About this Contest [boys vs girls]

We are in tenth place and only 14 or so votes are keeping us there.

We are very proud of all 262 votes that we have. That's a lot of votes. However, the competitor in me just can't figure out how some entries have 800+ votes. That is incredible. That is knowing a lot of people. That is some serious voting.

Let's face it, at least at this point, this is somewhat of popularity contest. It would be a bit different if you could only vote once. But, obviously some entrants have an army of loyal votes who vote daily.

I still check the AurGroup site multiple times a day, hoping that our email plea had somehow reached a large group of Bierer loyalists and our tally had jumped by hundreds of votes. No such luck.

Now, as much as I hesitate to share the following, I also feel the need to at the very least address the following . . .
Why are little girls always deemed cuter and more worthy of attention (ie votes)?

My boys are adorable. They may not smile cutely as they use intelligent and creative verbal skills to describe our entry. Okay, I had to ask a few questions to keep Jack focused on why we were making the video. Fact is, there's lots of great stuff in the 13 minutes of footage we took. For example, in the entry Jack is dancing. Original footage includes at 6 original dance moves including the backhoe, digger, saw, and dump truck. [I promise to post them soon.] At one point Jack tries to include a bike path as part of our home improvement project. There is at least a full minute of Danny refusing to share the toy backhoe. Numerous minutes include the boys bowing, giving each other knuckle bumps, and high fives.

We tried. In retrospect, we should have given each a hard hat, hammers and other cool tools and set them lose on the falling wall. Demolition would have gotten more votes. Dirty, ready to destroy anything little boys, would have surely played to the hearts of all men. . . create little versions of Tim the Tool Man Taylor. . . add some grunting and cave man like roars. Would that have worked any better?

Reality is . . . my alliance is now with the boys. I am out numbered, seriously out numbered. Do I have any choice?

Thank goodness I didn't try to choreographer dance moves or include a theme song in the entry.