Our little daughter's baptism, and other photos of her as a baby...

This is a photo from our daughter's baptism. We had asked Pastor Brammer (the minister from College Hill Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, David's mother's church) to come to Kanawha to baptize her. In the photo, left to right, are Pastor Brammer, Bill Timmermann, Lois Timmerman (David's sister) holding the baby, and me in the white outfit, with David just to my right in blue.

 Pastor Brammer patting the baby's head dry after the actual baptism. In this shot, you can see David's and my face a bit better (you can also see that having a baby late in life can leave a person with extra pounds that I can tell you are very hard to get off!) But, she was worth it!

Aunt Lois holding her niece after the ceremony...she's yawning...these important affairs can be very tiring... Also in the photo, in the second row - Donald Timmermann, Joel Rueber, Ann Rueber, Laura Boehnke; and in the front row - Scott Timmermann, Lois holding the baby, and Bill Timmermann.

 We had a dinner at our house after the baptism, and here are the pastor's wife, Elsa Brammer, Ann Rueber (paternal grandmother), Joel Rueber holding our little daughter, and Laura Boehnke, the sister-in-law of Alitza Boehnke, and a family friend. You can see our daughter's room in the background with the pretty stained glass window (which I kept when we moved from this house to the research farm.)

...and here is our little girl in her infant seat, sitting on the dining room table. She was a good-natured baby!

Here I am, feeding our daughter. She already liked her thumb, and by this time, she was using it to get the food down. Each bite had a short sucking of the thumb to follow. It made mealtime a bit longer than usual.

Here's a photo from her scrapbook, with Aunt Lois and Cousin Scott helping our little daughter to open a gift at Christmas time...

More photos of our daughter to come...