And
baby Girl makes four...
Laurie
Beth
November
12, 1982
I have wonderful
memories of Laurie Beth
Indulge
me as I remember....
Laurie Beth
arrived on a cold November day.
She was
a c- section baby so the birthday had
been set
far in advance. I remember being in the
delivery
room, strapped to the table, under the influence
of "twilight
sleep" and the nurses singing .."We are going to have a baby". Seriously...they
were singing...*S*
I awoke
and heard them say I had a girl!!
A blonde
and blue eyed blonde that had the
sweetest
(and at the same time) the most mischievous
smile I
had ever seen.
She lay
in a swinging cradle that her Uncle John had
handmade
for his own girls. The soft swaying would
instantly
send her to dream land.
She loved
to twirl and dance. She was enrolled
in "Boyce's
Beauties" when she was 3 and we bought
her the
smallest twirling baton we could find.
I
remember swinging till
'dark thirty'
in Daddy's homemade swing 'til
I called
her in for a bath and jammies.
She was
the cowardly lion in the recital...we
tea stained
a white leotard, made felt lion ears, a tail of
yarn with
wire hidden to make it "sway" and crimped her
hair into
a huge lion mane...(we called her the 'QueenLion' because she wanted
the part of Dorothy so badly she was indignant with the role she was given...*S*)
She went
to kindergarten...Ms nancy was her
teacher.
She got
glasses (little pink ones) that year and she
was adorable
in them!!
We went
to the zoo, we boarded the real live train
at the
nearest train depot and rode it all the way to
Jackson!
We entered
first grade...and went to the Jackson symphony!
She became
tired of her swinging and began to jump
on the
trampoline every day after school.
I remember
the day that she and Cary boarded the big school
bus...and
I was video taping ..I had to quit taping I was crying so hard. The
girls laugh about it today.
I remember
the first T-ball game...Laurie sat in the outfield
turned
in the opposite direction uncaring of where the ball landed.
The sixth
grade graduation....the class sang 'Circle of Life'
'Angels
among us". I can not stop the chills when I hear those songs.
I have been
through countless Cheerleader camps,
softball
games and class parties.
I watched
them win BIG time in Junior high....the
State championship
in basketball that year...we beat the
rivals
that those who had gone before had failed to beat
Her boyfriend
was killed in 1999. Her grief seemed endless.
She wants
to go to on the Senior trip next year...she wants to live in the dorm...and
she speaks of leaving home.
Can I bear
it...my last baby??
