A Cerney Periodical

We were surprised and blessed by the arrival of Alice Wilder Cerney on July 22. She was born at 8:37am and weighed in at a svelte 5lb 0.8oz. Mommy and Alice are both happy and healthy and home. There is much more to tell, and many more pictures to post, but for now, enjoy this short video of Alice doing what she does best: sleeping, squigging, and smiling. She's a real treasure. 

Spring edition of Brock's awesome preschool. This takes us right up to Brock's graduation. Summer edition to follow, with consideration of birth of Brock's sis.  Music class, obviously. Their school has two sister schools; one in China and one in Columbia. This is Brock streaming and talking with the Columbia school.  Brock still loves the practical life section of his school, although this spring the math area has taken over the practical life section.  Brock has now mastered the 100's board, and the 45 layout, I think that takes him to the end of the math works? but I have to double check....  His new favorite passion are the robot cubes. I have them available for check out from DePaul, so I brought them home for him and Matt to mess around with. They made a lot of discoveries that Brock took back to school, including asking his teacher to finally download the bluetooth app for the bluetooth cube to control t...

Before it's winter, let the final chapter of Hawaii unfold: Kona. So if you recall, we were last in Volcano. On the way to Kona, many an adventure was had. [But first a quick update. As you all know, Kilauea has been erupting pretty constantly since we left. In fact, between the time we posted Part II and this, our favorite two swimming spots were destroyed by lava. It's pretty crazy seeing your favorite vacation spots destroyed on the news] [These are the Kapoho Tide pools getting buried in lava. You park by the houses and walk right in. I imagine the tide pools will be back quickly. The road access not so much.] [Here's a pic of lava filling Kapoho Bay. The Champagne Pool featured in blog part II is circled in the above picture. It's now completely under lava and closed permanently. It was a truly amazing place and I feel super lucky we got to see it.] mmmk, doesn't look it from my phone camera, but this is the green sand of the green sand be...