love you forever (part 1)

A mother held her new baby and very slowly 

rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever, 

I'll like you for always,

As long as i'm living

my baby you'll be.

The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew.

He grew until he was (almost) two years old, 

and he ran all around the house. 

He pulled all the books off the shelves. 

He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took 

his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet.

Sometimes his mother would say, 

"This kid is driving me CRAZY!"

But at night time, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed;and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:

I'll love you forever, 

I'll like you for always, 

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.

to be continued....