Other Exciting Wii news! I finally found a Wii Fit! 

Target came through, once again. They actually had five but as expected would only sell me the one. It doesn’t matter, one is all I need, and my RL friends just had to get themselves down there pronto to nab the last ones. Lucky, because really, if you want a super family game which is always impossible to find except online at outrageously inflated prices, who thinks of looking at Target?? 

(I think I earned myself some Brownie points there). 

Now that I have the Fit, I am looking forward to the kids being back at school so that I can actually use it, because during vacation time my Wii time is being measured in mere minutes per week. I am talking about maybe 20 or 30 minutes. Because I can’t stand whining. And also I love my kids. 

In the meantime, The Daddy (that’s right, The same Daddy who has a gym at work) has been working out with the kids. In the space of days he has reduced his Wii Fit Age from 45 to 24. Although to be honest, the 45 was probably just the result of a few beers.

I get to watch sometimes, which has done nothing to reduce my Wii Fit age from the current 102. But I am biding my time… Soon the Wii will be mine! All mine! Bwaaaa haaa haaa haaaaaaa!

Shockingly, the boy who lost 8lb over summer - yes, that would be the T-Bot - has become the most addicted to Wii Fit. He easily spends 20 minutes on the Wii Fi jogging trail, scurrying along while his Mii struggles to keep up. And all the while the Wii admonishes him that “keeping up a steady pace will help you burn more calories”.  I am torn between congratulating him on all that healthy exercise, and banning him from the Wii forever because calories? We don’t want to be burning more of those, unless, of course, you are putting more into your body. 

I’ll tell you a secret. Yesterday I got a teeny bit freaked out and before I knew it, I was buying him Pop Tarts. 

Baby Sister doesn’t have a problem with calories. She likes to consume them. Expend them, not so much. Her fortes are the ski jump and the game where you adjust your balance to make balls fall through the holes. I would say that all those ballet lessons paid off if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s not true. I think over the summer (a summer devoid of any ballet lessons whatsoever) she sort of grew into her body. And now she doesn’t fall over anymore. In fact she has gone from being a little clown to a sort of one person balancing act.

Especially on the Wii. Those balance games can come in very useful if you don’t fancy burning any calories. 

The Wictor uses the Wii Fit too. Although it thinks he’s obese, because when he stood on the board to measure his weight, it didn’t register. And so The Daddy stood the T-Bot on there instead for the weighing part. (What do you want to bet, this is the first and the last time the T-Bot will ever be linked with the word obese?) And when it’s The Wictor’s turn (because we all get a turn, except for me), everybody lounges around bored and petulant while he stands there with the Wiimote repeatedly pressing “A”. That’s The Wictor’s Wii Fit Trick, the repeated pressing of “A”.  

I swear that yesterday I saw the Wii shrug, throw up its hands in horror and just give up.