>K3? Hmmmm.....

I have read the thread and am also a bit mystified, but if it means what I think it does -- you and Gwen giving it some thought after it not originally being in the plan -- go for it. There are some subjects you can trust me on and this is one of them, especially if K2 winds up with a sister. They will fight like cats and dogs for a while and that will drive you nuts. Well, OK, a decade or more, and then more sporadically after that. That's the caveat. But the older they get the tighter they will be. They will confide in each other and know each other better than anyone else ever will, even their spouses. There's something special about sisters. It's not the same with guys. We can confide in each other, in our way, but it's not the same thing. M:F here is like the difference between Mario Mendoza and Albert Pujols.

(Long digression --

Kevin understood that reference exactly but for the benefit of others, Pujols is the best hitter in baseball, an all timer who even seems to be untainted by the drug/steroid era. Mendoza was an exceptionally slick fielding shortstop for the Pirates who could not hit. Just couldn't do it. One of the most memorable phrases in baseball refers to his career batting average of .215 as "the Mendoza Line." If you average is lower that that you are, uh, not hitting well.

Even Kevin may not know this bit of baseball trivia. One season the National League home run champion, Dave Kingman, had a batting average that was not only below the Mendoza Line -- he either hit it out of the park or struck out -- but below that of the NL Cy Young winner that season, Steve Carlton. In international terms that's like being outscored by your goalkeeper.

Kingman was a Cub at the time, which is not that surprising. This is a franchise that has not even been in the World Series, much less won it, in over a hundred years. Literally. Their history is littered with interesting ways to mess up).