The kids broke the Wii (again) and Kit pulled it out today to fix it (hooray!) and I’m thankful. We’re doing Wii Fit and I am reminded that this is really, truly fantastic therapy for our kids. Even physical and occupational therapists use this for therapy so I know it’s legitimate. 🙂 And very fun, and now that we’re officially entering summer time (90+ degrees) I’m glad we have a fun indoor exercise option.

This is E seeing how close she can get to her sister without getting in trouble for harassment:

This is J feeling victorious that he ran off with the Wii controller while Mo was playing:

These are the kids crowded around to see how Mo was doing – I told them if they are watching they have to be doing the exercises, too, but they were ignoring me. Mo’s wearing her “exercise” clothes:

I don’t think we’ve bought any Wii games before (I don’t think, Kit? Did we?) because Kit would just review whichever ones we wanted back when we first got the Wii. Now that site is down so we don’t have our free Wii game hook up but after seeing the Wii Fit in action I felt like it was really, truly a good investment for our kids with motor challenges. I still believe it, especially seeing little ones doing the hula hoop and the snowboarding and watching the balance challenges – it’s great. And since it cost the equivalent of one hour of private physical or occupational therapy I figure we can’t beat that price for the benefit it gives the kids!