Happy New Year, friends!

We hope you had a magnificent holiday season with of lots of family, food and plenty of long winter’s naps! We sure did. The time has come to think back on all the wonderful events of 2009.

Hard to believe but our little music-making elves created four new albums: More Lullaby Renditions of the Beatles, Lullaby Renditions of Queen, Lullaby Renditions of Aerosmith, and Lullaby Renditions of Guns N’ Roses. Whew! No wonder we needed to take so many naps!

You asked for more and we delivered. More Lullaby Renditions of the Beatles is a magical mystery tour deeper into the Beatles’ bottomless catalog of timeless songs.

The lullaby versions of Queen takes our series to a new level. No one thought we could turn the operatic anthems of rock’s most ambitious band into soothing sounds for baby. But the critics all agreed, we did it! We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: we will rock you to sleep.

Aerosmith brought us an amazing honor: Steven Tyler–the demon of screamin’ himself–was so impressed with our lullaby versions of his band’s classic bluesy tunes, he wrote the liner notes for the album. We’re still beside ourselves over that one. It makes us sleepy just thinking about it!

Guns N’ Roses just came out last month and it’s already shaking things up (but most importantly, rocking the cradle). Welcome to the jungle, baby!

Lest we forget, 2009 also brought us the birth of our blog (thank you, thank you) and our digital download edition, which lets you give a beautifully packaged download card and lets the recipient choose their favorite digital album from the entire series. And last, but not least, we launched our very first line of onesies! Yes, we think we deserve another new year’s nap.

We can’t wait to see what 2010 will bring.

Thanks so much for being part of our family and for sharing your wonderful stories with us. We hope you have a sleep-filled new year! Dream on, and on, and on, and on…

Sincerely,

Your friends at Rockabye Baby

To launch our new blog and the More Lullaby Renditions of the Beatles CD, we decided to give away deluxe Rockabye Baby! gift sets to ten lucky folks.

Thanks so much to everyone who entered the hide & seek contest. We were overwhelmed with the love for Rockabye Baby! expressed in the comment stream.

Congratulations to the big winners:

Renee Hutchinson
James Mac Donald
Shelli Pruger
Karla Bohnovic
Lani Caraway
Kresta Schlesman
Nicola McDonald
Sage Elbot
Jessie Thomas
Amber Williams

All the winners have been notified and the gift sets are on their way! If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry. There’s still time to enter to win our newest release, Lullaby Renditions of Queen.

And remeber to check back here often, because we love to give stuff away!

Need the perfect baby shower gift or just need to beef up your Rockabye collection? Play our hide and seek contest to win More Lullaby Renditions of the Beatles, plus three additional Rockabye Baby! CDs of your choice, all wrapped in our deluxe gift box!

To celebrate the launch of our new blog we’re giving away 10, count ‘em, 10 deluxe gift boxes, so enter now and enter often!

Here’s how:

We’ve hidden this psychedelic Beatles bear somewhere on the RockabyeBaby! Blog. Locate the post with this picture and leave a comment with your email address on the post where you found it (don’t worry, your address will be automatically re-formatted so spambots won’t get it!).

Want to enter more than once?

You can enter additional times by following us on Twitter, becoming a fan on Facebook, or adding us on MySpace.  Post a comment  at each site with your email address to make sure you are entered.  Good luck!

Deadline to enter is 12pm PST Wednesday, May 13th, 2009. 10 winners will be chosen at random and notified through email.

Ready, set… find that bear!