Wii

Wii got one today. Between Cam and Ethan, they had a fair amount of gift cards at Toys R Us and some birthday and Christmas money. Rather than blow it on toys they may play with for a little while, Brooke and I agreed to pitch in the rest of the cost and get them something they REALLY wanted, could fight over all the time, and want us to spend more money on (I'm kind of kidding about the last two items).

Nostalgia

A VERY weird weekend. ALL SORTS of excitement on my bride's side of the family, but that isn't my story.

Anyway, I took my mom to get her car yesterday and since we were in Gurnee with a small handful of gift cards, we went to Borders (scored TWO Bone graphic novels for Ethan, had a $5 off coupon and it was 'buy one, get one half off'...BEAUTIFUL), then to Target and Ethan spied a "Schoolhouse Rock" dvd and asked about it. $10 for 2 DVD's containing all the Schoolhouse Rock's ever made and bunch of extras like interactive games and commentaries. I bit and said ok. He and Cams watched that whole thing ALL AFTERNOON yesterday (3 apparently IS a magic number).

Then, when Cameron was taking a nap (no, he's five, he usually doesn't take them, but he was up late and woke up early and Brooke THREW herself on the sword of taking one too, "just to help him sleep"), Ethan and I watched an hour retrospective of "the Electric Company", not one word of "dad, that's silly" or "Can we watch something else?" He loved it and I'd forgotten all about "the Letterman".

Now I have some "homework" to do. Yuck!