Excerpts from Love Song for a Baby by Marion Dane Bauer. Because this time, my words just weren't enough.
Before the first stars blazed in your sky, before the sun ever kissed you, before you cried your first cry, we loved you.
You had tiny hands with perfect nails and fingers like the petals of a flower. And yes, we loved you.
Your laughter was the sun. Your smile, the moon. Even your burps were bells, since we loved you.
We clapped with you, we danced with you, we dried your tears and soothed your fears.
We tossed you high, we kept you dry. Can you guess why? We loved you.
You burst upon our world like a comet, like birdsong in the silver silence of dawn, and how could we help but love you?
We'd dreamed a baby, we'd wanted a baby, we'd planned for a baby,
we'd waited and waited and waited for a baby,
until finally, there was you.
And oh, how we love you.
Happy Birthday, Little Man.
Love,
Mommy & Daddy
