You Did What?

For Luke’s birthday, he got a Star Wars game for the Wii. He loves that game and plays it every weekend. It turns out that I like it too but Luke and I have very different game playing strategies. Luke is more interested in the color of his light saber and fighting the bad guys. I’m all about the money.

We’ve had the game two months and only play it on the weekends, so I was pretty proud of the 300,000 coins we had accumulated, especially since Luke and Merk are always charging ahead and never let me run around to grab up the money.

Well, yesterday, I was tired...bone tired. So when Max asked me if we could take a nap together, I jumped all over the idea. He takes about four naps a year, so I wasn’t about to miss a golden opportunity for some daytime sleeping, which we all know is the best there is.

To occupy Luke, I decided he could play on the Free Play mode of Star Wars. It’s easier for him and he can pretty much do it all by himself. Little did I know what that little rascal was about to accomplish in the next hour.

So Max and I napped and it was awesome. Every so often, I would hear Luke whoop and laugh. I knew he was okay and having a good time so I kept on sleeping.

Then, he comes charging in. He was so excited and kept saying something about Darth Maul. Honestly, I don’t understand Star Wars so it wasn’t enough to get me up, until he started talking about all the characters he had purchased. Purchased? What? That was enough to get me up.

So I go see what he has done. He was so excited he could barely talk, but managed to show me the roughly 20 new characters he bought...with MY Star Wars money. He used all 300,000 of it. You’d think I would be sad, but I couldn’t stop laughing. The clever boy figured it out and once he got started, he just kept going. Sounds like someone else I know.

Now the play money is gone, the kid was happy and I got a nap. All in all, it wasn’t a bad afternoon. But I suspect nothing’s going to get done around the house this weekend because mommy has to rebuild her Star Wars stash.