Family Fun Night

It's been at least a week since Dave and I have both been home at night, at the same time. Guilt! Tonight we declared Family Fun Night. We played baseball, we went to dinner at GoGo Mongolian where the kids eat like it's going out of style. We rode bikes through the neighborhood to try to ward off some of that sodium bloat. We finished up with some Wii Fit. I am not sure what the shirtlessness is all about. They are really in to taking them off these days. Boys!

Whew, we should be in good standing again!

Wii are Hot!

Ugh, it's hot. Stifling hot. This is Beaverton, Oregon, not Phoenix, Arizona. Anything over 100 degrees is just simply miserable. And we are getting a threepeat...three days of the stuff. The all time record high for P'Town is 107. I think we hit 104 today. But not to worry folks, our liquid sunshine will be back by next Wednesday.

And so it goes the rowdies and I have been inside. My feeble efforts (which were pretty darn pathetic knowing I would have to go out with them) to get them to slip n slide or run through the sprinklers were flatly denied.

So for the second day in the row I have been trying keep those 2 entertained, all the while doing errands, housework, and general post vacation mayhem (like sorting the stack of mail delivered by the postman yesterday held together by not one but three fat rubber bands, containing no less than 17 catalogs - one of which was - gasp - for Halloween costumes. Seriously?!)

I grew up with a sister, so this whole 2 boys thing is shocking to me. The dirt, the noise, the chaos, the retaliations. They poke, the prod, they twist, the push, they body slam, they belly bump, they are constantly rolling on the floor crashing into things. Is it naptime yet? "You're a loser. You suck. He hit me! I'm NOT Sharing. I'm gonna get you! Shut up. I'm telling on you!" Calgon take me away!

So tonight, we fired up the old Wii after dinner for some quirky fun -making mii's - the little characters that act out the games and sports for ya. Only this time, rather than using our own imaginations, we borrowed from the imaginations for the far more talented - the folks at www.miicharacters.com. Of course, I had to make Oprah and Barak right away. They boys wanted Spongebob, Darth Vader and Darth Maul, and for Daddy Dave we made Frylock from Aquateen. It's pretty fun and funky - you can make almost anyone, not that I'd want to see Sadam on my baseball team, but Brad Pitt might be nice!

In other news, we did get out of the house for dentist appointments yesterday. Nate was thrilled to learn that he will soon be getting 4 BIG HUGE teeth (1 of the 6 year molars is already broken through) and had 3 possibly, barely loose teeth. Big boy stuff. I hope he inherited Dave's perfectly straight chompers because mine looked like hell when they came in a crooked.

Think I'll go sit on an air conditioning vent now.

Rock Star in the Making

Today was a divide and conquer day. Ian and I had a birthday party to go for for one of his many girlfriends. Tinkerbell was there - Ian wanted nothing to do with her of course!

Dave and Nate headed to Portland Meadows to an event that had a Wii Guitar Hero contest. Nate got shy when it came time to compete, but the promoters were so impressed with his rockin' ability during practice that they agreed to lower the contest's 'no one under age 12' rule for him. (We'll have to work on the performance anxiety - the prize purse was $1000!) Here is a video Dave took with his Blackberry. Choppy, but you can see that Nate is kicking butt on his 25 year old competitor. Look at those fingers fly!

Wii Wish You a Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Shuster's! And for a few hours, we even had a white Christmas! Oh ya, and we bought into the Wii craze just like the rest of America. (it really is cool though!)