<p>Just picked up the Wii this weekend & 10 year old son has already been on it for an hour (snowday phone chain call woke him up.) Our next door neighbors (5 kids) don’t own one, so I’m predicting a steady stream of snowy boots in & out all day long. Normally on a snowday, I can’t even get son to come in to eat lunch. </p>
<p>I’m enjoying the quiet time now, whicle I still can.</p>
<p>Well, SS, it may be a “snow day” (and H and I are both off–yay!), but it’s more like ice day out there, not much fun to play in. You’re lucky to have the Wii!</p>
<p>Freezing rain here in Maryland. You can ship me the Wii if you like. Nobody here is going to want to play outside.</p>
<p>Icy rain here, too. The boys had been looking forward to sledding; now they’re going to have to be inside all day. </p>
<p>What is a Wii?</p>
<p>NYMomof2…ROTFLMAO, the Nintendo gods are crying. Were you out of the country before Christmas? (joking).<br>
If you truly don’t know what a Wii is, you have been able to avoid all media hype for the past several months. I bow to you.</p>
<p>ebeeeee,
thats for the laugh “the nintendo gods are crying” oh my, I think I needed something to cheer me up today. my first valentines and b-day to be alone (singlemom, kid off to college). wish all of you stuck in the snow and freezing could have some of our weather. I’m off to Pasadena to visit my son this weekend and its suppose to be 80 degrees out.</p>
<p>ooooooooooooooooh, SS, sounds like FUN!!! I had to camp for that damn Wii! Hope your son has a GREAT day! :)</p>
<p>{{{{{HUGS}}}}}} oaklandmom! Happy Birthday <em>and</em> Valentine’s Day! I’m glad that you’ll be getting to see your S this weekend! Send some of that warm weather this way, huh? It’s 6 degrees right now! :eek:</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Happy Birthday, oaklandmom! And my sympathies on having to spend the day without your son. Whenever I am frazzled with the demands of my two boys, I think of how sad I will be when they’re on their own. </p>
<p>I guess I do miss media hype. I watch television only once in a blue moon. I take it the Wii is a Nintendo. My older son has an Xbox, but it is usually disabled (by me, by taking the critical cables). When it is available, the boys spend too much time on it. So I take the cables for months, or even a year, at a time.</p>
<p>thank you all for the birthday wishes! & I’ll do what I can to send some sunshine to those of you in the cold!
now, back to the Wii (since my S left his here, its mine to play! & the Wii is a great way to get a little exercise without going outside…my doggies will have to wait until later…my border collie doesn’t like the Wii since the first time I played tennis, I swung just as she was walking towards me to see what it was and I hit her in the face, poor girl).</p>
<p>Son did go out for over an hour, but man, is it nasty! He is now cleaning his room to earn more Wii time. My neighbor packed the kids in the car & left early this morning, so my house is pretty quiet right now. Even the squirrels are hiding inside. </p>
<p>The Wii is great for getting couch potatoes moving. If I let him, s would spend much too much time on video games. At least with the Wii, he’s moving around. He was soaked just from the boxing workout.</p>
<p>For all of you at home today: I’m at work, you lucky dogs. Don’t go out unless you have to, though. It’s really nasty. I think we’ll be shutting down soon.</p>
<p>I can’t get my husband (age 49) off the Wii for hours at a time. He is now at the “pro level” in golf, with over 1,000 points or something. He is extremely proud of this. It’s the only video game he has ever been able to play because it only involves holding the “Wii-mote” and swinging his arm. We all have a snow day today – it’s simply treachorous here in NE Ohio. My 9-year-old son is addicted to the Wii too, especially to tennis playing and Zelda. And to be honest, I love making avatars on it that look like famous people, so you can use them as your “players.” Last night I made a Larry King lookalike, a supermodel, an Emo-boy, and my brother-in-law. It really is ridiculously fun.</p>
<p>So the Wii is not just a video game platform, but some sort of physical activity? I’ll have to look into it.</p>
<p>The Wii will give you a serious workout. I love the tennis game, and I was actually tired after the boxing game. If you can I would buy one yesterday.</p>
<p>NYMomof2,
since I teased you mercilessly for not knowing what it was I will enlighten you. It is a video game platform but with a handheld remote which senses movement. So when you play tennis you are actually swinging your arm as if you were swinging a racquet. Ditto golf, you swing. Bowling, you draw back and “throw” the ball. It requires some physical activity. There are several sports games. Only the boxing one felt like a real workout to me…</p>
<p>My kids didn’t get out the Wii until two friends showed up around four, but it was nonstop for the next couple of hours! I like the bowling with a million pins myself. :)</p>
<p>Wii’s are dangerous but they kick ass. I’ve already broken an overhead light and a dangling speaker (on seprate occasions) with my bare fist. Worth the pain.</p>
<p>We don’t have a Wii, but we do have waist deep snow. My husband is supposed to fly out today, but the snowplow got stuck in our driveway. It’s a second snowday here because the roads aren’t clear yet. But we kept our electricity!!</p>
<p>Bethie…I had never heard of a Wii until I read about it on CC (CC comes in handy). I was to fly out yesterday as well and obviously flights were cancelled but so were today’s and so I have to go tomorrow. I don’t know the snow total here but it appears to be three feet. The snow on the deck is up to the railing. The plow has plowed out our long driveway. My car is still sequestered in the garage as someone will need to come with a blower to remove the snow in front of it as the plow couldn’t do that. My husband shoveled a path to the front door and it looks like two walls on either side of the path.</p>