April 2011

Less talk, more pictures.
Becca's hair grew in this month (12 weeks old):

April Fool's!
General Conference was the first weekend of April, and we enjoyed each session from the comfort of our own home via the miracle of the internet. So much easier than taking Becca to church 4 times!  General Conference was great of course.  We also like the new version of Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration that they played in between sessions. We tried out several new and fun recipes that weekend - like crepes and cupcakes!
For Family Home Evening, we went to see Disney's "Tangled" which we both LOVED! No question - it is my new Disney favorite!  I am even planning to chop my hair off Rapunzel-style (not with a giant shard of glass - just that type of hair cut).
Here's some of Becca's smiles:

Becca at 13 weeks practicing her rolling over:

Becca hanging on for dear life in her jumper:

Devin took me (and Becca) disc golfing for our first time together.  There are several places to do it here in College Station, and he's gone a few times before.  I didn't do too bad, actually!

Devin was getting Becca ready for bed one night, and started laughing.  When I went in to see why, this is what he had done to our child:

But here are some "adorable" pictures without the legal stickers.

Tummy time pictures:

We went camping with Devin's family to Brazos Bend State Park.  It was Becca's first time and she was a good little camper (14 weeks):

She slept better and longer than she usually did at home!  Made me want to camp all the time.  Here we are in the tent the next morning:

Enjoying some quiet early morning time sitting at the camp fire (it was actually chilly enough for a hoody for a little while - so nice!):

A couple hours later, we were joined by Alaire, Ryan and Flynn:

Alaire was home from BYU-Hawaii on a break, and it was her first time meeting Becca, so they had a lot of fun together.  Devin brought his discs for disc golfing and taught his siblings the game:

And we went on a "hike":

At the end of our hike, we ran into an alligator!  A real one!  Not in a cage!  When we arrived the night before and I saw the signs that said there are hundreds of them in the park we camped at, I was afraid they would eat us in our sleep.  I needn't have worried; this one didn't even move more than a couple twitches.  Even when some people (who shall remain nameless) threw rocks at it.  

If you don't agree with taking naked baby pictures, you should skip these next pictures, as you can see Becca's cute chubby bum in the mirror (oops).  We love bath time!

Devin found out about an essay opportunity at the last minute and threw together something...that ended up winning him $500!  We celebrated by buying more food storage and with a special dinner; salmon and Martinelli's! Yum!

Here's Becca chomping on her little giraffe.  I thought her intensity was pretty funny:

So, we've been told that children don't come with an instruction manual, but ours came with a warning label at least:

Although we know Becca doesn't get it yet, it was so fun to dye eggs and start teaching our Easter traditions to her!  (Week 15)

Here's Devin acquainting Becca with an egg:

So, for Easter weekend, we dyed eggs on Friday night, then drove to the Houston temple Saturday morning and then went to Devin's parents' for the rest of the day.  The Easter Bunny left some nice treats for us there, and one of Becca's new toys became her favorite (and actually was a life saver on our trip home).  We can't decide if she's developed an early taste for French cuisine, or if she's practicing for that future prince of hers. 

When we arrived home, we had our traditional "Egg Break" and Becca's egg won!  Since she couldn't eat her prize, Devin and I split it.

The Easter Bunny left us all some new clothes - Becca looked adorable in her butterfly dress complete with bloomers!

The Easter Bunny also gave Becca just what her Daddy was wanting for her:  a swimsuit!  He was so excited about it that he gave Becca her first swim lesson the very next day, for Family Home Evening.

Devin went to a Houston Astros baseball game with his dad, Ryan, Flynn, and his friend from work, Ben.  

Becca started showing interest in what we were eating. One morning when I had her on my lap during breakfast and was eating a banana, she really insisted on trying it.  She quite liked it!

We tried to recreate Monday's Family Home Evening swim lesson on Friday for her 16th week video, but Becca was too cranky for that, so Dad had to give her a swim lesson later that night when she was a little happier...only in our bath tub instead of the pool. 

When we were in Sugar Land for Easter, Devin picked up all his PEZ collection to bring home.  He wanted to show me all of them and also re-count and categorize them.  They were ALL over the living room for probably a week before we finished the project (there are 931 of them, not including PEZ things that aren't dispensers), but it was fun to re-live part of his past with him.  When he retires, his post-retirement job will be to sell them so we can get a cool vacation out of it.  Becca liked playing with Dad's PEZ too.

Well, that's April's recap!