Miscellaneous

It's been a while since I've updated this blog, so I'll try to summarize the last few weeks.

Christmas was pretty good for Sam and Abby who got a lot of cool toys. The best is probably the toy dinosaur Sammy got from Uncle Matt that walks, roars, and looks like the dinosaur that ate Newman in Jurassic Park. It's been known to attack quite a few things in our house, and sometimes I'll even let Sammy play with it.

Abby got a couple science kits and loves to do experiments. I don't mind this so much except that one of the kits has various experiments testing the acidity or basicity of various things around the house (pop, soap, juice, and whatnot) but doesn't explain what an acid or base is, and I'm a bit stumped on how to explain that to a first grader. Suggestions are welcome.

Cindy was pretty ill for most of the Holidays so for her it wasn't such a good time, and I was a bit frazzled as a result, but managed.

Abby and Sammy had their first ice skating lesson at the OSU Ice Rink on Sunday. We were a bit worried about how Sam would react to it, but he seemed to love it despite falling several times. Now he wants his own pair of ice skates. Abby seemed to pick up where she left off last winter, which was also something of a minor surprise since we didn't get to skate a lot in the Fall.

In terms of the Fiesta Bowl, there are a myriad of whatif moments in that game, but in the end not too much to complain about. We had someone in place to stop the UT receiver and he simply didn't. I'm disappointed for the players, especially the seniors who've endured a lot of nonsense from ESPN talking heads and the like, but I'm very encouraged by the effort and the character shown.

Edit: I was wrong above. There is something to complain about. I'm not sure Fox could have botched the coverage any more than they did. From missing plays, to inexplicably long shots of Gatordade coolers, to 5,949 shots of the Texas band, to 1,643 shots of the McCoy family (and none of the Animal sr), it was a horridly amateurish production.