My family has quite the pasttime of late, and it is called Wii bowling!
I know, we are sooo 2009. Really, we’ve enjoyed it since we got our Wii over two years ago, but it’s had a real renaissance in the Rapson house within the last couple months. Both the big kids are pretty good, they’ve both even had (and subsequently lost) their “PRO” status. The day Sophie got her PRO was like, the best day of her life!
A night at “Rapson Lanes” features trash-talking, Turkeys, spares, strikes, and the occasional total miss – but almost never a gutter ball. We’re actually kinda good – if you take the ages of the players into account! We always have a great time playing together, even if Daddy ALWAYS wins.
And even if we have a really tiny TV!
I love my nerdy little Wii bowling family. Sophie and I play together all the time in the afternoon when Jonah is asleep, Joshua is at school, and Bobby is at work. Just two girls kickin’ it with their cartoon alter egos and some shiny bowling balls. Sometimes we even turn on the Yo Gabba Gabba channel on Pandora and REALLY light up the in-house bowling alley with our sweet dance/bowling moves. We know how to have F-U-N! And it’s great that it’s something we’re all always up for.
What’s your favorite family game to play?
When your kids grow UP and write the book about their childhood, and it’s turned into a movie, I’m hoping the Mom from Malcolm in the Middle is still alive to play you!
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ahh, Lois Wilkerson. What an inspiration to mothers everywhere.
We love the Wipeout Wii games. The kids think it’s super fun and they don’t even care if they lose because it’s so hilarious to watch the players wipe out!
Our family loves Animal Crossing City Folk on our Wii – a game we picked up once at Walmart for $20. You get your own litle character and they all live together in a little town – it’s so much fun! There are special events and things to do on holidays even. Our 7 year old loves it and so do her Daddy and I – we will sit and watch each other play sometimes! 🙂
The hubby and I also love to play Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy! We are nerdy too!
Our favorite game on the Wii is Netflix. Oh wait, that probably doesn’t count.
I’m jealous, because I never join my kids playing computer games. I don’t know, I’m not really into it. But we do play uno cards and sometimes scrabble 🙂
We are big on board games here, too! Sophie especially. We love all the Wonder Forge games! As for the Wii, I love Wii Sports, but it’s about the only Wii game I play. Occasionally I will be a good mom and play one of Sophie’s Dora games w/ her or her Nickelodeon Kids wii fit, which is pretty fun and good exercise.