The Complete Babies Don’t Keep

The wonderful nursery rhymes book I mentioned in a recent post was given to Normy by a near and dear family friend, Nancy. She continued her kindness today by emailing me the Babies Don’t Keep poem in its entirety. Thank you so much, Nancy! It is too wonderful to keep to myself…


"Babies Don't Keep"

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockabye, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).

The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

-- Author Unknown


In other news, Normy suffered his four month check up and shots two weeks early today. He received four shots in all: two in one leg, on in the other leg, and one in his arm. The poor guy was pretty sore this evening. He got his first dose of grape flavored baby Tylenol which he loved. As evidenced by his huge gummy grin and lip smacking happiness. Following the drugs I promptly plopped him in the tub where he soaked for over twenty minutes. I think it did the trick because he went down for the night fairly easily and right on time.

Thanks for your curiosity, Betsy. I’ll fill you in on my latest ambition and plan tomorrow. I’m still working on the post! XOXOXOXOX!!!!