I'm officially addicted to SSX Tricky for Playstation 2, and I've only played it three times. We just got it this weekend. The kids have been doing so well in school, that we decided to buy them each a game and a book. So we went to Gamestop and Brent picked SSXT. Kailee, on the other hand, searched and searched but couldn't find something she really wanted. She briefly considered getting Monopoly, but it's just sad how few video games there are for 8-year old girls.

In the end, Kailee decided she wanted to go to Best Buy and get Zoo Tycoon, which is a really great game. It's difficult for me to watch her play it because I'm Type A and I get frustrated when she names an exhibit the "monkey zoo," puts elephants in it, and then puts so many trees in that you can't even see the elephants anymore. But she loves it, and whenever an animal becomes unhappy, she says, "Oh, my poor babies." She has yet to try SSX Tricky.

Six-year old Brent (soon to be known as "seven-year old Brent), on the other hand, has already mastered SSXT because one of his friends has it. He played it several times this weekend, but he also got into Zoo Tycoon, too. Except that he went for the chaos. He let the tigers out so that they could chase the people, he put the leopards in an exhibit with the chickens, and he put the saltwater crocodiles in with the water buffaloes (which upset Kailee to no end because one of the buffaloes had just given birth to a baby). He also deliberately put the bathrooms off the paths so that the "zoo patrons" couldn't get to them and would be unhappy. Kailee's bedtime request tonight was that Brent not be allowed to play ZT anymore. She also deliberately didn't save his game, even though she told him it was an "accident."

Now I can't wait until we go back to the Brookfield Zoo! Snowboarding, on the other hand, can wait a little longer, given how well I did on my three practice runs.