A Cerney Periodical

My mom grew up in Indiana, along with five siblings. Three sets of those siblings were wed in the same year, and thus all were celebrating their 50th this year and decided to do so with a get together back where their seeds were planted. All but one of mom's sibs and their families came, so it was a great turn out and opportunity for them to re-meet Brock as a person and Alice as a cuteness.  Brock impressed the fam with his engineering of his sneaky sipper.   Luckily, we had the room essentially to ourselves.  Here is the whole gang!   And some cake that I drooled over and put in a to-go for the following day (our diet "off" day). Brock said he didn't like chocolate! But Alice was getting and eating cake from all angles. Not to waste one of our few weekends free, we made the anniversary brunch in Indiana into a camping trip! Any I had to add in a vintage market along the way!  Highlight for Brock was cracking open a geode (what c

Hello. Alice here. My dad planted some cherry tomatoes in our backyard this summer, and my goodness they are... FEED ME TOMATOES!!!...sorry, where was I... they are delicious. I usually eat every single... PUT IT IN MOMMY!! COME ON!!... tomato right as it ripens. In fact, no tomatoes have ever even made it u....  mrmrmfmgm....mmmmm.. .um.  upstairs. they never make it upstairs. Yes, mommy. You deal with the exploding juices. That is your job. My job is to eat them all. I EAT THEM ALL!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!  Now fetch me more. 

Al pal has been working hard at learning to walk by pushing wheeled things. Here is a recent attempt that went a bit awry.  soon. so soon.

Alice loves to kiss her toys and make her toys kiss each other. She's also pretty forceful when she's decided you should be kissing one of her toys. It's pretty cute. Here's a video of her trying to get though a pop-up book, but getting continually distracted by new things to kiss. 

yes.  and in a lego box.   and atop Rody.  That is all.

Maybe Alice has said "cat"? You be the judge. I think so? Other things Alice maybe said : "duck", maybe "mama", "dada" maybe. She makes cute noises that seem to have meaning.

Rain or shine, this boy is off to first grade in a blaze of glory. He those to wear his homemade tye dyed flame shirt, with flame shoes. First day of school parents get to walk first graders to the classroom. Ms. Manon, his new teacher is FABULOUS. Here he is in his group, with his breakfast that all CPS students get. Which he loves because there is always a sweety sort of carb in there. Alice yelled at all the right moments. Any how, I did not get emotional because I think I took care of all that in preschool and kindergarten. I am quite confident that this amazing young gentleman shall "slay" as the kids say these days.