So we finally bought a Nintendo Wii. The very first computer game console in our house.

To emphasise the enormity of this momentous occasion, I made the whole family sit down one evening and let each one be inducted in the hall of Miis.

We all created our own avatars, and it was actually a lot of fun.

True to his character, my 6yo Callum, had to view every single possible variation of eye brow before he chose one, not to mention every hair style, hair colour, hair parting, etc etc etc. He took AGES to make his avatar! Until we were throwing pillows at him to hurry up. It was like a scene from a 1990s television sitcom.

My 4yo Sean, spent his time creating a strange 6 feet tall man, with long black crazy hair, a curly beard and moustache, dark sunglasses and a mole, wearing a black t-shirt. We all went, WHAT THE??

At first I told him, “If that’s who you want to be, then it’s fine.”

But as I tried to play tennis with his character, it kinda creeped me out that I was calling this guy on the screen SEAN! And it just got too weird to think that maybe he wasn’t just playing around to make us laugh, maybe he sees himself like this? A basketball playing rockstar bikie?

So a few days later, I showed him a picture of himself and asked him to change it to something that looks a little more like himself, please – BECAUSE MUMMY THINKS YOUR GUY IS CREEPY!!

We also have characters for my parents and our babysitter. So much fun.