DDR Mania!

We bought Mario DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) a couple of years ago for Christmas. We danced like fools for a week or two. :) Since then it's been pulled out from time to time, but in the past week, Mike has decided that he'd like to try to get some aerobic exercise and so he pulled it out and started doing it. Now Mike has this theory that if you want your kids to play with something, you've got to get it out and play with it yourself. It does seem to work most of the time. And, it is working this time. And the cute thing is that the kids are so much older than when we first got it. Cole, who never really cared about the DDR, is a dancing fool. :) He's working his way up from easy, to normal, to hard! :) And Reid is amazing on it... young with fast reflexes, I suppose. So, last night when I came downstairs to send the kids to bed, they were down there taking turns on the DDR all nicely and having a great time. Cole keeps saying things like, "I need the exercise." (Yeah... my stick skinny kid needs exercise!)

Now we need to get a second dance pad (which we planned on doing two years ago), so we can have contests. :) You know, take some of the fun out of it by making it a competition!