We’ve had a lot of confessions on our blog lately. Maybe that should be its own category. Yeah, that’d be great–then people could go to a one-stop shop when they wanted to get dirt on us. 😉

I wanted to go outside with Eden on Wednesday. It was Elisa’s birthday, but she was still in class. Eden had her coat on and was trying to pry open the front door herself. (We let her do whatever she can by herself, because it makes her happy). I opened the closet door. Eden started screaming! She had gotten her left hand pinched in the door jam! She had fit her fingers in the crack right by the hinge, because she was trying to get leverage to open the front door quicker. She had a tiny indentation on her third finger. It just felt horrible. We hugged for awhile. Soon she was feeling like she wanted to go outside, at least. Her finger didn’t swell up, and the indentation disappeared, so we were lucky to only have a small pinch. She was a little extra sensitive for the rest of the night though. When I called Chad on my way home from class and he told me about his evening, he sounded so upset (for him anyway). He really had a rough night. I think we take it much harder when something happens to Eden than she does.

After Elisa solved clue one (in the previous post), it led her to where this clue was hidden. This one I don’t expect anyone else to solve. (I’m afraid the clue was a little weak). Elisa solved it, but I had to give some hints.

Papi hid perplexing hints, skipping even-numbered appearing words. Apply your purpose and perception to apocryphal patterns. Principally listening supplies your epiphany. Thus prepared, find propitious matches apprehended on paper one. Perhaps more appears than people previously supposed in principal clues, apparently still dripping secrets.

Papi is one of my nicknames around the house. And here are the hints I gave her, in case you want to try to solve it too.

1. If you don’t know exactly what you are looking for in the first clue, then you’ll never find it.
2. The “even-numbered” reference means the second, fourth, sixth, etc. words in the above paragraph.
3. You have to be really precise on what the pattern is, to narrow down the matches in the first clue.

With that Elisa came up with the answer and ran straight to her present. (The present was OK, but she liked the treasure hunt more). 🙂

I gave Elisa an envelope with this story inside. I was so proud of it that I wanted to post it. Elisa solved this on in a couple minutes, but if you try it yourself then you’ll see that was quite a feat.

Everyone in the audience is breathless for the satzational circus performance. First two little clown cars vier into the center ring. A colorful figure jumps out and bellows, “Letzte have some fun!” He has a big wort on his temple.

He pops out a satzer bottle and sprays the crowd with water. The spectators on the front row need all night to drei out. Then he opens a mysterious bag and reveals a large envelope. “I need a volunteer to come forwort,” he announces. Without asking, he grabs the hand of a lady in the center sechsion. He passes her the envelope and instructs, “Read the card carefully because there are clues inside, and they will lead you to a prize.”