Everybody Loves Abram

I had to share this story with you.

Abram did a great job flying to Houston and back until the flight from Dallas to Cedar Rapids when he just got tired and cranky and I'm pretty sure he was having a hard time with the cabin pressurization.

Josh and I tried everything.

Binky...no
Bottle...no
Book...no
Binky again....no
Blanket...no
(babies do have a lot of things that start with 'b')
Anyway we were trying everything when I started singing a song I had made up for Abram when he was first born and still in the hospital.  When I first tried to sing to Abram in the hospital I soon realized I only knew the first couple of lines to any lullabies.  I was determined not to fail at my first parenting challenge so I quickly started singing to him the only thing I could think of......

Momma loves you
Papa loves you
Nana loves you
Everybody loves Abram

repeat

He loved it and quieted right down.  Well we were soon both bored of the first verse so we started adding in Auntie, uncles, and various other family members.  We sung it a lot in the hospital and on occasion since we got back home.  It's an easy song to remember when the baby is screaming and you can't remember your own name let alone the words to a nursery rhyme.  So flash forward to the flight and I started singing the song - I think it's now programmed in as part of my fight or flight response.  As soon as I started singing it he quieted down and started smiling - the crazy kid. 

I sang it a few different times and then stopped once I thought he had calmed down - well he started crying as soon as I stopped so we sang the song over and over and over and over one more time.  We had to get pretty creative with the verses so we began singing things like...

Cows love you
Duckies love you
Horses love you
Everybody loves Abram

Neighbors love you
Strangers love you
The lady in seat 8D loves you
Everybody loves Abram

Josh figured we shouldn't be telling him strangers love him so if you would like to be included in Abram's emergency song let us know and you too can be featured in upcoming editions.

So thank you to everyone's name we used without permission or awarded royalties - and thank you especially to the woman in 8D for putting up with my singing...and the crying....and especially for the smells that were coming out of him. 

Until next time -

Josh, Sara and Abram