Felix looks very happy.

You and Karen must be very proud (and happy).

Four years between oldest and youngest and I'm about in the middle. So two years either way.

I think there is something to your Stats Jake. I think it has to do with frequency in some regards from what I have seen. Lots of larger families I know have a mix - but the sexes seem to follow the same patterns: kids born within a couple years of each other often seem to come out the same color (pink or blue). Separate them by more than that and it changes (from my own non-scientific analysis). My daughters are 18 months apart. Felix and baby Howlett will be about the same... good odds on a boy I'd say. :-) What's the spread on Jakes Dads boys?

Either way - thank God you have Karen AND Quinn around. One toddler is fun, but two or more is serious work!

Honestly, I can probably name just as many examples pro as con Jake's special theory of evolution.

Then scope creep sets in. They become larger, more unweildy. They start developing bad habits. Trying to keep them under control consumes a greater amount of time and money. They require larger hardware. And when more of them start appearing, they start fighting over system resources, consuming even more time and space (not to mention more money). They only way to solve the issue is when they get too big is migrating them away from the home server. But even then there may well be some embedded system calls back to the home servers which you just never manage to get rid of.

Oh, sorry. Were we talking kids or databases here? Same difference I guess.

Congratulations & HB Felix.

And btw: Two of those. Both girls, to back up your statistical examinations.

I have a daughter and she's nearly 3 years old, now she can speak everything that she had heard, i'm very happy about that.

My daughter's blog:

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Happy birthday to the (presently) littlest Howlett.

Girl indeed... I have two... presently wishing a boy were on the way but the wife will have no more of that. ;-)