It’s a common feature of parenting to spend large amounts of time and money on fun things for one’s children, only to find that they have quite a different view on what’s a good time, such as chunks of PVC pipe.
Another instance of this is the amount of fun Alice and particularly Charles have with the Wii. It has this online connection that lets you vote in various surveys and see the results (e.g., “Do you have a mobile phone?”). The young kids love this. Charles and Corwin also spend a lot of time with the “Miis”, which are little characters you can design to represent yourself. These are handy for keep records (like who is a professional at various sports). I did one up quickly for myself, but the boys can spend quite a lot of time designing new ones, and searching through online sets of them for later import. They fight over favorites, since there is only one global set of them with a finite number (50, I think) of entries.
Now, Charles is driving Corwin crazy by playing Super Mario Galaxy with a copy of Corwin’s game by just cruising around the hub. Corwin asks “don’t you ever got tired of that?” but Charles just laughs and jumps around as he plays. Even Mom asked about why Charles liked it but my theory is, hey, it’s Charles. If he thinks he’s having fun, that’s good enough for me.