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| This is my family. Not perfect, but loved & loving. |
I could never love again
So much as I love you
Where you end, where I begin
Is like a river running through
With Aaron, it was as if he was the Eve to my Adam. As if someone had literally removed a limb or body part from me and from that, came Aaron. He is a part of me as if he IS me.
And I remember vividly the first time he kissed me on his own..... I was sitting on the floor eating a PB&J and he was waddling around the living room with his toys. He'd come over every once in awhile to get a bite of my sandwich and one of the times, he placed his lips on mine instead. I thought it was so sweet of course, but figured it was sort of an accident. I mean, babies don't know how to really kiss, right? Then he did it a second time and he stayed there for quite awhile, just laying a big smooch on me. At first I laughed and kissed back, and then my laughter turned into a giant sob-fest because I was so overwhelmed by the love he just gave me..... Kissing him back through my salty tears of joy and peanut butter. And for that I remember these lyrics from "Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back)":
Ride my bike down that old dirt hill
First time without my trainin' wheels
First time I kissed you I lost my legs
Bring that beat back to me again
With Elizabeth, DMB lyrics also came naturally. For one, I actually had an iPod playlist for the labor & birth that was mostly DMB. The first song on the playlist is "Baby Blue" and although all babies have blue eyes when they are first born, her blue just seemed so vivid. They are still a steely, grey blue. So from her and her blue eyes, I got:
Into your blue, blue eyes
Your blue, blue world
You're my baby blue
But really, the lyrics that kept playing over and over again in my head the first few days I had her home was from "Alligator Pie". Though the song is really about Stella, it has these lyrics:
Grace is all I'm asking
When will Grace return
Grace is all I'm asking
If you haven't figured this out yet about Elizabeth Grace, her middle name is a tribute to Dave (DMB). Grace is all I'm asking.........
I have a poster from Blue C Sushi in Seattle with Dave in it and as soon as I get it framed, it's going in Aaron's room. And I'm hoping to put something in Elizabeth's room too. So far, I'm liking this handmade wall piece from Etsy: Little Feet Little Hands, which are lyrics from "So Much To Say".
Yes, I think about lyrics a lot. Not always Dave lyrics, but music is always in our house, our minds and our hearts.
My family & Dave = Happiness.
