Little Moments...

So, have you ever expreienced a moment so sweet, so special, so unreal that you just want to bottle it up?  You just want to be able to rewind the moment and watch it over and over, just to know that it was real and weren't dreaming? 

I had one of those tonight.  While pregnant with Sullivan, I heard the song "Rainbow Connection" and instantly fell in love with it.  I decided this would be my special song with my first baby boy.  Since we came home from the hospital, the two of us have spent countless hours rocking in the big, comfy chair in his room, with me singing this song to him.  As he grew, when he was upset, I could sing this to him and he would instantly calm down.

Fast forward two and a half years.  It's a cold December night.  He is all jammied up, his favorite pillow in hand and his blankie wrapped around him.  Once again, we are sitting in that big, comfy chair rocking before bed.  Like always, I am singing our song to him.  Suddenly I hear a sweet, little voice singing along with me.  I had to stop for a moment to realize that my little boy, no longer a baby, is singing our song.  He knows the words.  I guess it never dawned on me that all those times I have sang to him, he was taking it all in.  Those moments didn't only impact me, they affected him, too.  I then started singing slowly and he would fill in the blanks for me. 

Oh my precious son.  There are moments in life that simply take your breath away.  I have had a great life and had several of these moments.  One was the moment I became Katie Robinson. Another was seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test.  Another was the moment I met Sullivan Charles and touched his sweet face for the first time.  This moment will be added to my list.  It definitely makes my top five best moments ever. 

I know that as he grows I will experience more very sweet moments with him.  Sullivan, thank you so much for this memory.  It will forever be stored in the deepest, safest place in my heart.  Someday when I am sad, down and blue, I will only have to think of this and will feel happy. 
Fast forward many years later and I see myself dancing with my grown son at his wedding to "Rainbow Connection" and at that moment, I will think of this cold December night when one little saurus made his mommy's heart and soul warm and happy.

I may have other babies and they will have their own song, but Sullivan, this song is ours and only ours.  I will never sing it to another, ever.

"....someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection."