Boys will be boys

Sorry for the scarce blogging lately.  We close on our house next week and then we move in the following week, so the paucity of posts will probably continue through the next few weeks.

I mentioned in my previous post that I would write more about the Nintendo Wii.  I'm sure you remember the way I practically martyred my marriage in the ultimate gift of love.  (Casey, reading over my shoulder, says that I can't use the phrase "martyred my marriage" because it doesn't make sense.  Oh well, it makes perfect sense to me.)  So, for the past few months, Casey has been whining about getting a Wii.  Due to the forces of low supply and high demand, Wiis have been practically impossible to find in the stores.  So we made a serendipity pact.  If we happened to come across one in the store while out shopping, we could get it, but we weren't going to go out and actively search for one.  So Casey got in trouble when I checked on a text message he recieved while he was sleeping one morning, alerting him that Wiis were available a Sears.com.  Text alerts are not serendipity! 

Well, as we were packing for our trip to the OBX, Casey used a bag to pack a "special toy for Coulson."  I was surprised because Casey doesn't usually buy toys for the boys, but I shrugged it off with only mild curiosity.  Then as were packing other bags, I noticed that Casey had slipped in the battery charger.  I was confused because we weren't bringing the XBox (what we usually used rechargeables with) and our camera doesn't use batteries.  Something about the look on Casey's face when I asked him about the battery charger told me everything.  Sharp intake of breath - "You got a Wii!"

It turned out that he did in fact buy the Wii in a moment of serendipity while shopping for my mother's day present!  At least he had the sense not to give it to me for mother's day ;-)  But he was saving it as a surprise for the big family vacation.  But his brother also found a Wii and brought it to vacation, so we had two games going most of the time.  A big change from a family who spent all their family vacations in a small cottage without TV or A/C!

Casey had always maintained that the Wii is more of a family game and that's why he wanted it.  I must admit that we have had fun with it.  Coulson is actually pretty good at bowling and he's working on his tennis.  Casey and I can play tennis doubles together and fight each other in boxing (I've won twice and we tied once, do you think he's letting me win? Casey says no, it's not in his nature to let me win, so "Go girl!")

But best of all, he downloaded the old-school version of Kid Icarus, a game I loved to play in the Nintendo days of my youth.  My friend Bethany and I used to play this game for hours!  Her mom got it at a yard sale so we never had the instructions for the game, so we had to figure it out ourselves, which made it even more fun for us.  (If you're following my links, you can probably get a better idea if Kid Icarus from the Wikipedia site, but I just loved how old-school the first link is - the horrible graphics, the horrible background, the poor guy who's running a web shrine to a video game from 1987.)  Now Casey complains that my Kid Icarus playing cuts into his Halo time (on XBox), so now we apparently need another TV.

On a related note, Casey got a whoppie cushion for Coulson, which accounted for a lot of giggles during lunch today.