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Modern lullaby- My Baby girl was born in early fall in Carolina 10/4/2012 Four weeks early but right on time Spent your early summers on the shores of the Outer Banks Some people said I held you too much, but I could never hold you enough We played all day on the floor in your room, reading books and singing songs Every day my heart could burst just looking into your eyes And I remember the day you outgrew my arms And I stood holding you by your crib knowing it might be the last time I held you that way, and I sang you a lullaby and I cried Knowing it all goes so fast, in the blink of an eye And sometimes I still see the baby in your face, when you’re sleeping and at peace...I can still hear your heartbeat from ultrasounds before you were born...like galloping hooves of a thousand tiny unicorns When we brought you home we sat your carrier up on the kitchen countertop and looked at each other and laughed- “what do we do now?” We said? But the truth is I don’t know what we did before you And we wrapped you in a pink leopard print blanket, a tiny 7 pound 11 ounce, burrito So small that in your first picture with dad, all you can see are blankets And I remember when I first had you looked right up at me, holding my pinky finger...if I could choose one moment to live forever it would be rocking you in my arms, my sweet baby And I pray that you know I love you, and you feel me in your soul, and that one day when you have your baby, you have the joy of a precious girl