Baby girl.. I hope you dance!

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)

A Beautiful Song by Lee Ann Womack

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This song has always been a nice-enough-to-listen-to song for me.. but I heard it playing on the radio recently & now that you're in my life this song has taken on a whole new meaning for me. 

You see, some of us are behind-the-scenes kinda people, some of us are writers, some singers, some painters, but you my girl, You are a dancer!  It's a wellknown fact that African people have rhythm.  That's black Africans, just so we're clear, cause your dad & I have ZERO rhythm between the two of us :-)  But you, you've got the ability to sway those little hips of yours to the rhythm of just about anything in the pretiest way I have ever seen. 

And you find rhythm in Everything!  You'll hear a catchy advert & you'll start swaying away like the music is talking to you.  You dance to the tune of the wind & the waves.  And when there's no music, you make your own & dance to that..

My favourite dance to date is the one you do in the mornings.. You stand in your crib & dance to the song that daddy made up for you.  You stand, dummy in the mouth - cause you're a little grumpy in the mornings - & when one of us start to sing you'll start smiling your little dummy smile & dance.. whilst still in your sleeping bag!

I think what gets to me most is your confidence.  You dont care where we are or who is looking or what time of the day it is..  If you feel like dancing, you dance!  My prayer is that you will always have that confidence.  That you'll always find the rhythm in the situation & DANCE to it Danielle-style. 

Mommy loves you my little dancer. xxx