Can I take a moment and make some paternal complaints? The kids are into video games. They love them. They have handhelds, they play wii and Internet based games, they recently even discovered games you can play with the remote on cable. Like I really need my 8 year old bragging about his Tetris prowess. Dude, I OWNED that game in college. I can totally bury his butt. Of course, then he cries, so I have to let him win…or at least give a good show of competing.

Anyway, my complaint is this: why are my boys incapable of putting the damn games away. Specifically with their handhelds or the wii. I am so sick of finding wii sports resort under the living room coffee table with the booklet from Mario Kart and the weird PS3-ish case our used copy of Lego Batman came in.

Meanwhile, my 19 month old baby girl can satisfactorily deliver an heirloom china cup across a thirty feet of hard tile from Mommy to Daddy on a whim. And then she’ll rearrange the tupperware on the shelf in the lower cabinet so everything fits and close the door. Is this a genetic thing? Is it ingrained gender type stuff? I don’t know, but if you could bottle it I’d have my boys drinking it by the liter on a daily basis.