Hey guys. I know you've all been working hard to keep up with the 31-Day Challenge, and I've been impressed by the outpouring of blog entries that have come out of this thing. I'm actually pretty impressed that so many of you have stuck with it despite tight holiday schedules and occassional bouts of blogger's block.

You've done so well and you only have 2 days to go! Keep working hard to the end of the week. You can make it!

If you are one of the challengers and you have kept up well, I will need your home address. I have info for most of you, but either way, please send your snailmail deets to iamawinner@31for31.com. Prizes will take some time to get out, so look for them in mid-January.

First of all, let me apologize for the totally lame effort at posting yesterday. While the bowl schedule is useful to have at my fingertips (without cluttering up my bookmarks with links that will be obsolete in a month), I should not have been so lazy.

Actually, I planned to post a video of the Stella scooter I'm hoping to purchase this year, but I got distracted in my search by other videos of scooter crashes, panda attacks, and people farting. Isn't youtube a fascinating meeting place of all things base and disturbing (and therefore grossly funny)? (Update: more Stella news and even more. Guess what color I want.)

Anyhow, last night, we finally initiated our Christmas shopping. Pop and T had the kids, so we were free to shop for Halleigh, and we got some other gift ideas for the sibs, which made the search a little easier.

We kept running into a problem though: what would we get Beau that Halleigh doesn't already have. I mean, we can get him some clothes, but we kept seeing toys that are already available at home. Blocks? Got some. Shape-sorter? Got it. Bath toys? Got those too. Books? Sooo many. etc. etc. etc. We can always buy new and different varieties, but it's hard to find stuff that isn't really similar to what we already have.

Have other parents of multiple kids run into the same issue?

As of now, we have seven eight nine ten eleven challengers including myself, but it's not too late to join in the fun (as long as you post something to your blog today). All of these folks are linked in the sidebar, but just for convenience sake, here is a list of the other participating blogs.

• Our Own Little Happy Place
• The Spicy Redneck
• In Medias Res
• The World According to Kristy
• Uncle Moustache
• Still Waiting for the Dawn
• The Travis Skinny
• b-u-r-l-y-f-a-m-i-l-y
• The Gearys
• This Classical Life

Happy blogging!