Wii Mii Wheee!

This past week, thanks to a heads-up from my friend Janet, the kids discovered the website miicharacters.com. This terrific website gives step-by-step instructions for creating mii's for your Wii. (if you're unfamiliar with the Wii video game, you can make your own avatars -characters meant to represent you- by putting together your hair color, facial shape, glasses, etc.)

However, this website helps you create characters you know, such as Darth Vader, King Kong, Harry Potter, and Peppermint Patty.

Maddie and Ben, (one manning the website, one manning the wiimote) spent countless hours shouting instructions to each other: "hair-column one, up 2!" "Nose line 3, column 4, rotate 2!" Besides the characters I mentioned above, they created 84 new characters, including Batman and Joker, Elmo, Beaker and Miss Piggy from the Muppets, Jack Black, Johnny Depp, C-3PO and Chewbacca, a pug dog, and...God.

The best part is you can be these characters when you play Wii! We golfed on Friday night with Elmo, Steven Spielberg, Two-Face (from Batman), and the Pink Panther. We bowled on Saturday morning with Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters, Indiana Jones, and Michael Jackson. We realized halfway through our bowling game that some of the characters they made were in the seating area behind the bowlers! (Although it was a little creepy seeing The Joker and Lord Voldemort watching us and plotting their bowling strategy).

So far, no one has been God. Dave's take on this was that it's a little unfair to be God, because really, no one else could ever beat him in tennis.


P.S. I wrote the above post this morning. An hour ago, Jack was boxing (alone) as Elvis and I said, "Who is that guy you are boxing?"

"God!" shouted Jack, gleefully.