It was a warm summers night. The june bugs were humming their tune, the trees were blowing gently in the wind adding a tempo, and Jude and Lucy were singing to Julia, which finished off the nights song. Jude was rubbing Lucy's ever so growing stomach. Jude smiled softly at Lucy.
"Our beautiful daughter..." He mumbled as he pressed his lips gently to hers. She smiled at him and sighed happily.
"Soon. So very soon." She laughed as she rubbed her stomach.
"Julia, Julia, ocean child calls me." Jude sang softly.
"So I sing a song of love, Julia." Lucy countered evenly.
"Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me." They sang with thier eyes closed laughing in between. And they finished the song, "So I sing a song of love, Julia!" They both fell to the ground looking hopefully at the starry night sky.
Two months later...
Max, Prudence, JoJo, and Sadie waited impatiently in the hospital lobby. Lucy had gone into labor earlier that morning, and everyone had come rushing to the hospital once they heard the news. Ten minutes later Jude walked out of the nursery room. Max ran up to him and gave him a hug."Hows it feel to be a dad?"
"Well, the job haven't started yet. But so far, good, yeah." Jude replied in his thick Liverpool accent.
"Congratulations sweet pea." Sadie said giving him a big hug. JoJo and Prudence did the same. They all went to the nursery window to look at Jude and Lucy's child. She was sleeping soundly and on the on the name plate is said Julia Elizabeth Feeney.
Three long days later, Lucy and Jude were finally able to take Julia home. Everyone was waiting at their apartment. Sadie and Prudence had designed Julia's nursery, while Max and JoJo had built all the furniture. Although it was pretty hard imagining Max actually building something.
After they had gotten home, everyone wanted to hold Julia. She was the perfect combination of both of her parents. She had Lucy's crystal blue eyes and Jude's mess of dark brown hair. And she had many of her father's and mother's features.
"Aw, Luce and Jude, your child is beautiful." Prudence said quietly trying not to wake her.
"She truly is." Lucy said happily, as if she was lost in another universe. Prudence slowly handed Julia back to Jude, and he kissed the top of her head.
"Julia, Julia," He sang quietly. "Morning moon, touch me. So I sing a song of love, Julia."
Then JoJo, Sadie, Lucy, Prudence, Max, and Jude all sang, "Julia, sleeping sand, silent cloud,touch me."
Lucy and Jude sang, "So I sing a song of love, Julia."
"Hum, hum, hum, hum... calls me." Sadie sang.
Then Jude and Lucy sang again, "So I song a song of love for Julia, Julia, Julia." Jude and Lucy both sang it again as they placed precious Julia to sleep.