Sky James Birth Date-Time: 12-22-2006 --5:28 pm Birth Weight: 5 lbs. 7 oz. Birth Height: 18 inches Mom & Dad Chantel & Marcus A DAUGHTER IS BORN Encircle your child with love Offer your hand to guide her Shower her with tenderness Shelter away her fears May she look for sunshine when There seems to be clouds May she take a step further to Find the best in people and life May she show kindness and patience Towards others May confidence and poise propel Her in life Teach her appreciation for small Things in life The abundance of nature close at Her feet Help her to learn the power of Words spoken The response to actions which Might be awakened Shower her with your love and Your pride Protect her as needed, but let Her fly free Free to stand tall with absolute Dignity As she grows and discovers Keep memories keen For times in the future When she flies free Remember too as she grows to Be a woman She's a reflection of yourself A reflection of the joy, kindness, And dignity A reflection of a woman set free To pass down her teachings From no other than thee. © JudithOA.ODrew Etude Realiste A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet. No flower-bells that expand and shrink Gleam half so heavenly sweet As shine on life's untrodden brink A baby's feet. II. A baby's hands, like rosebuds furled Whence yet no leaf expands, Ope if you touch, though close upcurled, A baby's hands. Then, fast as warriors grip their brands When battle's bolt is hurled, They close, clenched hard like tightening bands. No rosebuds yet by dawn impearled Match, even in loveliest lands, The sweetest flowers in all the world - A baby's hands. III. A baby's eyes, ere speech begin, Ere lips learn words or sighs, Bless all things bright enough to win A baby's eyes. Love, while the sweet thing laughs and lies, And sleep flows out and in, Sees perfect in them Paradise. Their glance might cast out pain and sin, Their speech make dumb the wise, By mute glad godhead felt within A baby's eyes. Algernon Charles Swinburne Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests. ~Author Unknown~ Page made with love by Gammie :)