Precious Baby

Kissie-kissie

Coochie-coo

Cuddle-cuddle

Peek-a-boo

Hush-a-bye

Rock-a-bye

Little baby,

Don't you cry 

Snuggle-snuggle

Kissie-coo

Precious baby,

I love you

 © Janet Martin

Love, to every baby

from everyone who holds one...

Baby

 Because Rob and Emily were youth group leaders for years right up until the birth of this little guy they have the joy of watching many teens speechless with wonder(well, for the first moments or two) as they pop in for a peek

Tell me who isn't made glad by a baby?!
From the very young to the very old, a baby brings us all together in a meeting of purest joy!

It is so small, yet tears down walls

It says nothing, yet says it all

It rings the joy-bells of the soul

It brings together young and old

From far and near they come to laud

The evidence of love and God

To ooh and a-ah and gaze and smile

In wonder at a newborn child

© Janet Martin

Photo credit: Brittany Ruppert lifelong cousin and bestie-friend of baby's mom!

One of my favorite baby-poems...

Babies Don't Keep
 Author: Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

Children...The Best Reason In The World

No matter how old they are

Children give us the best reasons in the world

To live-

Love-

Pray-

Give-

Work-

Play-

Kiss-

Hug-

Reach-

Help-

Trust-

Teach-

Smile-

Laugh-

Sing-

And thank gracious God 

For everything

© Janet Martin

Sometimes it seems to take a new baby to re-remind us all!

This Is The Life...

This is the life, my love

A season-splendored sweep

Where joy and sorrow spills from cups

We hold but cannot keep

This is the life, my dear

A year is full of days

And days are full of smiles and tears

Scattering golds and grays

This is the life, my sweet

Where nothing lasts for long

Time's pocket full of holes, it seems

Its locket full of song

This is the life, my, my

A planting-reaping trust

A slip and stumble try-try-try

Stirring dream-dazzled dust

This is the life, my love

And what a life it is

For every now and then God sends

A new baby to kiss

© Janet Martin

Everything About You Is Love...

Auntie Victoria and baby Brantley

Gramma Janet and baby

Grandpa Jim is talking to baby about hockey;-)

Dear baby,

Everything about you is love…

Tell me, what is dearer than this

Than when Heaven sends from above

A baby to cuddle and kiss

Everything about you is praise

To thank the dear Father above

For lending to our human ways

A brand new baby to love

Everything perfect and pink

And precious, as precious can be

Makes every thought that we think

As lovely, as lovely can be

© Janet Martin

Perfect Little You

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."-Psalm 30:5

Oh, what a night! and
oh what a morning!

This is the thing I was waiting permission to share...(mentioned here)
Rob and Emily had some people they wanted to tell personally before any online announcing and  celebrating!!!
Jim and I are grandparents!

We welcome you to our family, Brantley James Curry!
our first grand-child
born to Rob and Emily at 6:10 this morning.

Perfect little you
A perfect dream-come-true
Preciousness, pure and new
In perfect little you

Love,
Gramma

Who knew someone too little to talk can say SO much.
My heart is really too full of relief and thankfulness for many words right now!
Thank-you, Lord!

I Saw Heaven Smile Today...

 Emily, first Birthday.

Emily, 20th Birthday

I saw Heaven smile today

As angels breathed upon my way

For Heaven’s smiles are sent, I think

In little bundles, soft and pink

Perfection, lent to trembling arms

From holy hands above

Yes, Heaven sends its wondrous charms

In babies dear to love

Today I held her tiny hand

And I began to understand

A strange new love, so rare and strong

As I held hands that knew no wrong

Nothing else on this old earth

Could touch it by a mile

For at the moment of her birth

I saw Heaven smile

Yes, I saw Heaven smile today

As pain and anguish fell away

And I know what perfection is

As I caress it with a kiss

For clasped against my awe-struck heart

In form of new-born child

The windows up above me parted

And I saw Heaven smile

© Janet Martin

Written for Emily when she was a baby....20 years ago (did a bit of editing)