Hipes Happenings: Bowling

Last Saturday we went bowling with our Sunday School class. There were 6 families that came and between all of us we had 8 kids between the ages of 6 and 10 months. It was a little chaotic (what go family fun isn't!) at times, but we all had a blast.

When I tried to tell Trey we were going bowling he didn't want to go. Then I showed him pictures of him bowling last year and he got really excited. He kept saying, "I am going bowling with my friends." the whole way there.

Charlotte was not in the best of moods this day. I am not sure why. Maybe it was that we wouldn't let her crawl on the carpet, or that she deliberately dumped all her cheerios onto the bowling alley carpet early on in the game and we had to throw them away, or maybe it was just being passed around like a bowling ball to whoever wasn't taking a turn! She didn't cry, but she was not too happy about having to be held by different people. Usually she loves this sorta thing, so I think she was still bitter that we wouldn't let her eat her dirty cheerios.

The Dickinson family plus Charlotte. Emma was so sweet and loved to make Charlotte smile and laugh.

This was pre-Cheerios dumping. See Charlotte is sorta smiling because she knows Jenny from the nursery at church, and she still has some cheerios to eat.

This was post Cheerios dumping. Ryan was so sweet to Charlotte, trying to get her to smile by being silly and she wasn't having any of it. We call this her attitude face.

Trey had so much bowling! If it wasn't his turn (which was often with 6 kids in one lane!) he could be found standing next to the ball return. He did a much better job this year of just watching the balls come back and not getting too close to the part that popped out the balls. But as soon as the blue one would pop up he would go stand next to it and make sure it was in the right place.