A Cerney Periodical

As readers of this blog already know, Brock recently invested in a tuxedo so he could attend a wedding. Unfortunately, Brock's insatiable milk lust has left it a little harder to get into than in those carefree party days of yesterweek. Upon realizing that he would soon grow out of it, he fought off growing regrets of his vain investment the only way he knew how: by demanding a photo shoot!  Friends were invited... camera effects were tried out.... and Brock declared that a good time had been had by all. 

Brock is getting more and more smiley every single day. Most of the time we just sit and giggle with him ourselves, but we have remembered to pull out the camera a couple times. He's still a little suspicious of it at first. Here's a couple of his better moments where he forgets he's on film.  Brock is an avid stander if you help his balance. He demands his standing time with pathetic yet adorable whimpers.  Bonus Video: Here's an old one from when Brock was only 2 weeks old, snoring away on mommy. 

As Brock celebrated his 2 month birthday, we celebrated our 2 year anniversary.  We have made it an annual event (so far) to visit the area we were wed at on the first weekend of October for fall fun.  This was our first trip away with little guy and all in all, it went very well.  He slept snugly in his swing and we in our suite... (we were forced into the upgrade when we divulged that we had a 2-month old).  Such a grand trip, with the two grandest gentlemen! amongst the grapes at Lemon Creek Winery yay!  a wee smile!  (and a renegade lock of hair) Wine paring at Gravity Vinyard... paired with Brock snoozing was the most complimentary match of the day let post-brock-feed indulgence begin! Brock notes the milky character of the grapes Apple picking at Tree-mendous farms... a beautiful post-rain afternoon "mommy and daddy, does green milk taste as good?" The apple of my eye! Brock is 23 inches!  ...

Brock made his debut at our friend's Foster and Natalie's wedding.  You can see he dressed for the occasion.  He was very good and saved plenty of energy for the dance floor.  Matt and Brock stole the show cutting a rug... I am sure some guests might have worried about Brock's well being during some of their more daring moves but I had total confidence in the traction of Matt's Converses.  

Boys night was last week as I made my first get away to see the new Trap Door show.  I came home to find the little guy attached to a bottle!  A wondrous first, and I can smell a few whiffs of freedom. As an update... taking the bottle is really hard!!

Brock's always had a little fuzz on top and a lot of hair on the back and sides, but that's about it. Well two days ago Holly and I noticed this multi-inch super hair sprouting right on out of the dome.  This little mystery has us as confused as Brock. Did he have the super-hair always, and we just missed it until monday? Can Brock grow particular strands of hair super-long overnight?  Well, Brock probably wasn't confused about his hair at all. Probably just warming up to the camera. Getting warmer.... There's the Brock!!!

Here's an old video that just made it's way to the tubes. Brock at just 20 days "trying to crawl." This was perhaps his third or fourth attempt that would always end up in him upset, but then excited to try again later. Nowadays he's strong enough to lift the front end, but too fat to get his butt off the ground. (This onesie doesn't' even fit anymore!) Eventually Brock, eventually.  It was only in the past few days that Brock actually started smiling socially at us. We'd seen smiles in his sleep, or by random accident but we'd never had him smile in direct response to a smile. It is pretty darn amazing and unbelievably cute. Naturally, we want to show some fun face-making smile-time adventures to everyone, but for now the camera is a mysterious intruder that throws off Brock's mojo. Still cute for sure, but he's not yet nearly the ham that his parents are. I guess we need to be taking more videos....