Happy 2nd birthday! I miss you every day, little buddy. Just as expected for the first-born, you now have to share my time with your younger sister and we've learned to adjust to new family dynamics. Sometimes the world doesn't understand what it's like to balance loving 2 children, when one is no longer here. But I think it's just like how everyone does parenting to 2 living children...you make it up as you go along. I will always try my best in loving you.
Lately at home, we read bedtime stories at night as a routine before sleeping. It's one of my favorite parts of the day. When I didn't know the exact words to share for your birthday, I remembered a book that your aunt & uncle gave me.
This bedtime story belongs to you. Sleep peacefully, my love.
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By Nancy Tillman
I wanted you more than you ever will know
so I sent love to follow wherever you go.
It’s high as you wish it. It’s quick as an elf.
You’ll never outgrow it…it stretches itself!
So climb any mountain… climb up to the sky!
My love will find you. My love can fly!
Make a big splash! Go out on a limb!
My love will find you. My love can swim!
It never gets lost, never fades, never ends…
if you’re working… or playing… or sitting with friends.
You can dance ’til you’re dizzy… paint ’til you’re blue…
There’s no place, not one, that my love can’t find you.
And if someday you’re lonely, or someday you’re sad,
or you strike out at baseball, or think you’ve been bad…
just lift up your face, feel the wind in your hair.
That’s me, my sweet baby, my love is right there.
In the green of the grass…in the smell of the sea…
in the clouds floating by…at the top of a tree…
in the sound crickets make at the end of the day…
"You are loved. You are loved. You are loved,” they all say.
My love is so high, and so wide and so deep,
it’s always right there, even when you’re asleep.
So hold your head high and don’t be afraid
to march to the front of your own parade.
If you’re still my small babe or you’re all the way grown,
my promise to you is you’re never alone.
You are my angel, my darling, my star…
and my love will find you, wherever you are.
You are loved.
