Babies

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
~ Carl Sandburg

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
~Wordsworth

Sweet blessings from above, babies fill a home with love.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
~Sir James Barrie in Peter Pan

Babies are living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.
~Pollock

A new baby changes all your priorities.

Babies are a link between angels and men.
~Tupper

Nothing is more precious than a baby's laugh.

A home gets happier by the minute when there's a precious baby in it.

In a baby's touch you feel the gentle miracle of love.

There's only one pretty baby in the world, and every mother has it.

What joy comes into your heart when a baby comes into your world.

A baby helps us see the world through eyes of bright new wonder.

A Baby is a bit of stardust blown from the hand of God!

A baby is a gift of love.

Never knew all my hope and dreams would come in such a small package.

No earthly joys could bring more pleasure than a little baby to love and treasure.

The angels light another star each time there is a birth, to celebrate each precious child, the good Lord sends to Earth.

The art of being a parent is to sleep when the baby isn't looking.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought- and more wonderful.
~Charles Osgood

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
~Charles Dickens

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.
~Tina Brown

How can a little baby
Grow so sweet and dear,
And fill your world with so much joy
In such a single year?

Baby days are busy days
Of teddy bears and toys,
Of booties and bibs, rattles and cribs,
And the dearest kind of joys.

Happiness is having a baby to love,
To cherish, to care for
And think the world of.

Baby's fishing for a dream,
Fishing near and far,
His line a silver moonbeam is,
His bait a silver star.
~Alice Riley

Cooking and cleaning can wait til tomorrow,
For babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow;
So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep,
I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep.

The nicest dreams that will ever be...
are the dreams shared by my baby and me.
He smiles and clasps his tiny hand
With sunbeams over him gleaming...
A world of baby fairyland
He visits while he's dreaming.
~Joseph Ashby Sterry

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above,
a handful of happiness, a heartful of love.
Precious and priceless so loveable too,
the world's sweetest miracle is a baby like you.

The Baby
Where did you come from, Baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
Something better than anyone knows.
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into hooks and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs' wings.
How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.
But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought of you, and so I am here.
~George MacDonald

Cradle Song
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thy father's watching the sheep,
Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree,
And down drops a little dream for thee...
Sleep, baby, sleep.
~Elizabeth Prentiss

Baby's Choice
Did you ever think, dear Mother, as the seeds of me you sowed,
As you breathed new life inside of me and slowly watched me grow,
In all your dreams about me, when you planned me out so well,
When you couldn't wait to have me there inside your heart to dwell,
Did you ever think that maybe I was planning for you, too,
And choosing for my very own a mother just like you?
A mother who smelled sweet and who had hands so creamy white,
A tender, loving creature who would soothe me in the night?
Did you ever think in all those days while you were coming due,
That as you planned a life for me ~ I sought a life with you?
And now as I lay in your arms, I wonder if you knew
While you were busy making me, I was choosing you!
~Colleen M. Story