Step 1: Open up a new tab and get this song playing on youtube (“C’est la Vie”, by Cameroonian artist Henri Dikongué).

Step 2: Come back here, and, unless you speak French ^_^, check out the English translation of the lyrics.

A birth, a cry
A pain, a noise
A body so soft, my friend
A heart that beats, life

I would like to stop
On this happy moment that you have given me
This bursting forth of your fragility
Does not cease to amaze me
Sweeping, sweeping, sweeping
Leave my distress behind
Everything seems beautiful, everything seems light
As if the world has changed

(2x) That’s life, life
Life oh, life eh
It is good, divine friend
We look it over and we smile

A caress, a joy
A smile, a voice
A trembling hand and me
A soul that lives from you

I would like to say thank you
For this moment you have granted me
It is as if I were never born
Before this infant, newborn
Sweeping, sweeping, sweeping
The wounds of my past
Everything seems beautiful, everything seems light
As if the world had changed

That’s life (etc.)
It is mystery, it is magic
I feel like a father, and it pleases me

That’s life (etc.)
It is good, divine friend
It gives me wings and desires

That’s life (etc.)
It is good, divine friend
We look it over and we smile

That’s life (etc.)
This presence that also makes
An existence of my life

With this beautiful song, I welcome my nieces, secret codename: Isis and secret codename: Phoenix, to the world. Babies, you are so very welcome. I am the happiest auntie that has ever been. Everything seems beautiful, everything seems light — the world has changed.