Being here is so easy to do…

Mimi and Papa are here visiting right now… They arrived last Saturday, 3/10/12… We have spent a lot of glorious time together doing things such as shopping at Toys R Us, hanging outside, watching movies, playing with toys and basically just showing them your stuff… Mimi even came with us to school on Saturday and saw what a big girl you are with all your classmates… It’s been really and truly an awesome time… Makes me think about what life might be like if they lived across the street… And that makes me feel sad…

My main reason for writing this today is that Dad and I went out to dinner last night... Alone… It was the first time since, oh I don’t know, since YOUR BIRTH… Being out without you kind of made me feel all giddy like a teenager… Like I was out past curfew and had butterflies in my stomach… But also like we were missing a very important part of who we are now… Wherever we go, you go too… It was strange without you but it was also kind of nice… Then it happened…

“Maybe it's up with the stars
Maybe it's under the sea
Maybe it's not very far
Maybe this is how it's supposed to be”

As we sat there in the dimly lit dining area of The Good Life, quietly sipping our well deserved 9% alcohol beer and looking around, dazed by the fact that we were actually there… I heard a faint, familiar sound coming from the speakers…

“Maybe it's trapped in a jar
Something we've already seen
Maybe it's nowhere at all
Maybe this is how it's supposed to be”

Were we imagining this? Am I hallucinating? We couldn’t believe our ears! Maybe I'm crazy and this song is just playing in my head because I've listened to it 437 times with you… Nope…

“Looking forward as we rewind
Looking back is a trap sometimes
Being here is so easy to do
If you want to”

It was the single most symbolic moment of my entire life!!! As soon as it sunk in that we were actually hearing this song… This song on a CD that Dad and I picked for you because of its relaxing tone… This song that has played during dinner at home so many nights… This song that we sing along to and love so very much… I was suddenly sure of everything… Everything in our lives has turned out exactly as it was meant to… For the first time in a long time I had no worries… An uncanny feeling of calm and serenity came over me…  I am still so taken back by the fact that this happened… What are the chances? After all it is a children’s song from the Curious George soundtrack being played in a bar at 10pm on a Monday night… What it tells me is that even though we were away from home, just the 2 of us, for the second time in your life; you were there with us…

In every way…

In that very moment I realized that you will always be with us… No matter where we go… No matter how far from each other we may be… Our hearts are forever joined…

And baby, this is how it’s supposed to be…