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.”

Eden sometimes gets frustrated when we don’t understand her, I think. One day she was sitting in her booster seat and she wanted to leave the table. She started screeching and flapping her hands. (When she tries to do the baby sign for “I’m done,” it looks like she is trying to take flight). So I told her to wait, and “exercise your patience muscles.” Then I flexed for her and said, “Ugggh!” But she imitated me right back. (She doesn’t imitate us very often yet). Ever since then, she has had the idea that it’s socially acceptable to say “Ugggh!” and clench her fists to show that she doesn’t want to be patient. 🙂 It looks like she’s throwing a tantrum to end all tantrums, but really she’s just trying to do what I accidentally taught her.

We had dinner with our friends JB and Hillary tonight. Eden wandered around their house and played with their kids. She is so easy to take care of. At church we don’t have to worry about her much because of all the families around us that take her in. She just walks right up to people, and sometimes they start playing with her, and then we don’t see her for half an hour. Wouldn’t it be great if all our kids were that easy?