by Bobby Coles

Created on: April 13, 2009   Last Updated: January 13, 2011

Leaps and bounds, and now ultrasounds

Sleepless hours and baby showers

New lease on life, pregnancy glow on your wife

Hot and bothered led to a child fathered

Spare bedrooms, the mortgage looms

Once a den, never to be quiet again

Pristine floors and glass doors

Murals on the walls, late night calls

A crystal vase and now grubby paws

Altered lifestyle, mesmerizing first smile

Colour schemes and moonlight dreams

The old paint now a little bit faint

No matter the season or the reason

Nothing too strange, just time for a change

Out with the old, you must be bold

In with the new, rejuvenation for you

The day draws near, stranger in the mirror

Redecorating for free, baby makes three

No more spare income, another dirty bum

Replace fretting with a different setting

Children are a boon, and Goodnight Moon

Reach for the coffee mug, settle for a tender hug

No space a waste, perhaps a new taste

Things need to be mild for the new child

Leave out maybe, think of the little baby

Redecorate from the start, redecorate from the heart

In the past you have faltered, now your life is altered

A brand new inning, a fresh new beginning

Nothing too transparent, you are becoming a parent

Soft and tender voices, leaves you with few choices

Redecorate your fears with joyous tears

Home growing by two feet, it is now utterly complete

Time alone reduced, but glad you reproduced

Life as you knew it unfurled, would not change it for the world

There will be no more maybe, there is going to be a baby

Does not matter girl or boy, life is about to become a constant joy

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