Dedication of Children

We, along with other new parents in our church, gathered on March 30 to affirm our commitments to the children among us. We made a cake, cedar plank salmon and pork loin, & invited the family from Ft. Worth to come and attend.

Royanne wanted to watch me cut on the cake pieces to create her lamb cake. I began collecting lambs in all shapes, sizes and textures way before she was born. Her room looks like a lamb farm!! Seemed fitting to make a little lamb cake.

She couldn't believe daddy offered her some sugar!

Sampling the wares.

Finished product.

DEDICATION DAY

During the dedication.

Bruce and Royanne at church.

Bruce with his daughters, Heather and Brandy, his father, and his

two grandchildren, Kayleigh and Connor. The girls' husbands, Chris & Wesley, and Aunt Janice also came.

Royanne, Connor and Kayleigh.

The Booster Seat Has Arrived !!

Yesterday, Royanne's prize arrived for my description of the BUMBO seat on the site Homemade-baby-food-recipes.com.

It's amazing how many "chairs" Royanne has had so far in her little life. She had a bouncy seat, a swing, then we started using the BUMBO, (and when we reviewed it, on the Homemade-baby-food website, we won the new Booster Seat!) and then she started using her walker. A little later, Mimi found a wooden highchair and aunt Kay loaned us a booster seat from Abby and Liam. Then she won this one!

And let's not forget the car seat and her two strollers!

Trying out the booster seat.

Thank-you "Homemade Baby Food Recipes" !!

Contest Winner

Royanne has entered 2 contests so far, on-line, and has won both. When she won the second one, the prize was a "Safety 1st Grow With Me Portable Booster Seat".

When I told her, she could not contain her joy!

Easter

We saw on the marquee of the Georgetown Feed Store that they were having free Easter pictures. Bruce called to see what that meant, exactly. They told him there was going to be an area set aside where you could go and take pictures. You could stick little ducks or chicks in your pictures if ya wanted to. When we got there all of the little chicks and ducks had already been sold, but we still took pictures.

Here Ro tries her hand at engineering.

Then she expressed her desire to go four - wheelin'.

Next came farming.

Then she asked if she could take her agricultural equipment to her father's garden.

We sat her in a washtub and used a stuffed bunny as her friend.

EASTER MORNING

Ro experiences her first Easter basket.

EASTER DAY

3 cousins :)

Lunch at Aunt Marybeth and Uncle Roger's:

Royanne meets Peter Rabbit.

Aunt Marybeth hid Easter eggs on the carpet for Ro to find.

SHE FOUND MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE!

She does something new all the time!

One day she won't quite be doing this or that, and the next, she has surpassed it, like she practiced in her sleep, and she's on to the next hurdle, milestone, item.....what have you.

Case and point: the week she learned to crawl. She really got after it. She was a pro in two days.

Then she started to stand up, and now she barely holds on. Cruising should begin soon!

PLAYTIME

Royanne spends a large portion of her day standing in front of the hearth and playing with various toys and her dollhouse.

In this picture, she is blaming the cats for her toys strewn around the living room.

SHE'S A HAPPY BABY

But every now and then she does actually cry........................



and......................

GOT THIS FROM MY SISTER TODAY. FOLLOW THE LINK!

http://users.telenet.be/leukelinks/flash/queen.htm

And the Next Contestant Is.....

Royanne’s birthday kicked her out of the running for Regis and Kelly’s Cutest Baby Contest for this year, which was disappointing. She was just a tad bit too young. And we wanted to use a picture of her in that real pumpkin from Halloween, which was just too cute, if you ask me! Well, then I thought I’d start looking around for other contests. What better way to pay for a college education than to win a contest! So, I started looking around and a lot of contests wanted money first. We found one for baby food recipes, right up Bruce’s alley!! I wrote up a little thing (that I also put on her blog) and we won for the month of March! Below is a link to the website. We used her chef picture. Fun, fun!


http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/baby-of-the-month.html

On the same site I also entered her in a contest to win a booster chair. To enter, you had to describe your favorite essential baby item. I picked the Bumbo chair. They posted the entry, complete with a pictutre of her in the Bumbo. Fun, fun!