With Colin, I took my oldest cousin's wife's advice and played a CD on repeat. It was perfect. Colin's favorite was a cd called Lullaby Bereuse. It's a collection of lullabies in French. For those of you that don't speak French, I'm sure you would find it sweet because it's such a beautiful language. For those of you that do speak French, I'm sure you would thoroughly enjoy it like it did. There is just something magical about simple words in a foreign language. One little whimsical song is about little different colored chickens that I always got a kick out of (noone else ever understood that the song was about chickens), but the one that always worked wonders of Colin was "Bonne Nuit" (Good Night) and was sung to the tune of Brahm's lullaby.
It was my go to song to soothe and comfort him, and I remember like yesterday singing it to him whenever he was upset and him immediately calming down and staring up at me with his big brown eyes and thick band of dark eyelashes, reaching up towards my face with his tiny little hands. Singing that song is one of my fondest memories of bonding with my son... it's like he just understood all of the love that was surrounding him and that there was no need cry.
As Colin grew and was learning to speak, he would pick up on the words of the song, and now at almost 7 years old he still enjoys singing what he calls "the crying song" with me. Hearing his sweet little voice sing such simple French words brings me back to his nursery in the middle of the night, completely exhausted but not wanting to trade those moments for the world.
These memories are what brought me to thinking of what special songs I would have with my future children... would they share "Bonne Nuit" with me and Colin, or would we have our own special songs.... just for us.
When we found out that we are having a baby girl, I thought back to my childhood and was so excited to share some of my favorite things with my daughter. I loved Disney movies. I remember my dad had taped Sleeping Beauty twice on the same VHS so that when it was over it would replay ( in order to avoid a complete melt down from me), and I loved Cinderella. Which triggered a memory of my favorite song from Cinderella. "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
I find it overly appropriate for our rainbow baby... the one who gaves us hope after the storm. I can't wait to hold her and sing this to her... and I hope that as she grows older she'll remember this song and know to never give up on her dreams, no matter what heartache may come.
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