Daddy, they are fairies.”
I will try to keep this post clean. Last week I got home from work, ate dinner and threw all 3 kids into the tub. No problems yet, everything was going according to plan. Then I looked down and noticed that Luke had provided us with a floater. EVERYONE OUT OF THE TUB! It was kind of like the pool scene from Caddyshack. So now the stress level is rising, I’ve got 3 naked kids standing on a towel while I disinfect the tub. All of a sudden my leg was feeling a bit warm and a bit wet. Let’s just say that I was to Lily what a hydrant is to a dog. I jumped into the newly disinfected tub rinsed my recently polluted leg and declared to my wife in a loud and defeated voice “I am officially done with all baths tonight.”
Kelly took over the bathing duties and I gladly took over washing the dishes – the white flag had gone up.
So what happens when you drive to New York and your wife with the lead foot is driving to the sound of a screaming 20 month old? Well eventually you might get pulled over. But what’s really funny is when your 4 1/2 year old looks at your wife and says “Mommy, why is there lightening in the car?”
Perfect timing Julia, perfect timing!
I’m sure that there are many funny letters for Santa out there, but seriously, this is the funniest I have ever read. Maybe I’m biased because she is my princess, but… wow this is funny. You just have got to give it a read.
Okay, so who are those people that stand on line all night on black Friday… well for one, my wife. I don’t even think it’s about the savings, rather the hunt. She was online by 9:00 pm and rolled in at 7:00 am. This year she came home with 27 boxes of baby wipes. with 432 wipes per box – that’s 11,664 wipes. Of course that’s not all but it’s certainly the most visible. Check it out – here are 26 of the boxes.
A new poem has hit the site – welcome Chip. Tis a silly poem, and I guess you could call it my first religious poem as well.
Here’s the thing… I may be married and have kids, but I still cook like a bachelor. My wife was working today, so I had the kids for lunch and for dinner by myself. As she is leaving she asks me what I am planning to make for dinner. I reply “spaghetti, because without ketchup in the house I really don’t have many options.” It’s really rather pathetic when just about everything on your menu requires ketchup. Oh well…
www.poems4julia.com home page has been update. I’ve added 4 new kids poems.
So………… which one is your favorite???
Tonight we went to the Hummelstown Halloween Parade (the kids cleaned up on the candy), Lily just sat there with her bag and watched as it was filled up in no time. She was dressed like a Lady bug, Luke was a bumble bee (he will be a Jedi one day), Julia was the cutest little Strawberry Shortcake.
last week we went to the Middletown Parade. I started to think about, as a kid I can’t remember going to a Halloween Parade, in fact the first Halloween parade I can recall going to was in NYC – the village, which for the record is much different than the Hummelstown parade.
Kids got it pretty good these days!
It turns out that Julia has a very famous classmate. Today in church the pastor mentioned God – seems appropriate. Julia looks over and says to my wife Kelly… Hey I know him, I go to school with him. Kelly explained that in school she learns about him, but he is not actually in her class.
It got me thinking though, how cool would it be to go to school with God. You’d hear someone say “oh my God” and you’d be like, “hey I know him, we were lab partners, great guy – loved wearing sandles.”
What happens when you combine a love for philosophy with a love of comedy?
You end up with a funny kids poem about Bellybuttons. To date, this is the shortest poem I have written, and well, a little bit different than the other poems on the site.
I just added Imagine to the site. This is one of my earliest poems inspired by… actually go the page to find out, there is a whole section on what inspired the poem right below the poem. Enjoy!
I Just added short poem to the site. I really like this one. Probably because I like the idea of doubling the size of my house (we could really use the space). Also I’ve started doing some thing different. Beneath each poem I am adding an overview that covers the inspiration or idea that sparked the poem.
All the best!
Well Dana has been asking me to post a poem for her for quite some time. I love ya sis – be careful what you wish for! I have been writing like crazy, but well, I haven’t been posting. Hold on… there will be a whole bunch more coming soon.
Dana’s Cell Phone
Julia tells me that in her upcoming preschool graduation she will be singing a rainbow song. Now, when I was her age I loved the Kermit the Frog’s version of Rainbow Connection. In my mind I’m hoping that this is the song – it wasn’t, but that’s okay the song she sang was great.
When she finished I let her know how good she sang and told her that I too had a rainbow song. As expected she asked me to sing it. So I put on my best Kermit impression and began singing.
“Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side?”
Just then she blurts out… Gold.
So I said, what? and she said… Gold daddy – at the end of a rainbow there is gold.
It was so matter of fact that I just had to laugh.
Along those lines, here is Pot O’ Old
I just added Hupaloo. A kids poem about using a hula hoop.
This one is really about that moment when a child who has been trying so hard to make a hula hoop work comes across an expert. Add one part amazement and 3 parts jealousy.
I want to thank Poems 4 Life (Inspirational Poems) for featuring the poem Light on their site. If you get a chance please give it a read and vote.
Chris
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and I would like to dedicate this next kids poem “Not Mommy” to my wife Kelly. She’s an incredible mother to Julia, Lily and Luke and an amazing wife.
We love you – Happy Mother’s Day from the gang!
Here is a little background, my wife Kelly thinks that there is nothing funnier than someone falling down (assuming that no one is hurt). Put her in front of America’s Funniest Home Videos and she can’t stop laughing. This poem Last Time was an attempt to appeal to this style of humor. I also have found that adding an action item into a poem (rub my eyes) makes the poem more fun for the kids.
Well I have an older sister and I think all younger brothers can relate to this poem to some extent. Luckily for me I don’t have 4 sisters, but Luke has 2 sisters and a mom, and sometimes I worry they may attack him with make up sometime when I am not home. My wife Kelly’s brother Kevin(a) has an interesting story he can tell you. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy Boy in Lipstick.
I just had a chance to release “Ball” a poem about a little girl who invents a new game. I think this one would work really well with an image – time will tell (help me out Scott!)
Let me know what you think.
Last night Julia finished her dinner (well most of it – she wouldn’t touch her stuffing) hopped off of her seat, turned to my wife and asked her “Can I have a snack?”
My wife looked at her in disbelief and said, “Sure, how about some stuffing?”
Good job Kelly !
Well Kelly and I went out and spent a good deal of $ on a big girls bed for Julia – we thought she would love it. What kid wouldn’t? A new bed, a new mattress, a new princess comforter and sheets. Well this is what happened………. My New Bed
What happens when a boy has too many allergies and goofy parents… pet sock.
I was able to add a whole bunch of new poems. I figure over the next month I would like to add another 6 poems.
Thanks for reading.
Chris
Ok, so I think it is pretty obvious that this one is for Lily …. she better not have a boyfriend yet!
Check our Lily Von Snowsuit
I just released There-O-Plane on the poems4julia. I don’t see this as one of my better poems, but it goes over well with the kids – check it out and let me know what you think.
When mommy makes me pancakes
They’re small, cute and delicious
When daddy makes me pancake
It’s bigger than the dishes
When mommy pours my syrup
She puts a little here and a little there
When daddy pours the syrup
He puts a whole lot … everywhere
It seems pretty obvious to me
There’s mom and dad and in the middle is me
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Poem written by Chris Templeton, Copyrighted 2010
I put her stick behind the house
Shhhh … The puppy doesn’t know
I took her bone and her rubber mouse
Shhhh … The puppy doesn’t know
I moved her food behind the chair
Shhhh … The puppy doesn’t know
I grabbed her slippers – both pair
Shhhh … The puppy doesn’t know
Threw her ball in the garbage – swish
Shhhh … The puppy doesn’t know
Put some coffee in her water dish
Shhhh … The puppy doesn’t know, but boy oh boy that puppy can go!
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Poem written by Chris Templeton, Copyrighted 2010
Pieces of popcorn on the floor
They’re there, I can see ’em
I really want to eat ‘em
Can it really be that bad?
Mom says yes, but how ‘bout Dad
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Poem written by Chris Templeton, Copyrighted 2010
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