First Strike, First Spare, First Win!

I took the kids bowling with some friends of mine this weekend. We ended up just letting the kids bowl and the moms provided help and wrangling duties.

The bowling alley used a blacklight for illumination. Which is pretty cool looking, but doesn't show up in pictures when you use a flash. So I tried to take a couple without the flash and as art they turned out pretty neat. As a picture with identifiable people, they were a definite failure ...

I'm pretty sure this is Mallory giving bowling a try.

This blur is definitely Julia.

So I turned on the flash which means you can get a good glimpse of Jillian's fabulous form in this picture, but not the hypnotic effect of those lacy socks glowing under the blacklight:

In between turns, everyone ate ...

Julia was able to eat "Fren Fries" her absolute favorite food
and the first thing she asks for every meal.
(I picked the outfit, she picked the shoes. They don't have size 8 bowling shoes.)

Dax roamed around offering sanitizing gel to anyone who needed it ...
if they could pry it out of his little monkey hands.

Julia kept an eye on the big kids as they bowled.

Kayleigh

And wanted to be just like the older girls so she insisted on carrying her own ball (SEVEN POUNDS!) each and every time saying over and over the entire time she was lugging it, "Hea-vy! Hea-vy!"

(There were these little sloped track things that you could move in place for the little ones that weren't strong enough to throw the ball down the lane. Julia just had to put her ball on it and shove. She loved it!!)

And for her first time bowling, Julia did pretty darn good. She is the first "J" listed on the screen and if you click on the picture to make it bigger, you will notice that she also has the HIGH SCORE! :)




(And, yes, she did get a strike. Which to a two-year-old's mom is not a cause for celebration. Try explaining that: "Since you did SO GOOD this time you only get one turn at the Super Fun Bowling Ball Rolling Part and now you need to let Will have his turn! Way to go! High Five!!" Somehow that doesn't translate to a Two.)