A Cerney Periodical

Nothing much to say, but just some festive pics to start the day! The tree has come a long way since these photos I just found! I sense an Oh Tannenbaum (OT) part 3 looming in the circuits...

I've been dreaming of this for twenty years! A REAL tree to bring in the season. Ol' pinky tree still remains ever-fabulous in her faux glory, but nothing compares to the real thing. We also wanted to start making some holiday traditions for the little guy that were special to both of us. For me, that meant waiting to behold the majestic monstrosity that dad commissioned from "our guy", a coveted 18 footer or so annually. For Matt, it meant an adventure into the woods to behold and select the fir that spoke to you. Sounded fantastic. So away we went to Bengstons tree farm to pick our pine.  I had one qualifier. Smell. I did my research and learned that fir family, particularly the fir family. Unfortunately, we are still quite a sniffley bunch and neither Matt nor I had our nose to help. There were no signs of what kind of tree this or that one was, so we went by shape and size. There she grows! A tip like a pine hill, it is a festive stick (literary reference)!

Oi Oi, apologies, it has been a bleak blogging season. Where are the days? Catching up on a few. Including THE SUPER MOON. A super moon is "the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. This hasn't happened since 1948 and it will not be closer again until 2034. Brock loves the moon. Matt and him have had long discussions about gibbous and half moons, when the moon comes up and down and when we will see it. We marked moon cycles on our calendar. The guy is a fan. So you can imagine the magic of a super moon. The first night of super moon, we caught from our rooftop and took Brock to the "crow's nest" for the first time to get the ultimate view.  As you can see, this picture is not the ultimate view, just proof that we were there. Barley. Can you find it? Google some images if you want a decent idea of wha

Well, it has just been an amazing few months of Brock attending Montessori. We had our parent teacher conference yesterday and have been all a-beam since. A progress report was sent home with us and its contents were fascinating. After many pages, here was the summery:  Description of Child’s Personality: Brock is friendly and very polite. He likes to be engaged in detailed conversations. His vocabulary is developmentally advanced. Naturally he gets frustrated at times when faced with more challenging works. However, when he gets angry, he wants to stop the work. We would like to see him overcome challenges calmly. Our impression from the conference is that Brock has charmed them all and they were pretty much a wall of smiles. We also finally cleared up the naptime potty issue and we are all just going to let him sleep and pee! Yay! With emphasis on not peeing of course, but no more waking up weirdness. Also, Brock has really taken to Spanish. He knows several words no