Severe Activities

The severe heat warnings of the past couple days have brought severe activities in our house. 

A girl can only take so much, and I am not venturing outside unless the car has been sufficiently chilled, and where we are going has working, full-on air conditioning.  Just sayin'.

Since the kids are also cooped inside, we have NO shade in our yard, there is just no place to hide from the heat, they have been occupied with indoor activities.

We have had severe Lego building:

Littlest Pet Shop towns popping up in the play room:

With Queen Hello Kitty presiding:

Severe Lego car races:

And, some severe picture taking: 

 On a side note, at the beginning of the week, right as the extreme heat moved in, I made the kids do a severe clean up of their play room.  Naturally, the mess would have been perfect for these pictures: Lego storage bins every where, and Polly Pockets sitting down to tea with My Little Ponies.  To no avail could I cox my kids into making that kind of mess, again.  Apparently, the key to keeping the play room clean is to ask them to make a mess. 

A Quandary

JT won an Xbox 360.  Yes, won.  Via an "opportunity drawing". 

It was actually a raffle, but VA law doesn't allow raffles unless you have a gaming license, or filled out an insane amount of paper work, or something crazy like that, so you call a raffle an opportunity drawing so it doesn't sound like gambling.  Yes, "opportunity drawing" does not sound like gambling ... about as much as saying "raffle".

Sorry, I digress.

Anywho, we bought each of the kids 14 tickets, 14 tickets for $10 x 3 comes out to $30.  It was for the school. 

JT won the Xbox.  EM won a teddy bear, ED won some cereal bowls, a game about Moses, and a baseball hat.  He wore that baseball hat all weekend.  Needless to say, everyone in our family left the carnival happy. 

And, for one night in JT's life, he became the most envied kid at school.  Everyone has to have one night like that.

So, now what to do?

We already have a Wii.  We love the Wii.  You can sweat playing the Wii.  Sweat and video games don't normally go together, unless your fingertips are sweating.  Surprisingly, we don't play the Wii enough.

The kids all received DSi's for Christmas.

They have become great discipline tools ... the DSi's, not the kids.

Now we have an Xbox 360. 

Now what?

Do we keep all of these entertainment mediums?

What gaming device do we fund?  We have enough games for the Wii, though the Just Dance series looks like fun.  The kids are now responsible for their DSi games, they lose them, I'm not spending any more money on them. We have found several free games for the Xbox.  OK, they are demos, but the kids (and Hubby) are having fun, and we haven't had to, yet, spend any money. 

Until we decide what to do, the kids are having fun with the Xbox. 

And, playing outside, A LOT.  The rule seems to be, 1 hour of video gaming for every 2 hours they spend outside.  JT's jump shot has significantly improved. 

That is so "Adorbable"

Apparently I talk on the phone too much because my daughter, all of 3 years old, constantly has a phone (play) attached to her ear. If she sees a phone, she is talking on it. Yesterday while running errands she kept pulling her phone out of her purse and 'talking' to her grandparents. At one point I told her to put the phone away, "but Mom, Gran is calling me" she protests, I reply that it was rude for her to be on the phone while shopping with me. Hello, I thought this conversation was filed under "Teenager" not "Three Year old". Today I peeked in on the kiddies playing in the child care area while I worked out, and yes she was 'talking' on the phone, and playing a game with other children. :::sigh:::

Yesterday, after one of her 'conversations' with Grandpa she says "that was Grandpa, he is so adorbable."