Carlyle's 12 Month Appointment:
Weight: 18 8.5 (15%)
Height: 29.75" (75%)
Head: 44 (24%)
Teeth: one
She is a petite but long little thing, right?
I have been looking back fondly over where we were a year ago, mentally and physically. Carlyle's birth day was truly a moment of PURE JOY. (Thank you Jan, for putting it in those words).
I wanted to share what my Mother read to me at my bedside in the hospital, when I was about to meet my own daughter for the first time and not knowing what the coming year was going to bring me and my family.
It means more to me now than it did then, but I know that is what she intended.
They’ll Be There
In a few hours you're gonna meet the best friend that you'll ever have...........your daughter.
She could be the next leader of the free world.
but she could also work at a car wash.
I'm just a little sad though.
Whatever she is, my family that have passed on won't be here to see her.
...............................
That's where you're wrong. When Carlyle comes into the world tonight, they'll be there.
Everyone in your family that's gone on before you -- everyone you've loved -- you'll see them in her eyes, and her smile, and in the way she walks.
And when she takes her first step and says her first words, they'll be there.
When she has a fever at three o'clock in the morning, when she gets caught in the rain walking home from school, when she hits her first baseball, they'll be there.
And when she's afraid of the dark, when she forgets to say her prayers, when the wind catches her voice on a warm summer day, they'll be there.
Just remember that today, when you meet your daughter, on the first day of the rest of her life, you'll be meeting the person that'll be holding your hand when it's your time to go.
And even then , she won't be alone. They'll be there.
With apologies to the writers of Designing Women.
Love and happy birth day to Lali and Carlyle,
Zuzu
October 30, 2009
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