Anders started pushing chairs around at 12th month and now he can walk a long way without falling down. 

Art on our vanilla latte at Eon Cafe.  More Latte Art.

Try this game out.  A lot of strategy involved for a game with such simple rules.

Play Nano Wars

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Pack Rat		Materialistic Minimalist

Christine can be described as a pack-rat or hoarder; she still has boxes of memorabilia from her first job and even her notes and ledgers from her college days.

I am best described as a Materialistic Minimalist.  Although, I do have some pack-rat tendencies, I try to keep those efforts in the virtual or digital worlds where everything is neatly encapsulated in a RAID storage device.  In the real world, the less I possess, the better I feel.

Needless to say, sometimes the rat and the minimalist don’t see eye to eye.  So they made a bet.  If the rat organizes her two desks and office floor such that they are free from any loose papers or debris for two months, the minimalist will get rid of any old raggedy t-shirts or shorts that the rat objects to.  The minimalist will also be required to purchase new t-shirts or shorts to replace said items.

Oh the horror for the minimalist… throwing out perfectly functional clothes, and even worse, replacing them with new ones!

To be continued…

Couple of little priceless moments from the last week:

• Trying to convince Christine that the nusery rhyme was in fact “Itchy Bitchy Spider”
• Anders points at things he wants to examine
• Taking Anders on his first hiking adventure and he demands to have Mom hold him when we go uphills
• Anders demands to drink what we drink during meals
• Pulling a bait and switch by giving Anders our cup, but filled with soymilk
• Tivo’ing every single second of NBC Olympic coverage on 4 channels
• Staying up to wee hours watching the Olympics on Tivo
• Cassandra and Mike’s Amia Bakery Tres Leches cake… yum
• Christine insisting that the Hayward Zuchini festival was pronounced ZU-CHEE-NEE
• Fried zuchini sticks at the festival were out of this world
• Anders now can kneel on the ground
• Playing catch with Anders, he sometimes throws the ball back