1. To be a child is to know the gift of living. To have a child is to know the gift of life. photographed by: vincent koharpoem source: http://www.plan-the-perfect-baby-shower.com/baby-shower-poems.html

2. To be a child is to know the gift of living. To have a child is to know the gift of life. There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. -Winston Churchill- (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) photographed by: vincent kohar

3. To be a child is to know the gift of living. To have a child is to know the gift of life. photographed by: vincent kohar Making the decision to have a child -it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone (author)-

4. To be a child is to know the gift of living. To have a child is to know the gift of life. photographed by: vincent kohar It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. - Barbara Kingsolver- (American novelist, essayist & poet)

5. To be a child is to know the gift of living. To have a child is to know the gift of life. photographed by: vincent kohar The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. - Rajneesh (Indian Philosopher)-

6. photographed by: vincent kohar Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. -Matthew Broderick- (Hollywood Actor)

7. photographed by: vincent kohar “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for“ -Anonymous quotes-

8. photographed by: vincent kohar A baby is sunshine and moonbeams and more brightening your world as never before. -Author Unknown-

9. photographed by: vincent kohar There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. -I rena Chalmers (Author & Food Commentator)-

10. photographed by: vincent kohar A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house. -Milwaukee Journal-

11. photographed by: vincent kohar A baby has a special way of adding joy in every single day. -Author Unknown-

12. photographed by: vincent kohar Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. -Charles Osgood (Anchor, CBS News)-

13. photographed by: vincent kohar “When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be“ -Sir James Matthew Barrie- (Creator of Peter Pan)

14. photographed by: vincent kohar I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. -Liz Armbruster (Blogger)-

15. photographed by: vincent kohar The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. -Joan Kerr- (author, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957)

16. photographed by: vincent kohar While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt- (home-schooling Mom in Oregon)

17. photographed by: vincent kohar "Be yourself, who else is better qualified." -Frank J. Giblin (American Politician)-

18. photographed by: vincent kohar My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children. -Bill Cosby (American Comedian)-

19. photographed by: vincent kohar “There is only one pretty child in the world......... and every mother has it." -Chinese Proverb-

20. photographed by: vincent kohar “When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way. So I stole one and asked work that way. So I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” Him to forgive me.” -Emo Philips (American Comedian)- -Emo Philips (American Comedian)-