We are an online game-playing family #Poppit #sponsored
Visiting a cow, a dog, a chicken, and a rat in a barnyard; Throwing arrows or practice shooting pellets at a target; Coloring animals and trucks all different colors or painting them by numbers; Planting seeds and flowers and fighting zombies off my lawn; Popping balloons in rows of three to earn points – Yep, my family (including my 4 year old) is an online game playing family!!
When I first started blogging almost a year ago, my family wasn't much of an online family. Hubby and I didn't have internet for the first few years we were married and the computer we owned wasn't much to be excited about. We were given a laptop from a friend who wasn't using it and we started to get online a little more. Then I started blogging and I would wait until the boys went to bed to go in the living room to blog for hours.
We eventually bought a wireless router and I have been blogging from the bedroom since then. I guess it was just natural that my boy would become interested in the computer, or at least be curious. I won a coloring program in a giveaway and taught The Boy how to use it. When he's bored, he always wants to color!
Hubby bought me a tablet to try, but it didn't really work with our wireless router very well so he just started using it to play "the bird game" (you know the one…). Then, Hubby and I bought smart phones and they have games on them. Then, it was ON!!
When I'm blogging, and Hubby is playing birds, The Boy will often ask to play some game on some gadget. He gets frustrated with his Nintendo DS (yeah, we did that… 
) and he will end ask to use the laptop to play a game online. It usually jars me to stop and take a break.
We were introduced recently to Pogo.com and I thought I would check it out. When The Boy said he wanted to help me with my post (he does that sometimes…really!) then I let him play with some of the games.
He is in LOVE with the Plants vs. Zombies game!! He and I were trying it out together and he was pushing the button while I moved the mouse around. I was telling him to "click, click, click" and we were getting so rowdy that Hubby started laughing so hard and came over to join us. We had a fun little family evening planting seeds and sunflowers, killing zombies, and protecting our lawn!!
One of our other favorite games is Poppit!!
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We are sort of a gaming online family. My wife and I play World of Warcraft every now and again and usually together as it is a lot of fun. More recently my daughter started gaming online and often plays with her friends in different games but I have used pogo and there are a lot of really fun games to play there. We also used to play in Ourworld which is great as you have an avatar that you can buy things for using money that you win playing games like bejeweled etc.
It is definitely something we will keep doing as it allows us all to relax and have fun together but the occasional board game is always nice as well
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Our son is 4 years old and we are just now getting into a few board games. We have played Chutes and Ladders with him and he totally cheats!! I’m looking forward to him playing more games because it really is a fun way to get the family together.