This is so familiar to me...

I have no doubt that my kids can do this. They have also figured out how to pull drawers out at different depths to make stairs.

As they got older, they figured out how to use the little fisher price car (think Flintstones car) to get into the tree, then get from the tree to the roof.

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Is it clear enough?

I'm a little surprised by the results, but not where red vs blue line up. The link is at the bottom.

79% Mitt Romney
76% John McCain
74% Fred Thompson
71% Tom Tancredo
69% Mike Huckabee
57% Rudy Giuliani
56% Ron Paul
41% Bill Richardson
37% Hillary Clinton
37% John Edwards
33% Chris Dodd
30% Barack Obama
28% Joe Biden
24% Mike Gravel
19% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

The Christmas Season

This has been a great Christmas Season! In a way it started in November with our first family trip to Disneyland. Since then, Mama Lizard took the herd back for a day and we went last week when her parents were in town for the Poinsettia Bowl. A win there would have made the season better, but it was a pretty good game.

Disney "Cars" characters were definitely the hit of the gift giving. Everybody got something, including all the little lizards getting Cars sheets. Who would have thought sheets could get them so excited?

The best gift came from Little Princess's Greatest Aunt Kathi. Enjoy some pictures :)

Network Security

One of the things I'm interested in is computer security. For a while I've recommended people check out http://www.grc.com to check their security with Shields Up!, as well as read about DOS attacks and try some of the other security tools.

Recently, one of my students noted that Steve started up a Podcast. Well, I bought an Ipod this summer and just started listening to the Podcasts this week. Great geek stuff! I was especially surprised to hear that I missed the story that WEP is now 98% crackable in two minutes.

On an unrelated, but still security related note, I also started playing with a new program today. If you want to increase your protection from the outside, try playing with Sandboxie. This seems to have some potential for those who are a little more adventurous ;)

Enjoy!

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I knew...

there was a reason men want sex so much. It's purely so the women in our lives can enjoy the benefits.

Health Benefits of Weekly Sex | Newsweek.com

Don't worry, dear. I'll sacrifice myself for your health and well being :)

Good food. Great friends.

This Thanksgiving was definitely a new experience for us. For the first time, we didn't have family to share it with, or our adoptive family, aka Little Dude's Godparents. But thanks to missing a Church breakfast our Marriage Encounter community was running, and getting some sympathy for the back I had just wrenched, other friends called and offered for us to join them.

We're not talking close friends. My wife and I went to the same school as B. We shared similar careers with him as well, except we quit about 1/4 of the way through. OK, we decided our family was more important. (Very few regrets there) At one point, B cost my company a significant amount of lost work (Gotta love government contracting). Oh, and their daughter has been our babysitter a couple of times. So really not a lot in common. :)

It was great. We got to try Thanksgiving brined turkey as well as smoked turkey for the first time. And, we got to try some of Pioneer Woman's incredible sweet potatoes. They really can be dessert as well as a side dish. I'm seriously considering making an entire Costco bag of sweet potatoes, instead of just a third, for Christmas with my family.

Is it a sin to enjoy sweet potatoes like this? Now if only our kids would eat them. Then again, that just means more for us!

Life moves pretty fast....

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
- Ferris Bueller

The last few weeks have been pretty busy, and full of new stuff for the family.

1. Disneyland. Our kids had never been. We got there about 10am, and left just shy of midnight. Everybody had a blast! Favorite ride? Splash mountain!



2. Teeth. Muscle Man lost two teeth in short order. One of them came out while he was sleeping and Monkey Boy found it for him on the carpet. Thank goodness the Lizard Wife was able to make a Tooth Fairy Pillow in time!

3. Bicycles. I convinced Muscle Man to try his bike without training wheels. He did OK the handful of times we did it during a picnic/BBQ. The next day I took all four kids to a local school with a nice open area. I pushed MM once to get him started and he took off.






I really have to figure out how to get better quality of the cell phone. The good news is the Lizard Wife got some better video with her camera in our back yard.

Oh...MM also upgraded to a 16" bike. It's a reach, but I'm guessing the growth spurt he started this week will make it easier!