Nothing makes a dad prouder…

…then having his 9-year old kick his butt playing Halo: Combat Evolved. Awww, he’s all grown up and beating me repeatedly playing King of the Hill.

A lesson in humility

Faithful readers will remember that a few posts ago, I shared my goal to bowl a perfect game in Wii Sports bowling. I think my high game was 265, which is all strikes except for a 7 and 2 in the last frame — not when you want to choke!

So for my lesson in humility: I was playing with the kids last night (“Wii family bowling”, we call it). I was bowling all out — no mercy bowling to let anyone win. You can see the results below. Let me provide the legend to our Miis. In order, that’s:

• Cameron, age 3 (yes, age 3): winner with 192
• Daddy: age withheld: runner-up at 182
• Colin: age 8, bowling in at 180
• Katye: age 5, with a total of 153

Hats off to di di (Cameron), who earned more than 70 points on his way towards being a bowling pro.

Daddy is very proud that he got schooled by his three year old. (Yes, I know you want your kids to do better than you in all aspects of life, but I didn’t know it was going to start quite so early.)

In the useless skills department…

In the utterly useless skills department, I’m trying to bowl the perfect Wii bowling game by the end of the year.

I swear the Wii can sense when you are closing in on it and ratchets up the precision you must achieve to get a strike. No, really.

The verdict

The kids are getting better at bowling (they’ve been 3-4 times this summer as our local alley is sponsoring a “free game a day” for kids during the summer — “say yes to bowling, no to drugs”).

As for me, I’d probably better practice some more unless I plan on bowling in the Barack Obama league. On the up side, I did save a few good throws for Cameron after he got tired.