Life is fun when you're big, and three
You can reach strawberries for tea
Open the top fridge on your own
You climb on chairs and feel at home
Little Ava has lots of friends
With birthday parties at weekends
But when she has a day that's free
She goes out with her family
Sometimes it's to a nearby park
So they get home before it's dark
She loves swings, ropes and the long slide
Then she sleeps on a short car ride
She likes to eat a blueberry
For breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea
She likes to eat an olive, too
And thinks of handing one to you
She likes to eat with family
Sit on sofas to watch TV
Twice small Ava rode on a boat
In a life jacket, on the sea
Her little shoes are on the floor
A pair beside the big front door
We ask her, 'Dear, whose are these shoes?
These pretty shoes, reds, pinks and blues?'
She picks up a shoe, she frowns and says
'This shoe is mine!' That shoe is mine!'
She opens the door. Weather's fine
She's ready to have a good time
Little Ava has lots of friends
With birthday parties at weekends
But when she has a day that's free
She goes out with her family.
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To get the right number of syllables, eight per line, I changed going out to go out.
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