The Family That Plays Together

We got a wii for Hanukkah.  And yes, we were maybe some of the last people on the planet to obtain said gaming system.  I was one of those, what the hell am I going to do with a wii kind of people?  I don't really like video games.  And we don't really NEED ONE.  But my four year old started Occupational Therapy for some fine motor and gross motor issues and his OT suggested it as something we could do at home to work on gross motor skills.  And then I received a wii fit at a Nintendo blogging party and my mom offered to buy us a wii for Hanukkah, and we ended up with a wii.

It is has totally changed the way my family interacts with each other.  My husband has never been TV person.  And I love TV.  So in the evenings, after my son went to bed, I would watch tv and he would go up in his office and do whatever.  Unless we specifically scheduled time to watch a movie together, or we were working on a project for the house together, we weren't really "together."  Now we wii