Bowling Bubs

So if you want pictures of my kids, they are being hosted at this site. 

I decided I'd update my blog once a week, so that I can have something else to feel guilty about when I don't get it done.

We do sticker charts with our kids.  When Link was 3, almost 4, he was having a hard time not wetting the bed.  I started a chart with him that he gets a sticker for every day that he's dry.  After enough stickers, he gets to go do an activity of his choosing.  Most are small things, like make cookies or fudge or cupcakes or rice krispy treats, or go ice skating (which is free for us), or go to Winco and kind of wander around a little...  Other prizes are big, like go bowling, or swimming, or to Sweet Tomatoes etc.

It worked for Lincoln like magic.  About that same time, barely 2 year old Ella was not staying in her bed.  We thought she was too little, but made her a sticker chart too, and, to our surprise, it worked.

Ellie earned one of her prizes a couple of weeks ago, and today she cashed it in.  We went to Fat Katz to go bowling.  The following is a list of things that annoyed me whilst bowling.

9.  Lincoln got momentarily "lost".
8.  The "slushee*" was just pure liquid.
7.  The bowling shoes hurt my blister, like, way bad.
6.  I had to go on a hike to find one of those ramps so my kids could just roll the ball off it, and down the lane.
5.  I started out with a strike and two spares, and was only able to score 123
4.  Ellie spilled her "slushie*".
3.  It was going to take the concession stand 20 minutes to get us some nachos.
2.  The people two lanes down swiped our ramp while we were at the concession stand.
1.  The guy next to me kept using my ball, and had the nerve to use it while I was awaiting my second roll.

(It sure has been a while since I did a list.  Not quite up to the same standards as this bad boy.

Despite all the annoyances, the kids really enjoyed themselves, and Lincoln bowled exactly 100.  He was very excited about that... I mean VERY.  He'd rather score exactly 100 in bowling then, say, 260.

As we were walking back to our car, Lincoln got kind of close to another family.  The agitated father said to his sobbing daughter "What are you crying about now?"  Lincoln responds:  "Because I'm so starving."  He wasn't even crying.  I was laughing way hard, agitated dad was not amused.  His super power must be to not have a sense of humor, because it was pretty funny.

*Yes, I'm aware I spelled it differently, That is because I don't know how it's spelt.