'Our beautiful daughter' 'Our sleeping angel' Friday 18th February 2010-that was the date that you grew your wings and took a piece of our hearts with you, a day which will always remain our clearest memory. Although we were scared and heartbroken to meet you, knowing that soon after we would have to say goodbye. It was, and always will be, the proudest day of our lives. we knew that you would be beautiful, but nothing could prepare us or the midwifes for quite how beautiful you were. Your thick, dark, curly hair, your long fingers and toes, your rosebud mouth and tiny button nose. You werw perfect, perhaps too perfect for this world. Your birth was long awaited. Every day felt like a year waiting for you to join our little family. The last part of the jigsaw. We had so many plans, which since you left, the thought of often brings a tear to our eye. That you will no longer be joining us on our first family holiday or move with us to our new home. That we wont get to see you take your first steps or see you in any of the 3,000 pairs of shoes that mummy had brought for you! And that we won't get to see daddys face the first time that you bring a boyfriend home! Although mummy at least got to fulfil one special task... of painting your tiny nails for the first and last time, in preporation for your big day. Although all of these thoughts bring sadness, it also brings great comfort to know that at the same time, you will never have to feel pain, have your heart broken or suffer at the hands of what is too often of late, a very cruel and hard world. We will cherish forever the very short time we got to spend with you before kissing you goodnight, but the reality is that no amount of time we ever had together would have ever been enough. As a good friend has since so accurately phrased..."the fact that you will never get to torment your older brothers, draw on the freshly painted walls, get in to trouble at school or answer back and rebel when your hormones kick in, means that you will always remain the perfect child" 'Our beautiful daughter' 'Our sleeping angel' We love you sooo much! Your proudest ever Mummy and Daddy x x x