Wii Fit Plus

Should I be offended that the Wii called me a dog for sticking to the same routine?

Take That, Roger!

It took me a while but I beat Roger on the Wii Fit Hula Hoop. I came close several times but I finally did it. He only gets to use the Wii every once in a while but he is pretty good at it. I have to take those small victories as they come.
Just in case you were wondering, I do not plan on posting any videos of me doing this. I'm pretty sure I look goofy while doing it.

The Family Who Wii's together . . .

Wii all met at my parents house Sunday afternoon for lunch and video games. Here is Skyler doing a Fit game. It is a spectator sport. Roger, Jackson and Rodney just to name a few.

Rodney, Grandma and Grandpa look on as Skyler works out. If you don't recognize the room it is the basement. They remodeled again. At least it isn't bright yellow.

Krista doing the ski jump.

Roger doing the ski jump too.

We had 2 Wii's going at the same time and we just migrated back and forth to watch whoever was Wii-ing at the time. Here is Krista, Grandma and Grandpa.Here is Skyler again. I think he is boxing. I'm not sure.

Skyler seems to be doing well. He has only been back at school for 3 days. They asked me if I wanted to give him his insulin shot and I said no thanks.

Are Wii Having Fun Yet?

Jarrett has recently become curious about the Wii and wanted to try it. He still doesn't want his picture taken but here he is on the Wii Fit. We added his little Mii and did the body test. He didn't want to do it at first so I just faked it. The computer thought he only weighed 6 pounds because I was just resting my feet on it to get through the test so he could play the games. When I finally got him to stand on it long enough for it to weigh him it said something like "Wow. You gained 33 pounds in 4 days." Would you believe that he can do it all by himself? I wasn't so sure at first but he insisted on doing it himself so I said fine and handed him the remote. He can maneuver the screens better than I can.

Here he is doing the ski jump. Isn't his little Mii cute?

I think this one is his favorite game. Your little Mii turns into a ball and you have to try to get it in the hole. Each level gets harder. He can do the first level so far. He does pretty good considering no one has told him how to play. He just learned by watching.

One of the REALLY funny things for us to watch is when he does the running game. You are supposed to put the remote in your pocket or hold it in your hand so it will know you are running but Jarrett doesn't want to do that so he has me hold it. He runs around like your supposed while I sit on the couch and shake the remote.

When he got tired Jackson stepped on the Fit and tried to do the soccer game. He didn't do so well.

Then Matt took a turn. When do I get a turn? Whenever I get a chance.

Wii've been busy

Chris got a Wii for his birthday/Christmas. It is really cool. Here is our Mii family: Chris, Jackson, Jarrett, Matt and me.Here are Chris's friends (real and imaginary): Alex, Arthur(i), Bruno, Austin and Sara.I got a Wii Fit for Christmas. We have had a good time with it. Here are the Mii's that are on our Fit game: Alex, me, Chris, Austin and Matt. Matt did the setup but won't do anything with it. Chris and I use it the most.There are lots of different things you can do with it. Yoga, balance games, aerobics and strength training. I must admit that at first I was offended because it told me my Mii age was 55, I was unbalanced and it asked me if I trip a lot when I walk. It said other things too but I won't go into detail. I'm really having fun with it because my parents have one and so does my friend Pam. It is fun to talk about how we are doing and laugh at how uncoordinated we are. I usually have an audience and sometimes help from my Wii kids. Here is my audience from today: Jarrett, Matt and Jackson (who had just finished reading the Sunday paper).Jarrett likes to tell me what games to play. Here is the beginners step aerobics. Here are all the people on the stage. Jarrett and Jackson are in the middle and I am on the far right.

It gives you step by step instructions and I have yet to get them all right. Here I am doing a soccer game where all the Mii's line up and with Chris as the coach (on the right side of the screen) they kick mostly soccer balls at me and I am supposed to hit them with my head to gain points. Sometimes they kick shoes and panda heads at me and if they hit me then I lose points.

Here I am getting ready to ski. I am better at the slalom than the jumping.

Here I am as a penguin. It's pretty funny. I have to slide back and forth on a big piece of ice and eat fish without falling off the side. For most of these games you just shift your weight back and forth.

Jarrett and Jackson are too young to do it but we created their Mii's because they show up as people in the games we do. It doesn't seem like exercise when you are doing in until you start to sweat and your legs hurt. I have done Yoga but don't do well when it involves balancing on one leg. Jackson likes to crawl through my legs sometimes which throws me off but that's OK. Jarrett does a fake cry if I do bad and I have to tell him it's OK. I can't do the tight rope walking with him in the room because I fall off a lot and he gets really sad. He did try to help me by holding me up so I wouldn't fall but it didn't help. Yesterday we went to my parents house so we could put our Mii's on their system so they will see us in their games. We know several people with systems and we can play them on line too. We are having a good time.