A Cerney Periodical

This year we continued an Easter tradition from daddy's childhood: picture-based Easter-egg hunting. Instead of scattering eggs and leaving him to wander everywhere, it's a linear hunt. One clue leads to the next clue, to the next clue, and so on, until finally the Easter basket! Each egg has a candy and another clue. Brock wasn't really sure what was going on for the first two eggs. I thought I'd served up the easiest picture first. He had some trouble, and then as soon as he found it, he just wanted to do something else. We coaxed him to decipher the next clue. Then he wanted to do something else. Something clicked after the third egg. Perhaps the prospect of procuring infinite gummis and jelly beans finally crossed his mind, or maybe the connection of the pictures to the placement just needed some time, but he was hooked. Here's a video of the middle of the hunt: Eventually the basket was found... It was a beautiful day so we wen

Rare evidence that Brock is aware and interested in his peers. Here Brock and a little guy at the library take turns spinning each other. No parent persuasion was used here. Brock plays restaurant with two gals in the park. He initiated. The little girl in the yellow coat was quite leery, but the gal in blue was into Brock. Yellow warmed up after he brought her some chicken (sticks).  Brock has started to invite "babies" (everyone is a baby, even 9 year olds... he only just recently started using the term "kid") to play. He does it in typical Brock style... real creepy. But wonderful! I would say yes in a second, but some of the kids stare at him as he says, "hello baby, would you like a to go down the slide with me?"