It was 11 0'clock at night before we had managed to wrangle all the kids and have them plant "the stick" and water "the stick" with the special watering cans. But, it was worth it! The tree grew pretty big this year!
Aiden woke up at 6:30 AM and said, "MAMA! Do you think the lollipop tree growed big?" I told him I thought it was still growing and thankfully he went back to sleep for another 90 minutes.
Finally all the kids had eaten breakfast (eggs, since they were about to fill up on sugar) and it was time to check the tree! The branches were heavy with lollies! Assorted ones grew...blow pops, ring pops, tootsie pops, dum dums....no one was disappointed!
Picking the "fruit"
Such a treasure!
Don't ask me how many lollipops Aiden ate that day. You don't want to know.
And here's the annual lollipop song....
1) One fine day in early spring I played a funny trick;
Right in the yard behind our hourse, I planted a lollipop stick.
Then every day I watered it well and watched it carefully;
I hoped one day that stick would grow to be a lollipop tree.
CHORUS:
Ah ha ha, Oh ho ho, what a place to be;
Under my lollipop, lollipop, lollipop, lolli, lolli, lollipop tree.
Ah ha ha, Oh ho ho, what a place to be;
Under my lollipop, lollipop, lollipop, lolli, lolli, lollipop tree.
2) Then one day I woke to find a very lovely sight,
A tree all full of lollipops had grown in the dead of night.
Well, I sat beneath that wonderful tree and looked up with a grin;
And when I opened up my mouth a lollipop dropped right in. (Chorus)
3) Winter came and days grew cold as winter days will do.
And on my tree, my lovely tree, not one little lollipop grew.
From every branch an icicle hung. The limbs were bare as bones.
But when I broke those icicles off, they turned into ice cream cones. (Chorus)
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