Diaper cake

Well on Saturday we went up to Lakeside. My good friend Cynda had a baby shower. So I made her a diaper cake! My first time making one. I loved how it turned out. Cynda and her hubby are big hunters. I always say Cynda is my redneck friend. :) SO on the cake there is a white tail deer and some bear slippers. And some of the ribbon is in pink camouflage. She loved it! It was so fun to put together. We had a great weekend up there. We didn't get to stay long. But we enjoyed the time with the family. Royce liked climbing up and down my parents stairs and playing with uncle Donny's hummer.

P.A school here we come!

REYN GOT ACCEPTED INTO AT-STILL! It's here in Mesa! It was our first choice! SO EXCITING! He starts P.A. School in June 2010!

CHANGES

today Reyn and I have been married 4 and a half years! whoa, haha

Royce looking for more cookie

waiting for the cookies to bake, i told him the oven was hot, so he was blowing on it. haha

helping momma make cookies. he was having so much fun.

licking his plate - he had spaghetti

Well many things are changing with Royce. Little stinker quit eating his baby food. He only wants to feed himself now. SO I have to make sure everything I give him is made a finger food. HE is still learning what a plate is and still figuring out the fork and spoon. He empties off the plate onto his tray every time. Why do i even bother giving him a plate. Well i want him to learn that a plate is where his food goes. instead of his tray. But it's a learning/growing process for him. so i spend a lot of time sweeping and cleaning around his area. He is becoming such a big boy. We have to stop leaving important things around now, out of his reach. Because he is getting tall enough to reach everything. He gets on his little tippy toes and blindly grabs for things and pulls them down. Another thing i have to watch out for is paper and books. he is our little goat. he eats paper, envelopes, his books. lots of chunks taken out of his books. I must not be feeding him enough if he feels the need to eat paper. Weird little billy goat boy haha.

Reyn got accepted into Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. It's a Physician assistant program! It starts in June 2010. Right now we aren't 100% sure where or what we will be doing. Reyn has an interview here in Mesa, at a P.A school called AT-STILL tomorrow morning. So we will see how that goes. He has 2 more interviews coming up both in California. So we will just see how these other interviews go. And then weigh out our options. But for now for sure Reyn is in a program! WE are so excited, it's an answer to our prayers! SO now we have the next 7 -8 months to plan and we finally have a light to the end of our tunnel! We are so blessed.

Royce loves to be outside

his first time on the swing. He was pointing at an airplane asking "What's that?"

first time going down the slide, not much of a reaction

Riding on the Zebra, he was so thirsty he didn't really care about anything else.

Going for a walk in our neighborhood. He stops to look at everything on the ground and in the air.

Well I am sooo glad that the weather is getting better! I love winters in Mesa! So nice! And now that it is finally cooling down we can go outside! Which Royce LOVES! He always wants to go on walks and ask me what everything is. Not that he knows or really understands what he is saying. But it's cute and fun to talk with him. And have him jabber back at me. He says a few things that I think he knows the meaning. But over all it is just jibber jabber. We have so much fun with Royce he is getting so big so fast! So we are really trying hard to soak it all in. And enjoy every minute of him.

Update

Well today Reyn flew out to Philadelphia. He has an interview at PCOM, a Physician assistant program. He interviewed with PCOM in Jan 09, but was put on a waiting list. This year he was invited to go to their first week of interviews. Which is a very good thing. :) When he interviewed in Jan it was their last week of interviews. SO there is a good chance that they like his application and they could give him a seat at their school for their upcoming classes. Him interviewing now gets him into the June 2010 classes. We are hoping and praying that he gets accepted. Tomorrow he interviews he will do just fine we just hope they agree and accept him.
Reyn also has 2 other interviews in October. One on Oct 23rd, he flies out to California to interview at USC. And then the other one here in Mesa at At-Still on Oct 30th. We are very excited for these interviews. We are praying that somewhere will let us in so we can start the next chapter in our lives. We are anxious and ready to get P.A. school done and over with. We know it will be rough, but the end result will be well worth it.

On another note Royce is growing sooo fast! He is mostly walking everywhere. Still a bit wobbly and does settle for a crawl once in a while. He follows me around the house now sometimes happy, usually whining, haha. But he is so much fun. He is always trying to get us to laugh. His latest thing is fake sneezing. Donny would fake sneeze every time he saw Royce and it would make Royce laugh. Now Royce fake sneezes to make us laugh. He also does it so I will say "Bless you" to him. Which makes him laugh too. He is so funny! We love our little guy. He keeps us busy often. Right now he is cutting his molars. Well trying anyways, they have not been soo fun to deal with. He is actually in a lot of pain and isn't eating half as good. And he gets grouchy. But hopefully these dang molars will come in soon and we won't have to put up with grouchy Royce too much longer. Poor bub.

Well that's about all to talk about for now.

BUSY BODY!

Royce discovered that he can reach the piano. He is always playing :)

He loves his new rocking chair. He is always climbing on it and standing on it and moving it around. He gets it to the piano and climbs the rocking chair and then stands on the arm of it and gets on his tippy toes and tries to climb onto the piano. So i have to watch him even more now, he is a busy busy boy! (like his kissy face?)

This picture! He is pretty much walking! He will walk from the couch to the tv. And from the coffee table to the couch. He randomly just stands up and walks where ever he wants to go. He is still a beginner, but soon to be an expert. He is such a big boy! I can't believe he is just about walking full time. It is a sad/exciting/rewarding feeling! i can't believe it! (like his tongue hanging out?) it helps him balance i guess. Well our little baby is becoming our little boy! We love you Royce!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET BOY!!!!!!

Royce's new walker/rider from his aunts and uncles on the Gunnell side

he hauls booty with this walker, til he hits a wall or a couch, then he whines til i turn him around.

Royce and his cousin Sayla in Lakeside, playing with his new barn from gma and gpa Borrego

the kids all surrounding the walker/rider

the giant pizza's for the par-tay

Royce in his new rocking chair from Gma and Gpa - and uncle and aunt Borrego

Eating his 2nd cupcake ever in his life so far. He didn't devour it like he did the first

Eating his first cupcake so far in his life. He loved it. Made a huge mess.

Well our little man is a year old today! He is soo much fun! We love every minute with him. He is growing up too quick for us! I am not ready for him to become a toddler. But it is coming rather I like it or not. We went up to Lakeside on Sat and had a little family (my mom's side) party for Royce. He loved when we sang to him, he was soo excited. He loved his cupcake, well half of it. We had a great time up there with family. Royce got some cute clothes and a rocking chair and a little barn with little animals. Then we came back home. And we had a party for him with Reyn's side of the family. He got his walker/rider. And some more cute clothes. A pair of shoes from Nama & Bopa Gunnell. And he got another cupcake. He is such a joy to have in our home. We love our little boy so much! He is such a blessing. Happy Birthday Royce! We love you son!