Book Of Like

What is one of the most widely used words and most popular word used worldwide? Why, it's BABY of course! Baby this and Baby that. Our spouses are our babies, our children are our babies, almost every love song uses the word, Baby...even Spanish-speaking Hispanics from all over the world use the term "Baby Shower" instead of using the spanish word, Bebe. Everyone is always searching for Baby Names For Girls and Boy ( Baby Girl names and Baby Boy Names that are Unique and Popular Baby Names ), Baby Shower games, BabyCenter, Baby r Us, Baby Gap, Baby Come Back, Baby Back Ribs, Baby Einstein, Baby games and Baby Shower Idea, Baby Daddy (lol), Royal Baby, Million Dollar Baby, RoseMary's Baby (classic movie), and even Buy Buy Baby ! A new baby is like the beginning of all things, hope, a dream of possibilities. Every new born baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank balance smaller, home happier, clothes dirty, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body. But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality. In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And "I am" grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh. The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves. In the next years, the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber. - Diane Gabaldon